DUH

@SharpEdge
 
Mercy is not the same as lack of common sense.
 
Splinter encountering Leatherface in the nickelodeon animated series of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles knew that.
 
I’m compassionate, not insane.

I love how people think mercy is naive and out of character for the Princess of Friendship.

Princess of F$$k-ups, everypony!

@Background Pony #4CAD  
the door was probably magic-proof so that Chrysalis couldn’t blast open the door, or have anything teleported in or out of the room, so Twilight could most likely only get the book in there by opening the door, in other words Chrysy took advantage of one of Twilight’s greatest weaknesses, BOOKS!

@Ping_chan  
Certainly a possibility.

@Starswirl  
Yah, she did jump right into the trap, it’s probably because she heard what she wanted to hear, but most likely it was because ‘we gotta hurry up and end this story, we need some plot convenience!’

@Ping_chan  
Would it have been so out of character for her to be at least a little bit suspicious? Like with Discord? Instead pf this whole “today a reader, tomorrow a leader” bit she did?

Now here is a question for everyone commenting on this issue of the IDW comics and about Princess Twilight Sparkle being stupid or out of character for falling for Queen Chrysalis’s trap…  
Would it have been right or wrong for Twilight, the Princess of Friendship, to go rough on Chrysalis when she asked for a book to read, like, “No! You stupid criminal bug queen, no book for you!” or would be going soft on her be the appropriate role as a Princess of Friendship?

Dat last panel. If I were Twilight in that situation, my sphincter would be clenched hard enough to turn a lump of charcoal into a diamond.

not sure i should edit this as “chrysalis, from OUTTA NOWHERE” or “money in the bank chrysalis”…

@Evowizard25  
Twilight didn’t think of the idea to use friendship to remind them of their true selves until Celestia did it with her via the friendship reports. She was just banking on the fact that Discird getting resealed would fix them (which it woukd have if it had worked then).

@Background Pony #E4F7  
Well, I really didn’t get that. Perhaps I would need to watch it again, but if she did, she really didn’t try to look up any means of helping them………….but she had that memory spell that fixed it in no time…………………Okay, did she know that all along, or did she quickly look it up? If it’s the latter, than she must’ve known they would work regardless.
 
Twilight, why is it that you only know these fix it spells when it’s crucial to the plot instead of fixing the problem beforehand. I know it wouldn’t make the plot as interesting or shorter, but still.

@Evowizard25  
I thought it was pretty evident that Twilight DID know that Discord messed with her friends. Note that she stopped acting confused about their behavior pretty quickly, and switched to irritated.

@Background Pony #7E3F  
prison rape to be exact

that last panel kinda rapey

@brony-in-denial
 
Those are her soldiers from before.

@brony-in-denial  
Earlier pages say she was locked in with her changelings.

Twilight, go stand in the corner and don’t come out until you’ve counted to potato.

Did they lock all of those changelings in the room with Chrysalis, or did she lay a lot of eggs while she was in there?

@Starswirl  
Yeah, that’s something that kind of hurt the episode. It was only very minor, but still. It was early on in the series and Twilight wasn’t and still kind of isn’t the most ‘social’ of ponies so picking up something’s wrong given mannerisms isn’t her forte.
 
However, I think she should’ve been able to figure something was wrong instead of just thrusting the elements onto them, treating them as though their attitudes are their fault, and sending them away….I honestly think she’s smarter here in the comic than that episode.

@Evowizard25  
Not quite; it’s just as possible Twilight understood that Discord did something to them relatively quickly, while Spike only saw they were grey. The episode isn’t completely clear on that.
 
@Bronitarian  
She didn’t have access to Spike, how was she supposed to call Celestia? And Spike was trapped underneath the magic dome. And she did teleport away when Starlight readied her staff, she was just slower with her follow-up spell. And she did try to ask what the parasprites were as soon as they became a problem, by asking Fluttershy. After all, she brought them into town.
 
The main difference is that in the above cases, Twilight doesn’t consistently look like an idiot, even when she makes a bad call. Again, I partly blame it on the art style. Chrysalis is drawn in a way that makes her seem dangerous and aware for the most part; put that in contrast to Twilight, who veers between neutral and cheerfully oblivious. That is when she’s not in open-mouthed shock over an obvious trap sprung on her.

@Bronitarian  
THANK YOU!  
She is not perfect- if she (or any of them) were, there would be no stories lasting longer than 2 minutes.

That guard’s thought bubble… oh how I laughed. Poor schmuck.