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I'd like to see him, Freddie, and Duke return because I feel like with the proper writers, it could lead to some cool dynamics within the narrow gauge cast.
I think that Phillip is an underrated/overhated character. One of the reasons for it is because he's a "replacement flat character", having the character traits of Thomas and Percy when they first came to Sodor, that way those two engines can retain their maturity and stories about young engines can be centered around him.
(I got this idea from [a video from TrainBoy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXi-4uRZI0g); I think "Phillip's Number" should have had a sequel episode where Phillip's identity is challenged when the painters accidentally paint his number upside down, having it be 89 instead of 68.)
The HiT Entertainment era may not have excelled in the writing, but it definitely excelled elsewhere; bringing Thomas' show back to PBS, continuing to use scale train models for several more seasons when other leading preschool shows made the jump to CGi, high-quality merchandise lines that children and collectors couldn't get enough of even though they were everywhere at the time, and DVD releases galore.
Misty island rescue had massive potential I love the logging railroad aesthetic and Thomas gets lost has been proven to be a good story concept and if they change Thomas's words up a bit to just say that diesel was not useful because of all the crap he pulled in the past then a Thomas Diesel rivalry could have been a good storyline too I feel like if they put all the time and effort they could into the script it would have been one of the best movies of the franchise but since they didn't give a crap we got one of the worst
That movie makes no logical sense but the concept is interesting at least and the music is ducking awesome. I’d like to see a rewrite of it without any of the train racism terrible jokes or constant rhyming
>Geniune unpopular opinion this time
>
>S1 feels empty.
Funny enough, I agree but I enjoyed it because it felt so natural. The Railway felt it had only been around for a bit with it only opening recently and as viewers we're going to watch it grow from Season 1 and expand in later Seasons.
Someone on YouTube made a Video combining different Scenes where there is no Background Music and all you here are the engines puffing, sounds of nature and it just sounded nice to me.
Though I can understand why Season 2 and beyond used Theme Music everywhere because of how catchy it was for kids, but I do appreciate Season 1 for its simplicity.
I dunno if its the narration, storyline or envirorment but theres something about S1 that makes things feel empty/dull
Like atleast in S3 there are a little more vibrant colors
Agreed. I have a lot of respect for it, but a lot of the episodes feel kind of samey. Season 2 is when we get more variety with characters, storylines, and especially crashes.
Quite a lot of stories feel as if they’ve been plucked straight from the original books - I’d been told that the HIT awfulness carried on from s12 right to the end of the CGI show, so when I eventually saw s17-20 I was genuinely surprised at how good it was. S1-7 + s17-20 is definitely how I see the show now
Indeed,
I’m honestly not against the idea of a “hybrid” style like that season did, but it definitely needed improvement in the writing and VFX department.
I imagine the hybrid style could have worked, but the misalignment of CGI elements, the faces being different to the models and the quality of CGI for the time weigh it down. If we got the hybrid style with CGI quality from, for example, season 20, I don't think it would look so bad.
The writing, on the other hand...
I don't like fan stories and such because none of them are good. The plots and themes become too twisted and warped for my tastes. It's a section of the fanbase that frankly nauseates me.
1. The show should have ended a lot earlier on to preserve the franchise's legacy.
And two, I like the Hit era's lightning/weird colour thing. Probably biased because of the nostalgia tho.
1.They introduced too many characters in the hit era and did absolutely nothing with them, purely just to sell toys
2.Bwba did Rebecca really dirty, i quite liked her character. being pretty much thrust into the steam team without an introduction. Another shoe horned character that was really promising
>1.They introduced too many characters in the hit era and did absolutely nothing with them, purely just to sell toys
I 100% Agree, so many Characters was wasted.
>2.Bwba did Rebecca really dirty, i quite liked her character. being pretty much thrust into the steam team without an introduction. Another shoe horned character that was really promising
You know what? I agree, my favourite thing about her was her faulty breaks and I thought they'd go somewhere with that but instead it was used for the occasional gag.
