Review #61 - Trixie Discovers She Is A Genius, Page Two, Choose Your Waifu

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And now for the review:

Trixie Discovers She Is A Genius by The Delirium
Page Two by Trick Question
Choose Your Waifu by Jay-The-Brony

As always, I will put my down recommendations, but I truly hope that you to make the choice on whether to read a fic or not yourself.

Trixie Discovers She Is A Genius by The Delirium
(Comedy, Random)
After Trixie boasts of her supposedly "high" intelligence, Twilight wants her to prove it. Trixie is forced to take the same IQ test that Twilight took. Once it's graded, the results show that Trixie is, in fact, smarter than her alicorn rival.

Review
This one is a comedy, with quite a bit of randomness thrown in there. I'm not really a fan of how Twilight acts, as she is rather... I'll go with cynical. This, in truth, bothers me as no other version of Twilight I have seen has acted that way. And Trixie is a lot more like the "Boast Busters" Trixie than anything after that, and yet, she seems to react to Twilight at the end like how she does in "No Second Prances". For this one, I think I forgot about it about a week after I read it... until I saw it in my bookshelf, in which case it will become a very memorable fic for a day-or-so.

The greatest weakness of this is the characterization of Twilight and Trixie. How they are makes everything they do seem off. And there is no hope for putting any sort of timeline on this one.

Recommendation: Worth Reading Once. (I think you can see why in the review.)

Page Two by Trick Question
(Dark, Drama)
During the first war with Tirek, Princess Celestia sends her sister Princess Luna a very short letter. Although the letter could easily fit onto a single page, Celestia uses two. Sometimes the medium speaks louder than the message.

Review
This one is definitely deserving of the "Dark" tag, but I'm not so sure how much drama there is within it. But go expecting something dark-ish. None of the characters here have enough time to get any sort of definite characterization, but from what I can tell, Luna is pretty accurate to the show's Luna when she is being serious. If the General has that weak of a stomach, why is she a General??? The ending of this one is what got me saying, "Wait, what just happened?" I ended up re-reading it several more times and still didn't get it until the author said it in the comments.

This one's greatest weakness is there is not enough to it... it is too short, it could use a larger universe. Second place for greatest weakness is the fact that you probably won't get what just happened.

Recommendation: Not Recommended / Intermediate. (Because of the weaknesses pointed out.)

Choose Your Waifu by Jay-The-Brony
(Comedy, Random)
Welcome to "Choose Your Waifu!" In this grand game-show, our host, the energetic Pinkie Pie, will present our latest contestant with four beloved waifus, and by the end of it all, one of them will be chosen...hopefully! Will our hapless contestant strike it lucky? Or will he just keep going on about how we kidnapped him to be here tonight?

Review
This one is a Second-Person random fic, I'm not sure why it no longer has the tag for second-person, for it used to have it. Pinkie is the random aspect of her personality in this one. Meaning that she isn't really a troll, nor is she being silly, but just random-"What just happened?"-ness. You, the main character, are very cranky about being on the show... and also a little worried as to why. Two things: I had no clue what to expect as I read this for the first time, and I don't think I will ever be able to forget this thing.

I do believe the greatest weakness of this is... I have no clue... I want to say everything, but also nothing, like... what? I need sleep...

Recommendation: Recommended for Second-Person readers only. (Because of Second-Person.)

Comments

[Trick Question]

Just for clarity, the comment about the work suffering from the cut refers to the original version, not the one posted on Fimfiction. I'm happy with the length of this one (I think it works as a minific as long as the reader understands it).

It's always dangerous to play with plot-relevant subtlety, because some readers won't get it. You don't generally get crowd-pleasers out of those because your target audience is smaller.

Thanks for the review!

[Matthewl419]

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the comment about the work suffering from the cut refers to the original version

Oh, I see...

Anyway, when I first read this, I was thinking it was Tirek torturing Celestia, or, at least, something along those lines.