Thoughts on "Daring Doubt" · 5:38am Sep 28th, 2019
Well, for a good while I've certainly doubted that making Daring Do real was a good idea--even if Stranger than Fan Fiction is one of my favorite episodes.
This episode is a mess.
From anypony else's point of view, Martingale should just be a glorified fan fiction author (that's somehow officially published? Does copyright not exist in Equestria?), and his word should have no merit on the official Daring Do series. Revealing that she was real would more than likely make ponies roll their eyes--where's the skepticism? It took Quibble Pants actually going on an adventure and meeting Daring Do to realize that she was real!
I was mildly entertained by how pure Fluttershy was, but thinking it over it really should have bit her in the butt at least once this episode. I'm just saying, a little skepticism is healthy, you should at least be cautious around a guy that you saw break into Daring Do's house and get into a scuffle with her, or perhaps heard about his attempted murders of Rainbow Dash from the almost-murder victim herself?
And talk about sloppy reformations! Dr. Caballeron's was... okay, I'd have thought that he wouldn't be easily won over by Fluttershy's ultimate pureness, but whatever. But then there's Ahuizotl, who's suddenly a guardian out of nowhere, even though previous episodes have shown that he apparently enjoys suffering and is eager to use magic artifacts to make other creatures suffer. Hard to buy the desperate guardian thing when looking at clips of previous episodes where he's cackling madly and bragging about causing "800 years of sweltering heat".
Please stop with the reformations, some of these are getting ridiculous.
The episode was alright, it had some good lines.
But, yeah, fanfiction does get published sometimes, Fallout: Equestria has famously been fan-transcripted and released in physical book form. In addition, the Austereoh series been published and released in encyclopedic format.
Also, 50 Shades of Grey started out as a Twilight fanfiction, but that didn’t exactly hold up, if that isn’t obvious.