
| Anonymous #69114 1 year ago |
Thank you! I'm getting a little sick of everybody thinking the series is going to go straight to hell because Lauren Faust isn't working on it. |
| Obscure #69122 1 year ago |
She'll still be working on it. Just in a reduced capacity.
In the end we'll have to wait and see what happens. |
| Anonymous #69125 1 year ago |
Made my laugh IRL |
| Anonymous #69127 1 year ago |
such crybabies, (second panel) that won´t happen, but yeah, I feel bad for Lauren Faust, it looks like she really wanted to stay as executive producer, but she just couldn´t...
too bad, everyone know that feeling :( |
| Anonymous #69130 1 year ago |
Faust isn't doing it? Oh god I can see the MLP franchise slowly reverting back to shit as we speak. |
| Anonymous #69131 1 year ago |
well I hope thats the ONLY thing to happen |
| Anonymous #69134 1 year ago |
Things will devolve slowly, at first, and no one will mind much. Then, in December 2012, when the first episode of season 3 airs, it will be so horrible that riots will break out in the streets, all nuclear equipped countries will launch and the world as we know it will come to an abrupt end. |
| DoctorDreidal #69137 1 year ago |
War and Rioting would be a *bit* of an exaggeration. I'm really apprehensive though; I hope the show is still treated with the respect it deserves. |
| Anonymous #69139 1 year ago |
What the Faust?
*cries* My ponies, my little ponies... |
| Anonymous #69141 1 year ago |
Haha! Just what I was thinking! Calm down, everypony!
@Anon6 We'll cross that bridge named Season 3 when we come to it. I think even if Faust was still on there would always be a chance of decline. It's not like it's going to regress into G3 like this picture depicts. Laura Faust got the ball rolling, that's how I see it. Just because Bruce Timm stopped working on the DCAU doesn't mean DC Cartoons got worse (maybe not QUITE as good, but still very enjoyable for sure) |
| Anonymous #69151 1 year ago |
I hope Yellowstar can be an official character in season 2. |
| Anonymous #69199 1 year ago |
Who is Yellowstar? |
| Anonymous #69219 1 year ago |
Some OC made with the game on the Hub site
for some reason Yellowstar is popular :V |
| Anonymous #69222 1 year ago |
btw if y'all want my opinion, I still think that there's still *some* reason to "panic" in some sense. I've heard a lot of things that I liked and a lot of things I didn't like.
Besides, Lauren herself said that doing this wasn't easy on HER, either. If you're gonna be making fun of people who "freaked out" when they heard the news, then you may as well mock her too. |
| Anonymous #69249 1 year ago |
i'm not going to panic but the moment they have a pink truck in an episode i'm out. |
| Anonymous #69252 1 year ago |
^I dunno why but you made me giggle XD |
| Anonymous #69253 1 year ago |
if derpy is a returning character with dialogue i think it's safe to say they have the side demograph's best interests at heart. |
| Anonymous #69399 1 year ago |
this is news to me....it is..... unnerving. |
| Anonymous #69406 1 year ago |
Honestly, as much credit as I gave Lauren for the original creation and direction of the show, I don't know how much of the stuff we loved was due directly to her influence. I always gave more credit to the individual writers and animators, and if all of those are staying...I'm assuming that they won't intentionally deviate from her initial vision of the show.
The only probably I can see is if Hasbro ups the requests to include toy plugs and the new producer isn't as good at keeping the show's own identity and not letting it be entirely corrupted by the kind of ponies Hasbro wants to sell. |
| Anonymous #69445 1 year ago |
Well, what she said is, "Various circumstances with the production made it impossible to keep up the level of personal creative involvement and control I had at the start."
That does kind of sound like polite-ese for "too much executive meddling". But it could mean something else. She goes on to say that her "involvement in season 2 does not reach far beyond story concepts and scripts". That sounds more like some kind of time conflict or something. I mean, I would think if Hasbro were trying to take greater creative control to, for example, force them to include more one-off ponies and toy plugs, that would be in the concept and scripting process, not production. By the time they're actually directing and animating, all the decisions about inserting toy plugs and so on have been made. |
| Heartmend #69461 1 year ago |
This image. Panic and worry will accomplish absolutely nothing. We have no idea what it will look like. Season 2 may end up being awesome anyway. :P
And Season 2 will probably start in the fall, not December. There's no reason to wait until *all* the episodes are done before airing the first ones. Remember that Season 1 was still in production when it first started airing; that's how they were able to "derp" Derpy's eyes starting with "Feeling Pinkie Keen". |
| Anonymous #69533 1 year ago |
I sort of think it's the pull between Hasbro, her own ideals for the show, and the overwhelming voice of the Fanon that is the "various circumstances" in production. Like how her Ditzy became our Derpy. So now someone else can deal with... well... us. |
| PonyRIG #69568 1 year ago |
what...? did something happened while i was in RL? |
| Anonymous #69570 1 year ago |
TBH, the episodes Lauren wrote weren't my favorite.
I just love how fucking cute she made these ponies and the high level of quality she pushed for that I'm sure will follow through. |
| SpecialAnon #69690 1 year ago |
After having some time to take in the info, I do realize that the second panel is like every brony's first reaction. Thankfully, in the hiatus to come, we will see the rage die down. Faust won't be able to majorly control what goes into the cartoon, and that it may become further away from her own vision, but she will still have some control over editing the story structure and making sure the script doesn't totally blow. And since most of the original staff is still there, then at least we'll see the same level of animation, sound, and design that we've come to love.
Here's to a great second season, assholes! |
| Anonymous #69844 1 year ago |
Man, I wish I could be as optimistic as you, OP. Heres hoping. Season 2, at least, will have her touch. |
| laofmoonster #70773 1 year ago |
faust had most to say about episodes 1 and 2. how many of you actually like this show for episodes 1 and 2?
I'm ok with this |
| fixman88 #71377 1 year ago |
I for one am a bit apprehensive over all of this. I've been a Star Trek fan since 1979 and I remember when Gene Roddenberry left TNG due to failing health and Berman and Bragga took over. Berman wanted to do it 'his way'- and promptly drove Star Trek into the ground. It got so bad that after Season Three of Enterprise Berman and Bragga were kicked off the writing team and it started to get better but the damage had already been done. I'm hoping that I'm overreacting but I can't help but feel nervous. And yes, I compared the most popular Sci-Fi franchise in history (and my favorite of all time) to a 'kids show'- and I feel proud and justified in making that comparison. *hugs Luna tight* |
| Anonymous #1331116 2 months ago |
And then Season 2 happened.
It was awesome. It had Derpy and Luna in it. The end. |
| B2C #1331123 2 months ago |
Thiessen was amazing. |