How much of G4/FiM did the G5 writers watch?

[WickedGames 240]

This is not a G5 hate post at all rather I am just wondering how much of G4 did the writers and animations of MLP A New Generation,Make Your Mark and Tell Your Tale watch?

I guess it was either just the 1st 2 seasons or the 1st 4 seasons and not anything from seasons 5 through 9? 

You know the seasons that Discovery Family doesn’t have heavy rights too 

[Megas 27,625]

Enough probably. They don't need to watch every episode but enough to know where they'd go moving forward

[Metemponychosis 1,261]

They probably read the wikipedia entries.

[Otaku-sempai 460]

Gillian M. Berrow, at least, should be very familiar with Friendship is Magic. She's the same G.M. Berrow who has written numerous MLP books. 

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

16 minutes ago, Otaku-sempai said:

Gillian M. Berrow, at least, should be very familiar with Friendship is Magic. She's the same G.M. Berrow who has written numerous MLP books. 

Too bad she’s no longer working in G5