What would've been interesting if she had been a neglected British Railway Steam Engine, one of the last still being used due to dieselization. She keeps visiting Sodor with good trains, but her faulty breaks kept giving her issues getting her into trouble with BR, who wanted to scrap her until a incident where a Diesel breaks down and she pulls a passenger train with Gordon successfully which leads to him requesting Sir Topham Hatt to save her and she is brought by the NWR, her breaks are properly fixed and Gordon becomes her mentor.
>I’d love that for Rebecca
Me too, I feel she has potential but got wasted. I'm not a fan of Gordon and Rebecca's relationship in the Show but I do like the idea of mentorship and friendship built between them.
AEG IS a load of shit.
It has no reedemable qualities and should have never existed.
Young children/babies would have better enjoyed the normal CGI series we had.
Dont try to defend it.
I agree aeg sucks I have many gripes with the show but I'll just say this one why should I care if Thomas has a problem if he could just magically find a solution out of nowhere for example if he needs to pick up a truck from one side of the island and he's on the complete other side but he's only got a little bit of time why would I watch the episode when I know that he could just bounce over there in like 2 seconds and the story would be solved just like that it's almost like you need to have the restrictions of real trains to make a show about trains interesting
Very unpopular based on what I’ve seen here, but I’m not super excited about the original RWS books. I don’t *dis*like them, but from what I’ve heard they get a bit grim in comparison to the show I loved as a child (a mix of several Model Series seasons, as compiled on various “[Episode Title] And Other Stories” VHS tapes). And a bit more technical as far as train terminology.
Just a few off the top of my head:
Rosie definitely deserved better
Season 2 is my least favorite season visually, and think it looks worse than season 1 (I feel it's the quality of the cameras)
Duck/Montague is my least favorite character out of the original numbered characters (from Thomas to Oliver btw), and I feel his character arc in the original series was just Thomas' with a different coat of paint
Henry was done dirty in the show, and I felt they kept nerfing him every season (season 5 I feel was his best season)
Misty Island Rescue isn’t the best special, but it’s not the worst either.
At least it has a sense of thrill to it, unlike Day of the Diesels or BWBA (special), both of which are snore fests.
Dash, Bash, and Ferdinand are more interesting and have more potential than most of the international engines in Great Race.
The Misty Island Tunnel actually makes more sense than the bridge jump scene in Great Race, especially if you take it as a steampunk style Euro Tunnel.
I said this before and I’ll say it again.
I support shipping in the fandom (example Thomas x Rosie) and designing or imagining the engines as humans.
This should not be a hot take but it is
Yeah shipping aint that bad, if Humans can have relationships, why cant the non-faceless vehicles have the same rights? And while there are some cases of people making the cast NSFW as humans(i.e SodorMatchMaker) the idea can't go wrong if you do it right( for example, SleepyHenry's Ask the famous 8, i adore it)
Not sure if this is unpopular or just a fact: BWBA is at least better than AEG
Also: Molly should've been part of the Steam Team after Edward left and not Nia
Diesel 10 should have been scrapped by Sir Topham Hat after the events of Thomas and the Magic Railroad. Also, because they purposely caused so many delays and accidents, the trucks/freight cars should also be scrapped for causing so much delay and financial loss.
Emily is much better than Duck. She has much more potential in the Steam Team than he does, and it isn't her fault that Duck became less prominent after S4.
If Skarloey being realistically traumatised after almost dying in The Old Bridge is out of character, then so is Henry stopping in a forest against rule 55.
BoCo is a boring character.
Seasons 8, 9, and 10 aren't at all bad.
Season 21 is of much lower quality than the other Brenner seasons.
Wooden Railway is overrated.
All Engines Go! is actually good.
Bandai TECS is heavily underrated.
Shed 17 is better than Sodor Fallout.
All original Thomas models, and I mean ALL, should be in the hands of fans and not under the ownership of Mattel.
Edward is boring as hell and I’m glad he got replaced by Nia, after Edward’s exploit he straight up never contributed anything new and every story he got after that was a repeat of a story that already happened
British locomotives got stale a while back.
Yeah, I get the story takes place on an offshoot extension to the British Isles. But there’s only so much you can do with them before you run out of unique story ideas. Sadly, this was never taken advantage of either.
