tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20735267686698471962024-03-11T09:14:47.428+11:00The Thomas and Friends Review StationNWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comBlogger859125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-7311560638684519862024-01-28T08:00:00.078+11:002024-01-28T08:00:00.152+11:00All Engines Go! Review - The Great Bubbly Build<div style="text-align: center;"> <i>So we come to the latest 'All Engines Go!' project which is the half hour special of the show called 'The Great Bubbly Build' which made its world premiere on YouTube, both the UK and US dub, in October 2023 and then made its TV debut later that same month in both those countries. But is this special good? Or would it be another boring, bland, forgettable extended episode that would be forgotten about in the next hour? Let's find out, but first:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE GREAT BUBBLY BUILD</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr64xUfkI4zy84z4ctHwDj75VIuaOGdp3EG5wSSEAKfEdtDmUbHLGoCfoGZoGh0yWqXOpxpqgctQphps2uQHkewreNAvnOcJuYB2_6NG3E_oTtTsqv9HFzEdaGkzB4fmu0qQRVE3mEUFPuGvmVZiu-dynv1yFBMzDLMdTweublFXTFw97fCzeByEu4wPE/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuildpromo1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="1000" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr64xUfkI4zy84z4ctHwDj75VIuaOGdp3EG5wSSEAKfEdtDmUbHLGoCfoGZoGh0yWqXOpxpqgctQphps2uQHkewreNAvnOcJuYB2_6NG3E_oTtTsqv9HFzEdaGkzB4fmu0qQRVE3mEUFPuGvmVZiu-dynv1yFBMzDLMdTweublFXTFw97fCzeByEu4wPE/w400-h258/TheGreatBubblyBuildpromo1.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Written by</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Nikki Lytton</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Directed by</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Campbell Bryer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Produced by</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Suzie Gallo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Release Date</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">12/10/23 - YouTube</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">20/10/23 - ID YouTube</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">28/10/23 - CAN (TV)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">29/10/23 - UK (TV)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">TBA - AUS (TV)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">TBA - USA (TV)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Plot</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Sandy and Carly set out to make an art project together, Sandy focuses on its form and Carly focuses on its function. But when their ideas clash and the project fails, they learn that it needs the right mix of both of their ideas to succeed.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>MY VIEWS</u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuXftUuIGTKcbklWTAPzrRY8X8XMEE-mrac3H4bu-y7FcUvo1X3BmOaOwXNN8-kfQXWGCgwvIwilc3hJx6lVRdf5s2WpZZE8_xpmBzGAPV-mAZ9alAiNY7f2fVBAUhq6JUP12FLtH4s1YniYbK3ZlDHAjxRHELm4GyYQZTGOQnihCuYTD0sK8kaveyiS4/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild2.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuXftUuIGTKcbklWTAPzrRY8X8XMEE-mrac3H4bu-y7FcUvo1X3BmOaOwXNN8-kfQXWGCgwvIwilc3hJx6lVRdf5s2WpZZE8_xpmBzGAPV-mAZ9alAiNY7f2fVBAUhq6JUP12FLtH4s1YniYbK3ZlDHAjxRHELm4GyYQZTGOQnihCuYTD0sK8kaveyiS4/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild2.webp" width="400" /></a></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The special opens up with Sandy finishing her work and finding Carly. One of the places was the mine that was seen in 'Salty's Seashanty'. Sandy called out Carly's and heard a rumble which turned out to be Thomas and Diesel covered in mud. It all turned out that Thomas led the both of them into a wrong tunnel and into a mud pit, Thomas then explained that he thought he saw pirate treasure. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHJXYE_0AjddEJ0KPN5oY3Ghhq7A9JW6F2a0mloNfZyV7vu6U9ZtfgY_aJhRCBOSUlIRGWIgs_UadKi3oxNP3uwzxxu9caK5KD4WdMhMNj6N6Y6b4HMQnI3BOhfaRI3fCnGjNu-gcScHQi1wKYFKQaMHQ31D1hWEepF5BiIluvenVsFrRppHy7cL5dpY/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild11.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHJXYE_0AjddEJ0KPN5oY3Ghhq7A9JW6F2a0mloNfZyV7vu6U9ZtfgY_aJhRCBOSUlIRGWIgs_UadKi3oxNP3uwzxxu9caK5KD4WdMhMNj6N6Y6b4HMQnI3BOhfaRI3fCnGjNu-gcScHQi1wKYFKQaMHQ31D1hWEepF5BiIluvenVsFrRppHy7cL5dpY/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild11.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Sandy then told them that she was looking for Carly, with her stating for the umpteenth time that she and her are best friends, as if we've don't know that already. As I was watching the US dub, I began to notice Thomas and Diesel's voices were a bit deep and I know that happened to their previous child voice actors before as they were reaching puberty and I have seen some US dubbed episodes with Thomas' recent VA while reviewing S2 and his voice was a bit higher previously, perhaps the same is happening to him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwTYNggKzIywhhReU74AQJ2uKm5otpkHu085Of6IomKFvOs_xCXclmpySwGNddyDKjzsDOA4VK0urGgZEq82_1tN3IAxdR-pmv00BlaiAI1ViyfsEg4s2Vr-Dp2qDaFmJ7U_OYz0cgIWYc7360zm-UU1km9ejLfGwlMkvkJ3XxjEsuqvz5lAXaKN1pBg/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild25.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwTYNggKzIywhhReU74AQJ2uKm5otpkHu085Of6IomKFvOs_xCXclmpySwGNddyDKjzsDOA4VK0urGgZEq82_1tN3IAxdR-pmv00BlaiAI1ViyfsEg4s2Vr-Dp2qDaFmJ7U_OYz0cgIWYc7360zm-UU1km9ejLfGwlMkvkJ3XxjEsuqvz5lAXaKN1pBg/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild25.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Meanwhile Sandy was passing by the farm looking for her friend until she noticed movement in a hay stack. She thought it was but it was actually Nia, who was looking for a screw of her's which Sandy had found after Nia burst out of the hay stack with her face being covered as facial hair which led to another uncreative pun from Sandy as she sets off in search for Carly. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9krbtREVfh2kWeCBFgE0VpAx5oAlA_To-zpwNolfNEvA4P_C97pLYQyq9hNOMMVLpeqdV5pMi7AUbjM8XhxQaxQQ6jn-UZdTqB2dCNzBEuZIRCUjj9ArW7L7jh4SJS4cQlEJW8vcSxtRYW2vjSy6oz5WKYILGC5MhRYVMbUopaJbEC-R1RKKotGv_73Y/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild36.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9krbtREVfh2kWeCBFgE0VpAx5oAlA_To-zpwNolfNEvA4P_C97pLYQyq9hNOMMVLpeqdV5pMi7AUbjM8XhxQaxQQ6jn-UZdTqB2dCNzBEuZIRCUjj9ArW7L7jh4SJS4cQlEJW8vcSxtRYW2vjSy6oz5WKYILGC5MhRYVMbUopaJbEC-R1RKKotGv_73Y/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild36.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Next she came to the docks and saw Percy and asked if he had seen Carly. Percy replied he hadn't and not in the crates that were being moved nearby from Cranky. Carly was suspiscous and Percy explained but one of the crates was dropped in the sea soaking Percy. Salty came up towards him and told him that his paint work will be covered in rust when his steel is contacted with salt water. Salty replied he had been rusted all the time and that it didn't hurt him, which shows his back end covered in rust with a mouse poking his head out from the back, personally I find it a bit uncomfortable. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49evsUAEsEXZhRDTLQwBGXIBEXvRSY3TfEuz0OC7LjKDvPKIP-Q-waZ_eLoGUgcbQdK6_yDLE_Puozb7eWUAkuJ_rIA1Bwmi_RrcRGlm5p0OL3DGLlGMPaiQRYhJB7YteZA4J2daa5w9aAmNPaOWOv2CkxwzxAF_YlM2tDcAJJv_yECwqcuQOAXKAJCo/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild38.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49evsUAEsEXZhRDTLQwBGXIBEXvRSY3TfEuz0OC7LjKDvPKIP-Q-waZ_eLoGUgcbQdK6_yDLE_Puozb7eWUAkuJ_rIA1Bwmi_RrcRGlm5p0OL3DGLlGMPaiQRYhJB7YteZA4J2daa5w9aAmNPaOWOv2CkxwzxAF_YlM2tDcAJJv_yECwqcuQOAXKAJCo/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild38.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>It's like we are seeing a engine's skin withering away, which was the point to scare Percy but it can still be effective since we do see other bits of rust surrounding Salty anyway. Anyway, Percy puffed away to the train wash while Salty told Sandy that Carly was looking for bugs. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFz-ySc_QrzQQFsSYPAvzQGGLF9Bv8nS8t2NvGd6UN55Vx9QVapJRhQHX0ACnn2T08UOcViK1l0f8sZmWLINj5uBOo1pgDoWFS4IMjH9hNJQDxbbqvpMn_RLc3zZoNYE4lX22jHzV_6N5C2V8z0eHPc4coMgXeR3uUi12U3rSaNk3oAzZHMrcJ85dYhA/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild46.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFz-ySc_QrzQQFsSYPAvzQGGLF9Bv8nS8t2NvGd6UN55Vx9QVapJRhQHX0ACnn2T08UOcViK1l0f8sZmWLINj5uBOo1pgDoWFS4IMjH9hNJQDxbbqvpMn_RLc3zZoNYE4lX22jHzV_6N5C2V8z0eHPc4coMgXeR3uUi12U3rSaNk3oAzZHMrcJ85dYhA/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild46.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>So it turns out Carly likes things bugs related, so we at least got some character from her and is a shame we never had that stated elsewhere in the show since Carly barely had much character to begin with. So we see her looking for bugs but there are no, despite a centipede crawling up her crane arm. She was so focused on looking for bugs that she'd accidently thrown Sandy up. But in the end she was caught safely. Meanwhile the centipede managed to get inside her and this is where Carly thought of making something for it, which interest Sandy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX33MFcfV1pCe_Ozfv4753pd82EJkM6HFVdvS7HycYrBnWBOX1uIa9jsfb78Oy2WXo57l_URiKSuC-mAUflBy7XAjlvDHMXw8rhstD-jdeKy-gfmRJjj36zcaE0zURkWxB2LtcA2hoKsW-1kxs3-VHYckyYCZlpDMraGHsMkvOy7u_W3YkJtl1aiJY_mM/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild63.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX33MFcfV1pCe_Ozfv4753pd82EJkM6HFVdvS7HycYrBnWBOX1uIa9jsfb78Oy2WXo57l_URiKSuC-mAUflBy7XAjlvDHMXw8rhstD-jdeKy-gfmRJjj36zcaE0zURkWxB2LtcA2hoKsW-1kxs3-VHYckyYCZlpDMraGHsMkvOy7u_W3YkJtl1aiJY_mM/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild63.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>At the maintenance yard, we see the two looking for things that would be useful for their project. In the end, Carly made a box. Sandy wasn't that impressed by it since she thought they were going to make something creative. Carly's box was a bug box. It crawls inside and the magnifying glass showcases the bug at a larger scale, to be honest I like that idea even though I'm no fan of bugs. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbc_wro7bGgJTXU4nMQxlKKZZWB-7oLPyAPLVL5dnwh2uTmTWDPJHLUcAcM2IWKTT_QS6RjSFKISkE-g6EUjNs2sq9mOu89FjcoNRnYJH2jquAoba7yTgAzXOnpdjTJBmFWzjBArnDKGKpz3vX_46AXUg2_HfWsdHkrjj-t9St_LotNvcRbXccXC6qMGY/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild80.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbc_wro7bGgJTXU4nMQxlKKZZWB-7oLPyAPLVL5dnwh2uTmTWDPJHLUcAcM2IWKTT_QS6RjSFKISkE-g6EUjNs2sq9mOu89FjcoNRnYJH2jquAoba7yTgAzXOnpdjTJBmFWzjBArnDKGKpz3vX_46AXUg2_HfWsdHkrjj-t9St_LotNvcRbXccXC6qMGY/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild80.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>But Sandy thought it needs a bit more 'oofhm' like her's which was called the litter bug and we have to have her explaining her joke because this AEG, jokes need to be explained! However Carly was confused by it and asked Sandy what it does but Sandy mentioned that 'it arts'. Carly then explained that ideas that are creative seems different. But Sandy thinks there is some miscommunications on the idea of being creative, to her it's about making something fun, something big or weird. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Wf2e3dRrJEvUPM9tOLo1_JLf6cdDI6pTxGKxjcP0-K3mFTVHvoEEmUTcLxC9CDaGBs-1n9iHjB_8VR_4MEcDsFI7MYLERuTIpS_grN0upY7eycfI4DFk448HkOy-HxXETfH-qRaKoabv5OxlW8qL0sDPGoLXjaqro_CU5DSgpnBQazGQe7TN0VzqJPU/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild117.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Wf2e3dRrJEvUPM9tOLo1_JLf6cdDI6pTxGKxjcP0-K3mFTVHvoEEmUTcLxC9CDaGBs-1n9iHjB_8VR_4MEcDsFI7MYLERuTIpS_grN0upY7eycfI4DFk448HkOy-HxXETfH-qRaKoabv5OxlW8qL0sDPGoLXjaqro_CU5DSgpnBQazGQe7TN0VzqJPU/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild117.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div>But to Carly making something useful is creative to her but Sandy told her to think of something artistic and so Carly did by making a bench, which didn't impress Sandy and so Carly made a water tank and then a lamp. Carly doesn't seem to understand Sandy's way of being creative and Sandy explained that being creative is to have style and showed a sand sculpture as an example, although I'm not a fan of the show's music, it just feels pretty forgettable, I do like the jazz music in the secne with Sandy making that sculpture, it kinda reminds me of the music from '<i>Trouble on the Tracks</i>' PC game from 1999.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioP7F7hzqOmeYx_TYjCexdGL3_qDUwN6UfP2clC_pGAoIZvODOZbXbi4zW7qqYYJTnbo8mYxqseZ-BCRpGiAiIGUaCOd9yGoeByy7HM7dEy9ceGRPgTQkExptoDlpntEvmoa6t9OkMKymV6z6xfbvYUApg0yIia6au2OFrhmyZK_iAYSmhMAEPHhKhdYY/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild125.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioP7F7hzqOmeYx_TYjCexdGL3_qDUwN6UfP2clC_pGAoIZvODOZbXbi4zW7qqYYJTnbo8mYxqseZ-BCRpGiAiIGUaCOd9yGoeByy7HM7dEy9ceGRPgTQkExptoDlpntEvmoa6t9OkMKymV6z6xfbvYUApg0yIia6au2OFrhmyZK_iAYSmhMAEPHhKhdYY/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild125.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just then Thomas, still covered in mud from earlier, came into the yards telling the two they are having a big problem for which Carly replied that they do because her and Sandy have creative differences and with that being said I'm glad to see that after two years of this show's inception they'd finally given Carly some personality to make her interesting. But the actual problem Thomas was having was that the train wash was broken.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8jsW35znjbRCktyOAjXbu0VhbK3WgwbF_8MbRklALhaxE6obWnTcUrIBJDFpsOnn5dQ-Zm205Ul9n9ORRg-7QR_Ttr-8LgvS9ot2uI0jKKMCKG8KwcsFu05EU0wvtAS5swQXLptrcLl9_yu887kDrJ_DdMdUvv_wniRivQ0LbJoSufgOE-5HHsReBuow/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild128.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8jsW35znjbRCktyOAjXbu0VhbK3WgwbF_8MbRklALhaxE6obWnTcUrIBJDFpsOnn5dQ-Zm205Ul9n9ORRg-7QR_Ttr-8LgvS9ot2uI0jKKMCKG8KwcsFu05EU0wvtAS5swQXLptrcLl9_yu887kDrJ_DdMdUvv_wniRivQ0LbJoSufgOE-5HHsReBuow/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild128.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Despite their differences, Sandy and Carly went to fix it at once and the reason it was broken was because Thomas, Diesel, Percy and Nia were all trying to use it at once. Nia then showcased the problem. It did get the hay off but now she had a bubble beard, bit of a meh joke and could've been her not having her haybeard washed off or if she was covered with mud instead and that hadn't washed off properly. But then the train wash building collapsed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNjx9n4i128G1bfEwGhMGImnj1bXn-a76B_zTNI34vQMr1kOYxh0fhbXcDlWoUNeGvmDdIb5Cw8_Fgojt6-dVxVKlQNAOQZaVgDnxa9d3HCdI2iwRTB5hGdOBrmb_T-CHxlGvDoChCo4a-G3-XCHaSig2YZ54wc7PeIQt2q55Ap0b_ToqZNT06kf5h08/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild141.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNjx9n4i128G1bfEwGhMGImnj1bXn-a76B_zTNI34vQMr1kOYxh0fhbXcDlWoUNeGvmDdIb5Cw8_Fgojt6-dVxVKlQNAOQZaVgDnxa9d3HCdI2iwRTB5hGdOBrmb_T-CHxlGvDoChCo4a-G3-XCHaSig2YZ54wc7PeIQt2q55Ap0b_ToqZNT06kf5h08/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild141.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While Percy woes about his green paint being turned to rust, Thomas then came up with the idea of Carly and Sandy building a new train wash as they were trying to come up with something creative together. To which they agree. Thomas offered to help, despite having mud stuck in his funnel, even though he went to the yards without much fault from earlier.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8eRi7Yugj4lU0Oe_GwIWHVimL-nbOjbLfQaDhBEVeSgiS15OcOACUY8JImOeENF064WFRY2MtJL-E9ZG9v4bYbwEP3JJaWyg8Y687mMmme031vokiQmqTbKbO6imbQ6LSsObiuTfC-JDeTnVtlntDpr8MCBI84qKYDOZESSYrYtjr2LbHLlwrgPTIFB8/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild187.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8eRi7Yugj4lU0Oe_GwIWHVimL-nbOjbLfQaDhBEVeSgiS15OcOACUY8JImOeENF064WFRY2MtJL-E9ZG9v4bYbwEP3JJaWyg8Y687mMmme031vokiQmqTbKbO6imbQ6LSsObiuTfC-JDeTnVtlntDpr8MCBI84qKYDOZESSYrYtjr2LbHLlwrgPTIFB8/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild187.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the maintenance yard, Thomas gave out his steam drawings of Carly's idea of a trainwash but Sandy got bored and went to sleep because Carly's idea wasn't fun. Sandy told her that bigger is better and fun and so we got our first song '<i>Focus on the FUNction</i>'. I'm not a fan of the song, as I said many times before, I'll give credit that this song is at least broken up into parts, I think it would still work with just dialouge. But despite the outcome of Sandy's idea for a trainwash, she agreed and so they made a plan for the material. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLJSZSuEqRQSwwoPXVBVgO1-AmC0NVaRNqQzEfArL7JT2i7LQb2f70hdcMINSl8bk4IV2-wmrJYtejtY0mk-fLfPk0720X0lv9Uq8vHIRnfJh5_-W2XYMBU2btvrLSP8JI2ek_ETPCyhAiU2RIkBAG7nCMqN5BAsIs_UA1sV5mhDC937k1tjBvkuHP4w/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild227.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLJSZSuEqRQSwwoPXVBVgO1-AmC0NVaRNqQzEfArL7JT2i7LQb2f70hdcMINSl8bk4IV2-wmrJYtejtY0mk-fLfPk0720X0lv9Uq8vHIRnfJh5_-W2XYMBU2btvrLSP8JI2ek_ETPCyhAiU2RIkBAG7nCMqN5BAsIs_UA1sV5mhDC937k1tjBvkuHP4w/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild227.