Quotes / Watsonian versus Doylist

"In Metro: Last Light, most Nazi soldiers seem poorly equipped. They now make more use of Bastards, Ashots and other low tier weapons, and they wear less body armor and equipment. This can be excused because the Nazis appearing in the game are all guarding stations or prisons - they can be considered a form of home guard, with weaker weapons. The Nazi Stalkers who capture Artyom, the soldiers on the Frontline in Heavy Squad and the stalkers in Sniper Team, wear similar gear to those seen in Metro 2033, so it can be assumed that all the heavy and advanced gear is given to the front line troops and special forces, not lowly guards at home. These units could possibly be new recruits or militia guards, this theory is made all the more plausible by the fact that Reich soldiers can be overheard in the Sniper Team DLC mission commenting on Artyom's prison escape and how the soldiers guarding the concentration camp were all new recruits with not a single veteran amongst them. The "Frontline" Reich soldiers are seen with completely different armor and helmets from the previous game that seems to have high quality custom-built gear rather than salvaged or refurbished gear like other factions. They also carry high-end weapons that are heavily customized and many of them are assigned to patrolling surface areas for extended periods of time and appear to be equipped with large oxygen tanks. Fourth Reich snipers are issued with Preved, seen in the level Sniper Team.

However, the true explanation for this change in equipment between Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light is that the developers did not want the player to have access to advanced equipment so early in the game when the more advanced weapons, like the Kalash and the Shambler, have not yet been available."

—Article from the Metro game series' Wikia giving both Watsonian and Doylist explanations for why the Nazis seen early on in the sequel are so poorly equipped relative to those from the previous game.

"So it's possible that he can *choose* whether to or not to supplement his thunder with precipitation. It's also possible that all of these Count appearances over the span of almost 50 years were written by different people who didn't really care if they were universally consistent."

— Ryan Roe on the Count from Sesame Street, Tough Pigs

Amanda: Generalized as a single category, it (transformation) is the most common type of magic.

Lisa: Of course it is. Look who's writing this.

Amanda: That's not ... well it's not the only reason. Given desire for strength, societal standards for appearance, spiritual beliefs involving animals, gender identity, etcetera, there are a lot of reasons some form of transformation magic would be reflective of someone.

—El Goonish Shive, from a Q&A comic discussing the prevalence of transformation magic.

"For anyone worried about his health, I want to make something about my headcanon clear; a thing about ponies is that they don't get certain diseases except in very rare cases, mainly because it's just not the kind of thing MLP needs in its story; things like cancer, heart disease, terminal illnesses are incredibly rare. Mainly this is due to ponies having an inherent magic in them, but also because it's narratively out of place. Essentially, ‘because the narrative’ is how Discord would explain it and ‘internal magic’ is Twilight’s explanation."

StarryOak on her My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' headcanons

Lynn Loud: "Wait, he had that in his room and he didn't know about it? Did he just buy one years ago and forget about it?"

Lisa Loud: "Or perhaps it's an enchanted journal that only shows itself when it's convenient to the plot."

— Peeking Through the Fourth Wall, Episode 7