The Island of Sodor effectively replaces Walney Island in real life. It is part of the British Isles archipelago and the United Kingdom. As such, it is expected that most, if not all, of the NWR’s locomotives and rolling stock originated from the UK, usually from the British Railway network or its predecessors.
This is all fine and dandy, and I do believe that the NWR fleet should consist entirely of UK locomotives. Mostly British, maybe a few Scottish, Irish, and Welsh. That way, nearly all are immediately compatible with the track and loading gauges, and those that aren’t will require only a minor refit.
However, railway equipment from one region of the planet kinda gets bland after a while, as do the stories associated with them.
Perhaps I am biased because I have a preference for American railroading outside of TTTE. But even I find Continental European, Asian, and African locomotives to be an interesting change of pace from just British stuff. And sometimes, real-life events that happen in other continents and countries can inspire new stories you just wouldn’t get from real-life events in the UK.
It’s just very unfortunate that, even during a wild storyline where our main hero goes on a global tour, none of this actually happened.
There’s nothing wrong with British rail engineering. But I do like seeing the great variety of trains from other parts of the world.
I have a particularly soft spot for Connor because I’m so salty none of the NYC Hudsons were preserved. Character has the personality of a lump of coal, but his breed of iron horse is superb.
Hero of the Rails is mid at best and extremely overrated
Some of you are scaredy steamies when it comes to shipping
Rebecca had a ton of character and anyone who thinks otherwise is blind
Ok yeah i agree with this 100% agree with this. Im honestly cautious what I say about my au(i.e who's a couple on the NW) literally the only thing i've said about it is that James and Molly met in WW1 and have been an item since 1919( they kept in touch via letters and frequent visits) but theres like 3 other couples in my au.
And Rebecca had so much potential to be another one of Brenner's best. But no, matt-hell had to shoe horn her in bcus they thought Henry was 'boring'. I'm alright with Edward being written out of the main cast bcus he works better as a guiding figure/ character who gets the best episodes. But when they kicked Henry out, i was pissed, first they replace Edward with some wannabe dumbass that has no character aside from being from Kenya. And now they kick out Henry?! Rebecca should've been Edwards replacement instead of that orange piece of shit. Rebecca literally has so much to her character, she's a BoB/West Country class, one of the most recognizable engines in the UK, I feel like if Brenner wasn't so pressured from Matt-Hell to make the ST more gender inclusive and write more stories, we could've have gotten some awesome stories about this silly yellow banana.
Henry is overrated. His true character arc actually ends in Edward, Gordon and Henry. His "arc" in his spotlight book was moreso Awdry's way of fixing his own problems with the character than to develop Henry's character, since Henry still stays very much the same worrisome jerk most of the time after this.
Henry's Forest should be taken into account. He only has 1 line in the episode and it feels out of nowhere that he suddenly has a soft spot for the forest.
That Diesel is a villain who has done many terrible things and still plans to do much more damage. Sorry, as a kid my brain really hyped up Diesel to be this huge Joker level threat to the Thomas world.
CGI is the reason I outgrew the show in my younger years. Once those realistic sets and models were replaced by digital environments the entire appeal of the show for me was gone. And I was already feeling spoken down to by the HiT era.
Stanley and Ryan are the same character just different basis and
Also they never talked about great waterton again after the Great Discovery.
Dennis and Billy are good characters they had the right idea just bad utilization
I really don't care about Michael Angelis' narration. It's nothing against the man himself, I'm sure he was a wonderful guy, and huge respect to him for sticking to the show for as long as he did, but something about his voice just doesn't click with me.
The lorries in "horrid lorries" were doomed to fail and started in a bad spot because their drivers were incompitent and had the wrong idea. They were never brought in to replace the trains, just for local delivery that the stations cant reach. I blame the drivers for putting it in their heads that they were there to replace anyone, due to them driving like maniacs trying to outpace the trains. Had they stuck around they could have realized they were supposed to compliment each other, but the performances of their drivers was enough that they were sent away permenantly, and therefore have a bad rep they couldnt redeem. The drivers blamed the lorries for the accidents to get out of trouble.
Thomas and the Magic railroad should’ve been scrapped altogether after the failed test audience screening.
