Talk:Lauren Faust/@comment-86.174.36.42-20110914025537/@comment-2170890-20120111153616

"The most cliché episode"? Lauren didn't write Bridle Gossip* did she?! The episodes you mention didn't look cliché at all to me, even when it used references to, oh what was it? Pop culture - something you claim that those episodes didn't have, when they did. And even if they didn't, is pop culture the main reason you watch this show? It isn't for me - I like how it's executed, but it's not the reason I like FIM. Secondly, even though she only directly wrote those two episodes, she was more involved in the others than you think - in season 1 she had a say on practically everything, and the script writers were working at least partly through her views on the characters, hence why the characters were never OOC, except when they were having breakdowns, which is understandable, as you would be OOC at that point. In season two she was less involved, but she was still there, and did mostly things that mattered (like overseeing the scripts). She wasn't "asked to leave" it was a neutral decision. Lastly, what exactly do you mean by her "picking up the pieces with embarrassing displays of explanations regarding character information."? Pretty much everything that I've seen her explain has already come true in future episodes. So kindly elaborate what you mean by this. If you hate her personally, I guess we'll have to live with it, but I'm sorry to say that most of your reasoning makes no sense (such as claiming the pilot episodes had no pop culture when they did). Not trying to cause a fight, I just wanted to put my two cents on the situation.


 * I don't find "Bridle Gossip" to be a bad episode (I've actually yet to find an episode I hated), but the actual storyline (anti-prejudice episode, where it's the "child" of the group who shows everyone they they judged the "different" character, for no real reason other than the fact she was different) has been done to death, and I don't think anyone - not even among FIM's actual target audience, didn't predict the twist (the fact that they weren't cursed after all) almost immediately. However, the episode was funny, so it didn't matter that I'd seen it before.  A few of FIM's episode contain aspect of tropes, which is by no means a bad thing, and each of them had enough to them to make them likeable episodes, in my mind, and put a whole new spin on it for me.