Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-26973802-20141020200004/@comment-10390252-20141021084252

The way I see it, Lauren was a G1 fanfic writer. From the start fo the development process for FiM, she had a particular fixed set of characters and a fixed story in mind. This vision was, frankly, what drove her through what I suspect was a tricky corporate minefield to bring the show to the screen.

I don't think I'm overstepping the mark to say that the show as we have it now bears only a very slight resemblance to this great epic fantasy tale of friendship and female empowerment that Lauren had in mind (and, possibly, wrote in her fanfics - it might even be interesting if she were to publish them as an AU MLP: FiM chapter book or two). When you have a clear vision and a clear story, it is difficult to see that changed by other writers with their own objectives and their own understanding of the characters. That's why J Michael Strazinski was willing to be credited as nothing but "staff writer" on Babylon 5 - to make sure that it was his story on screen and nothing else. So, yes, I think Lauren is entirely within her rights to not want to spoil her own vision of FiM by watching what it's become today. It doesn't mean that she 'likes' or 'dislikes' it, it means that she wants to cling to her original vision and not have that altered by taking in Meghan's own creative vision.