S06E14: Stranger Than Fan Fiction

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Re: S06E14: Stranger Than Fan Fiction

Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:00 pm

I liked this episode a lot. Great action, the return of Daring Do, tons of classic faces and Quibble Pants is a great new character. Carrying on his dialogue into the credits was a nice touch. Image
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:01 pm

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:I want Quibble to end the episode still believing this was still a Daring-Do AdventureCation™.


I want an extended cut of his rambling about how he'd fix Daring Do ala

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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:01 pm

Wow, that was a very funny (and very meta) episode. Patton Oswalt really stood out here.

And yeah, carrying the dialogues over the end credits was a nice touch. If I have to name one thing Discovery is doing right, it's that they don't run commercials during the end credits like The Hub did.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:04 pm

What a great episode. A lot of funny moments and the ending was hilarious.
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Postby InC (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:08 pm

God, that was hilarious :lol:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:13 pm

shotgunbadger wrote:'hey we like the same thing but for different reasons, but at the end of the day we still like the same thing' is probably the best possible moral for this story

Definitely. I was laughing so much throughout this episode that I wouldn't have cared if there wasn't a friendship lesson at the end, but this moral was actually really good.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:13 pm

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:smirk: Clear all shipping lanes...
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Postby drunkill (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:21 pm

What a fantastic episode. Poking all kinds of fun at the show and fandom at large.

Patton Owsalt was great, him and the character Quibble made a perfect fit for the show.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:28 pm

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Finally. I had been waiting in 3 years for Daring Do to come back.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:36 pm

Had a feeling this was true:
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Fun Fact: @pattonoswalt improvised this whole credit rant and had us in stitches. #MLPSeason6
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:36 pm

The Doctor wrote: :smirk: Clear all shipping lanes...

Considering how they later got into a big argument and begrudgingly came to accept each other at the end, I doubt they'd be interested in each other like that.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:38 pm

Won't stop the fandom from shipping them though (spoiler: already happening)
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:39 pm

Europonygoons, did anyone at GalaCon watch this episode? Was there a big crowd reaction, or was it even shown at all?
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:44 pm

Quibble: "This is just a cheap knock-off of AdventureCation - I mean - Dr Calaberon's accent is all over the place!"

:bwuh: "He's gotta point, there..."
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:54 pm

Copying things from Reddit...

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:05 pm

Mike Vogel tweeted that the monster in this episode was another Aztec mythological creature, a half-toad half-crocodile known as a Cipactli.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:10 pm

Wayoshi wrote:Copying things from Reddit...

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Derpy in all but cutie mark. :ponder:


Oh I guess the box-head masks are a Minecraft thing.

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Figured as much.

I've always wanted an episode where the characters would improv-riff in-character over the ending credits.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:11 pm

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This episode was very cringy and Quibble is such a Mary Sue (or Gary Stu).
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At least we got this wonderful facial expression.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:23 pm

Isn't a Mary Sue a character without flaws? Quibble clearly has flaws
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Postby Marimo (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:26 pm

adiwan wrote:This episode was very cringy and Quibble is such a Mary Sue (or Gary Stu).

Really? I thought it was more balanced. He's clearly flawed with all his nitpicking, something the characters note. It relates to what he's interested in and his talent, which he gets to use in the story, but he also isn't interested in or talented in the more action-packed challenges, like the whole ordeal with the broken bridge and the waterfall where he needed Dash's help, and her and Daring Do's help both times when escaping the cipactli.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:40 pm

Honestly this episode wins for all the troll reviews in the EQD comment section right now.

Meta inside meta level right there.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:51 pm

He isn't a Mary Sue character by definition but he acts like one (know-it-all, corrects the main characters, is instant buddy with RD at first, drives the plot...).
Maybe it's a kneejerk reaction of mine accusing the character being a Mary Sue for being so annoying.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:56 pm

adiwan wrote:This episode was very cringy and Quibble is such a Mary Sue (or Gary Stu).


Hahaha no.

The main message here is, "Don't be that dick who demands everyone enjoy things only the way you like them." Both Dash and QP loved the original Daring Do novels, but he spent the whole episode following her around the convention, then off to a mysterious temple, just because he couldn't stop nettling her about liking the later Daring Do books.

The second message, and the one that Quibble Pants gets to be "right" about, is a jokey, "Don't stare too hard at the genre clichés." Even if you've memorized the Protector's chompers sequence, being too hidebound about a cartoon book series will only ruin your own enjoyment of it, even if there's an exciting adventure going on all around you.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:57 pm

Okay, I watched the parts and I missed, and...wow

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This was actually in the episode :lol:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:25 pm

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
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Twilight is now Princess of No Fun Allowed.
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I like this pony! :awesomedash:
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I like the figurines. Also, not-quite-Rarity in the background.
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The foam wings crack me up.
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Trixie?! Almost.
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There was a lot of squash and stretch in this episode.
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RD and QP in a nutshell.
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Olmec, lower your gate, please!
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Two alicorns fighting a serpent...?
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"Look behind me when I'm monologuing?! I think not!"
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Another unexpected twist!
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Nice work on the murals. Also... pegasi and griffons fighting...?
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The second-smuggest pony in this episode.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 7:14 pm

We're sorry, Mr. Oswalt, the episode with the struggling restaurant and the bitter food critic was last week.

