It’s not fair

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Devil’s advocate: How often do you think Dash picks up a newspaper, much less reads the whole thing?

@Psyga315  
“You know what? I’m retiring. Effective now. Equestria’s all yours, well, half yours. HEY, LUNA!”

@Scrounge  
“In fact, you probably would have done better without me.”

“And you’ve always pulled through just fine without me.”

@matt0044  
…then.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
As far as she was concerned, it was fiction.

You didn’t let her finish.
 
“- in spirit.”  
“But… that’s the same as not being there.”  
“No, it’s completely different. I might not be there, but I wish I was there yet I’m not. See what I mean?”  
“… I’m not taking back what I said.”

@Millennial Dan  
Yeah that is pretty dumb
 
the only way it would work if it takes place out of Equestria

@d715  
But it is a different kind of reading altogether if it’s based on true events, so it does still mess with that lesson.
 
Which is again incredibly ridiculous. Someone would have caught on and blown the whistle years ago if any of it were all true. Where’s your crystal ball now, Celestia? Oh that’s right, you’ve been too busy spying on Twilight all this time to notice this kind of stuff…

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Well the message of “reading is good”  
Still works since they’re autobiographies
 
Truth is stranger than fiction afterall

@Grumpykins eh, I just think having her be reallyreals kind of ruins a lot of Read It. The whole point was that she didn’t like reading because ‘it was for eggheads’ and she never found anyone relatable in fiction before. Now it makes it seem more like she can’t read because there has to have been some news reports about a few of Yearling’s finds. It kind of transforms a lot of the messages in a separate episode in a poorer direction.

@Grumpykins  
You’re their center of attention*

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Well you know the offcial material law with shipping:  
Only teases allowed,all else is denied…
 
Though it would be better if they followed the stalker-Dash premise to show that people,idols,friends or otherwise, have more to with their life than hanging around with you or doing things you want.  
Thus you shouldn’t think you’re not their center of attention and life
 
Or make DD a bit more of a Jerk for showing that even if they’re jerks IRL,doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate other people’s work or goals if they’re understandable and agreeable.

@Millennial Dan To be fair to EqG I at least watched it.  
I can’t work up the nerve to ruin rainbow for me because I like her more than twilight and DD just made more damn sense as a purely fictional character for Rainbow to pine after.  
The summary just sounds so…bad. It really should have been just a fanfic of Rainbow’s. Maybe something she submits to AK Yearling, and at the end of the episode she’s shown getting a letter shooting her down, and has to learn a lesson about coping with disappointment or something? It would have had so many nice Twidash moments if it had gone that way instead.

@PonyPon  
I consider that one of the most cringe-worthy episodes so far. It’s all fine and good to have a little action now and then, but that alone just can’t carry this kind of show for me. The story made absolutely no sense. It was more like Rainbow Dash’s wet dream than something witty and subtle and well-developed. Every time I summarize it in my mind, it sounds like a bad fanfic:
 
>Daring Do is real  
>Her books are actual autobiography  
>Rainbow Dash meets her in the middle of an adventure, squees all over the place  
>Eventually “learns” the value of self-aggrandizement as a counter to being a groupie fangirl
 
The only thing I really liked about it was Dr. Caballeron. Overall, it was predictable (which is plenty forgivable, if the episode’s other aspects make up for it, but sadly, no such luck), based on a completely irrational premise, AND terribly executed. I give it 2 shiny gold plot devices out of 5.

@Spiritus Arcane  
And the rest of the points….?

@Grumpykins  
YMMV on the execution….

@PonyPon  
Well from what I read of plot summarisation:
 
RD wish fulfilment with a bit of…I don’t know what to call it,but still it’s a bit annoying that DD with the cliches aren’t actual writing as much as journal/diary publishing laced with a few lies :P.
 
I don’t see it a much more appealing premise than EG,IMO on the execution though…

@Millennial Dan  
Really?
 
You consider Daring Don’t less enjoyable than EG?

@Justy  
Again, it was at LEAST as good as the show’s average. Think of “Daring Don’t” for a very recent example of just how bad the story can get when the writers are being lazy. Honestly, I’m not even willing to call EqG as bad as that one, which is why I prefer to say it measures up to no worse than the show’s typical quality.

@Grumpykins  
Well, she DID keep a diary at one point.

@Grumpykins  
Throne

@d715  
So she won’t bother writing them down or remembering them?
 
She’s a ruler for a (+)thousand years for Pete’s sake,holding the thrown/constantly taking the throen back requires more than just brainless actions and other fictional immortals used their uncountable lifespan to learn,why not her?
 
Nevermind the constant need for manipulation,scheming and mathematic knowledge required in Politics ,Economics and possibly military which are involved with ruling a country.

@Grumpykins  
unless she still has a normal pony’s mind and so can only remember things that are so far back