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> I recognize and acknowledge your points as valid, however you misunderstand why I was asking. I wasn't asking because I dislike or disrespect what Faust did for the show; I was asking because I don't understand why someone else couldn't do the same thing? Or, for that matter, why someone would even have to fight that hard at this point. Hasbro recognizes--and yes this is acknowledged in the e-mails--that a quality show results in far superior toy sales to an inferior show. They know this. They want the show to be good.


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> That means it won't be necessary for someone to fight super hard this time; I have high hopes that G5 will be excellent. [/bq]

 
The problem is that recognizing something and actually _*not screwing it up_* are two different things. As I mentioned earlier the Hasbro execs were actually giving themselves credit for the show's early popularity, even while Faust was still on board. Executives are often out-of-touch.


 
Meghan McCarthy being attached to G5 is the _*ONLY_* thing keeping me from writing it off as guaranteed trash. We can see how the last couple of seasons have dipped in quality, with fewer and fewer original staff remaining on the show. Writers aren't even required to actually know anything about the show before writing scripts now (one said that it's "suggested" that they watch a few episodes but not everyone does it) and we get episodes which smack of prior episode rehashed, forgotten character development, and some downright bad episodes.


 
If G4 had scome to a natural end and G5 was a few years afterwards I wouldn't be so hard on it. But the fact that G4 is being killed specifically to make way for an immediate reboot makes me bitter. Declining quality can change, but cancelling a series is pretty final in most cases.

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I recognize and acknowledge your points as valid, however you misunderstand why I was asking. I wasn't asking because I dislike or disrespect what Faust did for the show; I was asking because I don't understand why someone else couldn't do the same thing? Or, for that matter, why someone would even have to fight that hard at this point. Hasbro recognizes--and yes this is acknowledged in the e-mails--that a quality show results in far superior toy sales to an inferior show. They know this. They want the show to be good.

That means it won't be necessary for someone to fight super hard this time; I have high hopes that G5 will be excellent. [/bq]
The problem is that recognizing something and actually _not screwing it up_ are two different things. As I mentioned earlier the Hasbro execs were actually giving themselves credit for the show's early popularity, even while Faust was still on board. Executives are often out-of-touch.

Meghan McCarthy being attached to G5 is the _ONLY_ thing keeping me from writing it off as guaranteed trash. We can see how the last couple of seasons have dipped in quality, with fewer and fewer original staff remaining on the show. Writers aren't even required to actually know anything about the show before writing scripts now (one said that it's "suggested" that they watch a few episodes but not everyone does it) and we get episodes which smack of prior episode rehashed, forgotten character development, and some downright bad episodes.

If G4 had some to a natural end and G5 was a few years afterwards I wouldn't be so hard on it. But the fact that G4 is being killed specifically to make way for an immediate reboot makes me bitter. Declining quality can change, but cancelling a series is pretty final in most cases.