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thomas mentioned that Tess has some crates from a recent shipment and wondered if they could ask her to use them. Though she was rather stingy of them and after being told of their idea, she said no but Percy came and showed his rust and is in desperate need of a wash, though we had an episode that rust can be avoided by paint. Percy was worried that if they don't make the trainwash soon he could be rust to scrap and with that being mentioned, Sandy thinks Whiff might have some stuff lying around. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXjQ8-_Hrwzv0Jf0RxPSZvoUq6kIAurolgMXkiO5-TS6vqKndbqa7Xzk8DiaQd73w7DqG83AZkmbdSwCFmJlT1sQ32QCWgYzGjeA9DgrW4LIK3XVeZM2kr0pNkP3YVJLwaATqTeB_Rgx_gHw0bXghgr5zgWlOKT4aglkv-MitskLR2mXQh1YHtbQ3AcCk/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild253.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXjQ8-_Hrwzv0Jf0RxPSZvoUq6kIAurolgMXkiO5-TS6vqKndbqa7Xzk8DiaQd73w7DqG83AZkmbdSwCFmJlT1sQ32QCWgYzGjeA9DgrW4LIK3XVeZM2kr0pNkP3YVJLwaATqTeB_Rgx_gHw0bXghgr5zgWlOKT4aglkv-MitskLR2mXQh1YHtbQ3AcCk/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild253.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So both her and Percy made their way to Whiff while Tess was having some doubts about it, nice to see she wasn't being terrible about it and Carly agreed despite her optomistic side thinking it's going to work with the third part of the FUNction song, Sandy sang the same verse earlier to Tess. Which made Tess give her some crates to spare after being told through song, again it would still work with dialouge. Though I do kinda like the small moment of Tess enjoying the song with Carly but saying she has a troublesome reputation to hold up because of the trucks puts me off, perhaps there might be an episode in regards to that? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxlOCBM6Atilbh-QzWzvU-mASoZP3YnDvSKAazu6ndXocrhT7JGXiF7rh6fmdedsSyNprYd1MFEiMWNYroDjEl5sZuqNCB9RPXsZlGQduB6JUfqRhoVcDbyvqxsj5zCVH5tkWBAZvUw-0y7yAxiRXVAHvTfOW2BUyVCDajfXurg6dNNcKN-A2okOWz9I/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild280.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxlOCBM6Atilbh-QzWzvU-mASoZP3YnDvSKAazu6ndXocrhT7JGXiF7rh6fmdedsSyNprYd1MFEiMWNYroDjEl5sZuqNCB9RPXsZlGQduB6JUfqRhoVcDbyvqxsj5zCVH5tkWBAZvUw-0y7yAxiRXVAHvTfOW2BUyVCDajfXurg6dNNcKN-A2okOWz9I/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild280.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As Carly sets off Thomas made it to Tess despite Sandy and Carly made their way elsewhere. At Whiff's recycling plant, Carly arrived with her crates and was surprised by the truckload of rubber ducks that were found by Bulstrode around the bay, according to Whiff. But Carly was still doubtful about Carly's idea but Sandy found parts for the wash part of the trainwash. Which were bells, whistles, grease and a rollercoaster ramp with Carly wondering how would any of those things wash? To which Sandy agreed. But she then added rainbow soap dust which was recycled by Whiff using soap. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTWxtXEAWCgtMNtJFxYelb-aiGuXl90Xj4k_Mjf84bhytUqAvkTVtyjdeiEftpbbblaIgPVHe0pHiUYHeoBVZR3cJSYPVte-a1705POZutLVuzHl95_UrMBARNIzY4pv28ug_Vh0Wb0YuKULi0QJ1Tfkpr4GbSAGdI9x0dMBcFXAUVuWse8XBM2Oig9w/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild300.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTWxtXEAWCgtMNtJFxYelb-aiGuXl90Xj4k_Mjf84bhytUqAvkTVtyjdeiEftpbbblaIgPVHe0pHiUYHeoBVZR3cJSYPVte-a1705POZutLVuzHl95_UrMBARNIzY4pv28ug_Vh0Wb0YuKULi0QJ1Tfkpr4GbSAGdI9x0dMBcFXAUVuWse8XBM2Oig9w/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild300.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thomas arrived, feeling very tired and knocked over an old fan which was just the part Carly needs for the trainwash. They'd returned to the maintenance yard to get ready for the construction with a reprise of the FUNction song. After the trainwash was done, it was not going the way that Sandy had hoped off and everything was going haywire, typical AEG fashion with the engines rolling around in a cartoony fashion as Sandy realises that Carly was right and so they were to put it right with another repetitive reprise of the Function song when really it could just work as a montage, no one needs to hear the damn song over and over and over again. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDjdi_GcM-qKF1coH9GkX5xOTqduLRI-nkjtC5KWEy8xRDjUa2JDMKY1Tevyb4pbEuTJTE27QT9B6I2LoWE4P8JYbmKTAHXE4jPxHqSG72-Lre-GwyxAiVWWZac-g5-je-gOH0KT51SlWgRQRd6QdvaU46uYJv4H11Cs8VY-M9ZFrXGMSNoFmjIh3PQc/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild336.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDjdi_GcM-qKF1coH9GkX5xOTqduLRI-nkjtC5KWEy8xRDjUa2JDMKY1Tevyb4pbEuTJTE27QT9B6I2LoWE4P8JYbmKTAHXE4jPxHqSG72-Lre-GwyxAiVWWZac-g5-je-gOH0KT51SlWgRQRd6QdvaU46uYJv4H11Cs8VY-M9ZFrXGMSNoFmjIh3PQc/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild336.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So Carly made her trainwash and it worked but the engines liked the stuff from Sandy's trainwash as well which led to the next song '<i>Put the Fun in Function</i>', I skiped it because I really don't want to go through another song that could easily work as a montage and it led to a combination of both fun and function, which was a pretty obvivous outcome. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjvJC7uayoJ9Jz2xuWqgcp2Kygps8jCs62Vs1PXrMuTTO5mPh4TK5tuHp2OSwy4PHqLMz_k3a8e4Gk_bQghyLPCswLy-XdPholcY31l7nj11IHdc4OzYys69Z50TF2f84ON0UfnRrQwQl-QMjm8X3F_GTLn4BBVxtlYhwdwlzbA7D0AHGtUfvgWessP0/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuild450.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjvJC7uayoJ9Jz2xuWqgcp2Kygps8jCs62Vs1PXrMuTTO5mPh4TK5tuHp2OSwy4PHqLMz_k3a8e4Gk_bQghyLPCswLy-XdPholcY31l7nj11IHdc4OzYys69Z50TF2f84ON0UfnRrQwQl-QMjm8X3F_GTLn4BBVxtlYhwdwlzbA7D0AHGtUfvgWessP0/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuild450.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Carly and Sandy were the first ones in and we were told our moral despite difference creative outcomes, you can also work together. Basically another working together moral.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>THE END.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>OVERALL</u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXGB4C6MHgz1Lhe7KclJI7AzKHP5vofrBlJCubbH8rSr2WR7v53nk5igc9oTV5Aeb_q9fjcr0V4jWbsBzAvuUNj_uPxyQYSjyoKEBKii8bnZKyzQEhBsMU9Q7wfRTsg7i1lDEI0CntioEVLkNgK71sK15IuC804zrW8VzUFXSHtfNeReeJFfa1Imirm8U/s1000/TheGreatBubblyBuildtitlecard.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXGB4C6MHgz1Lhe7KclJI7AzKHP5vofrBlJCubbH8rSr2WR7v53nk5igc9oTV5Aeb_q9fjcr0V4jWbsBzAvuUNj_uPxyQYSjyoKEBKii8bnZKyzQEhBsMU9Q7wfRTsg7i1lDEI0CntioEVLkNgK71sK15IuC804zrW8VzUFXSHtfNeReeJFfa1Imirm8U/w400-h225/TheGreatBubblyBuildtitlecard.webp" width="400" /></a></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div>This special was OK and I think it would be a much better approach if all future AEG specials should be in a half hour timeframe instead of 60mins like the last two specials. The story at least had some focus instead of just setting up one thing and then going forth a different direction later on like that Percy balloon episode. Plus it was nice that Carly finally had some character instead of just being this bland, nothing character that she was in the last two seasons. When it comes to her and Sandy having a creative difference it shows just how different Carly is to Sandy. The former sees usefulness in her creative ideas and of course she has an interest in bugs like how Nia has an interest in music. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span>The songs weren't needed in my opinion as I said earlier the scenes that the songs were in can work fine with just dialouge and we had episodes where the songs aren't needed in some, despite their own problems. I also think despite the conflict it would've been good if Carly and Sandy's creative difference caused some friction to the point they'd ended their friendship and started to make their own trainwashes as a challenge and see who has the best one. It would at least make the whole special more engaging. </span>Like there was some conflict but it just feels tame and a bit drab. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>And now we come to Mattel's marketing towards this movie because it was POOR! This was announced by Nelvana's parent company Corus Entertainment back in June 2023 as part of there announcement of their 2023/24 line up and between June and its YouTube premeiere in October 2023, there was radio silence. No hype, no trailer, no toy tie-ins or anything to know the general public that this is a new Thomas special! Looking at their Instagram it was promoting Thomas but with no regards about this special's existence and it was basically just corporate made Tik Tok style videos as memes or Day Out With Thomas events in the US and some dumb comedy videos using the Thomas toys. We didn't get any trailer until a week before its YouTube premiere and a hype post after that as well as a countdown through Instagram stories. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The viewing numbers are good and are roughly around the 1,000's but I think more could've been done with its promotion from Mattel. What toy could tie-in with this special, of course the trainwash. There had been Thomas toys such as the Engine Wash building from 1999-2006 for Wooden Railway, there had been one for Take Along and even for the Fisher Price range of the die-cast toys. You could at least add a wash and reveal toy that Mattel had been releasing with and add real water with starwberry scented soap as a feature like the special, depending if it works. It would give more exposure to the special amongst parents and children like what past Thomas toys had done. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;"><i>OVERALL RATING</i></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">5/10</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---</div><div style="text-align: center;">And with that that is all the All Engine Go! reviews for its second season and the specials that came along with it. See you next time! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">NWR1991.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-42723009901160458442024-01-27T08:00:00.040+11:002024-01-27T08:00:00.140+11:00All Engines Go! Review - The Mystery of Lookout Mountain Review<div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Like I did for my S1 review, I will be reviewing S2's special 'The Mystery of Lookout Mountain'. Sadly this special barely had much fanfare in comparison to the Sodor Cup movie. It had a UK release but only on milkshake and as a digital download but no DVD. It didn't get a cinema release until April 2023. Australia is the same, though we didn't get any cinema release. The United States however were to have a cinema release but was later cancelled for some reason and if they did it would've been the first time a Thomas movie had a screening their since King of the Railway in 2013. However it was released on DVD and on Netflix around April 2023. The distribution for the movie in those countries is such a mess. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>But anyway let's see if this movie is worth it or not. But first:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE MYSTERY OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKTJZGg7XzJHqf2spKcIRLcrBXQSq6V1zR-EiamcV1eheBRx0t5mwH3IuhSF6d8_ed28FWKULa-I7YWGm0rJRxn5YXOhqe8IxxvJM0WKECeHC7ryjxKUiCCTKuI18arZwueIa4iwqi1U-CvVFMvTwxop8OdJHNwqsFiBFZR7fePTFdXisYJaEWJiKQZK8/s1294/TheMysteryofLookoutMountainOfficialPoster.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKTJZGg7XzJHqf2spKcIRLcrBXQSq6V1zR-EiamcV1eheBRx0t5mwH3IuhSF6d8_ed28FWKULa-I7YWGm0rJRxn5YXOhqe8IxxvJM0WKECeHC7ryjxKUiCCTKuI18arZwueIa4iwqi1U-CvVFMvTwxop8OdJHNwqsFiBFZR7fePTFdXisYJaEWJiKQZK8/w309-h400/TheMysteryofLookoutMountainOfficialPoster.webp" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Written by</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Craig Carlisle </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Daniel Share-Storm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Directed by</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Campbell Bryer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Produced by</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Suzie Gallo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Release Date</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">8/10/22 - CAN (TV)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">11/12/22 - UK (TV)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">5/02/23 - AUS (TV)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">4/04/23 - USA (DVD)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b>Plot</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When cars go missing in the Mines, Thomas and Percy think they have the perfect adventure for the Biggest Adventure Club. But then they uncover that there was a similar problem at Lookout Mountain years ago. Thomas and his friends set out to solve the two-headed mystery. Their search takes them under waterfalls, into unknown tunnels, new Crystal Caverns and ultimately brings the kids face to face with a mythical Mine Monster!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><u>MY VIEWS</u></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6NznAmPa9vwvUo0Uy-Te-dZrSk14GNXXsaBwmiWeadXb_c0CuSsqioldqTBSGl1Ha5L6nvFDthQNaSNnYY06dzK5RCUfd8eQSZ4ni3hXOmP77QnnO6lgAEqktUoMA95FT2ReHx53Jse_EBLS4p8NkG1FUpvKoZelf8QM-AqguN8Qq9zXqQ_dMTDHRC4/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6NznAmPa9vwvUo0Uy-Te-dZrSk14GNXXsaBwmiWeadXb_c0CuSsqioldqTBSGl1Ha5L6nvFDthQNaSNnYY06dzK5RCUfd8eQSZ4ni3hXOmP77QnnO6lgAEqktUoMA95FT2ReHx53Jse_EBLS4p8NkG1FUpvKoZelf8QM-AqguN8Qq9zXqQ_dMTDHRC4/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain1.webp" width="400" /></a></div></b><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The special opens up with Thomas and Percy making their way into the old mines. However Percy was scared, as usual, because Diesel said funny things had been happening in the old mine lately. As Thomas collected his load of old rails for Whiff's recycling plant, Percy was looking for his load of dirt for McColl's farm and thought the 'mine monster' took them. But they were actually behind Thomas. After that the engines began to echo around the mine for fun but then the mine started to shake which made one of Percy's dirt trucks roll away. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-0dDHRkSRzGnQIbocaVGqI9xwaDCfqrBTrFljcNEhDqZGHBwnC5DBGQcRKD5Xhl1FDvSIeRqkFKZPoRJUT77I8gHdPIBQTHgAJYLZp2e7hMlvy7ZlFl_Lvr4xgTFAWF3qMWvLCxopJlXihvwMkbQtp64bn2Kyaeycljyed9IelkI70huP5RXdAiSQk4/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain43.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-0dDHRkSRzGnQIbocaVGqI9xwaDCfqrBTrFljcNEhDqZGHBwnC5DBGQcRKD5Xhl1FDvSIeRqkFKZPoRJUT77I8gHdPIBQTHgAJYLZp2e7hMlvy7ZlFl_Lvr4xgTFAWF3qMWvLCxopJlXihvwMkbQtp64bn2Kyaeycljyed9IelkI70huP5RXdAiSQk4/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain43.webp" width="400" /></a></div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>The whole event made Percy scared but Thomas decided to find the missing dirt truck so that Percy can finish his delivery. Then the shake came again and this time Thomas saw the second dirt truck rolling away. So Thomas and Percy made their way to get them while Percy was scared of the mine monster. Soon they came to three tunnels, Thomas chose the middle berth and Percy began to echo since it was better where they were. After Percy echoed a knock knock joke, they heard a mysterious voice responding. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXPVRZdvhXuonIlX2dvrNfyzhR1P_9UWzI60eNXmJKiYeeSoO91ziloclS7aLtDWN3yF1qRgZv-48mKqYoaJi5LNCje7CuRMBZr0o2nadWp4bJCx8uUSrBASq8So8joyVulIAEYRg3tykmeUOqjnR-ERTMDGO6CWDDEoU4YTUjBBnZmmBSanV-TD9Yjw/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain49.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXPVRZdvhXuonIlX2dvrNfyzhR1P_9UWzI60eNXmJKiYeeSoO91ziloclS7aLtDWN3yF1qRgZv-48mKqYoaJi5LNCje7CuRMBZr0o2nadWp4bJCx8uUSrBASq8So8joyVulIAEYRg3tykmeUOqjnR-ERTMDGO6CWDDEoU4YTUjBBnZmmBSanV-TD9Yjw/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain49.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Thomas called out a hello and the voice responded back instantly scaring them away from the three tunnels. Percy was more convinced that it was the mine monster but Thomas thinks that there might be a better explanation. But the rumble returned, a booming sound was heard and the dirt trucks came back. Now Percy was scared by the thought that maybe the mine monster likes the taste of engines better and so they raced out of the mine screaming. The whole opening sequence is better than the one in the Sodor cup movie. It's nice to see build up for a mystery and something for a special than just an extended episode. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJqSSTboV11W9Uy5x6nnJUqX4qAkvpK4YOV31vokgvDJfpSxDj9_gbnrN26vN1HFLbyumjX26_mWHDm-HiJ-hy0zIRX6QRwnqi2xhNVSne4zU3XceFNobBdGD4LkXAygcj_eu64Ie9eiCtI7eSgRF_JmlcNQolAsMq020xHDoEP2iKVlC8gQKz-7PLCI/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain86.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJqSSTboV11W9Uy5x6nnJUqX4qAkvpK4YOV31vokgvDJfpSxDj9_gbnrN26vN1HFLbyumjX26_mWHDm-HiJ-hy0zIRX6QRwnqi2xhNVSne4zU3XceFNobBdGD4LkXAygcj_eu64Ie9eiCtI7eSgRF_JmlcNQolAsMq020xHDoEP2iKVlC8gQKz-7PLCI/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain86.