Talk:Princess Celestia/@comment-4604642-20140318111529/@comment-10390252-20140318115312

They have their own objectives and their own overarching priorities for story-telling, certainly. Whilst there have been a few episodes in Season 4 that I consider to be 'whimsy' on their part (them saying 'what if...?' and then running with it - Daring Don't and Power Ponies in particular), generally I think that they have to limit their stories to those that they are required to tell by the direction their bosses have ordered for the show, not necessarily what they would like to tell.