Wouldn't it have been easier to just leave Spike a dragon in EQG?

>>28446523
But there wouldn't have been a new Spike toy

>>28446523
>Whole premise is that the world is completely without magic
>OH HEY WHY DON'T YOU JUST LEAVE THE FUCKING DRAGON IN THERE?

>>28446523
Yeah, a literal fucking dragon walking around wouldn't have scared anyone.

Plus, making Spike a dog was an artistic expression by the writers to display how poorly he is treated in the show.
Also, this>>28446531
Hasbro is still a Jew. That is the cardinal rule. Never forget it. That's what each question to why anything happens ever in this franchise.

Wait a second
If dragons are dogs in the human world
What are Equestrian dogs in the human world then?

>>28446547
I highly doubt the writers thought that hard about that

>>28446523
This is one of the main reasons EqG is a fucking joke and the only appeal of it is to waifufags.

>>28446547
Human. Remember the Diamond Dogs? Shit is retarded.

>>28446546
Meghan/various show staff get asked by fucking children every single year as to why they made Spike a dog. It was a major fuckup.

>>28446557
Yeah, you gotta remember that they never thought they were gonna be making EG 2,3,4 & 5. If they knew it was gonna continue, they probably would have out more effort into it.
Did you know, Sunset wasn't even in RR in the first draft of the script? It was gonna be pure Twilight™ power hour

>>28446568
And that's what every EqG after RR became because Twilight toys sell better. Not that it really matters because every single EqG character is at best a shallow cardboard cutout of their Equestria version and Sunset Shimmer is a boring character who only has appeal to adult waifufags.

Why do you think FG had so much Shimmer cut? Little girls don't give a shit about her, they just want more Twilight in any form. It's why the movie was rewritten to be all about her, and keep her around for at least two more movies after it.

>>28446536
Stuffed animal.

>>28446581
Yeah, that's true. Sunset has more potential and Ishi wanted to explore that more in FG but Hasbro threw down the Jew hammer and made them redo it to have Scitwi be in the spotlight. The writers even said they wish they could go back and do the original script. But it looks like Sunset is still having a hefty role in LoE. Maybe after the disaster of FG, Hasbro realized they need to take some ot their restraints off.

>>28446581
Why is that in the show itself the writers are avoiding Twilight like the plague and focusing on Glimmer instead?

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>>28446625
Because Hasbro beat every last drop of blood from Twilight Sparkle's™ dried up corpse and Starlight is their new victim. This poor pony is about to get the beating worse than Brazil against Germany.

>>28446625
Just Twilight showing up occasionally is enough. She's like Celestia now.

>>28446602
EqG has substantially less freedom in what they want to do than the main show from what I've heard, to the point that "writers" are more like consultants.

>>28446656
FG and LOE seem to have it bad.

>>28446656
Pretty much but due to their NDA, the writers can't say that. That's why I don't ever give the writers shit for bad ideas. Ishi is trying hard but Hasbro has EG under their thumb.

>>28446669
I think it's because Hasbro doesn't see much of an actual long term franchise out of it. They want to get money out of it and sunset it (heh) after G4.

Is it true that pretty much no one on the EQG team actually wants to work on EQG?

I heard not only was Meghan McCarthy against it, but Hasbro shafted her original idea.

>>28446678
>I think it's because Hasbro doesn't see much of an actual long term franchise out of it.
We already have more EG confirmed. Either as a fifth movie, or the rumor of a show. EGs popularity is raising quickly in central/south America, Russia and Asia.

>>28446536
>world is completely without magic
>the entire premise of the second/third movie revolves around the human m6 counterparts having magic

>>28446695
Five movies, sure. But the toys never sold well until the EqG Minis came out and every movie they make less and less merch.

At this point they'd be better off giving the rights to make animation to some Brazilian company and let themselves do something else.

>>28446703
Fourth movie involves magic that comes from the Everfree Forest.

Let's get this straight. On EQG, they can't give the spotlight to a different, highly popular character, everything must be about the Pretty Purple Mary Sue. But on FIM, they can shove the Mary Sue aside to showcase a new character no one likes and no gives a fuck. What is Hasbro's reasoning for this?

>>28446691
What was her original idea?

>>28446691
No. Ishi and the current co-director love it but Hasbro is pissing them off with restraints. The team that worked on the original were pretty reluctant but it's Ishi's baby now and he seems to like it.

>>28446691
They claim that they were skeptical, but you can't really complain about work when you work as a cartoonist.

>>28446721
When do they say this

>>28446716
Refer to this>>28446645
Starlights gonna get raped hard by Hasbro, just like Twiggles.

>>28446717
Something closer to the Wizard of Oz.

>>28446710
yes, and? the second and third are about magic within the eqg universe

>>28446710
No, the magic from the forest came from the Fall Formal, too

>>28446523
No, we can't have a dragon running around in a human world.

>>28446783
I find it so strange when people reply to OPs a question after the conversation has digressed so far past that point.

>>28446783
And why naut?
The "human world" is not our world.
I don't see why they could've combined contemporary setting with more fantasy.

>>28446795
Yeah it's not our world, but it's still a "human" world. No magic, no mystical creatures. (Or at least not have them common place like in Equestria.)

>>28446783
Stuffed animal, toy, disguises.

>>28446523
Meg invented Spike abuse in season one so why would she cut him a brakes here?

>>28446990
Meghan McCarthy gave way more significance to the character than any other head writer barring Josh Haber.

>>28446581
>>28446602
>the original was better
You mean the lesbo power hour? Nah, this is prefered.

>>28447016
>gave more significance
As a pin cushion. Then Twilight's slave then a ghost.

Level headed, snarkly equal deaged to a snort nose kid that messes up at everything and is to stupid to know better. Nice.

>>28447075
He saved the Crystal Empire twice under her watch, played a heavy role in the first Equestria Girls, and his friends when they were trapped in a comic, and then Ponyville from crazy Rarity.

>>28447096
Giving Spike a pat on the head is useless if you kick him around half a dozen times afterward. A lot of the good things that did happen during the drought weren't even because of her but another writer.

Spike never truly recovered until Meg gtfo of there. But Meg is still in charge of the movie. So more ineffectiveness and mane 6 eye rolling to look forward to, yay.

>>28446531
Then just make him a purple kid that hangs out with CMC.

>>28448486
But he's older than them dude.

>>28448525
How d you know that?

Wouldn't it be easier, if your mom wasn't such a dirty whore?

>>28448554
he dosen't. He just needs an excuse to fap to him

>>28448566
Found the underaged faggot

>>28448587
>implying anybody on this board, is atleast over 18

>>28448554
They weren't around when Spike was; Twilight was five or under when Spike came; there's more of an age difference between the big and little sisters (For Whom the Sweetie Bell Tolls, Cutie Mark Chronicles); Spike is not looked after like the CMC and can work and leave town as he chooses.
If it quacks like duck . . .

>>28448777
>I know it, because i like to clop spike porn

fixed

>>28448478
Meghan McCarthy helped write everything but Equestria Games.

>>28448808
Are you stupid? You can pick facts like these (ex: flashback filly AJ being younger than the CMC) by watching the show. Or cook up random sexual suggestions involving Spike that have obviously been on your mind like you're doing.

>>28448955
Meg worked the boards but didn't write those. The one she did had the credit stacked with other writers. Dave Polsky is the one who made Spike a hero. Meg really only cared about Twilight.