User blog comment:KarpToEndAllKarps/An Issue I have with this community/@comment-4726418-20170918175717/@comment-30933826-20170922010147

Okay, so you say you get this information from well-informed fans, but you haven't provided any sources that support this.

Also, saying that SMS is the worst thing in the franchise is 100% an opinion, with which many people disagree. Personally, I like SMS more than certain episodes from RR.

And it's false that Ed MacDonald didn't write anything after SMS, because he wrote episodes in Pahkitew Island. We have literally ZERO information on why he was fired, so you can't just assume it was because of poor writing, especially because everyone else who was involved in the writing of AS still works for the show.

I think you also need to realize that RR wasn't made as some big attempt to redeem the franchise. Christine Thompson has said she likes what they did with AS (though she acknowledges that it's flawed). RR would have been made no matter how well AS did. And the hiatus didn't have anything to do with the quality of AS either. There was only a hiatus because Cartoon Network didn't give a flying flip about the show.