Talk:Stranger Than Fan Fiction/@comment-27578467-20160730172528/@comment-27578467-20160731084240

Actually there were fewer MLP-specific references than I first thought having watched it again, though there were still scenes when Rainbow Dash needlessly makes connections to previous episodes; that sort of thing jars the episode's flow for me because it comes off as clumsy fan service rather than organic dialogue.

Honestly I've never been to an entertainment convention either but I got the feeling they were writing RD and Quibble to mirror some sort of hyper-fan stereotype. Whatever their intentions, Quibble became fairly predictable which drained his comedic potential for me, and since his jokes were a large portion of the episode I got kind of bored with it.