PaulloDEC wrote:Then there's Lauren Faust evangelists, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
What do Lauren Faust evangelists spew, if I may ask

I mean, I usually see a lot of: "The show isn't the same with her", "I liked it when she was in charge", and so on but that's it. They never explain why exactly maybe outside of: "I dont like the current direction they're taking with the show."
However, I will admit that I do gravitate toward the notion of the show being better with her (and Renzetti) and I like to think S3 and onwards would have been better if they were still around. Granted, I don't have a machine where I can travel to an alternate universe to see if that's the case or not but given Faust's and Renzetti's past (and later) works, I do think had they stuck around and had more freedom like the current showrunners are supposedly having now, I would still be thoroughly enjoying the show.
Again, I don't have a crystal ball, I'm just going off their past and later works, as well as some certain things I miss from Season 1 like the
few mean-spirited moments. And then there are those bits of information she revealed on Twitter, Deviantart, or in the Elements of Harmony book that mentioned what she planned to do which, at least on paper, sound more interesting than what actually happened on the show, especially Trixie which she planned on making her parallel Nightmare Moon (which is why while she was around Magic Duel wasn't greenlit for S2) which hints at something rather ambitious. Instead, we got Magic Duel and Trixie turned good like in the last 3 minutes

Edit: With the current showrunners, I really don't know what their endgame is or just what they want to do that would interest me. The Wonderbolt arc has been going nowhere, AJ is still... AJ, we probably will have to wait till Season 6 or 7 to see the CMC maybe get their cutie marks, I'm not sure what they want to do with Twilight (Lauren at least said she wanted Twilight to succeed Celestia), and so on. Now, to be fair, they are demonstrating that this season will have more adventure episodes but I rather see something significant that's character-related.
