I pressed K on my favourites and i teleported here…  
F**k

I personally think people are a bit jaded when it comes to this seasons premiere. It wasn’t the worst thing ever as some have stated but it could have been better. Personally I think season 3 is stronger than the 2nd half of season 2.

I will admit, the show has declined in quality since her departure. She said that she was directly involved for S1 and indirectly involved for S2, which were both great, S2 a little better imo. S3, which I assume she was not involved with, is rubbish compared to those two.
 
It’s disappointing that she wasn’t able to craft the show into her vision, and doubly so that bronies seem to be rejecting her for feeling this way.

This is depressing. Oh well, guess MLP’s dead now. Time to move on.

So… Should “Word of Faust” be replaced by “Headcanon of Faust” now?

regardless of the quality of the show chances are things may not be how she envisioned them so I can understand what she means
 
It’s like starting a book with a envisioned plotline and everything but then someone else finishing it, it could be awesome but it stopped being what it was supposed to be it’s a (nonintentioned) mockery of what you wanted at least that’s how I would feel :T

i think people are misunderstanding what she said. She isn’t angry at what they have done, she just is too worried to even watch

I can see why she says that. I’m not gonna say she could have done it a lot better, but she doesn’t like how a lot of things have been done… Because it’s impossible to like them…
 
First season: great. You may like or not like certain episodes, but they all were more than acceptable. Bad premiere. Some “meh” episodes. Good finale.
 
Secod season: quite good. Very good premiere. Aside from some “meh” episodes, we get some “stupid” episodes (like the CMC love potion one). Finale was a Disney mini-movie. A good one, but a Disney movie, not an FiM episode.
 
Third season: LOATHSOME premiere. So-so beginning, but suddenly gets much, much better. I am confuss.

But let’s put it this way: Lauren Faust made the show what it is and made ponies non-shitty. Since her departure, her creation has done nothing but improve and grow bigger and better.
 
It’s a shame she doesn’t feel good about it. I can see where she’s coming from, but if I were her I’d be proud of my creation making it as far as it has. Before G4, anything mlp-related was pretty much instantly dead in the water.

And then she watched Apple Family Reunion.
 
Okay, Lauren.

If I remember correctly, she watched Apple Family Reunion and liked it.

I understand what she means. She takes pride in the way she set her own characters. If other people view them differently, they just aren’t the same to her. Seeing other people use them is not the best feeling in the world.

She watched lesson zero, and she couldn’t watch any more of that shit.

And I wouldn’t call it sour grapes. She was very, very attached to the characters and universe in her head. They were part of her childhood, if I remember earlier interviews correctly.
 
I have no problem if she doesn’t want to watch a show that deviates so significantly from that. For her to leave, it would have to be significantly different, because I’m sure she’s savvy enough about the industry to know that some things would change.
 
It’s just an unfortunate situation for her. I hope it doesn’t bother her too much.

I can’t say that Hasbro didn’t made a terrible call here in taking the show in a different direction.

That’s too bad Lauren. The show is quite awesome now. Too bad you have to have sour grapes about it.

I feel like there are advantages to having Lauren Faust and having the current team without her.
 
First off, I’d like to say that the show probably isn’t all too different. When you listen to Jayson Thiessen, he says that they try to follow Lauren’s ideas as much as possible. And the universe and characters’ personality (for the most part) were conceived by Lauren.
 
Second, I have enjoyed the later episodes more, but not necessarily Season 3. I’d say the time I was most excited about episodes came between S1: Episode 15 (Feeling Pinkie Keen) - S2: Episode 22 (Hurricane Fluttershy). Lauren Faust was still involved with the episodes earlier in that time frame, but probably had little to nothing to do with the episodes at the end of that time frame.
 
Third, I still enjoyed the episodes before this time frame (the pilot through Suited for Success) and the ones after this time frame (Ponyville Confidential through Racist Barn Apple Family Reunion) in fact, the episodes that I ended up disliking came during that middle time frame. I didn’t dislike a lot of the episodes at the beginning or for Season 3 so far, but I haven’t loved many of them either.
 
I’d attribute that to the show creators beginning to learn about the universe and how to make a show as a team (being a con) and having Lauren Faust provide direct input as to what the show should be (being a pro) for the first part of the show, and potentially not having Lauren’s input or seeing to Hasbro’s needs for episode content (being a con) and the show creators being more experienced with Lauren’s universe (being a pro.)
 
I think the show has changed some, but I don’t think it’s gotten overall worse. On the whole, (like others have said in fewer words,) I think it’s gotten better. Lauren might have had other ideas, and they may have made FiM to be even better than what it was. But considering that I still like the show as much (if not more) than what I first did, I can’t say Hasbro didn’t make a terrible call here in taking the show in a different direction.

I feel a little down about Lauren’s post, but I understand her reluctance. If I had a vision for something, I’m not even sure I could entrust others to bring it to life for me. On the other hand, she did walk away of her own volition, because she said she got “burned out” on it, so…

Pretty much what has been said already.
 
I feel sad that she felt she had to leave, but imo the show isn’t any worse off after her departure.

I like the show the way it is. I am not sure if i would have liked Fausts direction more…just because she is the creator of the show does not mean she would have made it better. Season 3 has been very good so far.

I’m sorry she feels this way. I have been privileged enough to meet her, and she is a very nice lady. She seemed genuinely proud of MLP:FIM and the (unanticipated) impact it has had.

Faust wanted more adventures and season-spanning stories but Hasbro probably wanted the safer route of all stand-alone episodes of comedy.
 
This conflict might explain Faust’s mysterious departure from a show she was very enthusiastic about; Hasbro got rid of her for cheaper, more pliant people.

@Background Pony
 
In case of Victory Tomino actually wanted to get it cancelled, because he was mad about producers not giving him enough input. Or something.

@Beau
 
Wasn’t the changes done due to that she wasn’t allowed to use any if the G1 carnations except for Applejack?

Kinda a shame for her to say this, considering she said she trusts the new director (Jason) and the writers with the series, and such after she left.
 
Admittedly, some of the changes of the series they did from her original ideas do seem to be for the “better.”  
Like I kinda prefer it they changed Fire Flye into Rainbow Dash personally. The rainbow hair seems cooler, and we wouldn’t have the “Sonic Rainboom.”  
(And it’d be a bit odd to have 2 pink ponies on the team like her original idea was to have with Twilight and Fire Flye. The final dedigns seems more colorful.)