User blog comment:Gumball2/Let's Watch Princess Pony (Episode 1): Welcome to Maretown/@comment-32202721-20180115222225/@comment-4618045-20180115223653

I’m glad you enjoy it. I can already see the Spike fanboys charging at me, labeling me as one of those folks that see him as just a background pony (dragon, I should say). But I thought it’d be interesting to have Twily all by herself. That way, she is starting off with even less of a social connection than Twilight Sparkle did and has a lot more to learn now.

I can’t make any guarantees, but after the next episode, I want to start branching off storywise. If all goes according to plan, Princess Pony will have much tighter continuity than MLP, so it won’t follow exactly as that show would.