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">At Whiff's recycling plant, the other engines and Bruno were watching Whiff's machine turning old scrap into something new. While they were enjoying it, the loudness was too much for Bruno as it is common to people with autism who are sensitive to sound. So he'd placed his steam headphones on which makes him feel relaxed. Just then Thomas and Percy came screaming into the building. Diesel wondered what was with them and Bruno told Percy that he was suppose to deliver the dirt to McColl's farm which stressed him out that Percy was not on schedule. But Bruno took deep breaths and was focusing on what was happening right now. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOjiMfwHwjRYJuuWdZIEj6G744uDagLSNbXwjDH08jQvdUygzPm-1pm8sMFRbY0sU6B8nEjZGVAd7DHF8yDWkhakVw_o24HD9wr5zpjYZiW-GP57lwOKuRqRi0y3HbvGGyUxQmahpafFS8ceQKDxJAa9ZIM_Fv0hgjYsG7is-hGmaUyLaVkk6IP5BOv1E/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain94.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOjiMfwHwjRYJuuWdZIEj6G744uDagLSNbXwjDH08jQvdUygzPm-1pm8sMFRbY0sU6B8nEjZGVAd7DHF8yDWkhakVw_o24HD9wr5zpjYZiW-GP57lwOKuRqRi0y3HbvGGyUxQmahpafFS8ceQKDxJAa9ZIM_Fv0hgjYsG7is-hGmaUyLaVkk6IP5BOv1E/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain94.webp" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">He then saw Percy's wheels shaking, then Thomas and Percy's frowny faces and Percy's erractic steam clouds which indicates to him that they were scared of something. This is a way for Bruno to understand the emotion, which is common in some people on the spectrum. These are such nice little touches to showcase Bruno's autism and so well done to the writers.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2kJs5HQuFrW2EOH8glDJGWwe8G7X67nco3tZ0AbgccyHSeu6uLf54MWbcx-m2RD6pibhiBd-F5CPTJ9GwkRnTMpyo4-47hsGyuVx3bv_LFZucQDZ0Wiv_4HinvEeDRIebvYUZ6Qq0R5eYUp7Kf0_5oxy5DYvXcK50HU0k4PW9EAw2TdT7U7rKHi69ls/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain105.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2kJs5HQuFrW2EOH8glDJGWwe8G7X67nco3tZ0AbgccyHSeu6uLf54MWbcx-m2RD6pibhiBd-F5CPTJ9GwkRnTMpyo4-47hsGyuVx3bv_LFZucQDZ0Wiv_4HinvEeDRIebvYUZ6Qq0R5eYUp7Kf0_5oxy5DYvXcK50HU0k4PW9EAw2TdT7U7rKHi69ls/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain105.webp" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">So Thomas and Percy began to explain the whole event they'd witnessed down in the mine. Nia and Diesel even mentioned that some funny things happened to them at the old mine such as Nia not finding her empty trucks and Diesel's disappering rail ties and also believe that it was a mine monster. But Bruno told him that there was no such thing but according to schedule the previous week, the same situation happened to Kana and James as well. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiXDChTyaSDxyCc3suGYTtlEcL6OOw0rBVaNxtB0vgjshxeiNWzBvyG3bXlniMey8ucWDU4d7EujIkOMETJANDe2WnP67biruqZlHHzDsA1OewiC4DqhsOeiOG9MfzKgu8xXHBXZSjRV8_VnWFgJU5VI6i7Q4pyqku9bcl0k87W1GMTf5V5G5rMxvpJ7w/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain113.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiXDChTyaSDxyCc3suGYTtlEcL6OOw0rBVaNxtB0vgjshxeiNWzBvyG3bXlniMey8ucWDU4d7EujIkOMETJANDe2WnP67biruqZlHHzDsA1OewiC4DqhsOeiOG9MfzKgu8xXHBXZSjRV8_VnWFgJU5VI6i7Q4pyqku9bcl0k87W1GMTf5V5G5rMxvpJ7w/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain113.webp" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">But before Percy could tell them more, a rattle can be heard but Bruno told them that it was a danger sign getting caught in the machine. It was a danger sign with a picture of a mountain and giant cross giving it the indication. All the engines were worried began to talk at once, which was too much for Bruno and placed his steam headphones on. Carly calmed everyone down and then said they should find someone who knows the real story behind the sign they'd found. A loud banging can be heard in the background. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6LaAxeI3n2KAufe15W1mzIywTwBlyKBtg3BqkWFzpidCLhRPooQCpKq9MRIhTzt9BQI1MKmkjn-ekOO4UNvAH4usB7AqCf3OSE95fyPF0wrUVC1O4oRzbHeL2lF0_UyFprnS2pHwO1Hs1PZdpG82fIlfna4C-26DgiDQKyg_QNf3Y-ySoEL4IOGJ18k/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain132.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6LaAxeI3n2KAufe15W1mzIywTwBlyKBtg3BqkWFzpidCLhRPooQCpKq9MRIhTzt9BQI1MKmkjn-ekOO4UNvAH4usB7AqCf3OSE95fyPF0wrUVC1O4oRzbHeL2lF0_UyFprnS2pHwO1Hs1PZdpG82fIlfna4C-26DgiDQKyg_QNf3Y-ySoEL4IOGJ18k/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain132.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;">It was Whiff whose experiment went haywire. He saw the serious faces of the engines and wondered what's up. Thomas decided that Whiff might know about the old sign. He did and told them that there used to be a mine under Lookout Mountain. This surprised the engines and Bruno wondered what made it so dangerous. Whiff told them that years ago there were tunnels under lookout mountain and all kinds of minerals were found. But the trouble was was that the mines were weak and the beams didn't support them. Eventually a new mine was opened the old tunnels were closed and forgotten. But then mysterious things stared to happen. </span></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39JXbC_ZnFwNT1cSf1MrnnJh7_yLKd5DyHGUuYw2nyGVgqgzpy74xCdLXd7cPVUeHRq6-EuItyluB21MSFWOo7B_Z7HaA2rLPIaEliSI_Y8X4HZr2-ktYpiMlH6CwX_ZkLy_tFCHjDRuh-Hh39kz18Z6LZO-3NO6fPl093udbbk7qF8sl23cl7Tsyi54/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain157.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39JXbC_ZnFwNT1cSf1MrnnJh7_yLKd5DyHGUuYw2nyGVgqgzpy74xCdLXd7cPVUeHRq6-EuItyluB21MSFWOo7B_Z7HaA2rLPIaEliSI_Y8X4HZr2-ktYpiMlH6CwX_ZkLy_tFCHjDRuh-Hh39kz18Z6LZO-3NO6fPl093udbbk7qF8sl23cl7Tsyi54/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain157.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Percy wondered if it were noises and vanishing parts as Whiff confirmed it. The other engines were convinced that there was indeed a mine monster, except for Sandy and Bruno. So later on the biggest adventure club has a mystery to solve about missing deliveries. As they went down the line to find Kana, they began to worry that there might be two mine monsters, one at lookout mountain and the other at the old mine. Honestly I understand they were trying to build up the backstory and mystery but I think they'd focused way too much on dialouge here. While I was watching the movie I couldn't comprehend such mass of information and I think they could've at least add in flashbacks about the lookout mountain mine instead of just showing one scene through it all, it doesn't feel engaging enough. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6WncUw078LY6EYWgqZzZqC033Pk_U8rkjxp3z316PTaTMBaIH5iNtKI9_91g3eMZYDaSialARhXc5U3w5pgrGdyMwIWohwkfiKeggs1ZyhbQTxjlegVpAdzqSlFLUzHW7jqScoGfGH8c8BJztkZC5EEEWLA2DvvtgmLNIraboONaffNqm7vWIuvu5Sq8/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain186.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6WncUw078LY6EYWgqZzZqC033Pk_U8rkjxp3z316PTaTMBaIH5iNtKI9_91g3eMZYDaSialARhXc5U3w5pgrGdyMwIWohwkfiKeggs1ZyhbQTxjlegVpAdzqSlFLUzHW7jqScoGfGH8c8BJztkZC5EEEWLA2DvvtgmLNIraboONaffNqm7vWIuvu5Sq8/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain186.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>They looked at Bruno's map and saw that the old mine and mountain are very close together and maybe are connected through tunnels underground. And so Thomas decided they should split up and search for clues. Nia, Kana, Carly and Diesel were to go to the old mines. However Diesel was still scared, even though he denied it but gave in. So after that they were called the 'Cave Crawlers'. Thomas, Percy, Bruno and Sandy called themselves 'The Lookout Mountaineers'. Then Kana showed up and was told of the mystery by Nia. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYO5tc_tF5ypLsdXYHWdh5cVyr0SvJsy2P_giQe4vItAkv74bU2XXeA_o4n7JbXU-o3Bilc4TDpXS80OoenyrkXTum27sxtjA3KzTipH53OGUVF9ZJE5yOJC4ZZTshFXu1USeLvjtOWxnfj0CoaMZx7EUpHEpbmGKedX0adq_EZe75FIg5wKcLpbaxPZ8/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain231.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYO5tc_tF5ypLsdXYHWdh5cVyr0SvJsy2P_giQe4vItAkv74bU2XXeA_o4n7JbXU-o3Bilc4TDpXS80OoenyrkXTum27sxtjA3KzTipH53OGUVF9ZJE5yOJC4ZZTshFXu1USeLvjtOWxnfj0CoaMZx7EUpHEpbmGKedX0adq_EZe75FIg5wKcLpbaxPZ8/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain231.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>At the Maintenance Yard, all gear was in check and Percy's machine. However Bruno saw that everything was uneven. The crawlers had four members but the mountaineers had three, I don't know why they'd bothered with this. I mean it was very likely Bruno was coming with them anyway sure watching it from their perspective is the way to watch it but does he really think he was going to miss out on it? After that we got our first song, '</span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">Biggest Adventure Ahead</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">'. I know it was added in there to fill in time and TBH I prefer that since we already had a bunch of dialouge earlier from the monster to Diesel not being scared. But all the same the song was pretty bland. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCUU_4HjgnPbazguc7BZwrK_DvmGraiDx43Hw6Vkn1s0s770x42u1Hb0s_cAMXqlT3vnkEXm0DYkj5cf1U4jDxLYEgoCH9WDtWvbmVqsT9JlZBsnHff_Zpp-JFnHaMs_cNK6m0yA4IL7DbPkItQwHYEJ-3N4-nbXjRmDLFc7PKW4O4ohZG1EWqOBztFQ/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain282.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCUU_4HjgnPbazguc7BZwrK_DvmGraiDx43Hw6Vkn1s0s770x42u1Hb0s_cAMXqlT3vnkEXm0DYkj5cf1U4jDxLYEgoCH9WDtWvbmVqsT9JlZBsnHff_Zpp-JFnHaMs_cNK6m0yA4IL7DbPkItQwHYEJ-3N4-nbXjRmDLFc7PKW4O4ohZG1EWqOBztFQ/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain282.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>After the song, Thomas, Percy, Sandy and Bruno arrived at Lookout Mountain. Meanwhile Percy struggled with the Biggest Adventure machine up the hill and after when he got to the top, the mountain started to vibrate scaring him again and it resulted the machine to roll away. But how did the supposed monster get there? So the four friends began searching and Percy realised that the machine he brought was gone. Meanwhile Diesel, Nia, Kana and Carly arrived at the old mines. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlwWFbqF397nAk5urlTJrH6YI8NaPwOabZzqvKWzo9JqTHB0nLh_jS7mZlcl9Gdmf1c2QCHdQ1nH4gGfjvMKr16PFdJuaJGKyLhzOEKy56sieomijgMY9z9vPUqh-8P4jZU2xm-u66AJEiJQzSOUOGKpOX1_rLc2tR5reRvoosIJes6sg0nt7kF-SZLw/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain300.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlwWFbqF397nAk5urlTJrH6YI8NaPwOabZzqvKWzo9JqTHB0nLh_jS7mZlcl9Gdmf1c2QCHdQ1nH4gGfjvMKr16PFdJuaJGKyLhzOEKy56sieomijgMY9z9vPUqh-8P4jZU2xm-u66AJEiJQzSOUOGKpOX1_rLc2tR5reRvoosIJes6sg0nt7kF-SZLw/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain300.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>As they cross the mine, Diesel was still worried at the supposed monster. They arrived at the same location where Thomas and Percy were earlier in the movie. After Diesel and Carly were playing around with the echo, the mines started to vibrate again and with that Percy's dirt trucks rolled away again and then a yowling, which was new to us. This made Diesel scared but then he noticed the trucks were gone and so they went down the mine shaft to search for them, though Diesel was disagreeable but Carly took him down with her hook. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yp6k6KLFR8MeiBDHVfjMy2rfUVMilZwnJviMfzBMveAnhCpJWgszhpBn1hTlmQ5jzjLpznSQMlLlIm2DYTugO6Dy7C3PgnVjzahsUrAC71uWVhMZkHiMquY88pdWNpR96_DMeN7c02v_yh60kLBIpIFXlXE3HrIOeunDk4b8ScqnfQaY0256oJi7IXE/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain321.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yp6k6KLFR8MeiBDHVfjMy2rfUVMilZwnJviMfzBMveAnhCpJWgszhpBn1hTlmQ5jzjLpznSQMlLlIm2DYTugO6Dy7C3PgnVjzahsUrAC71uWVhMZkHiMquY88pdWNpR96_DMeN7c02v_yh60kLBIpIFXlXE3HrIOeunDk4b8ScqnfQaY0256oJi7IXE/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain321.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;">As they crossed the mine shaft they noticed some sand and other things, it is as if someone was digging. Then Diesel found, what he thinks was, the missing dirt trucks which were a huge pile of empties which scared them, though Carly believes that they were a bunch of broken carts and they went on their way again but then an empty cart came rolling towards Diesel and fell into the pile.</span></div></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXS9Qfyx0Zcn9ddClQYXgKxjJSdbhH4062TNucIIh3EduU9wOCgG7SfUu7RSbhMbJgCF3A-pVe5BQ8H44Xu08SABl7VI6hyphenhyphenjjFD_lpP0CyyNW8FW3DKdVg1vT008acpJ7RNTD737i31IhQmLzmST-PDMByyyrnP0QPlng-J0F81c5IOZxRt82-vE_8vJA/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain333.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXS9Qfyx0Zcn9ddClQYXgKxjJSdbhH4062TNucIIh3EduU9wOCgG7SfUu7RSbhMbJgCF3A-pVe5BQ8H44Xu08SABl7VI6hyphenhyphenjjFD_lpP0CyyNW8FW3DKdVg1vT008acpJ7RNTD737i31IhQmLzmST-PDMByyyrnP0QPlng-J0F81c5IOZxRt82-vE_8vJA/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain333.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Kana then noticed some weird marks on the wall of a tunnel which made Diesel to believe that they were claw marks. But Nia thinks it looks like someone was digging and then they heard a voice. It was Troublesome Truck, that is literally the name of the trucks in this show. Such an unimaginative name for a single truck. It works in the context of a group. The truck was in the pile of empty mine carts because he was jokingly uncoupled from James the previous day and was later rolled down to the same area as them due to the rumbling of the mine and crashed into the pile of carts. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmApGFG0L9YTmOnEm2VX9YPbRH3S2Al4TplPllp6dD7kfGyuH_MMEGoXEtRS5n9L_g3EFF27YgsZ2irYEYsjeOhqHkJN4UdZYhpmqMUhlSNKKMBt-jq7inXoffYvDl9gnoYGZP_Vu-7Tg12KG8V3b3Bhf87feZ0YY1RV9CDkgqE7eM73Spz5HkFRV9G0o/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain349.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmApGFG0L9YTmOnEm2VX9YPbRH3S2Al4TplPllp6dD7kfGyuH_MMEGoXEtRS5n9L_g3EFF27YgsZ2irYEYsjeOhqHkJN4UdZYhpmqMUhlSNKKMBt-jq7inXoffYvDl9gnoYGZP_Vu-7Tg12KG8V3b3Bhf87feZ0YY1RV9CDkgqE7eM73Spz5HkFRV9G0o/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain349.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Nia wondered what he said 'Good question' earlier and that was because the area used to be a dead end but now it keeps going. Despite that the truck has the power to move by himself I think not having him move from there makes sense storywise to help progress the mystery but considering that the main characters knew about the mine shaft since we are given the impression that they're not new to Sodor, perhaps you could've had them knowing that the part of the mine was a dead end once. So while it still works with the truck it can still work without it. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLN7-wuax4HY_jqKIsHEPoYwZXMlPTD14OJHVQgjUjgIyN3waXUuFNi5nuppiFQNU_ultxl4uY2-AIveohVEiqxOZZBQK7aOaVERl3mLUKM10_2a7FzN5Xm3SPdq3bZICiizv3Hl4Qu4Zdv-NceM1T6j3Z2Oi3whAIlBkQAwpP62Z-GiEKRX2vwhR9N4/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain358.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLN7-wuax4HY_jqKIsHEPoYwZXMlPTD14OJHVQgjUjgIyN3waXUuFNi5nuppiFQNU_ultxl4uY2-AIveohVEiqxOZZBQK7aOaVERl3mLUKM10_2a7FzN5Xm3SPdq3bZICiizv3Hl4Qu4Zdv-NceM1T6j3Z2Oi3whAIlBkQAwpP62Z-GiEKRX2vwhR9N4/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain358.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">Then they heard the howling again and with that the four engines made their way through the tunnel, with Diesel being scared and trying to get away from it but Carly, once again, coupled up to him with her hook and went on their. We return to Lookout Mountain and they were still looking for Percy's machine. Percy then explained what he was doing which sent Bruno to become overwhelmed and we see from his perspective of the situation.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LsS4S8vsHmAYXjlHl8K4k-l28N1ZZz2FmTAxBNW2Od2xsv0JIeah39u10HZuD0-IfIGH8rxDtzXQBNNGhsAB1TpwTUe7UxpFepMF4n_TiAvnMkko_c8GD81HHMcCFd6G7-bz19afJrCWK7hgU3QHxHWaO54_Pn4znXkP2aJmTmZ35MvOg_IkRJ9OMzg/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain371.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LsS4S8vsHmAYXjlHl8K4k-l28N1ZZz2FmTAxBNW2Od2xsv0JIeah39u10HZuD0-IfIGH8rxDtzXQBNNGhsAB1TpwTUe7UxpFepMF4n_TiAvnMkko_c8GD81HHMcCFd6G7-bz19afJrCWK7hgU3QHxHWaO54_Pn4znXkP2aJmTmZ35MvOg_IkRJ9OMzg/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain371.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Thomas saw that Bruno was not looking too good and took him to a quiet place while Bruno placed his steam headphones on to keep him calm. The place was the waterfall which made him feel much better. Then Bruno spotted some old railway tracks, I do hate it that they kept some of the American terminology in the UK dub, I know it's a small issue but just hearing it in a dub that had different terms just feels off. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJtg7uEX9hqQMo_qVFZEzfJTFslQsEnBJz6LnYkzXzlIIbgmufSpI-2P0WdX8_KcFpQJTpF9hCgf0GRNrUrIrTrpvVS4IE3fcS-gvBtyeF33gtYAULSNhoUkJDo-qDH-ZYnx64OjrzaqDQZzsxFSHWKNSo8u3P7C8FYya1iT1Y9CNJdHAZULZqo2i9a-w/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain391.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJtg7uEX9hqQMo_qVFZEzfJTFslQsEnBJz6LnYkzXzlIIbgmufSpI-2P0WdX8_KcFpQJTpF9hCgf0GRNrUrIrTrpvVS4IE3fcS-gvBtyeF33gtYAULSNhoUkJDo-qDH-ZYnx64OjrzaqDQZzsxFSHWKNSo8u3P7C8FYya1iT1Y9CNJdHAZULZqo2i9a-w/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain391.