by Panpardus » October 9th, 2018, 5:55 am
They've most likely already finished making everything for Season 2, so production probably isn't a factor in the odd scheduling. I'm not sure why they're spacing out the last four episodes; the only thing I can think of related to production is if they have a specific airing date in mind for Season 3 - perhaps to coincide with the "live action" movie, so June/July-ish like season 2 last year - and they want to avoid having a large gap between seasons 2 and 3. (The latter is being produced now; the final episode was finished being written sometime back in June I think. If they continued the trend of four episodes every three/four months then this season would end in December/January, which might leave a solid 6 months or so between the seasons.)
As much as we older folks might appreciate serialized storytelling delivered on a consistent basis, we have to remember that the primary audience for this show (the preschool/elementary school demographic) probably aren't following the story that closely and can get by on 2-3 months of reruns.