Yes, thank goodness it wasn’t a repeat of Percy’s Best Friends, but it was so predictable, I knew it was going to turn out to be Cranky all along, as I’m sure everyone else did. To me, it felt like an extended version of one of the learning segments from the model series, of Percy trying to make out the things he sees when travelling throw the night, and I didn’t understand why he couldn’t make out what they obviously were in that. Not surprisingly, Edward, Henry and Toby were all acting totally out of character, and Percy cared more about finding this monster than collecting his delivery and what trouble he’s causing, and just puts everything right at the end of the episode. So today’s episode was just another great textbook example of why we are glad Sharon Miller has now left the writing team.
But the episode was another textbook example of why we are deeply sorry that Nitrogen aren't continuing the animation for Thomas after this series, for today, we could clearly see that good old Greg has kept his promise, for we saw the LMS 20T Brake Van on the back of Stanley’s train, and was that Toad behind Edward's????????!!!!!!! 
We all know how devoted Tiernan and co. are to Thomas, the main man himself being a fan of The Railway Series since childhood, and a keen trainspotter, with a great passion for Thomas’s world, as that of David Mitton before him, but we never see the team’s full potential, and it’s really such a shame that HiT probably don’t think as much of the people that have helped make Thomas as appealing as he always has been to the current generation of children, growing up in a world of everything being digital, along with one of many problems, and parents that want things to be as safe as possible for them, as the lazy head writer that could be replaced with anyone to get better scripts, even if they weren’t a name from the show’s heyday.
As we all know, the series starts here in the UK tomorrow, and I have the series set to record so I can see them in better quality, (no offence to NWR1991, I’m sure none is taken) but one thing I did last year on the night before series 15 aired was get out my complete series 1 DVD, and remembered the Thomas of my childhood and the one of Awdry’s original vision, before a whole month of blasphemy in the latest series, and I suggest that idea to all fellow Thomas fans of the great island nation that gave him to the world, for HiT can made as many badly written episodes as they want, but we can revist The Railway Series and Seasons 1 to 5 and remember our childhoods with our number one engine as much as we want.
Good night, and have a nice week,
Jacob
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