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Bruno then believes that the machine might've gone under the waterfall and so the three engines and brake van went underneath to find more tracks, some fossils and a slide. But some of the tracks are in a rough shape and Thomas saw a tunnel that could lead deep into the mountain and so they went forth after another rumble. Then we got our second song, '</span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">A Whole New Place</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">'. A bit of a meh song to me. After the song, both characters had reached a spot of trouble, the cave crawlers rolled down a steep bridge while the lookout mountineers reached a broken track and luckily stopped in time and backed up to some points. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23cZuabvqmAZs1SrAszD2mVMPmjF_TWsv8ysm0aPqjvHwekvEE5CAL1MYryDQ80vo6cqDb35kqcZu5Q_4KG3pLfNt-zp_yVvG8hjZw112MznAoIGDOi9HEyMVs4BGTvlT8edfTzi-kisJaCpRjH6gmYwxpytUYzLioRmDy2FIe5-k1SboElY8C5uJubA/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain454.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23cZuabvqmAZs1SrAszD2mVMPmjF_TWsv8ysm0aPqjvHwekvEE5CAL1MYryDQ80vo6cqDb35kqcZu5Q_4KG3pLfNt-zp_yVvG8hjZw112MznAoIGDOi9HEyMVs4BGTvlT8edfTzi-kisJaCpRjH6gmYwxpytUYzLioRmDy2FIe5-k1SboElY8C5uJubA/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain454.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Sandy switched the points and left one of her tools behind as a marker to help them find a way out. Then we get another rumble, I get it that it was a reminder of why they were there for us but I think the audience might've gotten the point by now since we have 27 minutes to go. After crossing over the points they came to a slop and raced down on it which segwayed back to Kana, Nia, Carly and Diesel to the crystal cave and so we have some pointless filler with a rock rolling back on forth on a see saw bridge to give us a lame pun, they were being rocked by a rock, get it? GET IT? Because this show LOVES to tell us the punchline of the joke, even though it was done visually.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIG0Hs7S8_wKWuNccRaIdm7jj9HgDorjjBt0eKwMdsaR874XfHtkPnGyCle4S6pC1OloogJ2J4c3Zcfwm6bGNgFkarW_L0dEOrMekBm7_pOIa2Nk40DvLNN5APm44O2SjCIoygv2kwpScHfN6GSJfrkCvXSPXywMQRcHl_ALHEpVPcj8RUdpuJtgYUdO0/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain481.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIG0Hs7S8_wKWuNccRaIdm7jj9HgDorjjBt0eKwMdsaR874XfHtkPnGyCle4S6pC1OloogJ2J4c3Zcfwm6bGNgFkarW_L0dEOrMekBm7_pOIa2Nk40DvLNN5APm44O2SjCIoygv2kwpScHfN6GSJfrkCvXSPXywMQRcHl_ALHEpVPcj8RUdpuJtgYUdO0/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain481.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Diesel saved them and then Percy's machine came towards them, how for the life of me it managed to get into the mine on its own despite having no life whatsoever is beyond me, and then Nia came to the conclusion that the mines and the mountains are connected. So Kana was to take the machine but then the see saw bridge turned and made them roll down again, following through more crystals and became runaways. Even though Nia said they couldn't brake because they would get burned they could at least use them to add for more dramatic event. Then we return to Thomas and the others who were still running down the slope from earlier. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimEOYMMJHHOyO0g5a09ONQ6qLXhoN4pWXmTYIqpJbROW7QLLORTinQa5-Tzg2A5QEJMciJ08FSuVMU5v5eEzZIZ0LUM_qSxTx8_K3fpQx_mRaYi1M3RPJ3ItB6p4w598XGKPJR1mE0reJAPmYXvrmWyTfSo11INWybknf5UqrdHOsqrOFhPQxO1v9c5DE/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain516.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimEOYMMJHHOyO0g5a09ONQ6qLXhoN4pWXmTYIqpJbROW7QLLORTinQa5-Tzg2A5QEJMciJ08FSuVMU5v5eEzZIZ0LUM_qSxTx8_K3fpQx_mRaYi1M3RPJ3ItB6p4w598XGKPJR1mE0reJAPmYXvrmWyTfSo11INWybknf5UqrdHOsqrOFhPQxO1v9c5DE/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain516.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span></div>After their runaway they came to a new part of the mines that had multiple tunnels and a turntable. They heard some screaming and they saw Percy's machine passing by. Meanwhile Diesel, Kana, Nia and Carly were still racing down with Carly catching something from above to slow them down which didn't work for all them and they're reunited again, except for Carly, but they said couldn't stop because they didn't have a brake van. THEY LITERALLY HAVE BRAKES THEMSELVES! Yes I know they said they would be burnt out but if they use a brake van then wouldn't that too have its brakes burnt out? So what difference would it make? That could've easily been erased to avoid contradiction </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4b8-B0mH_e25dmbLKVY6SXJJtlTCgitwA7Sg-lHnQEBiAnFBY11l04nfJou3JhwIUdic-s_OVtfuamZdcKgSreeJ52IeCqQfvpgbACfXBmrDSCA_mEf24_z4DbjlVovaUV0gS5YGOe70dp3LHGautbrqsXX_cpGIX35U3C13Ju7NL5FaDFPR02lDbYjU/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain554.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4b8-B0mH_e25dmbLKVY6SXJJtlTCgitwA7Sg-lHnQEBiAnFBY11l04nfJou3JhwIUdic-s_OVtfuamZdcKgSreeJ52IeCqQfvpgbACfXBmrDSCA_mEf24_z4DbjlVovaUV0gS5YGOe70dp3LHGautbrqsXX_cpGIX35U3C13Ju7NL5FaDFPR02lDbYjU/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain554.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Carly came out of the tunnel all well and good and when they all came to the realisation that both the line and lookout mountain are connected, Percy's machine can be heard and the engines all went their seperate ways leaving Bruno behind, some friends they are, and we are given a Scooby-Doo chase which is basically just filler until Bruno told them that they were just chasing echoes. Plus I do think the scene might be a bit over stimulating with the noises and dialouge all mixed in together. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyPqIrEVPt7L3bNH3Mfw6dDeHVM5JWh5s-XDPt2RJDz5qsNFiwI6wciAvI46urUqFNBrmWkD6pq4RFJJsy8-XZRBTibmAAYMUv1uf7F_gACT3iiyio41xIMzN70-TfvOd8PSvOTXRTE-kZFLBAlu9Q9TlN_VKorcQoEI4elnZRRvpwPjP0zYGOcnefBk/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain603.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyPqIrEVPt7L3bNH3Mfw6dDeHVM5JWh5s-XDPt2RJDz5qsNFiwI6wciAvI46urUqFNBrmWkD6pq4RFJJsy8-XZRBTibmAAYMUv1uf7F_gACT3iiyio41xIMzN70-TfvOd8PSvOTXRTE-kZFLBAlu9Q9TlN_VKorcQoEI4elnZRRvpwPjP0zYGOcnefBk/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain603.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Sandy bumping a rock, it caused more rocks to fall and bringing out the lights. Then Percy later came up with an idea to find his machine with its light and so they turned off their lights in order to spot it but Diesel doesn't think it was a good idea but proclaims once again not to be scared, I get it it's for comedy but it seems this special is bad at least giving Diesel some growth as a character!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiW1ldm2lyDEbRwgiLYzef6TVe2uH-hr90C7BVOUOVlVKPPKzRNUViC6sr5xS9njcQZfm3RteDmfZHILjh5yIpet6XmUgGe95dCeS1AadErnkhwGU02dWWPTbk5G6NSi-__IwSbtn_nw0vgU9uqAzV2QstEedgr_tQ1YWLwwuvuuBsgcO5x33VZYA3chI/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain605.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiW1ldm2lyDEbRwgiLYzef6TVe2uH-hr90C7BVOUOVlVKPPKzRNUViC6sr5xS9njcQZfm3RteDmfZHILjh5yIpet6XmUgGe95dCeS1AadErnkhwGU02dWWPTbk5G6NSi-__IwSbtn_nw0vgU9uqAzV2QstEedgr_tQ1YWLwwuvuuBsgcO5x33VZYA3chI/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain605.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>After waiting they saw that the light was coming from the tunnel behind Thomas and Percy and they went on their way and found it in a new tunnel that had just been digged. Then they heard a drilling sound, then a bang and then some more dirt trucks rolling into a pile. Then cracks can be seen and are revealed, to us, Darcy! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPS-TaKS1bbCHX7aVkPLnbThSVb5qkYA4XpxrOwQMCh3duU9-6awaoUt5l6sAklEtk6-ACxzvH6h22Sp-LkVUYmKHVvZjYgGaT5voRs2BUKjTKGv6KAS2Tig1yJyCPe-VoM_tUhUZ57RFr3xouVvPoPFDMq7Tw1tq_FVCF69qs7I7my8RNC14AaEEn1Mg/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain643.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPS-TaKS1bbCHX7aVkPLnbThSVb5qkYA4XpxrOwQMCh3duU9-6awaoUt5l6sAklEtk6-ACxzvH6h22Sp-LkVUYmKHVvZjYgGaT5voRs2BUKjTKGv6KAS2Tig1yJyCPe-VoM_tUhUZ57RFr3xouVvPoPFDMq7Tw1tq_FVCF69qs7I7my8RNC14AaEEn1Mg/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain643.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Yes it was Darcy the whole time, I will say it was at least clever to keep her a secret though I remember before this special came out, Amazon listed a toy pack that had her in it to promote the special, and that was its ONLY promotional tie-in. However the engines all thought it was the mine monster and ran away and the chase was on but Darcy just wants make friends since it was hard for her. Thomas wanted them to stick together but he spun the turntable too hard which resulted in the other engines being turned to other mine tunnels.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHv1cQYNyw8V4dgx09AuC7QaBttAccLieIlwMWrCaBw13ZyyB8Ulvyvexy-MsaDl1RF48eCafQHpCH-U6rI1ZLINBmie_tz3sgtSqPu1Jk9jxCBlQcxzWmUMk_3FVXhJ72lUnfzloR6MPVsZR2rfTuYBsS4ISJI59kZInzomHk9Son9T02cJiStTJWeC4/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain685.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHv1cQYNyw8V4dgx09AuC7QaBttAccLieIlwMWrCaBw13ZyyB8Ulvyvexy-MsaDl1RF48eCafQHpCH-U6rI1ZLINBmie_tz3sgtSqPu1Jk9jxCBlQcxzWmUMk_3FVXhJ72lUnfzloR6MPVsZR2rfTuYBsS4ISJI59kZInzomHk9Son9T02cJiStTJWeC4/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain685.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Basically it was just more filler to add in time as it was nothing more but the engines running away, screaming being scared etc. this wouldn't have gone on for too long since we were at least having a moment where Nia was making a realisation that Darcy was not a mine monster. But Darcy thought that there really was a mine monster and ran away giving us more filler. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7vHyZBQ6kSZ80OdgkxIQRp8Uw1gMEYvpetwWg9csVFc2HxchxWH2NrCdgUsNyNMPvZN0C23qKMKSo1k9Ch947xZlfbmLadiIfzSPlY-IxNSrw7vI1eHKXl8JlygyO9koLDWIvE8-XFfZ0DFqHi2HSy2HxJl_PSt9acnQ9Xm3gKV9k4ZzOHcPyZOaqmAg/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain701.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7vHyZBQ6kSZ80OdgkxIQRp8Uw1gMEYvpetwWg9csVFc2HxchxWH2NrCdgUsNyNMPvZN0C23qKMKSo1k9Ch947xZlfbmLadiIfzSPlY-IxNSrw7vI1eHKXl8JlygyO9koLDWIvE8-XFfZ0DFqHi2HSy2HxJl_PSt9acnQ9Xm3gKV9k4ZzOHcPyZOaqmAg/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain701.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Although Nia tried to explain we are given more filler with Thomas and Bruno explaining to us that it was a good idea of Sandy living markers behind, why do they need to tell us when we would know for ourselves after digesting the idea! They ran and ran and ran up the mountain and we are now outside lookout mountain but Darcy was up there before them and everyone realised that they made a mistake and Bruno explained that she was a mine drill and for some reason Thomas had heard of her before because she's famous herself, do they have to add that in? I know she was a mystery but perhaps they could at least given a hint about her being lost or something, at least her fame would make some sense.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRXU-rUAGrJi2gdCnAsn_SCma8IO74QhJsS3KmxCCH74yQ1Rz64PZloJJCAKzEcl7a9Nu9qYTs00BPnwelJ-m8IRWRcBBCL2BPzCyHN9irmUBQD4CzUACWPz9AzVh1Vky-4aBtkZOmrFb3ZVddq0Wotk-WR6S9ac-K1kc4KH_R7ML8278vhxvuz9QX2oI/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain747.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRXU-rUAGrJi2gdCnAsn_SCma8IO74QhJsS3KmxCCH74yQ1Rz64PZloJJCAKzEcl7a9Nu9qYTs00BPnwelJ-m8IRWRcBBCL2BPzCyHN9irmUBQD4CzUACWPz9AzVh1Vky-4aBtkZOmrFb3ZVddq0Wotk-WR6S9ac-K1kc4KH_R7ML8278vhxvuz9QX2oI/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain747.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>After many introductions to her we are then revealed that she was the one who had heard Thomas and Percy earlier in the movie and she finally get to hear the knock-knock joke and loe and behold it's another bad joke from Percy that we have to think was funny. Darcy explained everything that had happened and then we are given our final song, HOORAY!!, called '</span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Job to Do</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">' basically a love song about loving a job but short and meh to fill in time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVedOoLh11NKfebGSIbjwI5KsXv9D8gqfo2KaQKme6G2afGPelZG4YKjp4MEJS2U17-ZvQYPMVVBhGBCV3SXk5OLnZkR-rtsLUqFmGMLcmY5TUsOkiYrYdTBCWWuKLZCyU8BS4QGJP11DtPWRw6zUXFQ_aF2zZ4PW8nD-Xk5us-HvJt5wxYnG8xb1KBnw/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain838.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVedOoLh11NKfebGSIbjwI5KsXv9D8gqfo2KaQKme6G2afGPelZG4YKjp4MEJS2U17-ZvQYPMVVBhGBCV3SXk5OLnZkR-rtsLUqFmGMLcmY5TUsOkiYrYdTBCWWuKLZCyU8BS4QGJP11DtPWRw6zUXFQ_aF2zZ4PW8nD-Xk5us-HvJt5wxYnG8xb1KBnw/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain838.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">So with Thomas and his friends making their way to find something to support the tunnel beams, because Darcy said the tunnels she'd been digging couldn't hold, they made their way with Percy finally taking the dirt to Farmer McColl and the Fat Controller and Emily being reunited with Darcy and Thomas and Bruno told them the whole and with Bruno say he remembered it well, I say I don't because most times when thinking back to an AEG script they are instantly forgettable most of the time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpOkMxyxcxTWXYGXPvvkU4c8fuIE5T20V2sZ-_mZFLQDGIO95w1nILo4PKV022Mmi0ys1cGSw6Trgiex06XSMun7esAMMjGJW9X-gb6n2GR8d3p5jZX-Rc10vaQ0vTHdVFyIQensZNoZMGG1AYX0FlzFXsQCHSUcCDxvJS2r41_ZOobZcqFM0COKVztc/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain848.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpOkMxyxcxTWXYGXPvvkU4c8fuIE5T20V2sZ-_mZFLQDGIO95w1nILo4PKV022Mmi0ys1cGSw6Trgiex06XSMun7esAMMjGJW9X-gb6n2GR8d3p5jZX-Rc10vaQ0vTHdVFyIQensZNoZMGG1AYX0FlzFXsQCHSUcCDxvJS2r41_ZOobZcqFM0COKVztc/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain848.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">After being introduced to Whiff, the thing that would help support the tunnels were steel beams in his workshop, which Whiff had plenty in stock. And so they deliver them to the mines, with the Troublesome Truck who was stuck earlier.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwJFBGtVCHqtxF-AQBVI2Rgx9a_wzJ_LyIKn05Bh6Z5qffa8AlAkGU4XgMAM6L95oaDDunaooZDx8Z6K43K2okT5KOLzD05xer2otzxJVfKR2OeeURs1f-yE64gNoyc6F-OIUcwTAiJnteg1VZ5indgdPTzOG0J9Fl6RVrXI1SSBYrBJNbVAhaRHkO_OU/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain874.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwJFBGtVCHqtxF-AQBVI2Rgx9a_wzJ_LyIKn05Bh6Z5qffa8AlAkGU4XgMAM6L95oaDDunaooZDx8Z6K43K2okT5KOLzD05xer2otzxJVfKR2OeeURs1f-yE64gNoyc6F-OIUcwTAiJnteg1VZ5indgdPTzOG0J9Fl6RVrXI1SSBYrBJNbVAhaRHkO_OU/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountain874.webp" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;">And in the end, in honour of the adventure, a flag was presented on lookout mountain. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>THE END!</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>OVERALL</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwZg3UZ6-Igu1CQIfPrXVOncqrlSvwVrYr84hdJ1siL_ERXlhFxUQMdFvBOUjsySe6faQry73wdbjtpvlbyr6rnfSafjbQvyITRoMLR2t3mqxXjmZ438aj3aVuQRGyhWAMjbALj9fSrG4IM1ZEzuXlCgq1D7lGkLxzzmJ74TPPMDxSgd8yo0zdAN74z-E/s1000/TheMysteryofLookoutMountianPosterWithoutLogo.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwZg3UZ6-Igu1CQIfPrXVOncqrlSvwVrYr84hdJ1siL_ERXlhFxUQMdFvBOUjsySe6faQry73wdbjtpvlbyr6rnfSafjbQvyITRoMLR2t3mqxXjmZ438aj3aVuQRGyhWAMjbALj9fSrG4IM1ZEzuXlCgq1D7lGkLxzzmJ74TPPMDxSgd8yo0zdAN74z-E/w400-h225/TheMysteryofLookoutMountianPosterWithoutLogo.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This special was better than the Sodor cup movie, MILES BETTER! This movie at least has an interesting story with some build up over a mystery while the Sodor cup movie feels like an extended episode. But I also feel that the mountain special could've at least have a subplot to take a break from the main story and see how the other characters were getting on, maybe something relevant to the main story that would connect. Yes the character splitting up may look like that but it was still part of one big plot. Perhaps you could at least have Darcy digging around the mines trying to find her way out while hearing all the noise from the main characters or maybe have some of the other engines worrying about the main character's disappearance and of course have to make as much deliveries as possible, may not be relevant to the main story but it would be nice to have a breather once in a while and not having to suffer burnout. Having the special focused on one plot was just ALOT to take in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You might say having Darcy being revealed would ruin the mystery for us but you should be watching the movie in the perspective of the characters. Sure we would know its Darcy but do the main characters know, no! It would've been nice to see that and seeing her being developed as a character, because that's what this movie lacked. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Speaking of Darcy, I think it would've been better if the story was more about her disappearence being a myth or legend, say that she got lost in the mines and that her ghost still lingers on. It won't change much of the story but at least it could give Darcy's 'fame' some more sense instead of just being mentioned out of nowhere in the end. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As I had mentioned earlier, the movies has the lack of character development, particulary between the likes of Percy and Diesel being scared. I get it they were done more as a running gag but the whole had overstayed its welcome like we get that they are scared but thumping it down is not going to make see that it's a funny gag but more as an annoying one. It just would've been nice to see Diesel and Percy actually having some growth for once in this show, Percy had some growth in that so-called Goodbye episode towards his machine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some parts of the movie had some filler like the main characters running down or up a hill fast and screaming was just grating to sit through and really annoying. I get the situation but they should at least tone it down. Perhaps instead of screaming all the way to the top we could at least have them see Darcy in the tunnels and realised that she wasn't a monster. But now they were lost and she knew the pathway by the back of her drill and leads them out. It would be much better than the constant screaming. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From watching this special I think they should stick with the half-hour format like they did with '<i>The Great Bubbly Build</i>', that'll be coming tomorrow, at least those are shorter and can at least hold one plot whereas a 60min special needs so many things to fill in, which this special had filler with chase scenes, gags etc. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But despite these setbacks, I still think it was fine but it could've been better.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>OVERALL RATING</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">5/10 </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-2532381251865199752024-01-26T08:00:00.192+11:002024-01-26T08:00:00.140+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.52 - The Sights of Sodor + Overall<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE SIGHTS OF SODOR</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJbG7l0C7uGJESD7IdfRUg_5gOvm7AGUFf7p47DKGRSM7CqEwaewSMxAI3_DLhVxti9sxAOd_Df6KF3EKJdr3xaoS7S81E4pnpYJVEBeU1d2J4V3WBNCRs01KcqIKe6Fu59DCAI7WnrUCEv70dps744hmpPe8F-5eDmup2B8XASmSEqdYO3AyFmnPo8zw/s1000/Season2Episode52promo1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJbG7l0C7uGJESD7IdfRUg_5gOvm7AGUFf7p47DKGRSM7CqEwaewSMxAI3_DLhVxti9sxAOd_Df6KF3EKJdr3xaoS7S81E4pnpYJVEBeU1d2J4V3WBNCRs01KcqIKe6Fu59DCAI7WnrUCEv70dps744hmpPe8F-5eDmup2B8XASmSEqdYO3AyFmnPo8zw/w400-h225/Season2Episode52promo1.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><i>Craig Carlisle</i></div><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="font-style: normal;"></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>19/08/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>27/11/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>28/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sir Topham Hatt has placed a plaque on the top of Lookout Mountain, so that tourists can take in all of Sodor in just one "sight." But when the efficient tour falls flat, Thomas takes visitors to really SEE Sodor.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So basically the solution to the problem is to do the thing that was already established before in previous episodes, taking the passengers on Annie and Clarabel and show them the sites of Sodor. If this was a prequel that would make sense but it isn't since the flag from the Lookout Mountain special was in the episode. It's just another contradiction for the show. Why not make the episode that the Fat Controller had decide to scrap the original tour and go with the plaque instead on lookout mountain to save time but then people got bored and it gives the message that if it's not broken then don't fix it, which is something ironic for Mattel if they went with that since the original series wasn't in need of being canned in favor of this. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However that would at least make more sense and you could trim down the repetition of Thomas and Kana going up and down the mountain with passengers and maybe replace it with Thomas and Kana taking passengers to the actual sites and the Fat Controller was wondering why they were doing that and explained it all.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A pretty weak episode to conclude the second season.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><i>SERIES OVERALL</i></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While Season 2 was a slight improvement over the first season, honestly I have to say that overall it was an underwhelming dissapointment. While I have four episodes that I'd ranked high in comparison as well as them being personal favorites, the majority of the episodes from this season still suffer from problems during the 1st season such as bad puns, jokes and terrible story structures. I also hate how one note the characters are such as Nia always making a plan and then her original plan didn't go so well and have to make a new one or Thomas and Diesel being competitive and they end up with mishap or how Percy is the one character who comes up with the most uncreative, unfunny puns, seriously every episode or so has him making up a stupid pun! THEY ARE NOT FUNNY!! And with saying 'Get it? Because X means Y', explaining what it suppose to mean just shows it was never funny and instead of having the engines knowing that it's not funny you have them laughing at it in order to tell kids that it's funny. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Plus keeping the characters the same, if you keep up with that over and over again I believe kids will be bored by the sameness of it all and that may result in low viewership and lack of interest in buying the toys. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I said it before but most modern kids show, at least to my knowledge, always rely on phrases, puns and catchphrases so likely kids would hear it from there toys and since Mattel are a toy company, I hate how they are marketing Thomas, I'll get to that soon. I'll always go back to Bluey as a kids show that doesn't rely on trends or stupid puns or catchphrases. To me it stands out more with stories based around on the element of play. There are episodes that also doesn't state the moral out loud, which sometimes this show fails to grasp at, it allows the audience to digest it, <i>'The Decider'</i>, one of my personal favorite episodes since I'm a fan of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Origin_series" target="_blank">State of Origin</a> and the NRL, showcases that it's a child's right to choose for themselves and that no matter what your parents will still love you. The moral wasn't forced down through song or through dailouge and yes as NSW supporter it's a little bit disheartening to see them being beaten by Queensland since the show was made by Queenslanders, I'm kidding here. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Bluey at least treats its audience with respect to their level of intellect whereas AEG feels like that their audience doesn't have any and needs to state the moral full on. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">However there was one positive when it comes to the characters and that was Bruno. I like that they'd added in a character who is autistic and didn't showcase him as a stereotype but I think elevate that perhaps the show, depends on how long it may run, should introduce Theo and showcase that even though they have that diagnoses they experience it differently. Perhaps make him an adult character because there really hasn't been much about adults who are on the spectrum, especially in kids shows, to my knowledge. Sadly though there are some people who literally think that Bruno is a stereotype on people with autism and most of those comments come from people who had never even seen AEG because it's time wasting, despite wasting time making a big problem out of something they don't understand and I think most of those people don't know what a stereotype is suppose to be. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">One example I can give is Izzy Gomez from TUGS, a South American tramp steamer that is depicted with a sombrero, typical mexican moustache and a stereotypical accent with him being depicted as sleepy, lazy, a cheapskate and very willing to break maritime law. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">While Izzy had showcased one bit of good, due to TUGS' incredibly short run, which was him clearing Sunshine's name in the first episode of the show, most of the time, which is basically '<i>Warrior</i>' and '<i>Ghosts</i>', we see him at his worst and he always gets his comuppance for it in the end. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Izzy Gomez is a textbook example of what a stereotype is whereas Bruno is not. He was made by the production team of the show along with organisations that is NOT '<i>Autism Speaks</i>' who have been consulted on how Bruno should be shown as a character who is on the spectrum. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Back to AEG. The worst character of the show is Tess. A one note grumpy crane who is basically a female version of Cranky like he was in S1A of the show. But what I hate about her is that the show does barely gives her responsibility. That one episode when she was covered in sand was all caused by her because she was rushing Nia and Nia was the one feeling bad about it. I thought with this show shoving down positive messages about friendship and such they might want to teach kids about the responsibilty of owning up and making a promise to be better. The original series showcased that moral, even though they're self contained episodes but they at least show some growth for the characters. Tess is a terrible character.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've been hearing praise from some people about S2 of AEG and I kept an open mind, though I will admit when writing these blog posts and seeing what the episode was about beforehand I did have some doubts but sometimes it would end up being better than expected so I was glad to have been proven wrong on some occassions but most of the time it felt very underwhelming. I will say it's better than S1 by a slight margin but it still carries the baggage that S1 had. I like that they at least respect some of the lore of the Railway Series and that there had been some spirit of the original series lingering around in one or two episodes but that doesn't justify anything for this season. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I also have the feeling that the show is not doing too well, though I can't back it up with sources but from memory I barely recall the show being a top 10 hit on Netflix in the US like most other popular shows either they had licenesed or created themselves, before they decide to cancel them. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know what S3 will bring but I'm not going to have high expectations of it. </span></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><b><i>This next part about Mattel's marketing and the future might be a bit of a ramble. But I want to at least talk about it: </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">With Mattel being a toy company they would obviously market the Thomas toys to make people to buy them for their kids but are they really? When I go to stores here in Australia I tend to see little to barely any at all, Kmart is pretty much the latter and they are terrible with their toy section, most of the time I would find boxes ripped opened and the toy been taken out. The best place for AEG Thomas merch is the NSW Rail Museum at Thirlmere but that could be a long trip for some just for Thomas toys depending on their location, though they could make the trip when they have Thomas days or even normal steam train running days during March - November, and their website isn't really up to date with the latest Thomas stock. But that is the best place to get them if you have a child who enjoys the latest iteration.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's the same during my visits to the United States. Sometimes when I go to Target or Wal-Mart I barely see that much Thomas merch and usually I expect to find the latest because America being one of Thomas' big markets and Mattel being an American company you think they would have all the latest merch, right? Nope! It's just like what Railway Productions LLC's lawsuit said that Mattel had failed to live up on their promise for more inventory, that might be one of the sheer reasons the brand is on the decline again in terms of toy sales, as of writing this post <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231025241289/en/Mattel-Reports-Third-Quarter-2023-Financial-Results" target="_blank">Mattel's Q3 earnings showcase</a> that sales are decling for Thomas and we've seen something like during the BWBA era. Though I have a feeling that with the rise of inflation, which makes material expensive and with that the product's prices go up, and the cost of living crisis that the world is going through would play a part in this too. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But I think the lack of good marketing, the ongoing broken promise of more inventory, the cost of living crisis and the lack of exposure to the show might've resulted in it, I'm no marketing guy to be honest but I tend to try and make some obersvations best I could. Heck when I was visiting The Virgina and Truckee Railroad near Carson City, NV back in June 2023, there was Thomas merch but not really the latest items. Either the railway had lost its license, since they had run Thomas days there prior to COVID or Mattel are failing to live up on their promise of inventory. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since toy sales pretty much help the show's existence you think maybe they would give it a mention on every social media posts so they can inform people where to watch it? L</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">ooking at their instagram page they do mention AEG but only as a post and that's it, even Bluey does the same but when it comes certain things in the show, looking at their Facebook page, sometimes they provide a link to the episode that would lead you to its official website and you can click on the link on where to watch it. For me in Australia they showcase ABC's iview player or the ABC Kids website which would take you to their minisite but it would at least let you lead to a schedule if you want to see it on TV. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">In comparison Mattel doesn't even bother to tell people where to watch AEG, nor provide a link because the official Thomas website is just Mattel's shop, seriously why? You think how in this day and age with social media networks like Facebook and Instagram being nothing but a big algorithm mess, you might want to say it a few times so people on those social media networks know where to see it. I would say twitter, I know it's called 'X' but since it was a stupid name change made by a guy who is a teenager in a 52 year old body, I decided to call it by its former name. But their twitter account, since I was writing this in October 2023, hadn't been updated since September 2022! That was when they were introducing Bruno for the first time! It feels like they want this to fail! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">They had promoted '<i>The Great Bubbly Build</i>' as a YouTube premiere a week before its release, but there was barely any exposure to the special. It was mentioned by Nelvana's parent company, Corus Entertainment, content line up back in June 2023, then remote silence from them or Mattel and then four months later, they were promoting it a week or so before its YouTube premiere. You think maybe there would be some build up like maybe by a month to at least get everyone noticed and ready. Heck barely any toys to promote it. What filled that remote silence was nothing to do with the special or the show just random memes focusing just the toys with no mention anywhere on where to watch their show! </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Not to mention Mattel barely promote DVDs and other merch, outside of toys, for the show to at least give it more exposure. Sure they are a toy brand but they are also an entertainment company and with many DVDs of the show being released in the United States, hardly any of them got any exposure. There are none on Instagram and I would check out Facebook but it would only take me to the very likely dead Australian/New Zealand official page, the last time that was updated was back in 2021! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">In comparison to Mattel's other brand, Barbie, its Facebook page is promoting the movie's Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release. Why buy a franchise when you're not giving it any love or attention like Barbie and Hot Wheels? Sure those two brands are well known but so is Thomas! You would find many people who had enjoyed the show as a kid, not the ones who think the original was dark, scary and have undertones of a dictatorship because they don't know they are suppose to be locomotives!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I remember when SiF said that there was a new marketing team back in the early 2020's, I was happy and hoping that Thomas would at least get better exposure from them. But looking at the state of this exposure, while they are doing it to suit the needs of a modern general audience, I hate how they are marketing Thomas more as a toy brand and less as a show. This makes me worried for the upcoming 80th anniversary next year. It would be another milestone year as Thomas would 20 years away to a century old and Mattel's marketing would be nothing more but bad memes and tik toks with hardly doing much service for the toys or the show. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speaking of 2025, I hope for the 80th though that Mattel should celebrate both the past and future of Thomas. If they're trying to push the nostalgia side, as seen on some instagram posts, perhaps they should try and see how Thomas would do in the adult nostalgia market. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps release DVDs of the model era, heck one Mattel rep in the UK said that the models are still popular with kids of today so try and take the advantage. The best distributor for that in the US at least should be Shout! Factory that sell DVDs of classic kids shows as well as some current ones like Shaun the Sheep. I know they are on Prime but who knows one day they may be deleted from their service and Mattel constantly blocks classic Thomas content from YouTube, and they have legal right to do that, so if they see it as something profitable why not take that advantage? The United States hadn't had a series collection of Thomas episodes since '<i>The Early Years</i>' in 2004. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can also release the CGI episodes too, yes including the Miller/Barlow era. I'm not a big fan of S13-16 but they don't deserve to be shunned away and also for the completionists. In the UK you can distribute them through HIT/Mattel Creations. For the toys you can at least make toys based on the Railway Series, perhaps a Thomas wooden railway engine with a Railway Series style face. I saw a <a href="https://x.com/corey_is_gay/status/1717059584169267704?s=20" target="_blank">really good edit</a> of one once on twitter. If Mattel are reading this they should do this since there are more <a href="https://x.com/thomasmerchnews/status/1716609686655652259?s=20" target="_blank">Wooden Railway variants</a>. Perhaps make a wooden railway toy of Awdry's Thomas model that he made for Christopher like the replica they did back in 2015 for the 70th.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">I know this might be a bit of a ramble but I need to say something about it if anyone from Mattel bothers to read something from this little blog page.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">I will be reviewing '</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">The Mystery of Lookout Mountain</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">' and '</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">The Great Bubbly Build</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">' that premiered on YouTube last year. I will review S3 when it finishes its run but I have very high doubts that it would be any better. Season 2 was a slight imporvement but it needs a lot more work to iron out but I doubt Mattel would do any of that. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Cranky Goodbye - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sameroo - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas For A Day - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Super Axle - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Waiting Game - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All Wheels on Track - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Something Broken, Something Blue - 7/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Sights of Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating:</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">219/530</span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></span></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-43562845882235668392024-01-25T08:00:00.031+11:002024-01-25T08:00:00.139+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.51 - Something Broken, Something Blue<div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SOMETHING BROKEN, SOMETHING BLUE</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghaTUgNcchtRrli8kgeLh2Q_pQvKAmog1u-vRTGJchYjaWtP62cdSW1vHXhOkM9_QZbND7bqRKaEf0YlzLamhu-wASFemnjPD03C2ZkdbCHmOmlzkVPRJRcP1NRBbe_swB-jsrlTTfjk1pFK2wRNP3JyZxe9clGY8yMofcAa0vUPZ_Xofx-vmdtoE75iU/s1000/SomethingBrokenSomeoneBlue157.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghaTUgNcchtRrli8kgeLh2Q_pQvKAmog1u-vRTGJchYjaWtP62cdSW1vHXhOkM9_QZbND7bqRKaEf0YlzLamhu-wASFemnjPD03C2ZkdbCHmOmlzkVPRJRcP1NRBbe_swB-jsrlTTfjk1pFK2wRNP3JyZxe9clGY8yMofcAa0vUPZ_Xofx-vmdtoE75iU/w400-h225/SomethingBrokenSomeoneBlue157.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><i>Craig Carlisle</i></div><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="font-style: normal;"></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>19/08/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>20/11/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>25/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas has been playing hard with Boxy, certain that his beloved friend/co-worker/toy will last forever. But when Thomas' careless behavior leads to Boxy's being broken beyond repair, Thomas must confront his own behaviour.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Funny that in my review '<i>Good as New</i>' I said I wanted an episode where Thomas comes to terms with Boxy's death and here is an actual episode. This was a nice episode and I like that Thomas was mourning the loss of his box car and it showed kids that it's OK to do that and to accept the fate that'd happened and keep on moving, even though he's not actually alive. It was also good to show that when something is old and in disrepair it can still be useful as something else as well. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm also glad that there was no song, the episode didn't need one. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Cranky Goodbye - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sameroo - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas For A Day - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Super Axle - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Waiting Game - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All Wheels on Track - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Something Broken, Something Blue - 7/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">216/520</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></span></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-37452657509544184882024-01-24T07:00:00.002+11:002024-01-24T07:00:00.130+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.50 - All Wheels On Track<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ALL WHEELS ON TRACK</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcA-u__bQmORlxdwLuc_2CdzDG2FTljVyOBC9jIjQAjvUAn4aa2eoHMBDh06CXsqENJNlZSgTh2jE54s3JrQpGB8uAMpBjfPNUMWvm9-tktF_kHCjJjDdFPogyxAcafBqGEMLseEnFZgxcAXJ8pnwdYLHzlq96gFJrvjV5FBQV3887bu5roy77q9vCRk/s1000/AllWheelsonTrack154.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcA-u__bQmORlxdwLuc_2CdzDG2FTljVyOBC9jIjQAjvUAn4aa2eoHMBDh06CXsqENJNlZSgTh2jE54s3JrQpGB8uAMpBjfPNUMWvm9-tktF_kHCjJjDdFPogyxAcafBqGEMLseEnFZgxcAXJ8pnwdYLHzlq96gFJrvjV5FBQV3887bu5roy77q9vCRk/w400-h225/AllWheelsonTrack154.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Diana Wright</i></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>12/08/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>13/11/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>24/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When water lines break all over Sodor, the engines chug into action to deliver repair parts. But engines are not what this problem needs, it needs off-track thinking and the help of Skiff and Terence.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'<i>I can't swim or roll through fields</i>', a literal quote from Thomas showcasing the inconsistent writing of this show. If this were from the original series it would make more sense but the quote is just basically contradicting what this show had done before which is the engines having the power to jump off the tracks and rolling around fields without any trouble, though only when it's conveninet to the story I reckon but that is just basic contradiction, heck Sandy literally jumped off the rails and onto the ground right after that scene!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But beside that the rest of the episode was fine showcasing that Terence and Skiff can be useful in their own way, heck Terence feels almost like his original self, and I'm kinda glad they didn't go too repetitive with their interaction, once was enough, and that the showcased their usefulness through a montage. The other thing I'm glad to see again is that water makes an engine stop since they need it to make the steam, without it they would explode though I don't think they would ever mention that in this show. But it's still better than the idea that no coal means no steam. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Cranky Goodbye - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sameroo - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas For A Day - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Super Axle - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Waiting Game - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All Wheels on Track - 5/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">209/510</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-53304332395308895792024-01-23T08:00:00.003+11:002024-01-23T08:00:00.142+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.49 - The Waiting Game<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE WAITING GAME</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNCHa20wfFR_XTNWoFGWwtjNcWqavkboRTlpWCeFPFGjVCx4a4n6-lGHHorPBBjstI4efySla3fS9OlJUoPbblTymfguvFfEA__CoHB3FTTHvKVbQSb2AlSyzTaR2QNYs2EQTc743-Y5wHWDJowTqRZHQy-Ho8iUXC7Q3eRk8e2gN0sSNBj1FVCJFf9g8/s1000/TheWaitingGamepromo1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNCHa20wfFR_XTNWoFGWwtjNcWqavkboRTlpWCeFPFGjVCx4a4n6-lGHHorPBBjstI4efySla3fS9OlJUoPbblTymfguvFfEA__CoHB3FTTHvKVbQSb2AlSyzTaR2QNYs2EQTc743-Y5wHWDJowTqRZHQy-Ho8iUXC7Q3eRk8e2gN0sSNBj1FVCJFf9g8/w400-h225/TheWaitingGamepromo1.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Daniel Share - Storm</i></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>12/08/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>6/11/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>23/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When an important shipment is delayed, Bruno and the gang have to learn the great value of waiting patiently.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I will say Bruno getting excited seeing a mechanic was cute and it was nice to see him representing autism with him being overwhelmed by the noise the engines were making and with him being anxious that the schedule had changed. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But the rest of the episode, while OK, was a bit boring when most of the episode was set at one location and it was more talk and less action. The message about being patient was a good one and one that some members of the Thomas fandom should learn when it comes to content creators and their videos. If I have to at least give one example on making a story about patience with some action, I think the story '<i>Thomas and the Guard</i>' is a good example. Thomas was impatient due to Henry being late due to his old shape being a mess and it resulted leaving his guard behind. Eventually the guard came and all was well but it was entertaining with the worry about the guard when you watch it in the perspective of the characters. That's just what I see as entertainment. I don't believe a little kid would be interested in seeing the engines all in one location. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Cranky Goodbye - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sameroo - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas For A Day - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Super Axle - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Waiting Game - 5/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">204/500</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-35423592659170117742024-01-22T08:00:00.010+11:002024-01-22T08:00:00.135+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.48 - The Super Axle<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> THE SUPER AXLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpKgzZKqNzAsxu5i2CsxaQLLPwbnjPjxnU_5BQ400vDkqM9gQVVnA_KLJdictt6e8X_76bhCJJ7xKVx_5LtIVIumzhLuVT2gmDCz-39vozLM4jKj06ij-aB6-y5knYG0eN58hnALqGSUM1RDMy_GuRfwu4jZavJtoLCdk7hudNg9KxMkoklt7wWJZ7o0/s1000/TheSuperAxle153.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpKgzZKqNzAsxu5i2CsxaQLLPwbnjPjxnU_5BQ400vDkqM9gQVVnA_KLJdictt6e8X_76bhCJJ7xKVx_5LtIVIumzhLuVT2gmDCz-39vozLM4jKj06ij-aB6-y5knYG0eN58hnALqGSUM1RDMy_GuRfwu4jZavJtoLCdk7hudNg9KxMkoklt7wWJZ7o0/w400-h225/TheSuperAxle153.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><i>Peter Hirsch</i></div><p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>5/08/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>30/10/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>21/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When aging Toby comes to Knapford, he struggles to keep up with all the young engines. He still has a lot of zip in him, but around all these modern engines, he loses his confidence.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was another nice episode and I do like the Railway Series easter egg of Toby's line being closed, as I said before it's nice to see this show at least respecting some of its source material. I think it could've been better if it was about Toby taking things slow and steady and doesn't bother trying to keep up with the young. He's an old engine must take care of himself and that he prefers doing that and let the young engines do what they want to do but the young engines though wanted him to try and be fast and all and it resulted Toby breaking down. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While older people do suffer from confidence issues, I tend to see that as a sterotype. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2022/07/16/older-age-is-happier-than-you-think--its-middle-age-thats-miserable/?sh=571aa005144f" target="_blank">Some older people do tend to be a bit more happier with age </a>and I think Toby would do well as that to showcase that with the grandparents who watch this with their grandchildren.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also it's nice to see Eddie Glenn returning to the world of Thomas since Magic Railroad, I still hate that movie BTW. He provided a nice old man type voice for Toby and it is very convincing just like his Thomas voice for movie, yes I do think he was a great voice actor. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Cranky Goodbye - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sameroo - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas For A Day - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Super Axle - 6/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">199/490</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><i style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></i></b></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-15523325826420210942024-01-21T08:00:00.003+11:002024-01-21T08:00:00.353+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.47 - Thomas For A Day<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THOMAS FOR A DAY</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><i><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXKu848zss8rEjZgebi0lpfySHOBnM0iRSf9N4Wehd1Ai9GzgtEklEySijEOYVybdXEYrWC0p4ydBO5xn30fO_wNQMvYLRlc-uKz6aUrI_cNT6yK3CidL5DAUS9paMJZY4fgpxgke7SQvChUyvp_EBa9QzqI1Gup5RxaiKBPDFZPsa8jwoUDhzC0r6Gc/s1000/ThomasforaDay151.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXKu848zss8rEjZgebi0lpfySHOBnM0iRSf9N4Wehd1Ai9GzgtEklEySijEOYVybdXEYrWC0p4ydBO5xn30fO_wNQMvYLRlc-uKz6aUrI_cNT6yK3CidL5DAUS9paMJZY4fgpxgke7SQvChUyvp_EBa9QzqI1Gup5RxaiKBPDFZPsa8jwoUDhzC0r6Gc/w400-h225/ThomasforaDay151.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><i><span><br /><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i>Tracy Nicoletti</i></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>5/08/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>23/10/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>21/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When Percy is accidentally doused in blue paint, he gets the opportunity to be Thomas for a day.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was a nice episode and I see this working in the original series since Percy was the scaredy engine of the show, even though it was flanderizied by the previous team. I do like Whiff and it's nice to see him being utilised more as a secondary character. Though it was nice he was used for more often, I do wish that we have someone like Edward since he and Percy had a really good dynamic in the original series. Plus the song was alright too, though I wish they didn't state the moral of the story and just let the audience digest it. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Cranky Goodbye - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sameroo - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas For A Day - 7/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">193/480</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-51828166009944789122024-01-20T08:00:00.007+11:002024-01-20T08:00:00.328+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.46 - Sameroo<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SAMEROO</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFV5Hn2Dwh3I5GLhtAj4uSficDOPklHULaX_AGlXwHn7RjqguZ4rLna1kpj-wTmwAIbOIqHdcTPewHD-h2LsTH8WIT8fsrBg6j8RXIN8iA5stIqHRC_ff8Y8I2TgkWMzykiT02LRyhQrbvVIWeWZJGPO48UvciafYv0Hc1OncaFcFBuoG_wxCMelJj_wo/s1000/Sameroo17.