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Done with Trivial Pursuit:
Spoiler+ Twilight's character arc was satisfying. Despite being unsympathetic, it was easy to see where she was coming from. And because she did some bad things, getting a bunch of comedy at her expense was quite rewarding, and the same for realizing her terrible mistake. Very likely won't win Trivia Trot, but gets more out of it.
+ Many of the faces were really funny, especially Crazy!Twilight.
+ A lot of really good humor post-TT break.
+ Satisfying moral.
+ Despite a very light, stretched plot, it was paced well.
+ Applejack and Dash's competitive rivalry was really funny, especially Granny's quip after AJ missed an easy Zap Apple one to FS and Bulk. (Bulk high-5'ing FS a little too hard was the funniest moment of the episode.)
+ Pinkie wanted to win for Twi, but also have fun.
- But she came across as too random and dimwitted at times.
- Pinkie's crazy "TWIPIE!" face was way too creepy and not funny.
- Many jokes early didn't make sense or were too gross.
- The book was an obvious McGuffin. Pinkie's DQ came from a rule that made sense, but many other rules, like sleeping and minor taunts, were too outta left field, even for an episode this light in plot.
As fun as Trivial Pursuit's second half was, a lot of the first half didn't go over well, and when you have an episode with an extremely simple story, the jokes need to work very well as a whole. That doesn't happen.
It's a fine return to form after 246G, but worse than the worst S9A episode, Going to Seed. Dropping it down my list, from B to B- (from #82 to #113).
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Anyone who play a dota 2 match with a bad teammate who didn't even take the game seriously will relate to Twilight a little bit.
What make this ep more tolerable than Matter of Principal or Non-Compete Clause is characters acting like jerk didn't get what they want and what they did is nothing really serious. Comedy helps this ep a lot. If your story is bad, at least make it really funny and don't take it too seriously, people might turn their brain off and enjoy it.
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My take on
Spoilerthe book is similar to that of @Cwanky‘s in a pervious status update. But I do wonder whether it would seem less like a contrivance if other players also used the rules the same way Twilight did—not nearly to the same extent of course, but it would at least show that using them that way is supposed to be part of the game itself.
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