Finally, after what happened last year, it was CHRISTMAS on the Island of Sodor, and the first time it had officially been since 1991, (as we all know back in Thomas and Percy’s Christmas Adventure) but the writers were a little reluctant in saying so, for it was the Christmas holiday session, but it’s better to many than hearing the words ‘winter holidays.’
But despite this, it was Sharon Miller’s usual, sleazily, sugar-coated, but not as politically correct as normal, writing. For it revolved around something we fans have been complaining about for a whole decade now, I’m talking about Edward’s persona, everyone knows Edward is meant to the wise old engine we knew from the books and the version of the show from our childhood, yet today, he left his work to find presents for Salty, and brings back things that we all know Salty won’t want, as someone has already said, Edward decides to give Salty, Thomas’s funnel from Slippy Sodor, just because Kevin says it’s fancy, oh, forget the fact that Salty is a diesel engine, the funnel is fancy, yes, that makes all the difference. Salty’s stories themselves weren’t very much about the sea, and any fan could go into great detail on how bad the first story was, for one, as everyone knows, many of the Thomas characters are painted green, or is it their terrible excuse for Duck, Oliver and Boco not being in the series? Two, if this did happen when Salty was on Sodor, Edward must have known about it, and three, if all the red paint had ran out, we would have still seen Salty’s buffers, and his yellow and black front and behind, but of course, Nitrogen have to support the rubbish that they have to work with.
I know I start almost every 2nd paragraph of my reviews by saying the CGI was to its normal brilliant standard, but it’s true. I thought the bit when seeing the Christmas tree rotting away, was very well done. As said before, despite loving the Thomas models to bits, and not wanting to change anything about the classics, it’s great seeing the benefits of CGI in the new Thomas series, and when used, are seen to be far more creative than the writing.
Anyway, thank you for reading, and good night!
Jacob
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