Even outside of big-er budget feature length movies Equestria Girls writing continues to be better than usual Friendship is Magic stuff. The first episode even surpasses the expectations in how the plot will go, rejecting the standard tropes of that genre. And the third finally makes a Sunset\Starlight crossover, while also having nice writing. The second one, though, is a mundane and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids mystery. It still works as a prelude to the third episode, but the break for titles means that it is a separate entity and not a long setup.



The fact that Starlight is referred to as a student and it was mentioned that only several months have passed after Friendship games, puts these somewhere before the recent seasons.