Unpopular opinion time

@Meanlucario  
I don’t like Wonderbolt Academy much but I’d still like to see her return.

@Magma_ERuptiOn  
I don’t have a problem with the ep, just the character.

@Meanlucario  
She isn’t all there, yes, but I’d still like to see her clash with Dash again, this time with them both being openly hostile from the start.

I still prefer my idea of Lightning Dust showing up again where she’s ALREADY turned a new leaf and tries to prove herself to Dash, but her efforts to prove herself and be “helpful” only end up annoying Dash.

I naturally prefer my idea for Lightning Dust.

@Meanlucario  
You can say the same for rainbow dash.

@Background Pony #8F00  
No, you can’t. RD has her problems, but nothing as bad as Lighting, even in hear early seasons.

I still like LD.

@Meanlucario  
That’s just like judging someone for doing bad things when you did bad things too it just makes you look like a self righteous ass everyone in the world has done something bad in there life it doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of forgiveness that includes lighting dust.

@Jarkes  
That sounds like a cute episode idea.

@Jarkes  
this, so much this. dust really isn’t that bad in the grand scheme of things. honestly, i’d love to see her in an environment where she wasn’t being encouraged and praised for doing her absolute best at any cost.
 
in fact, lets look at her using the fresh just-now-invented GLIMMER TRIANGLE. this simple test to determine if a character, within the rules of the show, is worthy of redemption. it just judges three overall aspects of their absolute worst act, that is intent, motive, and damage done, and if they overall aren’t as bad as glimmer, who was given a free second chance, then there’s no valid reason the writers could ever say “(s)he is beyond redemption”.
 
for reference, here is glimmer’s g-triangle:  
intent: destroy the life of a single pony by changing history.  
motive: vengeance.  
damage done: death and suffering of countless ponies across multiple timelines.
 
here is lightning dust’s g-triangle:  
intent: doing better than any other wonderbolt by fair or foul play.  
motive: being the best (partly by personal desire and partly due to encouragement from spitfire).  
damage done: indirectly caused minor injury to dashie, endangered lives of trespassers, caused a few wonderbolts to spin out.
 
yeah… dust is pretty redeemable. i mean really, people seem to get mad when i say lightning dust is a slightly worse rainbow dash, as if i’m implying dash is bad, but really i’m implying that lightning dust really is not that bad of a person.

@DanielTepesKraus
 
You forgot one critical detail.
 
Dust was a jerk. That makes her unforgivable.

@Dustcan  
and what would that be?
 
EDIT: whoops. never mind.

@Dustcan  
Are you being serious?

@Applejack007  

 
In his defense, the does everything to back this up.

@Applejack007
 
This might be one of those times, maybe.

@Dustcan  
i guess that’s the same excuse the show used to explain why the woman giving a free show was the bad guy for getting heckled, inviting the hecklers up on stage, and making fun of them for it.

@DanielTepesKraus
 
Exactly!

@Dustcan  
Just look at Blue Blood and Zephyr Breeze.

@Meanlucario
 
Exactly!

@Dustcan  
@Meanlucario  
i just wonder why, in boast busters, when the mane six hassled an entertainer for giving a free show they took issue with, that made the mane six the good guys and the entertainer the bad guy, but when in fame and misfortune ponyville hassled the mane six for giving a free show they took issue with, that made the mane six the good guys and ponyville the bad guys…
 
i suppose it’s the same reason why twilight sparkle brainwashing people for entirely selfish reasons got her rewarded, but chrysalis brainwashing people for entirely selfish reasons made her the bad guy, or the mane six trashing the grand galloping gala was a good thing but discord trashing the grand galloping gala was a bad thing…

@HJSDGCE  
Same could be said with Gilda and see how that turned out  
It’s a hard call; Gilda only tried to kill Pinkie, but it was deliberate and she tried multiple times, whereas Lightning Dust almost killed all of The Other Five, but through criminal negligence and only the one time.
 
@Meanlucario  
RD has her problems, but nothing as bad as Lighting, even in hear early seasons  
“BREAKING NEWS– Dodge Junction, Southwest Equestria– The death toll from the unprecedented heat wave and drought unleashed by the destruction of Cloudsdale’s Weather Factory by unknown terrorists now stands at 187 in this desperate town…”
 
Just look at Blue Blood and Zephyr Breeze  
Pass.

@DanielTepesKraus  
I would argue that one could view the damage done by Glimmer’s time travel incursion to be nothing.
 
And more of an aside, I don’t recall there being any confirmation of anyone’s death in the alternate timelines. In the Wasteland timeline we don’t see any actual remains.

@DanielTepesKraus  
Please, the Mane 6 sold the book, they were capitalistic ventures, of course they were in the right. Trixie’ s show was free and therefore able to be critisic  
After all if you pay for something it can’t be critsised and only praises while things up to public can be ripped to shreds. I mean why do you think companies want to expand copyright law? It’s do their product always remains good.

@Background Pony #8A98  
it’s one of those things were people tend to act as if time being fixed somehow negated it, but really, all that suffering (and i’ll give ya the benefit of the doubt and assume zero deaths here) still happened. these people all went through it, and even changing time doesn’t negate that.
 
@EotD  
ha ha ha