Why Were Alicorn Twilight Fanfics Recieved Better than it Happening in the Show?

[SBaby 660]

There is so much that needs to be said. First, I have run across people who HATE the show now because of Twilicorn. Hate it. As in they loved it previous and hate it now. This is crazy.

I understand not everyone will like the change, and some people will dislike it solely because they don't like change. But you have to look at it from a different perspective. This can either barely change anything, or it could flip the entire series upside down; and how exciting would it be if option number 2 happened? Talk about a wild ride! I'd like a few episodes where something in Ponyville wasn't the problem and everyone went home giggling!

 

I think it's sad that people left the fandom over the season finale. Yes, there was barely any dialogue. Please show me the problem here. We already knew what was going to happen in end so why prolong it? This will either way become a very interesting turn and I can't wait to see what the writers will do now.

 

One last thing. Even if the idea of Twilicorn turned to hell, we still have MLP and they'll most likely change her back to a unicorn. Be thankful everypony. It would be a darn shame if we couldn't love and tolerate the writers for the show after all of this. Especially after their show taught us to love and tolerate.

 

The first thing I'm going to say is this.  And I'm going to burst alot of bubbles, but this is the hard truth.  I cannot imagine that they would just turn Twilight into an Alicorn, only to turn her back into a Unicorn right afterward.  That makes no sense from a marketing perspective, and there are some people that would view something like that as a tease, and even borderline insulting.  So I'm sorry to say, but the chances of Twilight turning back into a Unicorn are practically nonexistent.

 

Second, I don't think there were really that many people that got turned off the show over this.  Maybe a small fringe group, but the majority of fans are still into the show.  None of the bronies I'm subscribed to on youtube are going to stop watching the show over this.

 

And finally, I think the 'hate' for the change is starting to wear down.  I mean, people aren't complaining about it nearly as often as they used to.  I think it's because people are getting adjusted to the idea and starting to look at the bigger picture of what can be done with her character now.  And there's alot that can be done.

Edited June 15, 2013 by SBaby

[duidamasterXD 9,627]

Topic renamed slightly to reflect the question asked in the OP.

 

And as for the answer, as others have said there is a massive difference between having an idea played with in a short story than having it actually happen and affect the rest of the series. There are shipfics with thousands of upvotes on FiMFiction that would be almost universally loathed if they became episdoes, the same goes for countless other concepts as well.

[Shanks 10,816]

The first thing I'm going to say is this.  And I'm going to burst alot of bubbles, but this is the hard truth.  I cannot imagine that they would just turn Twilight into an Alicorn, only to turn her back into a Unicorn right afterward.

Even as someone who has fiercely criticized twilicorn I thought it was too soon and don't like the way it has been handled in the finale I have never agreed with the idea of turning her back as that would just replace lazy writing with more lazy writing which would just compound the problem. I am still not sold on the idea, but I am hoping for the best in season 4 and have full confidence the writers can pull it off so long as Hasbro dosen't interfere anymore than they already have. As for if I am going to be turned off the show or not it really depends on if twilicorn will work out or not which nobodyreally knows for sure yet.

[Veylon 255]

One thing I'll say on subject of fanfics is the the authors have the storytelling space to work things out. They don't need to cram everything into 22 minutes - or even a two-parter. They can take as many chapters as necessary to explain and build up to Twilight becoming an Alicorn. They can take hours to read.

 

Secondly, they aren't bound by ratings. They can deal head-on with a lot of the problems of Twilight ascending, be that outliving her friends, being forced into battle, or the difficulties of a new body. And, again, they have the time to work these out to their logical (or not) conclusions. They don't have to have everything be happily ever after.