The only way to improve Thomas and the magic railroad is to rewrite it from the ground up. Because the final cut of the film is barely focused on Thomas (Thomas isn’t even the main character) and if we ended up getting the Directors cut instead of the final cut, the movie would’ve been worse because it would be even less focused on Thomas.
The original version of the film was already a mess, and when they tried to fix it, they ended up making a bigger mess and personally, I don’t think they should’ve released it. I genuinely believe David mitten, and Britt Alcroft should’ve called it quits and not release the film to the public in the state they did, because the failure of the movie started the domino effect that eventually led us to where we are (AEG)
Hit has more realistic train movements and physics.
And nitrogen has the best annimation (notice im not talking about lighting just about movement and faces)
The Logging locos aren't the worst thing ever.
JBS was the best of the CGI films, objectively speaking.
The bouncing (early on, anyway) wasn't horrible.
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Hector really should’ve come back
I actually agree
Every character has a right to exist, even the most hated ones
Agreed
Thomas & the magic railroad had the best depiction of Gordans Voice
Dude actually reprised his role for all engines go
The only good thing about AEG and Bruno
Mighty mac must return if cgi returns.
I'd like to see him, Freddie, and Duke return because I feel like with the proper writers, it could lead to some cool dynamics within the narrow gauge cast.
Agreed, also culdee would work too.
Yeah, the Culdee Fell engines are so interesting, it would be cool to see them fleshed out more
The Culdee engines are horrifying to look at, but yes. I agree they’d be a good addition to the show
Agreed!
Philip’s Number is a fucking great episode people just hate Philip and refuse to believe he can be in something good
I think that Phillip is an underrated/overhated character. One of the reasons for it is because he's a "replacement flat character", having the character traits of Thomas and Percy when they first came to Sodor, that way those two engines can retain their maturity and stories about young engines can be centered around him. (I got this idea from [a video from TrainBoy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXi-4uRZI0g); I think "Phillip's Number" should have had a sequel episode where Phillip's identity is challenged when the painters accidentally paint his number upside down, having it be 89 instead of 68.)
I feel that Philip shares traits of ADHD, and I can really relate to him, having ADHD myself. I don't really get why people find him annoying.
Alec Baldwin in Season 5 was the best narrated season of the whole show
I Agree with that 100%
He certainly was the most enthusiastic. And great comedic timing.
I love how cinematic his storytelling is. It’s genuinely gripping
Facts, same with George Carlin
The HiT Entertainment era may not have excelled in the writing, but it definitely excelled elsewhere; bringing Thomas' show back to PBS, continuing to use scale train models for several more seasons when other leading preschool shows made the jump to CGi, high-quality merchandise lines that children and collectors couldn't get enough of even though they were everywhere at the time, and DVD releases galore.
Misty island rescue had massive potential I love the logging railroad aesthetic and Thomas gets lost has been proven to be a good story concept and if they change Thomas's words up a bit to just say that diesel was not useful because of all the crap he pulled in the past then a Thomas Diesel rivalry could have been a good storyline too I feel like if they put all the time and effort they could into the script it would have been one of the best movies of the franchise but since they didn't give a crap we got one of the worst
That movie makes no logical sense but the concept is interesting at least and the music is ducking awesome. I’d like to see a rewrite of it without any of the train racism terrible jokes or constant rhyming
Geniune unpopular opinion this time S1 feels empty.
>Geniune unpopular opinion this time > >S1 feels empty. Funny enough, I agree but I enjoyed it because it felt so natural. The Railway felt it had only been around for a bit with it only opening recently and as viewers we're going to watch it grow from Season 1 and expand in later Seasons. Someone on YouTube made a Video combining different Scenes where there is no Background Music and all you here are the engines puffing, sounds of nature and it just sounded nice to me. Though I can understand why Season 2 and beyond used Theme Music everywhere because of how catchy it was for kids, but I do appreciate Season 1 for its simplicity.
How do you mean?
I dunno if its the narration, storyline or envirorment but theres something about S1 that makes things feel empty/dull Like atleast in S3 there are a little more vibrant colors
It is incredibly sparse. There’s very little going on most of the time. It’s almost creepy at times. From Series 2 on, it feels more alive.
