My Sixth Plot Pony: Friendship is Sufficently Advanced

[Jorlem]

Let me reframe that: I don't particularly trust Hasbro to let the team succeed. Twilight's exaltation should raise an immense number of status-quo-altering issues. What are her new rights and responsibilities? How is her magic affected? What's the impact on the political sphere? What about the broader magical ecology? Pony government, how does it work?

I don't mind such things being restricted to 'B' plots, but I'm afraid of Hasbro stifling them entirely in favor of "Status Quo is God". (Not that I'm worried for my own sake. As I said, I'm a fan-of-fandom. I'm just worried that seeing this poorly handled might drive away creative fans.)

Some of this was discussed at a con panel with some of the show writers yesterday actually.? Some of the relevant responses (taken from the EqD summary):

• The Season 3 finale was originally written in November 2011.
  Twilicorn was a while in coming, folks. plus, the writers knew they
  wanted to make it a musical fairly early on.
  
• The Season 4 opener will focus on Twilight's fears and questions after becoming a princess.
  
• Hasbro isn't soulless. Meghan feels the stories she and the
  writers want to tell are the ones that get told despite what others
  believe, and the studio Hasbro built up has animators and other folks
  who care about making a good TV show in its executive positions. M.A.
  went out of his way to point out that dealing with the highers-up isn't a
  black/white process, but has nuances. At the end of the day, Friendship is Magic?is
  there to advertise toys of brightly colored ponies, but the writers are
  pretty happy with how much control they have over their episodes.
  

So, I don't think you have to worry that much.

Also, The Sweetie Chronicles has updated.? If you aren't familiar with it, it is the story of a Sweetie Belle who was thrown out of her home universe by a magical accident, and has been jumping through fanfic after fanfic, trying to find her way home.
Edit:
The Platinum Crown has updated, as has Naborale (MLP/Myst 3)
Second Edit:
The new Friendship is Witchcraft is out:

(link, if the embed doesn't work)
Also, a comic:

Spoiler

Edit again:
This Platinum Crown has updated again.
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