by Headless Horse (?) » Fri Jun 26, 2015 5:41 pm
Right, but even with like a year's worth of lead time it's still kind of a crap shoot. They can say "Hokay, so we need to come up with a new post-Friendship-Empire storyline that carries us through to the new Rainbow Butterflies toy campaign theme", and they can write a blisteringly awesome S7 or whatever it is that ends up with Twilight ascending to leadership of all Equestria or something, because for god's sake we've got to be done with the property this time, wrap it up people—but then just as they're completing storyboards and patting each other on the back they're handed a new directive to come up with yet another way to carry the story beyond the final sunset that they'd written for the current season.
What I'm saying is, I'm excited to see how they're handling stuff like "Okay so you know how you wrote Alicorn Twilight as this awesome end to the series? Well, guess what, it wasn't the end of anything, take another lap". Most shows don't face that kind of situation, and those that do seldom handle it as smoothly as even this show (which didn't do a perfect job of it) has. But the more they keep sprinting for the finish line only to get surprise TIME EXTENSION powerups, the less convincingly they're going to be able to keep coming up with good ways to extend it that don't feel transparently like they were never part of the original plan.
I'm not saying this to be a naysayer or whatever; I'm still as interested to see how they handle it as I ever have been, and especially if we get to see Meghan and the team learn from their experiences and come out of this as a battle-hardened platoon of the world's most grizzled, jaded cartoon writers who can take on any challenge and laugh. But it'll be tricky getting there, and I'm glad I'm just an observer and not the poor schlub who actually has to make it work.