@Background Pony #2F9A
No, children and adults-whether they’re parents or not. She actually gets really pissed when people give adults (parents or not) shit for being into the show.

@Background Pony #3AFC  
Children and their parents, you mean.

FiM was actually meant to be enjoyed by children AND adults, according to Lauren Faust.

@northern haste  
I stand corrected and apologize for my error.

Jim Miller was never a producer on anything

@CaptainGrumpy  
OMCelestia so helpful!
 

 
(jk) also I can not believe how much I miss that show.

@zidders  

 
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@Philweasel  
Yeah, at no time was Jim a producer for the show or any company involved in the production of MLP.
 
@zidders  
You said “He was a terrible choice for producer and it’s no surprise the show’s picked up in quality since he left.”
 
He’s still doing the same job he’s been doing since 2015 - he hasn’t “left” and he was never a “producer” for this show.
 
Can you maybe just admit that you made a mistake, and that Big Jim “leaving” isn’t what caused whatever you are seeing that you are blaming him for?

@zidders  
He’s been promoted.
 
Twice.
 
He was originally a storyboard supervisor, ie, under the director. Then he became supervising director, then co-director.
 
He’s never been a producer. As far as I’m aware, they all live in Los Angeles at Hasbro HQ.

@Derpy Whooves  
I said he wasn’t producer of the show anymore. He’s supervising director which is a different role from the one he was playing before. His job now is overall responsibility for the shows quality and for making sure that quality is consistent. It’s not as much about story direction as it is about making sure that whichever way the story and show is going it looks its best and is delivered on time without going over budget.

@zidders  
Currently Supervising Director on MLP - the same position he’s had since Season 5, episode 14. His IMDB and LinkedIn concur.
 
How is it that you know that things about Jim that Jim himself doesn’t know?

@zidders  
He didn’t leave

@zidders  
Have you got any proof that Jim left the team?

@zidders  
Since when did jim leave?

@Background Pony #B8A8  
Big Jim is a miserable misanthrope who doesn’t know how to ignore people who are clearly just trying to get a rise out of him. He was a terrible choice for producer and it’s no surprise the show’s picked up in quality since he left. As far as adults ‘ruining the show’ goes maybe follow your own advice and stop taking shit people say about the show so seriously. I’ve managed to enjoy the last seven and a half seasons so far despite all the drama. It’s really not that difficult.

Yeah pretty much, us adult’s ruin everything that was originally made for children and that’s the truth, people take the show way, WAY! to seriously. Its meant to be enjoyed not make bloody reviews and complain about, even Big Jim hates Bronies, he had a huge outburst on twitter awhile back.

@Beau Skunky  
I actually want to see Chrysalis reformed. :(

@zidders  
Buzzwords do not a cogent argument make.

@Background Pony #9A73  
Hearths Warming Tale was utterly devoid of any depth or meaning. It was a soulless pastiche. Muppet Christmas Carol did a far better job of teaching the same lesson it was supposed to be about. Instead we had the writers awkwardly shoehorning Starlight into a tale the should have been a walk in the park seeing as it’s already been written for them.

@Background Pony #9A73  
Some People like to interpret malice in every action a character takes.

@Background Pony #9A73  
The latter, definitively.

@IceKitsune  
I liked “P.P.O.V.” as well; the characters describing each other in less-than-flattering terms didn’t bother me as much as it did some bronies because I just shrugged it off as one of those “in the heat of the moment” things, and the deus ex machina resolution didn’t bother me at all because it wasn’t the point of the episode.
 
@Ihhh  
I’ve seen some other criticisms of “A Hearth’s Warming Tale”, usually stemming from the idea of Twilight using a fictional story, about the Windigos returning if Hearth’s Warming isn’t celebrated, in order to purportedly guilt or shame Starlight into celebrating it herself.
 
@BigBadSeed  
I think it’s been a while since the comments have been addressing the image, but considering it’s a drama bait image, I can’t say that bothers me.
 
@Dizzy Pen  
I can understand being turned off by the razzing the rest of the Wonderbolts give Rainbow Dash, or her reaction to it, but calling it “bullying” makes me wonder if either you’ve never experienced actual bullying or you’re really sensitive to the topic.

@Psy-Psichinis  
Agreed. Season 6 really had a good batch of episodes I disliked: The Crystalling (horribly contrived to make Starlight look good), No Second Prances (Only Starlight ends up in good feet after that episode, not mentioning how Twilight’s dinner was completely ruined), Newbie Dash (all that bullying was just hard to watch), Spice Up Your Life (Really, Rarity?! After “Canterlot Boutique” you’re now “following the trends” instead of being creative yourself?), the list goes on.
 
Not that there were good episodes. Gauntlet of Fire is my absolute favorite Spike episode, and Saddle Row Review was as solid as it was fun, and The Fault on Our Cutie Marks gave us Gabriela the Griffon, and she’s a great character.
 
But when the episodes focused on Starlight either repeated her mistakes like she had learned nothing or contrived the situation to make her and only her look good, especially after how botched I felt the Season 5 Finale was… Yeah, it made me dislike the season.

@Wiimeiser  
Ah. Okay.

@BigBadSeed  
I was responding to how A Christmas Carol was overdone. I guess I should’ve directly replied…