And so here I am. It was a major adventure that took most of the afternoon. Know what I mean?

Actually, it took me most of a day, but I’m no Pinkie.

I have previously referred to using a specific rearranged episode chronology which I found somewhere deep in the bowels of the net, and can’t seem to find again. It was complete up until the end of season 3, whereupon most efforts to produce a consistent episode chronology for ponies seem to vanish entirely. Nobody even bothers anymore.

I plan to correct that, but I need your help.

A list is a list is a list, that’s the gist, but I wrote a javascript program that helps you manipulate it more visually, and more importantly, observe hard rules when moving episodes around – “this episode must precede X”, “this episode must follow Y”. You can save and load your results, (within reason) copy and paste them for discussion, and make your own variations, because it’s all a self-contained single HTML file. As well as a lot of javascript libraries loaded off various CDNs across the net, but I was in a hurry. I don’t guarantee it will work in old browsers either, but really, you shouldn’t be using those.

Please take a look:

My Little Chronology: the Time Machine

This is not something set in stone, but an invitation for input and discussion. If you think something in there can’t be right, say it. If you think something in there is a good idea, say it too. If you think you know what order the episodes should be in, that’s why I put in so many ways to get data out of it. If you can find any more hard or soft constraints – tell me.

Maybe, together we can make some sense out of this mess. :)

This is still an early version in addition to being a work in progress, but I think one day straight messing with it is enough for the moment. I plan to periodically update this list and will post whenever something major crops up.