Talk:My Little Pony Friendship is Magic/@comment-35329140-20180625182525/@comment-1031724-20180801031839

Tales (often referred to as G2 though it was G1.5) and G3 didn't have any villains as far as I know. They don't seem to be that kind of show. They had less appeal to the older viewers that G1 and FiM (G4).

G1 was like your older fantasy movies appealing to all audiences. The two that followed were meant to be more aimed exclusively at the little girls who'd play with the toys. When Lauren Faust was given the job for FiM, she wanted to make it something that wouldn't make parents in the same room as their kids watching it want to take a power drill to their skulls. In attempting to make it manageable for us, she and the first writers made it appealing, and when they realized it, they put more effort into that appeal.