I know what source your quoting and everything else I've seen out of it has been either vague, heavily implied or talked about already, or turned out to be false so I remain skeptical.
Still, that is fair enough and even if the source is completely false that doesn't mean that it wasn't all hasbros decision, corporate culture is very fragmented and can often involve contradictory decisions from multiple people at multiple levels of management, but as someone who has been involved with corporate decisions like this before, I find it is rarely as cut and dry as consumers like to think it is. Given the statement by Mrs. Faust (which was made in an interview that took place well before alicorn twilight was announced and after faust was out of the production loop so likely didn't see it coming) as well as previous setups throughout the first two seasons, I just don't see it as Hasbro forcing a decision that had never even entered the writers minds before now. If Applejack had become an alicorn then yes that would be much easier to believe as corporate meddling, Twilight seems more like something that was in the plans as a possibility and Hasbro more likely having a hand in its timing rather than its existance
Much more likely it was something that was put forth as a possibility with season 3 being the potential end of the show, and being given the go ahead as Hasbro began to plan expansions to it's toyline, especially considering that this year is the 30th anniversary since MLP's beginning I believe. In the end, I would say it was in part planned by both the writers and Hasbro with even Mrs. Faust putting it forward as a potential plot point back in the beginning.
I suppose this whole spiel comes off as nitpicky since I'm still admitting the possibility your right, but I suppose we will see what happens as season 4 comes out.
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Still, that is fair enough and even if the source is completely false that doesn't mean that it wasn't all hasbros decision, corporate culture is very fragmented and can often involve contradictory decisions from multiple people at multiple levels of management, but as someone who has been involved with corporate decisions like this before, I find it is rarely as cut and dry as consumers like to think it is. Given the statement by Mrs. Faust (which was made in an interview that took place well before alicorn twilight was announced and after faust was out of the production loop so likely didn't see it coming) as well as previous setups throughout the first two seasons, I just don't see it as Hasbro forcing a decision that had never even entered the writers minds before now. If Applejack had become an alicorn then yes that would be much easier to believe as corporate meddling, Twilight seems more like something that was in the plans as a possibility and Hasbro more likely having a hand in its timing rather than its existance
Much more likely it was something that was put forth as a possibility with season 3 being the potential end of the show, and being given the go ahead as Hasbro began to plan expansions to it's toyline, especially considering that this year is the 30th anniversary since MLP's beginning I believe. In the end, I would say it was in part planned by both the writers and Hasbro with even Mrs. Faust putting it forward as a potential plot point back in the beginning.
I suppose this whole spiel comes off as nitpicky since I'm still admitting the possibility your right, but I suppose we will see what happens as season 4 comes out.