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFV5Hn2Dwh3I5GLhtAj4uSficDOPklHULaX_AGlXwHn7RjqguZ4rLna1kpj-wTmwAIbOIqHdcTPewHD-h2LsTH8WIT8fsrBg6j8RXIN8iA5stIqHRC_ff8Y8I2TgkWMzykiT02LRyhQrbvVIWeWZJGPO48UvciafYv0Hc1OncaFcFBuoG_wxCMelJj_wo/w400-h225/Sameroo17.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Adam Larenzo</i></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>29/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>16/10/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>18/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Thomas plays a new game called "SWITCHEROO", but gets lost and learns the value of routines.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While I like and understand its message that routines can be good even if they are the same, the episode was pretty meh since I never find the troublesome trucks funny nor entertaining, though from watching the UK dub of the episode on ABC iview, I much prefer there voices than the ones in the US dub, the latter are just ear wrenching. The episode was alright but not great, though I wish this episode was more of a commentary of the AEG concept but I don't think Mattel would allow that.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Cranky Goodbye - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sameroo - 4/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">186/470</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-31285293892452454362024-01-19T08:00:00.005+11:002024-01-19T08:00:00.433+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.45 - A Cranky Goodbye<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A CRANKY GOODBYE</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2duk9Oum-73-tKlR6TtZ9DNZTOPa3SONUemXgskGFn_uOYVAEEv273a0el7YUxRDwQgCz4pohmKi1CdPnoe75c-XdLHUJ6IyycSNCvmUoETovfMBR9BDDBGSVh_pJW8ZM9seO06JwVJRgE6P8WITjqqcbhN541Xh7JpQuSEvaDMeeVo5C8tEVsso4-W8/s1000/ACrankyGoodbye142.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2duk9Oum-73-tKlR6TtZ9DNZTOPa3SONUemXgskGFn_uOYVAEEv273a0el7YUxRDwQgCz4pohmKi1CdPnoe75c-XdLHUJ6IyycSNCvmUoETovfMBR9BDDBGSVh_pJW8ZM9seO06JwVJRgE6P8WITjqqcbhN541Xh7JpQuSEvaDMeeVo5C8tEVsso4-W8/w400-h225/ACrankyGoodbye142.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Sarah Eisenberg & Beckey Wangberg</i></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>29/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>9/10/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>17/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When Bulstrode and Cranky get into their crankiest fight yet, they learn how to express their feelings in order to save their friendship.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another episode that could work without the song when it comes to Cranky and Bulstrode making their amends. Meanwhile this was another alright episode and while Tess was speaking the truth that Cranky was jealous of Bulstrode heading to the mainland, I really hate it how she'd spoiled the moment and Percy didn't bother to tell her off, seriously why do the writers let her get away with her crap? Tess is just getting more and more unlikeable. If you want to watch an episode that has this theme but with better conflict I say watching '<i>Twin Trouble</i>' from S6, while not my favorite episode it is however a much more fun and exciting story in comparison to something as plain as this.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Cranky Goodbye - 5/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">182/460</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-57408711802453480792024-01-18T08:00:00.003+11:002024-01-18T08:00:00.395+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.44 - Seeking a Safer Sodor<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SEEKING A SAFER SODOR</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><i><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6hvjyN6qlYdbxYJwOj-5jNvWpTlVIBIDp4Z19BITvRxcKsA8D2fQcV8kwJ_BST3TMmmqxzeQY3Ub2SerJnfv9SK6gt-rshjogAwkkHavKyxp9nystsH6yU9xKHciDmE5e5JpFVvJRrYzLUDBkIBoyMfGoTqN9NK5az-skX4WRsEZ0hQPHTRkW5RsbT_k/s1000/SeekingaSaferSodorpromo1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6hvjyN6qlYdbxYJwOj-5jNvWpTlVIBIDp4Z19BITvRxcKsA8D2fQcV8kwJ_BST3TMmmqxzeQY3Ub2SerJnfv9SK6gt-rshjogAwkkHavKyxp9nystsH6yU9xKHciDmE5e5JpFVvJRrYzLUDBkIBoyMfGoTqN9NK5az-skX4WRsEZ0hQPHTRkW5RsbT_k/w400-h225/SeekingaSaferSodorpromo1.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span>Peter Gaffney</span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>22/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>2/10/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>16/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When Percy and Kana have a near-collision, they enlist Safety Engine Emily and go to ridiculous extremes to introduce safety measures all over Sodor.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Why make an episode about railway safety when this iteration of Thomas would pretty much violate all of railway safety? While it's message that accidents can happen now and again, that was not an intended reference to the classic series song, I feel that the episode should've been about Percy and Kana trying to pay attention but they keep getting distracted like butterflies and cows, heck it all started because those two didn't pay attention to signs earlier and blamed it on the lack of signage, again this show is not good at having characters taking their own responsibility. It maybe a three strikes your out kind of story but at least it would make some sense. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeking a Safer Sodor - 3/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">177/450</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-57003276716134175092024-01-17T08:00:00.002+11:002024-01-17T08:00:00.395+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.43 - Bruno's Map Mishap<div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BRUNO'S MAP MISHAP</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVMSoNCy0FUqyRiR_5vSHrENBzAYP1xotdEe8Kdfr2uiZLc_-nvx7CQGOup8PVMtB0ZhMFIaXyVJaVU8DyrTwS3BpMPW5vjm-f1ZYFwAjNksBX9w1V3Hres0GED2XCFJHd11zVc2phxX4KXK87yFFVIgVmZVJxFCgedH5PAUMZ6rx1SySfmhbjuEk4FQ/s1000/Bruno'sMapMishapPromo3.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVMSoNCy0FUqyRiR_5vSHrENBzAYP1xotdEe8Kdfr2uiZLc_-nvx7CQGOup8PVMtB0ZhMFIaXyVJaVU8DyrTwS3BpMPW5vjm-f1ZYFwAjNksBX9w1V3Hres0GED2XCFJHd11zVc2phxX4KXK87yFFVIgVmZVJxFCgedH5PAUMZ6rx1SySfmhbjuEk4FQ/w400-h225/Bruno'sMapMishapPromo3.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Lexie Kahanovitz & Monique Moreau</div><p style="font-style: normal;"></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Directed by</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Produced by</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Air Date</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>22/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>25/09/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>TBA - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>15/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Plot</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno and Thomas have to stretch their comfort zones when Bruno's beloved map gets carried away by the wind.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While the episode was alright though I kinda wish that it was about Bruno knowing the way without his new map that the Fat Controller had given him. After all some autistic people do excell in memory and it could've been another trait from Bruno that the general audience can understand. Not all autistic people share that, according to research, but I think if you want to showcase that autsim can happen differently to people I say bring in Theo who was said from the original production team that he has neurodivergent traits it would be great to excell that. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">How would Bruno knowing the way work, have the engines trying to get his map back along the way while Bruno tries to tell them to get back on schedule, this is where his memory of the map comes in handy and it would give the message that while it is important to help a friend it is also important to keep on schedule at the same time and that a map can come in handy in anyway. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bruno's Map Mishap - 6/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">174/440</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></span></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-68412280356452122202024-01-16T08:00:00.003+11:002024-01-16T08:00:00.142+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.42 - It All Adds Up<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>IT ALL ADDS UP</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPCC98SXCrROYi8xho4SLvJtQv9SWAPUi8PMHxDYITZ3oBFi2wfh-RiEw5_YgAil1mLhsa2AuTkF6gfbHQj_op5kqwNgucnDvGE6jjhCv1PTMqG0gM4SCRaVUFn9VpWWuliI51M9jQJGu_wRMtzeYTELrRaUIxDzEJVH0Q4zhMzLDjW9_LQDLuWRYxoc/s1000/ItAllAddsUp205.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPCC98SXCrROYi8xho4SLvJtQv9SWAPUi8PMHxDYITZ3oBFi2wfh-RiEw5_YgAil1mLhsa2AuTkF6gfbHQj_op5kqwNgucnDvGE6jjhCv1PTMqG0gM4SCRaVUFn9VpWWuliI51M9jQJGu_wRMtzeYTELrRaUIxDzEJVH0Q4zhMzLDjW9_LQDLuWRYxoc/w400-h225/ItAllAddsUp205.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Adam Beechen</i></span></div><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>15/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>18/09/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>21/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>14/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The engines are excited to see the Northern Lights with Harold the Helicopter.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This episode was alright. I like the mess how one cross over the bridge can all add up to disaster but I think the episode can work without the northern lights and that maybe you could make that into a different episode kinda like '<i>The Paint Problem</i>', probably make a whole plot about Harold missing out because of extra work and the engines trying to do it for him so he wouldn't miss out. Also since we now know that Sodor is still a British isle in this iteration of the show, despite the American rail infrastructure, it is possible to see the northern lights there as there had been some <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-64792264" target="_blank">spottings of them around the Isle of Man</a>, Sodor neighbouring island in the books so although it may've been a fluke on the writers part, nice bit of logic for the show. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It All Adds Up - 6/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">168/430</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-38109194435327724682024-01-15T08:00:00.002+11:002024-01-15T08:00:00.145+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.41 - Not So Easy-Greasy<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOT SO EASY-GREASY</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslFTbJWYol0mG3DukeN_L7mczW2f2Ohl50OnfVfmvXduYQg4pieYJSmFq7HpOZl1NO8MePI-AO5fcmuBM1Dtf71MEx9G6ET8KMFvifwmF5__nKcYDkZRJozvWxrqAFxrYVJEjsn6y4xvrdZtcUt3yCApMaFd4eu1ogposdqgSxGdrPNdP7tIOgTCjY-Q/s1000/NotSoEasyGreasy206.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslFTbJWYol0mG3DukeN_L7mczW2f2Ohl50OnfVfmvXduYQg4pieYJSmFq7HpOZl1NO8MePI-AO5fcmuBM1Dtf71MEx9G6ET8KMFvifwmF5__nKcYDkZRJozvWxrqAFxrYVJEjsn6y4xvrdZtcUt3yCApMaFd4eu1ogposdqgSxGdrPNdP7tIOgTCjY-Q/w400-h225/NotSoEasyGreasy206.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">John Loy</i></span></div><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>15/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>11/09/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>20/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>11/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nia is nervous about working with Tess, the fastest -- and bossiest -- crane on Sodor! When Nia's plan for a safe and speedy delivery goes awry and causes Tess' wheels to clog with sand, they recruit handy Sandy to solve their problem. Luckily, Sandy has a new invention to get Tess up and going again: a tanker full of her Super-Slick Easy-Greasy Crane Grease! However, chaos continues to ensue when Nia gets stuck in the mud and the runaway grease spills all over Sodor! In the midst of the madness, Nia learns how to fix her original plan and save Sodor from slipping and sliding!</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Still hate Tess she may have some traits like caring for the engines at heart but it was more a blink of an eye and you'll miss it and this is another Nia's plan goes wrong and she has to make a new one and why was she the one feeling bad about Tess being stuck in sand? The crane deserved it for rushing Nia! Perhaps the episode should've been about not rushing yourself to get the job done because things might get damaged, we see that with Tess' handling of the cargo and also why not make Tess apologise to everyone because of her attitude? Especially to Nia! The episode also had a useless song about working together with the useless shenanighans of everyone slipping and heck was the episode's message about working together? Because it really doesn't to me. At first it was about the engines fearing of Tess because of her bossiness. The episode could've been about getting to know Tess and not judge her behaviour in the outside. All in all this was bad episode.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Easy-Greasy - 2/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">162/420</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-79398229957463975522024-01-14T08:00:00.009+11:002024-01-14T08:00:00.136+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.40 - Bad Luck Boxcar<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BAD LUCK BOXCAR</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGT8-DTNaQ-n9HsO258HkCq5FBy69jUA5Bwq0YUPl7N8lk7bIGW2MXVqhEarzoMaLJNJSEbd78QjvSFPtf_A6xtfo87Kn8S7cl-a8RB5lekTO-QnIAoHhg8mBnxfkR7ZQg8kioj2xz6gnZ4FpixyTRWDajigXRfZlJgV1bk98E43t0o8HbAlmUONhK0DE/s1000/BadLuckBoxcarpromo1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGT8-DTNaQ-n9HsO258HkCq5FBy69jUA5Bwq0YUPl7N8lk7bIGW2MXVqhEarzoMaLJNJSEbd78QjvSFPtf_A6xtfo87Kn8S7cl-a8RB5lekTO-QnIAoHhg8mBnxfkR7ZQg8kioj2xz6gnZ4FpixyTRWDajigXRfZlJgV1bk98E43t0o8HbAlmUONhK0DE/w400-h225/BadLuckBoxcarpromo1.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Eva Konstantopoulous</i></span></div><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>8/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>4/09/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>19/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>10/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When Thomas and Percy must transport an unlucky boxcar of bananas, Thomas seems to have bad luck. Percy's positive attitude helps Thomas see the luck in each scenario, breaking the myth of the curse for a successful delivery.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">This is basically '<i>Thomas' Not-so-Lucky Day</i>', at least that one was more interesting given that it was teaching kids about Italy's own way of dealing with supersition. Here it is just a bland, everything bad happens to Thomas and all it just is is that he was having an off day along with bad, annoying, uncreative puns and another boulder run from the canyon. One of these days, Mattel would have to change up this sort of humor they want because these will be getting old for viewers I believe, if they want this iteration of Thomas to be a running success. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'd research to see if Banana's can bring bad luck, as I did for Skiff's land sickness, and Banana's can be part of supersitions but on boats and it got me thinking, why not make the episode for Salty, Bulstrode and Thomas? Let's say Vicarstown bridge was closed due to it being damaged in a storm and Thomas and Salty were to deliver some banana's on the mainland. But Salty thinks the Bananas are what caused the bridge's damage but Bulstrode, being the adult, think Salty was just being silly and told Thomas not to listen to him and offered to take him and Salty to the mainland. As they crossed the ocean towards the mainland things were going wrong and Bulstrode began to think maybe Salty was right but it all turns out that the things going wrong were all caused by the aftermath of the storm. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">It would be the same episode but at least it would be interesting to see Bulstrode with a story and it could give us a different dynamic between him and Salty. I personally hate it when the adult characters are dumb to believe something like supersitious tales, they are suppose to be adults! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bad Luck Boxcar - 3/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">160/410</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-73356609770015618492024-01-13T08:00:00.003+11:002024-01-13T08:00:00.152+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.39 - Percy in the Middle<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>PERCY IN THE MIDDLE</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2kmgdPGn4n5bE_TRyCmg5SWHu0Tp651v-Aum1vlGB7k5Nj9Is_UIRiKbPdeoKO5uTc6pDBjsXMik5JYK2edjgMGyQ5fAJPFzm4aq1U6WrmMkNTupvPjXE0E50h3DhPfppSMD6EJPdLtUDtkHvUjjuH4thvCLM-27iysyotVP0S93ZTphXrboCz6wSXM/s1000/PercyintheMiddle206.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2kmgdPGn4n5bE_TRyCmg5SWHu0Tp651v-Aum1vlGB7k5Nj9Is_UIRiKbPdeoKO5uTc6pDBjsXMik5JYK2edjgMGyQ5fAJPFzm4aq1U6WrmMkNTupvPjXE0E50h3DhPfppSMD6EJPdLtUDtkHvUjjuH4thvCLM-27iysyotVP0S93ZTphXrboCz6wSXM/w400-h225/PercyintheMiddle206.