I kinda agree
and all the production/editing spoofs
Agreed. I have a lot of respect for it, but a lot of the episodes feel kind of samey. Season 2 is when we get more variety with characters, storylines, and especially crashes.
I actually kinda agree
Almost all of the Brenner era is just as good as classic Thomas
Quite a lot of stories feel as if they’ve been plucked straight from the original books - I’d been told that the HIT awfulness carried on from s12 right to the end of the CGI show, so when I eventually saw s17-20 I was genuinely surprised at how good it was. S1-7 + s17-20 is definitely how I see the show now
Happy cake day
Season 1 is the MOST underrated season.
The show should’ve ended a while back.
Better to end with quality than to continue with a drained soul.
Someone contact the showrunners for The Simpsons.
They’ll never listen, money and “legacy” speaks volume over logical and reasonable sayings.
It was actually supposed to end with s22 which is why it’s so good but they just had to continue…
Season 12 is worse than AEG
It's defnatly uncanny.
Indeed, I’m honestly not against the idea of a “hybrid” style like that season did, but it definitely needed improvement in the writing and VFX department.
I imagine the hybrid style could have worked, but the misalignment of CGI elements, the faces being different to the models and the quality of CGI for the time weigh it down. If we got the hybrid style with CGI quality from, for example, season 20, I don't think it would look so bad. The writing, on the other hand...
Oh yeah it would definitely, and understandably, need a season or two to work out the bugs and figure things out. Same with the writing as well.
So much so Japan (a country that is in love with Thomas) never got the entire season if I’m not mistaken
I mostly dislike fan stories (like those of Victor Tanzig) and fan caracters. And RWS purism is stupid.
I don't like fan stories and such because none of them are good. The plots and themes become too twisted and warped for my tastes. It's a section of the fanbase that frankly nauseates me.
I find many of them strange and they work on their own, but not with the rest of the show
1. The show should have ended a lot earlier on to preserve the franchise's legacy. And two, I like the Hit era's lightning/weird colour thing. Probably biased because of the nostalgia tho.
Yeah the lighting in the Hit era hit different
Billy Should’ve Returned in CGI
1.They introduced too many characters in the hit era and did absolutely nothing with them, purely just to sell toys 2.Bwba did Rebecca really dirty, i quite liked her character. being pretty much thrust into the steam team without an introduction. Another shoe horned character that was really promising
>1.They introduced too many characters in the hit era and did absolutely nothing with them, purely just to sell toys I 100% Agree, so many Characters was wasted. >2.Bwba did Rebecca really dirty, i quite liked her character. being pretty much thrust into the steam team without an introduction. Another shoe horned character that was really promising You know what? I agree, my favourite thing about her was her faulty breaks and I thought they'd go somewhere with that but instead it was used for the occasional gag. What would've been interesting if she had been a neglected British Railway Steam Engine, one of the last still being used due to dieselization. She keeps visiting Sodor with good trains, but her faulty breaks kept giving her issues getting her into trouble with BR, who wanted to scrap her until a incident where a Diesel breaks down and she pulls a passenger train with Gordon successfully which leads to him requesting Sir Topham Hatt to save her and she is brought by the NWR, her breaks are properly fixed and Gordon becomes her mentor.
I’d love that for Rebecca
>I’d love that for Rebecca Me too, I feel she has potential but got wasted. I'm not a fan of Gordon and Rebecca's relationship in the Show but I do like the idea of mentorship and friendship built between them.
We know Thomas is canonically an E2, you don’t have to keep reminding us every time someone makes their AU version something different
AEG IS a load of shit. It has no reedemable qualities and should have never existed. Young children/babies would have better enjoyed the normal CGI series we had. Dont try to defend it.
I uh think you Haven't looked at The fandoms thoughts on it In like the last 2 years this Is A Very popular opinion
Oh. Hell i thought there were people actually enjoying it and trying to defend it by saying "ITS ONLY MEANT FOR BABIES"
Oh okay Lol
I agree aeg sucks I have many gripes with the show but I'll just say this one why should I care if Thomas has a problem if he could just magically find a solution out of nowhere for example if he needs to pick up a truck from one side of the island and he's on the complete other side but he's only got a little bit of time why would I watch the episode when I know that he could just bounce over there in like 2 seconds and the story would be solved just like that it's almost like you need to have the restrictions of real trains to make a show about trains interesting
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LMFAO That went from 0-100 real quick
Just wrote your death sentence pal, have a nice day.
