oh mah gawd nobody actually reads the content anymore what is even happening

@Soda Fizz  
I don’t care much about De Lancie since i’m a fan of Discord and De Lancie isn’t a character in the universe. I would be okay with Discord having a new voice and even get a younger version of his voice for Equestria Girls, since he would be most likely a teenager just like the 1000+ year old sirens.

aww

Y’know, even if John couldn’t voice Discord in S7 why not let him voice someone else? (Like a new character or maybe a background pony) .w.

@Background Pony #BCAC  
That is certainly an impressive amount of backtracking and qualification-after-the-fact.

Who cares, Discord ain’t that important anyway.

@TexasUberAlles  
Shining Armor and Big Mac are barely characters at all. Every other male adult isn’t there longer than one episode. Discord and Spike are the only one getting focus and story arcs. And Spike is not an adult.

@Background Pony #BCAC  
Discord is the only adult male character on the show  
I’m afraid I’m going to have to challenge your research on this point, Old Chap.

@MisterC  
lol you can say that about every character, especially Dash, Pinkie and Spike. But characterisation shoudn’t be blamed on anyone else than shitty writing and writers, if that was the case Spike would have been removed after S5. Discord is the only adult male character on the show. Target audience cares more about him than any Princess or mane6. His episodes are still either on the middle of best overall episode quality(Dungeon&Discords, Make New Friends but keep Discord) or in the top 10 (Return of Harmony, Twilight Kingdom).

Discord hasn’t been anything even remotely resembling a decent character since early Season 4, and he’s only gotten worse every appearance since. And his “LOL Random!” humor is just like how Pinkie’s detractors say it can be when she gets written at her absolute worst, except for him its multiplied to be even more cringeworthy. If he never came back, it would be a relief by this point.
 
Alternatively, just have someone turn him back into a statue, for good this time.

I just want the show to at least explore why Discord is absent instead just ignoring him like Trixie in S4 and S5.
 
At least make him get abducted in Season 7 premiere and missing until the finale. It would explain his dissappearing and even help Fluttershy to build up her character. He have absolutely no episodes of Fluttershy that revolve around Discord, we know nothing about her feeling toward him. All their episodes beside KcaFo are written from Discord perspective. They could make an episode explaining on why out of all charactersm she enjoy him the most. And without having Discord on screen stealing all the attention.

I suppose there’s a slight chance that they may have gotten a sound alike for the sake of budget. Now, while that will probably be pretty noticeable and distracting, it may not be an entirely bad thing. As Reagan Murdock has shown there can be some pretty convincing Discord sound alikes. It would certainly help if they got one for another Discord song, as John admittedly isn’t the best singer.

I can’t imagine a season of Fluttershy without Discord after this heroic rescue, so i will still expect his appearance or appearances.

I’m-a just leave this big ol’ sack o’ Toldja So right over here.

This is my new favorite tweet of all time.

Any episode with Discord is more than welcome, but it’s not the end of the world if he won’t be in the season. Unless the writers have something to do with the character, it’s better if he doesn’t appear. Don’t want Discord to become another Celestia.

@Lefty643  
No it doesn’t. In order to be a celebrity, you need to be famous, and being well known among a few fandoms doesn’t count, fame is mainstream unless otherwise stated.

@Ihhh
 
Playing the role of a very important character, and delivering exceptional performance does, though.

@RIG  
Well at least he’s being honest instead of teasing shit.

@Vest  
High end? Having a role on star trek doesn’t make one a celebrity.

Need to remember that high end VA’s like John DeLancie are expensive, so the producers will have them record multiple episodes in a single session, and they will record them almost a year before their final air date. It’s very possible John has lost track of his recording sessions and doesn’t honestly recall if he did any for season 7. Or it’s possible that an episode he recorded for season 6 got pushed back a season.
 
Either way, the man’s right. As much as I enjoy Discord as a character, neither his presence nor absence makes or breaks an episode’s quality for me. As we’ve seen many times, if DHX and the writers need to invent a new character to fill the void he’d leave, they have always excelled at introducing new lovable denizens to the cast.

John De Lancie, for all I know maybe he gets so many roles that he doesn’t keep track of which episodes or seasons his character appears in MLP. I think he is being honest here, but I don’t know the guy.

@RIG  
Then again, this is Discord’s VA, so he’s probably keeping in character to surprise us.
 
Probably.

I hate when they don’t give a direct answer.