Eh. This was a weird one, since the moral was decent, but because it focused so heavily on the mystery of everyone loving Discord, we the audience spent the whole episode being suspicious of the inside jokes instead of laughing at them.
I don't think it was
bad in the sense of having a bad moral or portraying anyone out of character, but it... just didn't gel together. And while belittling Discord (literally) at the end was maybe unnecessary, it seemed like most people had that feeling mid-episode, too.
Fizzbuzz wrote:Seems like he intentionally, genuinely wanted to do something nice with the other five of the Mane Six and just didn't want to interrupt Twilight for that weekend, then seized upon her exasperation as a chance to teach her something whilst having a bit of a laugh along the way.
Maybe, but he also encouraged them to stay away from her. I think, despite what he said at the end, he expected all of this to unfold the way it did. But if Twilight had decided to get some fresh air and ran into them that weekend, he could've just messed with her right then instead of tweaking her afterward.
I wonder if that's the real issue here -- that he still sees her as a stick in the mud he can nettle, and since she
wasn't there that weekend, everyone else
did have fun. Is Twilight too suspicious of him? Or does this prove that she's right to have reservations?