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@Jarkes
I didn’t record it, sorry, I just walked up and asked him in person in the hallway. You should have seen the “Tha palookas I hafta deal wit’ in dis job” look on his face when some other guy (politely) asked him if he expected all the criticism and turmoil over Twilicorn when he wrote MMC. His ability to laugh at haters is truly admirable; I definitely appreciate that he fully realizes he’s got one of the best jobs in the world.@The Twelfth Doctor Whoof
he did the best he could within the constraints he had
I really think the show was sort of a victim of its own success in Season 3; by that point– months and months before any of it aired– they knew that they’d garnered a much larger fandom than anyone ever expected, and they all hoped they’d get to make more seasons, but Hasbro did so much foot-dragging on the contract renewal negotiations that it ending up damaging the overall storyline. I am absolutely certain that S3 would have been markedly different if the crew had known for certain, in advance, that they were either definitely going to get renewed for new seasons or definitely get sent home like (almost) every other animation crew that reaches 65 episodes. There was a lot of narrative flailing going on at a point in the series where they really needed to be using that short amount of storytelling space to wrap things up, but they bypassed a lot of opportunities to do so, like they kinda sorta could tell they would get an S4 eventually, but they didn’t want to write everything as if they were and then get Teen Titansed or Fireflyed.