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The more I think about it, the more I wonder how the behind-the-scenes stuff timelines together.

Like, it’s known from a leak that there was ADR for up to at least early s5 back in March 2017, and from the EPs comments (and that of one of the directors talking about having finished his time with vld, whose last directed episode was the penultimate one of s6), we know that work on s6 was coming to a close shortly afterward.

We also know that the crew works on the story in 26-episode groupings, considering them not as two seasons but as one long season (as learned in interviews following s2).

It’s also been repeatedly said that the writing is “years ahead” of what we see.

So. Fast forward to early summer 2017. It’s been announced when s3 will drop, and that the seasons will be shorter. The EPs admit a little later that this was news to them as well, and changed how they had to do things.

This tracks with s3-s6 being finished and the entire thing being shown to the DW execs. Likely this was shortly before the story for s7-s8 was finalized and presented to the execs to begin work. You present the finished product to get the executive okay before moving forward with the next one (in this instance, the second production set getting the final okay before moving on to the third production set)

Which means.... s7 was written with the intention of being two shorter seasons. One that was the road trip back to Earth, and then one that was the Earth arc.

Now, on the DW side of things seeing s3-s6 and deciding that was largely a moment of “oh. oh, this isn’t nearly as good as any of us were expecting, we can’t have this all come out in 13-episode groups, the story barely connects well enough for that” (as evidenced by the disparity between s3 and s4, s4 and s5, and the direction of the story in s5 to s6). The shorter seasons might’ve been damage control, and the changes from the execs as a result lending heavily to the talk of having had to do a complete rewrite of one of these last seasons (possibly—and probably—both). And, well, @sol1056 and @ptw30 both can speak better on the stats and marketing aspects of how those seasons were received.

But I would go to them for input on the reception of s3-s6 in having s7-s8 be the “regular” 13-episode length. Possibly this happened as early as the reception of s4, when they entered the holidays. The rewrite, then, could be attributed to the wake of s5 audience reception.

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Either way I don’t think this has anything to do with other franchises releases, netflix didn’t care when they released s6 the day of incredibles 2 premiere. Not saying that your theory is wrong, it’s plausible, they may care now. But I think this has more to do with dw franchises and not others. They should have noticed that at least a half of vld’s audience is moving on to she-ra so that’s why i think they schedule stuff in regards to what the audience wants to see. Makes sense? (2/2)

No. Sorry, but it doesn’t. First, most of VLD’s audience isn’t moving to She-Ra. Second, Tuesdays are not good days to premiere shows, especially when DreamWorks has never premiered a show on Tuesday before - only Fridays. Third, She-Ra doesn’t have much of an audience, actually. 

Below the cut - lovely graphics and research from @sol1056. 

I’m not sure how it works when writing a TV show. I know May Chan had to be credited for “A Little Adventure,” even though she hadn’t had a writing credit for VLD since Season 3. So she must have written part of the episode, prior to her leaving the show. (Come back, Ms. Chan!)

And according to my conversations with @sol1056, people are paid by the title they hold on a show - staff writer, head editor, etc. So I can’t say for sure how the season we got came to fruition. 

However, @headspacedad had this idea from an earlier conversation.  

…if [the EPs] couldn’t write the story - someone did and handed it to them. [The EPs] then took the scissors to it and cut and pasted the ‘better’ story they now want back pats for, mangling it beyond repair. That’s infuriating on an entirely different level…

This chocolate pie is all ready to go - but you know what would make it better?! Mayonnaise! Let’s pull out most of the chocolate and replace it with mayo without bothering do anything with the crust or getting rid of all the chocolate - see?  It’s still a chocolate pie BUT BETTER!