@Background Pony #8760  
Not incidentally. That was quite deliberate. They wouldn’t have put so much emphasis on Twilight falling apart from all the pressure otherwise.

@BlazingDazzlingDusk  
I disagree. I did not think the movie was serious. But I agree that Twilight was a poor girl in need of a hug. I really thought the movie incidentally made her quite a sad figur, being shunned and outcasted all the way till the climax. But then again I think the climax of the thing could have put even more emphasize on it to actually drive home the point on this being a story about someone being bullied and what consequences it can have. Unfortunately, somewhere in the last five minutes, part of that fuel was gone.

@PoolofCarp  
I do think that Friendship Games was significantly darker than either of the movies before it. Equestria Girls was a somewhat shallow and silly movie about how cool friendship is, Rainbow Rocks was a big song-filled showdown between the main six and the Dazzlings, but this movie was a story about one character trying to understand things and getting the short end of the stick over and over until she finally snapped. Most of the other characters made some kind of mistake that pushed her further down the line, even Sunset, but a lot of them were also acting out of frustration or fear rather than malice so they weren’t pure villains either.
 
It did turn out okay in the end, but it was no easy road getting there, and pretty much everyone was put in harm’s way before things were resolved.

@PoolofCarp
 
It gets pretty melancholic at times.

The tone of the movie surprised me a lot. There are a lot of scenes like this, and even the climax of the movie isn’t a fun action scene like in the first two movies, everybody’s just sort of crying and sad.

@LordAdamMaster
 
Actually, glasses are more resistant than what you’d think.  
Heck, the lenses aren’t of glass anymore in most cases — they’d get scratched at worst.
 
Of course, the frames can still break, but still…
 
At any rate, I didn’t find this as funny because I knew this was practically the beginning of the end — Twilight can’t jump over the haybale, she’ll probably screw up worse (and behold, she does).

@platinumdrop  
And nothing came of that. It was too cartoony. But when she stood before the crowd and began falling apart from the pressure, that’s what really hurt.

@platinumdrop  
She would have broken her glasses.

Yeah, i also reacts like this.

@Starswirl  
The crying? No. Crying is not so bad. She smashed her face on the concrete.

I thought the trailer for the movie was funny but the actual movie was pretty serious.

@Starswirl  

 
yeah where she legitimately tears up and starts breaking down as things keep going wrong… ive been there.. it SUCKS. AJ being AJ really helped her and she just up and hugged her.. very cute.

@Starswirl  
The more pain there is the funnier it gets. XD
 
There’s a reason why the comedy and misery masks are so relevant.

@Joshua  
Nah. A lot, if not all of comedy is based on misery.

Man, I identified way too well with Twilight…

This hit me close to home.  
>4th grade flashbacks
 
Hit me like Sugarcoat welding a laser sledge-chainsaw.

I found it a little funny in both the teaser and the actual movie. Am I evil for thinking this?

This part got pretty depressing especially when she started crying.

It’s every nonathletic kid’s gym class all over again….

Aye. Seeing her flounder up there, tearing up because she just can’t do it… Breaks me heart.

My only reaction was like
 

 
I’m too old to find it funny.