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A rejected episode for S4
SpoilerSeason 4 really wanted to use Rainbow Falls a lot. Rainbow Falls was supposed to be the source of rainbows in Cloudsdale and there's a crystal that makes it produce the colors, and it's running out and a new crystal is available in the Crystal Empire. There's a special way to handle the crystal, but Rainbow/Twilight(either or, the premise and outline features one or the other) get excited and simply skim everything. Of course this goes wrong and de-rainbows their friends and makes them extreme versions of themselves. And Twilight/Rainbow would have had to find a way to make everything right
This sounds like it could have been fun, but there were some weird things happening that would need to be reworked
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SpoilerThis definitely sounds akin to an interesting premise, particularly through its expansion of Rainbow Falls itself beyond an aesthetically pleasing backdrop for several lower-quality episodes and the concept of the 'extreme' M6 (which I guess could be some form of commentary on flanderization, although I somehow suspect that the writers were more concerned with the similarities to other 'corrupted/reworked M6' plotlines (such as Return of Harmony or MMC), although somehow the conceit of Twilight (in the outline version, I recall) screwing this kind of task up seems kind of contrived given the 'mentor' characterization they attempted to push throughout the season otherwise.
On a related note, season 4 appears to mark an interesting divergence in the way the show's episodes were composed if the leaks are anything to reference - note that the premises and outlines in S1 and S2 were written by Faust and Renzetti, with Meghan assuming control of this in S3, yet every season following this appears to feature the premise/outlines for (almost) every episode written by its respective writer (or another writer, hence AKR's credit on the outline of the musical version of Bats!) as opposed to a single showrunner(s). Regardless of one's opinion on the later seasons, I suspect this was a contributory factor in their less cohesive/consistent tone and characterization (particularly from S6 onwards). Similarly, the production for S4 in general seems weirdly uneven, with a number of premises in S5's earlier half seemingly formulated approximately a year prior to actual production (check the 'Episodic Brainstorm' folder in the S4 file, which contains a number of S5 episode premises and the entire (noticeably different, particularly in regards to most of act 1, Starlight being referred to as 'Aurora Glimmer' and lack of Larson-esque comedic touches) first draft of part 1 of The Cutie Map ), which may explain the elongated hiatus between S4 and S5 as a result of either Meghan attempting to greenlight the MLP Movie (in its early form at least) or the crew anticipating some form of cancellation (a less likely possibility).
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