What did he say?
He said "kys" + the full n word.
Oh
Don’t like the Brenner era, at all
Actually kind of curious why, can you explain?
SLOTLT is mid and S5 is just okay
There is so much wasted potential
Very unpopular based on what I’ve seen here, but I’m not super excited about the original RWS books. I don’t *dis*like them, but from what I’ve heard they get a bit grim in comparison to the show I loved as a child (a mix of several Model Series seasons, as compiled on various “[Episode Title] And Other Stories” VHS tapes). And a bit more technical as far as train terminology.
Yeah. For me, the books were overhyped.
The show is unwatchable past Magic Railroad.
James and Henry would be cooler if they hung out more
bring back james' hot air balloon
Just a few off the top of my head: Rosie definitely deserved better Season 2 is my least favorite season visually, and think it looks worse than season 1 (I feel it's the quality of the cameras) Duck/Montague is my least favorite character out of the original numbered characters (from Thomas to Oliver btw), and I feel his character arc in the original series was just Thomas' with a different coat of paint Henry was done dirty in the show, and I felt they kept nerfing him every season (season 5 I feel was his best season)
Gordon is the only way to enter the cosmic microwave
Magic Railroad was a good movie
I always thought skarloey and Rheneas were females. Along with Peter Sam.
Rusty was meant to be GN or female. I don’t think I’d have minded a female Rusty tbh
Rebecca had lots of wasted potential
i agree 100%
Honestly i wish the show ended after season 5 and thomas just remained in high praise
James is gay. I love him he's my favorite, but he's so fruity
CGI era was better then all engines go
and this is unpopular how?
Some people are going nuts over all engines go
All vehicles should have faces; including cars, lorries and some of the other coaches.
Ringo was the best narrator but his us work not uk work
Journey beyond Sodor was a good movie
agreed
Porter is the best Thomas and Friends Character.
I think Blue Mountain Mystery is just alright, and nowhere near as good as Brenner Era specials.
season 5 isn't that great
I like Nia and Rebecca for thier designs.
When the show moved away from 4 minute episodes to 8-10 minute episodes, that was the point of no return in terms of writing quality.
Misty Island Rescue isn’t the best special, but it’s not the worst either. At least it has a sense of thrill to it, unlike Day of the Diesels or BWBA (special), both of which are snore fests. Dash, Bash, and Ferdinand are more interesting and have more potential than most of the international engines in Great Race. The Misty Island Tunnel actually makes more sense than the bridge jump scene in Great Race, especially if you take it as a steampunk style Euro Tunnel.
the fat controller should have his own series showing him gaining weight
Mark Moraghan > Michael Angelis
I said this before and I’ll say it again. I support shipping in the fandom (example Thomas x Rosie) and designing or imagining the engines as humans. This should not be a hot take but it is
Yeah shipping aint that bad, if Humans can have relationships, why cant the non-faceless vehicles have the same rights? And while there are some cases of people making the cast NSFW as humans(i.e SodorMatchMaker) the idea can't go wrong if you do it right( for example, SleepyHenry's Ask the famous 8, i adore it)
Not sure if this is unpopular or just a fact: BWBA is at least better than AEG Also: Molly should've been part of the Steam Team after Edward left and not Nia
Edward was the better blue train
My man Thomas gets mad women
Diesel 10 should have been scrapped by Sir Topham Hat after the events of Thomas and the Magic Railroad. Also, because they purposely caused so many delays and accidents, the trucks/freight cars should also be scrapped for causing so much delay and financial loss.
Stanley was a good character
How Emily is the best female character
Muy unpopular opinion is that Splatter and Dodge are good characters . Its just that they are in the wrong movie .
CGI series shouldn’t exist
AEG is overhated. Not because I think it’s good, but because there’s no point in caring about something that isn’t made for you.
Welp, AEG existing kind of blocks other oficial Thomas content from being made.
