Talk:Keep Calm and Flutter On/@comment-26973802-20130621180149

People might say "how could Lauren Faust be against Discord turning good when she wrote the episodes about Nightmare Moon"? And Hasbro probably used it to justify the decision

Well, although the episodes don't say anything to suggest it, I think Lauren Faust views Nightmare Moon as the embodiment of Luna's dark side possessing her, destroyed by the Elements of Harmony (and later revived if you take comics as canon). Probably her idea of doing that in a subtle way, I bet she initially wanted another Tirek and they wouldn't go for it because they thought it was going to be another "little girl" generation like G2 and G3 which she was trying to depart from. Of course it evolved past that in Hasbro's eyes by King Sombra's time