Talk:Lauren Faust/@comment-26973802-20131113004448

So the "magical girl anime" plan she originally had is no big secret (Nightmare Moon through the entire episode, probably either in MotW format like Sailor Moon, or maybe more on the scale of Winx Club).

How much you want to bet that she initially intended the villain to completely be an entity of its own instead of the dark side of a good character? And have that villain unambiguously destroyed like Tirek? And Hasbro was against the idea of making MLP an all-audiences show like G1 ever since Tales (correct me if I'm wrong there, and yes I know Tales was part of G1 but a different part), they wanted it to be like G3, so no extremely dark villains or villain death, so she had to make it look like Luna corrupted then decorrupted? With nothing in the episode to suggest otherwise aside from pieces laying around Luna? (Saying because something she said on deviantart suggests she views Nightmare Moon as the embodiment of Luna's jealousy and bitterness demonically possessing her)