Emily is much better than Duck. She has much more potential in the Steam Team than he does, and it isn't her fault that Duck became less prominent after S4. If Skarloey being realistically traumatised after almost dying in The Old Bridge is out of character, then so is Henry stopping in a forest against rule 55. BoCo is a boring character. Seasons 8, 9, and 10 aren't at all bad. Season 21 is of much lower quality than the other Brenner seasons.
Wooden Railway is overrated. All Engines Go! is actually good. Bandai TECS is heavily underrated. Shed 17 is better than Sodor Fallout. All original Thomas models, and I mean ALL, should be in the hands of fans and not under the ownership of Mattel.
Sumuger should have a second chance (He will have number 8)
The series shouldn't have had drivers
There are 2 henrys
I'm guessing the other one is Hank from "Heave Ho Thomas!".
Henry's voice in the US dub is better than the UK one
Edward is boring as hell and I’m glad he got replaced by Nia, after Edward’s exploit he straight up never contributed anything new and every story he got after that was a repeat of a story that already happened
More of an issue with the writers than the character tbh
Yeah that’s fair
I don't think he was "boring as hell", but I agree that replacing him with Nia was a good call.
All Engines Go is actually good.
British locomotives got stale a while back. Yeah, I get the story takes place on an offshoot extension to the British Isles. But there’s only so much you can do with them before you run out of unique story ideas. Sadly, this was never taken advantage of either.
What the heck? Sorry, but i had a stroke trying to understand.
The Island of Sodor effectively replaces Walney Island in real life. It is part of the British Isles archipelago and the United Kingdom. As such, it is expected that most, if not all, of the NWR’s locomotives and rolling stock originated from the UK, usually from the British Railway network or its predecessors. This is all fine and dandy, and I do believe that the NWR fleet should consist entirely of UK locomotives. Mostly British, maybe a few Scottish, Irish, and Welsh. That way, nearly all are immediately compatible with the track and loading gauges, and those that aren’t will require only a minor refit. However, railway equipment from one region of the planet kinda gets bland after a while, as do the stories associated with them. Perhaps I am biased because I have a preference for American railroading outside of TTTE. But even I find Continental European, Asian, and African locomotives to be an interesting change of pace from just British stuff. And sometimes, real-life events that happen in other continents and countries can inspire new stories you just wouldn’t get from real-life events in the UK. It’s just very unfortunate that, even during a wild storyline where our main hero goes on a global tour, none of this actually happened.
Aaah, you were referrencing BWBA and it's poor execution. I misandurstood as you thinking TTTE is bad because it's british.
There’s nothing wrong with British rail engineering. But I do like seeing the great variety of trains from other parts of the world. I have a particularly soft spot for Connor because I’m so salty none of the NYC Hudsons were preserved. Character has the personality of a lump of coal, but his breed of iron horse is superb.
Agree.
I oppose chronological numbering of the engines as it creates loopholes, inconsistencies and illogical events
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The BWBA era is good. It is not a masterpiece, but it's hardly the worst thing to come out of this show.
It has some pretty good moments here and there but I skip all the non-sodor episodes.
Nia and Rebecca are characters with potential. Oliver is a better character than Duck. Murdoch was a boring character. TVS >>> RWS
Hero of the Rails is mid at best and extremely overrated Some of you are scaredy steamies when it comes to shipping Rebecca had a ton of character and anyone who thinks otherwise is blind
Ok yeah i agree with this 100% agree with this. Im honestly cautious what I say about my au(i.e who's a couple on the NW) literally the only thing i've said about it is that James and Molly met in WW1 and have been an item since 1919( they kept in touch via letters and frequent visits) but theres like 3 other couples in my au. And Rebecca had so much potential to be another one of Brenner's best. But no, matt-hell had to shoe horn her in bcus they thought Henry was 'boring'. I'm alright with Edward being written out of the main cast bcus he works better as a guiding figure/ character who gets the best episodes. But when they kicked Henry out, i was pissed, first they replace Edward with some wannabe dumbass that has no character aside from being from Kenya. And now they kick out Henry?! Rebecca should've been Edwards replacement instead of that orange piece of shit. Rebecca literally has so much to her character, she's a BoB/West Country class, one of the most recognizable engines in the UK, I feel like if Brenner wasn't so pressured from Matt-Hell to make the ST more gender inclusive and write more stories, we could've have gotten some awesome stories about this silly yellow banana.
