I feel bad for Jim - it seems like he’s often the target for asking questions, by some of the most rabid fans

Why are we supposed to hate the comics now? I’m not following internet lately.

@platypusmac  
Tibbles is possibly the only thing I’d welcome. He is actually amusing, and rather ironic for a pet.

@Mr. Horrible  
Yeah, “soft canon” is always how I’ve thought of it. It allows writers on all sides to keep their options open.

…well, crap. That means no Tiberius in the show…

Hopefully they ARE kept separate. The comics have been nothing than a badly written mess the past year, and the staff are making no effort to improve.

I wouldn’t mind if the comics were referenced in the show.

@Mr. Horrible  
I with fanfic writers would stick to that. Some SideStory/Crossover Networks are so huge, it’s impossible to stay tuned.
 
(But that approach also can lead to glaring plot holes. Just look at late Pokemon Movies. Ash have clear case of amnesia every time he’s in anime series)

@Mr. Horrible  
Yeah this is exactly how I feel about it. Much like Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who ect. The comics, books and the like are B canon to the show, in that the show overrides them on canon but when it doesn’t then the comics and books are considered canon.

@Background Pony #49BF  
Goddammit, I mean Jim Miller’s.

It’s exactly the same as any other tie-in media for literally any other show. I don’t know why people would think it would ever be any different for MLP. You can’t make external media a major part of a show because then your audience will lose track of the plot unless they go out of their way to hunt the rest of it down.
 
I always felt it’s best to consider the comics and other tie-in stuff as ‘soft canon’ anyway. They can be considered to have ‘happened’ within show continuity until directly contradicted by the show itself.

@Hateot  
Just another rabid fans who has nothing better to do than annoying the people working on the show.

@Background Pony #49BF  
Yeah. But the writing team and the animation team (which I didn’t emphasize in the first sentence of the second paragraph) are separate. Again different staff, people in charge, etc.

Well, for now it seems there may be a little less pending drama for the beginning of the season than I had assumed.
 
Who’s this murrison though? I see he has his own tag here.

@Background Pony #D479  
Exactly. Looking forward for “don’t believe Murrison’s lies” tag.
 
P.S. I’m pretty sure that Meghan is working IN DHX.

@Background Pony #49BF  

 
Two brief appearances doesn’t really make him a character in season 4

@Background Pony #49BF  
Geez are some of you still on about that, this has been cleared up so many times it’s ridiculous. Meghan McCarthy (who writes for the show and oversees all the script writing in general) said Flash wouldn’t appear, which she “knew” because he had not been written into any s4 scripts. On her end, as far as she knew she was making a true statement when she said that.
 
What she didn’t know was that DHX, the company who does the animation for the show (two totally separate departments here with different people in charge) thought it would be really funny to include Flash in that one cameo scene, to troll the fans AND to troll Meghan herself. They did it as a joke on her as well, she had no way of knowing that was going to happen. She never intentionally lied about him showing up.

Also why is every one acting like this is new info, this has been said before multiple times when the comics first started.

>the comic and show will remain separate
 
>Flash Sentry is not a character in #MLPFiM season 4

Nuuu that sad, so much drama just went out of window :<

Phew.

\o/
 
Btw who is that.

Well that’s a relief