When the Make Your Mark series was announced after the success of A New Generation, many fans including myself thought what the series would be after the events of the film.
I personally thought we were getting a season with episodic adventures before we would get a second season that would follow a plot and story.
Instead we were given a decent but poorly written 44 minute special that was... Literally about nothing. No really that's how I felt about the first special.
And when the second chapter of Make Your Mark came out, it had gotten a bit more lovable, but still didn't get the expectations from fans. Not to mention that the animation felt a little stiff, if not bland.
And the new voice cast for our new main characters were accepted by fans pretty quick since they did a good job, except for Ana Sani cuz... Well people tend to call out Ana Sani is trying too hard to be the next Pinkie Pie and I can't help but agree.
And over the first year, the series gradually got better with the writing and animation, giving hope that the series might be great over the next few seasons before it was shot in the back of the head and was cancelled by Netflix because we can't have anything nice.
Now we just have Tell Your Tale, the web series that airs new episodes every other week, and it's just... It's a wild show but I hate that the shorts are 5 minutes long instead of being the 22 minute length.