Talk:Stranger Than Fan Fiction/@comment-10265857-20160803073531/@comment-10390252-20160803083337

I don't think it quite makes the 'best episode ever' league but it certainly is one of the strongest episodes of the season (only The Saddle Row Review is in the same bracket, IMO). The big problem is that Quibble starts to become a bit of a scene stealer bordering on a Mary Sue.

Now, I suspsect that this was deliberate; the writers were deliberately aping the forms of the worst SI/Mary Sue fanfictions. However, all the über-fan stuff started to grate on me after a while. Only the fact that it was very clearly parody from beginning to end saved his character for me. That and I am enough of an old romantic to see the shipping potential.