Noelle Stevenson, it's worth noting, has at no point been involved in the misbehaviour of other members of the SPOP crew. She's been, if anything, conspicuously quiet about it. Which makes sense for two reasons: first of all, she's extremely young and this is her first showrunner outing. It could very easily be career suicide for her to try to police the behaviour of her crew without specific studio mandate behind her.
Second is, if she had tried to silence her crew, and then it later turned out that they were making valid and reasonable complaints about the way Voltron was being handled by the same studio they're working for, it would have looked unbelievably bad on her.
She made, I think, the right call in staying out of the fuss.
As for the specifics, unfortunately the blog I had saved the discussions to is fucking locked down so I can't see anything on it, because tumblr is hell.
That's records of a crewmember's twitter being vocally, aggressively antishipper and talking about has "shallies" make the voltron fandom unsafe, whereas the She-ra fandom would never have such garbage in it.
That same crewmember was a part of the same specific "gang" of antishippers who threatened to break the VLD showrunner's arms, so credibly that the showrunner was followed by police and private security at subsequent cons and public outings.
In light of this particular crewmember, any nonviolent criticism coming from SPOP crew members (such as claiming that unlike Voltron, SPOP would have queer characters and storylines from the very beginning instead of tacked-on "fake" representation), just looked increasingly petty and awful.
But now we know that instead of the original storyline wherein the "queer representation" was a manifestation of 8 seasons of relationship growth, it's just literally a 5 second gif slapped into an epilogue, well. Suddenly that criticism makes perfect sense.
So, the behaviour of a good number of the SPOP crew is still absolutely unacceptable. But some of the stuff we shrugged off as more petty bullshit from a petty crew actually makes an unfortunate degree of sense in hindsight.
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Second is, if she had tried to silence her crew, and then it later turned out that they were making valid and reasonable complaints about the way Voltron was being handled by the same studio they're working for, it would have looked unbelievably bad on her.
She made, I think, the right call in staying out of the fuss.
As for the specifics, unfortunately the blog I had saved the discussions to is fucking locked down so I can't see anything on it, because tumblr is hell.
Here's a little bit of it though:
http://arahir.tumblr.com/post/176025511995/mmm-apparently-a-storyboard-artist-for-she-ra-is
That's records of a crewmember's twitter being vocally, aggressively antishipper and talking about has "shallies" make the voltron fandom unsafe, whereas the She-ra fandom would never have such garbage in it.
That same crewmember was a part of the same specific "gang" of antishippers who threatened to break the VLD showrunner's arms, so credibly that the showrunner was followed by police and private security at subsequent cons and public outings.
In light of this particular crewmember, any nonviolent criticism coming from SPOP crew members (such as claiming that unlike Voltron, SPOP would have queer characters and storylines from the very beginning instead of tacked-on "fake" representation), just looked increasingly petty and awful.
But now we know that instead of the original storyline wherein the "queer representation" was a manifestation of 8 seasons of relationship growth, it's just literally a 5 second gif slapped into an epilogue, well. Suddenly that criticism makes perfect sense.
So, the behaviour of a good number of the SPOP crew is still absolutely unacceptable. But some of the stuff we shrugged off as more petty bullshit from a petty crew actually makes an unfortunate degree of sense in hindsight.