Talk:Rainbow Falls/@comment-26973802-20140120012116/@comment-10390252-20140120105845

Bulky was good enough to qualify for the Wonderbolts Academy; he's good enough to fly for Ponyvillle.

In retrospect, it might have been better if the episode had started on the train with Rainbow telling Twilight why she had willingly joined up with two poor prospects. Maybe Fluttershy is determined to conquer her phobias and Bulky has been in hospital after being injured at the Academy and is fighting to get back into shape. Rainbow appreciated both their goals and had decided to put her own ambitions at risk to help them.

IMHO, it would have made the moral conflict of the episode a bit stronger if Rainbow had a real conflict of personal amibtion vs. keeping a promise to two friends.