Today’s episode, in my opinion, was one of the worst in Thomas history. it was actually bad enough to be of series 15. First of all, Sodor Surprise Day, what?! How many special days do they have on the Island of Sodor? But I suppose, everyday’s a special day on Sodor, but why couldn’t it have been April fool’s Day, or is that not PC? Once again, it’s just Thomas, concentrating on something ridicules, instead of his work. Gordon would have probably seen Thomas all them times he was hiding, for as said before, we’ve seen this many times in previous episodes, but for some reason, Sharon Miller’s team thinks the children of today are stupid enough to believe what they are writing for them.
Of course, many were saying last year that the CGI series is sending quite the opposite of good lesions to children, that they were sending such messages as: you should give into peer-pressure, playing around in dangerous places is ok, and there’s nothing wrong in generalising a group of people. But despite these criticisms, with many thinking it was the reason why Sharon Miller “had stepped down,” we saw no change in today’s episode, because Thomas’s inappropriate whistling at the docks, caused Cranky to drop the crate of fireworks, making them go off, we all know how dangerous the situation was, and all The Fat Controller said was that Thomas had caused confusion and delay, and that there wouldn’t be any entertainment for the party, if this had ever happened in the classic Thomas (of which it wouldn’t have), engine X would have known the seriousness of what he had made happen.
Despite how much I’m against this whole culture of making sure everything your children watch is good for them, and every little bit of everything on Cbeebies or the Channel 5 Milkshake hour has to be PC, the telly can’t always be considered a good babysitter, and I’m sorry to say it’s not safe letting them watch the current version of my number 1 engine, we should all point the finger at HiT, if this Guy Fawkes Day, you hear of children mucking about with fireworks, for it could happen because they saw this episode of Thomas & Friends, for I remember when Peppa Pig was forced to wear a seat belt after children refused to after Peppa didn’t, she of course, got over it, and I’m glad she did so, for my little cousin’s sake, but it proves that children think what they see their friends do on TV is ok, hence why many believe we should make what HiT are doing (or have done) with Thomas, all the more known.
The CGI was, yes, brilliant as normal, and once again, and certainly does put the script writing to shame, but not even Nitrogen can get the writing team out of this one, and I advise all who read my blog to do what I told you to do, in my Ho Ho Snowman review, for Thomas doesn’t deserve the treatment he has gotten, and the children of today deserve more.
Thank you for reading as normal, if you don’t, I hate you! (Just kidding.)
Jacob
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