• Still not sure how I feel about her being real, but Daring Do's adventures remain super fun to watch!
• Ha, "Twilight gets zero fun" is this season's running theme.
• Twilight turns off the telekinesis for a moment to hold the book to her chest. Little details. That maybe only I care about. :ponydrugs:
• Egghead Yearling? Oh, A.K. Yearling, right. :v:
• Of course Equestria has such a thing as a Friendship Summit.
• Oh god, Quibble Pants is me for Tolkien. :flutterdear:
• Daring Do tied-up body pillow should pan over to Celestia shaking her head in disapproval.
• "There are no other books." It begins. :lol:
• There's a heated argument, but I can't stop watching the bored concession stand worker in the background.
• Yep, they just said "cosplayers" on the magic cartoon pony show. What an era we live in.
• Fluttershy's selling her fanart!
• Of course QP would like the villain.
• Really nice background character designs this week!
• Ha, QP not giving the tiniest shit is amazing.
• "left-hoofed"
• I can't wait for EQG Quibble Pants.
• Cool temple wall art!
• Patton Oswalt and QP's writing are so well meshed. I wonder if Patton got any say in his dialogue.
• Holy shit, best Rainbow Dash smirk.
• Ha, and even though QP knows it's real he's still an ass. :lol:
• But him being right & competent makes up for it. He's not a useless load and that's great.
• Daring Do's got the winghandiest winghands ever.
• Ha, talking over the credits. :lol:

Mini-review: Really fun Patton Oswalt showcase. He was well cast, used well, and he gave 100% to the job. Great work, everyone!
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 7:22 pm

Poor Twilight, everything has been taken from her. Now she can't even be the biggest nerd on the show anymore.
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Postby stonecutter (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 7:28 pm

I completely forgot the latter half of the season was starting today. :v:

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A wristband?! I was lead to believe that those who were attending the entire weekend were going to get a badge with a lanyard. :-/
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 7:35 pm

stonecutter wrote:I completely forgot the latter half of the season was starting today. :v:


A wristband?! I was lead to believe that those who were attending the entire weekend were going to get a badge with a lanyard. :-/



How I imagine it went down at DHX.

:awesomedash: I got this awesome design for the lanyards for the pony convention episode.

:delight: Wonderful. Get started on animating them swinging as ponies walk.

:v: I got this basic design for the wristbands for the pony convention episode.
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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:00 pm

That was a good bit of fun. Core lesson at the end applies to the internet so hard too. ( It's ok to not like the exact same things. )
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:10 pm

Captain Rufus wrote:That was a good bit of fun. Core lesson at the end applies to the internet so hard too. ( It's ok to not like the exact same things. )

I think the lesson was more that it's okay to like the same thing for different reasons, and that you shouldn't exclude others for that. A good lesson, though for people online I'd include the caveat that this shouldn't be the case if you're dealing with people who are causing harm through how they're enjoying a thing, like how our fandom once had such a huge problem with untagged porn. But that's an awful lot to try to teach all at once.
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Postby dragoonanime (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:18 pm

I am starting to hate that the writers have Twilight in an episode just to be there at the beginning and say why she will not be in the episode.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:40 pm

dragoonanime wrote:I am starting to hate that the writers have Twilight in an episode just to be there at the beginning and say why she will not be in the episode.


Well, in this episode at least, a quick explanation why Twilight isn't at the Daring Do convention is kind of necessary.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:44 pm

For those who hadn't seen it back in January of this year:


I love how he transitions into it at about the 1:10 mark. Whether or not he really "gets" the show, he's definitely "one of us" when it comes to sci-fi, fantasy, and maybe even fandoms. :iamapony:
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Postby Durandal (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 10:07 pm

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Postby ixnay (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 10:16 pm

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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:45 pm

God

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Postby Jill (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:51 pm

ixnay wrote:Image

:disapproval: :disapproval: :disapproval:

I'm dying
haven't watched the ep but i just wanna say

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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:54 pm

A couple other visual things I enjoyed:

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This drink vendor lady was looking mighty done earlier in the scene, but witnessing this just made her day.


Also QP gets a ton of credit for some of the best faces in this bit:

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Though not to be outdone, Caballeron's reaction here had me laughing as hard as at anything QP did:

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Overall I'm super impressed. I too was not at all on board with the whole "Daring Do being real" thing, but they took it and ran with it here and lampshaded the hell out of how implausible it is by making the whole episode a giant argument about implausibility. Even having the cookie-cutter adventure plot take time out every few minutes to poke fun at how it's a cookie-cutter adventure plot was the perfect decision. It even contributed to the tension by making it feel like "yeah it might be a bunch of clichés, but how do you deal with it when reality doesn't obey your clichés, like when one of your party doesn't have wings?"
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 12:02 am

I imagine the real Daring Do seeing the bondage pillow, and she just snaps and starts wrecking the joint and she gets led out by security.


This guy right here, this is what I was expecting Quibble Pants to look like. And it would have been so easy too, because QP is the puzzle guy not the physical guy, and there was no special need to make him clean-cut and in shape, but they did and that's pretty cool.

I guess, though, it would also have been cool if QP had been that guy, and Dash is seen bonding with a stereotypical ubernerd and acknowledging his coolness like it's no big thing. But the episode had enough meat and didn't really need it.
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