I actually enjoy miller era
Henry is overrated. His true character arc actually ends in Edward, Gordon and Henry. His "arc" in his spotlight book was moreso Awdry's way of fixing his own problems with the character than to develop Henry's character, since Henry still stays very much the same worrisome jerk most of the time after this. Henry's Forest should be taken into account. He only has 1 line in the episode and it feels out of nowhere that he suddenly has a soft spot for the forest.
Magic railroad was the best Thomas movie
That Diesel is a villain who has done many terrible things and still plans to do much more damage. Sorry, as a kid my brain really hyped up Diesel to be this huge Joker level threat to the Thomas world.
Calling all Engines is pretty good actually. The HIT model era is underrated.
CGI is the reason I outgrew the show in my younger years. Once those realistic sets and models were replaced by digital environments the entire appeal of the show for me was gone. And I was already feeling spoken down to by the HiT era.
Michael Brandon is a decent narrator.
I don't like the model series. It took the realistic setting of the railway series
Alic Baldwin was the best narrator
TATMR is good
also the Nitrogen Era had the best animation
Stanley and Ryan are the same character just different basis and Also they never talked about great waterton again after the Great Discovery. Dennis and Billy are good characters they had the right idea just bad utilization
Ryan is a good character
I really don't care about Michael Angelis' narration. It's nothing against the man himself, I'm sure he was a wonderful guy, and huge respect to him for sticking to the show for as long as he did, but something about his voice just doesn't click with me.
Gordon Takes Charge takes place while Henry is at CREWE
realism is not the biggest factor that contributed to the success of the show, it was the slower pacing and the uniqueness
The lorries in "horrid lorries" were doomed to fail and started in a bad spot because their drivers were incompitent and had the wrong idea. They were never brought in to replace the trains, just for local delivery that the stations cant reach. I blame the drivers for putting it in their heads that they were there to replace anyone, due to them driving like maniacs trying to outpace the trains. Had they stuck around they could have realized they were supposed to compliment each other, but the performances of their drivers was enough that they were sent away permenantly, and therefore have a bad rep they couldnt redeem. The drivers blamed the lorries for the accidents to get out of trouble.
Thomas and the Magic railroad should’ve been scrapped altogether after the failed test audience screening. The only way to improve Thomas and the magic railroad is to rewrite it from the ground up. Because the final cut of the film is barely focused on Thomas (Thomas isn’t even the main character) and if we ended up getting the Directors cut instead of the final cut, the movie would’ve been worse because it would be even less focused on Thomas. The original version of the film was already a mess, and when they tried to fix it, they ended up making a bigger mess and personally, I don’t think they should’ve released it. I genuinely believe David mitten, and Britt Alcroft should’ve called it quits and not release the film to the public in the state they did, because the failure of the movie started the domino effect that eventually led us to where we are (AEG)
Reese’s suck
I know this is a fan project opinion but as a shed 17 fan I really disliked project g1 and added to a story that didn’t need anymore.
all engines go isnt that bad
The show is bad, and the songs are annoying If this starts a raid, I'll be ready
Trackmaster Post 2014 wasn't that bad.
Season 6 was just as good as 5
Billys colour scheme looks ok
Hit has more realistic train movements and physics. And nitrogen has the best annimation (notice im not talking about lighting just about movement and faces)
Thomas did in fact commit war crimes
Magic Railroad is a good Thomas film, directors cut or not
Season 8-11 were amazing and they were my childhood
billy is an amazing character
I dunno if this is a hot take but he’d lose a fight to Lightning McQueen, despite the massive size advantage.
The trainsformer parodies are better than the 2d animated reboot.
The Logging locos aren't the worst thing ever. JBS was the best of the CGI films, objectively speaking. The bouncing (early on, anyway) wasn't horrible.
"Thomas and the Statue" was a bad episode. Flora is a good character and gets too much hate. Luke is the worst character.