I’m just gonna C&P a post I found on /mlp/.
First, yes, Faust didn’t make the show alone, and she has always been a hack when it comes to writing, but she poured her heart and soul making this happen. She got all the right people to make all the right things, and if you weren’t a newfag you’d know how in the early days the staff used to joke joke on her obsession with the show, from making sure the ponies didn’t make human poses an did pony things to putting actual continuity in an episodic series, she supervised everything to make it perfect because she loved what she was doing.
Second, yes, MLP wasn’t completely her idea, she watched the series when little and the show is one big ascended fanfiction, but not giving her credit for creating a good story just because some elements were pre-existing is very stupid: on one hand, there’s examples like Alan Moore, he has only once used original characters for his work, yet all his stories are considered some of the greatest ever made for comics, he’s made the best Superman stories and made Watchmen out of recently bought characters, it’s not the characters but what you do with them that’s really important, that’s how rip-offs like Batman and Captain America overshadowed their original incarnations; and on the other hand, THE WHOLE POINT OF MAKING STORIES or even SENTENCES is to use pre-existing concepts and arranging them in something else that can communicate a message, it can’t be completely alien or else nobody would understand it, be it you take those ideas from self experience or someone else’s you’re taking them from somewhere.
And third, you claim that it’s unfair for Twilight to lose her wings, something she worked for so hard when the same could be said for Faust, who gave us Twilight in the first place, you wouldn’t even have a show to defend if it weren’t for her, you and people like you are ungrateful bastards for saying that she’s being a cry baby for losing something so dear to her.
Yes, I’m a huge geek and I am mad right now.