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Jordan Gershowitz</i></span></div><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>8/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>28/08/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>18/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>9/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>After Gordon tells all the young engines that they have a day off to relax, Thomas and Diesel insist on a teamed relay race through the obstacle course. Percy is the only one who isn't interested in playing, so Thomas asks him to referee instead. He reluctantly agrees and the race is on! Coming to a split-second finish, Percy determines Thomas' team wins, but Diesel doesn't accept and calls for a rematch. Once again the teams race and Diesel wins after accidentally causing an oil spill. Both teams become so angry with each other, they're too distracted when Percy runs off to chase butterflies. Thomas, Diesel, and friends finally notice Percy's absence and speed after him, but they'll need to learn their lesson about sportsmanship if they want to ensure this day off is a success.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Just another generic Thomas and Diesel being competitive episode but it's a team race so they can have repetitive filler to fill in time, nothing more and nothing else. Yes it was about Percy being in the middle but it just felt less about him and more about Thomas, Diesel and the others. Why not let it be Percy having a hard time to know who was the winner and couldn't face the arguments because it was pressurising and began to cry, it would at least make sense with that good sports song. God I hate these Thomas and Diesel competitive episodes so much.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy in the Middle - 1/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">157/400</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-34152675414770857032024-01-12T08:00:00.002+11:002024-01-12T08:00:00.138+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.38 - Hay Fort Frenzy<div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HAY FORT FRENZY</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3jZ4K-8ao9PCeFw0C2djc9p5bXfjmg__kBrggaKKKtdwse___zoE8CRnKfubMSwM7Cs2uJ1xz9rcDFdZY8uNWNQMvJ4KplRXXEC1Vc4ATUNXP9Wyrn_TqyTYIDq2i3_bsFqe77voGNuIMql6CkxiynZTrOrKE6z0TBkP16evzb50-BK9KJX_9LH4a2Q/s1000/HayFortFrenzy28.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3jZ4K-8ao9PCeFw0C2djc9p5bXfjmg__kBrggaKKKtdwse___zoE8CRnKfubMSwM7Cs2uJ1xz9rcDFdZY8uNWNQMvJ4KplRXXEC1Vc4ATUNXP9Wyrn_TqyTYIDq2i3_bsFqe77voGNuIMql6CkxiynZTrOrKE6z0TBkP16evzb50-BK9KJX_9LH4a2Q/w400-h225/HayFortFrenzy28.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Susan Kim</i></span></div><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>1/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>31/05/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>15/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>8/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas gets help from Terence the Tractor and Carly to assemble all hay bales. Carly and Terence manage to get everything together quickly, but soon Terence purposefully crashes into the hay bales sending loose hay all over the place! Carly is shocked and confused. They turn the hay-bale stacking into a game, forming all kinds of structures Terence can crash into. Thomas worries they won't have enough time to complete the delivery.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And so we have the debut episode for Terence in the AEG universe and while the show is its own show, I don't like Terence being a child character since when compare to the original, Terence was assertive and would show just how useful he could be, as he shows in in the 1st season of the original series after Thomas got stuck in the snow. He's proud of his work and would always give a lending hand to an engine that are in need like him shunting trucks while Percy was away at the harbour during '<i>Toby, Trucks and Trouble</i>'. I think he would've worked better as an adult character and maybe create a new tractor who is like Terence in AEG. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This episode was OK at best to me. While I think the message was fine I think it would've been better if Terence understood the importance of the work from Thomas' point of view. There is nothing wrong with having fun but too much fun can cause a delay and a delay means no shipment. I also wish that Carly had gone through something in the episode, have her like Thomas wanting the job to be done on time but gives into Terence's demand because she doesn't want to hurt his feelings but then realises the job is important and that for her she could learn that it's OK to say no sometimes and Terence learns to understand other people's pov.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay Fort Frenzy - 4/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">156/390</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></span></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-13309157080607235122024-01-11T08:00:00.002+11:002024-01-11T08:00:00.162+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.37 - Blue Engine Blues<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BLUE ENGINE BLUES</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><i><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilICd3XmugsuxZztGCkB5yfSPI7oUerM5FCHCmsLLLLhmvjH7xb9SXiYXCDkha3Jch4QwIBJjH8XCcMREWWyE_ZKxzR3ZB7HpwLc4BnN05ruVvY7QDhjp1u3CPSp81-tpRxMDtKeFvAynEgcGZq9-XI9_DWlunK59-VvlErcL-h4UDJUcRnMg-O9RgzlQ/s1000/BlueEngineBlues78.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilICd3XmugsuxZztGCkB5yfSPI7oUerM5FCHCmsLLLLhmvjH7xb9SXiYXCDkha3Jch4QwIBJjH8XCcMREWWyE_ZKxzR3ZB7HpwLc4BnN05ruVvY7QDhjp1u3CPSp81-tpRxMDtKeFvAynEgcGZq9-XI9_DWlunK59-VvlErcL-h4UDJUcRnMg-O9RgzlQ/w400-h225/BlueEngineBlues78.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Tracy Nicoletti</i></span></div><p></p><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>1/07/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>30/05/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>14/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>7/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>A rough night's sleep and a canceled beach day puts Thomas in the grumpiest of moods. Encountering Riff and Jiff with their usual happy-go-lucky attitudes, Thomas comes to the conclusion that he'll only be liked when he appears happy. He puts on a fake smile for the rest of the day, but his words don't match his demeanor and everyone can see right through him. Finally, Thomas comes across Riff and Jiff again, who reveal they're also upset about the cruddy day!</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas' forced happy face is just creepy to look at and some members of the general public say that the model faces look creepy, the latter look more normal and that face. I know this was done for comedy but it doesn't feel funny it was just borderline creepy to look at. Apart from the horrific face, the rest of the episode was fine. It's nice to see an episode that focuses on something that isn't always happy or chirpy or an episode that focuses too much on wacky side of things in order to create more filler. It is something relevant that not just for children but also for adults too when we were looking forward to something and that we can't always be happy all the time and that it's fine. The episode was a fine one though it could work without the song since we'd already got the message. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Engine Blues - 7/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">152/380</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-88366549420960582024-01-10T08:00:00.001+11:002024-01-10T08:00:00.342+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.36 - Details? What Details?<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>DETAILS? WHAT DETAILS?</b></span></i></h3><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqqH_4Rr5kV34SoF19gktSB3D4MSbj1DtSaDtQ1O5bvTaxLlqn2NVfV2cQpBuPBtF9jcC7_m7DVNmGBZ1q9QaENJNaT8JRsg172pqdfTDy_aOjoT5UZnl_6wJSuEzskYV6NNrb1a0VKUrF3PDhyphenhyphenggNiPF6T4Ea87HhxXrmkQ-UGXU5D0Sg0Vwkxu2F4xE/s1000/DetailsWhatDetails145.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqqH_4Rr5kV34SoF19gktSB3D4MSbj1DtSaDtQ1O5bvTaxLlqn2NVfV2cQpBuPBtF9jcC7_m7DVNmGBZ1q9QaENJNaT8JRsg172pqdfTDy_aOjoT5UZnl_6wJSuEzskYV6NNrb1a0VKUrF3PDhyphenhyphenggNiPF6T4Ea87HhxXrmkQ-UGXU5D0Sg0Vwkxu2F4xE/w400-h225/DetailsWhatDetails145.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Brent Piaskoski</i></span></div><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>24/06/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>29/05/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>13/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>4/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Sir Topham Hatt messes up his instructions for Kenji's passenger delivery, Thomas is asked to set things right! However, as Thomas follows Kenji's trail, he repeatedly forgets to ask his friends for specific directions, preventing him from catching up to the speedy electric engine. Realizing he has to pay more attention to details, Thomas uses his wits, listening skills, and the help of his friends to make it to Kenji and get the passengers to their destinations on time.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">This episode was boring to sit through. It's pretty much just a standard episode where someone went wrong and an engine has to fix it but things were getting in the way until the matter had been solved while hammering down the message that little detail is important. You might say it's like '<i>Bertie's Chase</i>' from the original series but at least that was entertaining to watch and while it stated the message it didn't feel forced down and flowed naturally in the dialouge. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">While I'm glad that we are seeing some episodes with the Fat Controller acting like an authorative figure I hate how AEG is like any kids show where the adults are stupid. We've seen that in Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, Ben & Holly and the bargin bin Bluey show '<i>Chip Chilla</i>' by alt-right group Daily Wire. Why is this a trend in kids shows? They should take a leaf out of Bluey's book where the adults act like actual parents helping out their kids in trouble while making their own mistakes. Mattel should stop looking at trends and try and make Thomas stand on its own feet. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Details? What Details? - 3/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">145/370</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></span></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-24258070665803248592024-01-09T08:00:00.002+11:002024-01-09T08:00:00.345+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.35 - Rocket's Fall<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ROCKET'S FALL</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUvSolu2ADXhsplbxYqAJasT0WLOSrvR2Ti5EpgQJU4_XaJmeFXdTHtZa0ywxPnRdYXl253xxr6FCzuCiFcm6fH5U6Q5tyMowCpXdQaTSJBPq_3N7KI8lK-sTJYTs5IX2S4onPOd43OIBlrC6mMgqN4nQiq08Sitlv0We3bqmZbxf8Q0LP6rV5lf406wo/s1000/Rocket%2527sFall162.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUvSolu2ADXhsplbxYqAJasT0WLOSrvR2Ti5EpgQJU4_XaJmeFXdTHtZa0ywxPnRdYXl253xxr6FCzuCiFcm6fH5U6Q5tyMowCpXdQaTSJBPq_3N7KI8lK-sTJYTs5IX2S4onPOd43OIBlrC6mMgqN4nQiq08Sitlv0We3bqmZbxf8Q0LP6rV5lf406wo/w400-h225/Rocket%2527sFall162.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Peter Gaffney</i></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>24/06/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>24/05/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>12/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>3/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: start;">Thomas learns that </span>the rocket<span style="text-align: start;"> he helped deliver is finally falling back to Earth, into the ocean outside Sodor. Bulstrode, Carly, and their team of retrieval experts are on the job to fish the rocket out of the water, and Thomas wants to help!</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: start;">This episode was pretty meh, not bad but not great. Another basic story of Thomas wanting to help because of how good the job is and another episode that could work without the song being used as filler. That's all I have to say really.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocket's Fall - 4/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">142/360</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-76398903587734844512024-01-08T08:00:00.004+11:002024-01-08T08:00:00.245+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.34 - Retrieve the Kraken<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><i>RETRIEVE THE KRAKEN</i></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV4C0mUd4KzQa0DHfplbMTkc3UqD_oQMdy6IAYCYZA1teP3Nk4MdSoKw0G-tJL91Kc1tr7-nj5-CQHrb169Gos0CIZyMTuzcTPm1GiOx3o-mpPxr221WGYI-xZE3wLhIpzUtfrfGM9ZVo_OZ0Wqp-R3UOcdzxXDwPmkubePweO_ua43goPP_0HsBQR4lQ/s1000/RetrievetheKraken175.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV4C0mUd4KzQa0DHfplbMTkc3UqD_oQMdy6IAYCYZA1teP3Nk4MdSoKw0G-tJL91Kc1tr7-nj5-CQHrb169Gos0CIZyMTuzcTPm1GiOx3o-mpPxr221WGYI-xZE3wLhIpzUtfrfGM9ZVo_OZ0Wqp-R3UOcdzxXDwPmkubePweO_ua43goPP_0HsBQR4lQ/w400-h225/RetrievetheKraken175.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Aydrea Walden</i></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Directed by</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Produced by</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Air Date</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>17/06/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>23/05/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>11/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>2/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Plot</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">On a particularly blustery Balloon Festival day, Thomas is tasked with retrieving any balloons that start to drift away. When the Kraken-shaped balloon soars off, the chase is on!</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This episode was alright it was a basic story which has the moral that you can't believe everything you hear and I'm kinda glad that the episode didn't resolve it outcome in the middle of the episode and added in filler of the engines running around trying to catch it. All in all a pretty decent episode.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Series Rating:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retrieve the Kraken - 5/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">138/350</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-91622134492819434542024-01-07T08:00:00.002+11:002024-01-07T08:00:00.240+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.33 - Salty's Sea Shanty<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SALTY'S SEA SHANTY</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJo4d7HkHZLmQoVYKqdZMKaz0aIyC3kdDG3c1GpyQInROQWOvgC3dAnRstnACOrkFdfA2F10ctP6dVbv-AQSdWQNofMhwaejNWZD1La1f6KiBnyKEzCuHw7dfPsOChjKTy6eiqgmo10EYwHkKaCqx_9qo5KsmVXWI0oLZFBYQcKvcetvLoMCEvEo2saY/s1000/Salty%2527sSeaShanty85.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJo4d7HkHZLmQoVYKqdZMKaz0aIyC3kdDG3c1GpyQInROQWOvgC3dAnRstnACOrkFdfA2F10ctP6dVbv-AQSdWQNofMhwaejNWZD1La1f6KiBnyKEzCuHw7dfPsOChjKTy6eiqgmo10EYwHkKaCqx_9qo5KsmVXWI0oLZFBYQcKvcetvLoMCEvEo2saY/w400-h225/Salty%2527sSeaShanty85.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Nikki Lytton</i></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>17/06/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>22/05/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>9/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>1/08/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;">When Salty the Diesel Engine returns from his worldly travels, he sings a shanty to Thomas and Percy about a legendary treasure lost on the Island of Sodor. The two friends are eager to see if the legend is true, but their journey comes to a snag when the rest of the </span>Biggest Adventure Club<span style="text-align: start;"> refuses to join.</span></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;">It's so nice to see Salty again and that he still retains his original character that he had in the original series with him telling tall tales and shanties about his adventures and his dynamic with Cranky so some of the original spirit of the show still lingers on here and there. As for the episode, I think this was a much better approach than '<i>Chasing Rainbows</i>' when it comes to the song. At least the song in this episode helped to pave its way of finding the treasure whereas the former was just the engines singing while chasing the rainbow which had no conflict whatsoever to make it interesting. The message that friendship is the greatest treasure, while nice, was a bit cliche. I'm kinda glad that there was real treasure in the end. Plus the sea shanty song from Salty is the only good song from the show too, doesn't sound to kiddyish. Plus Salty was the best character out from this episode.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; text-align: start;">Series Rating:</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>For All the Marble - 9/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Salty's Sea Shanty - 8/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">133/340</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-34924365888120234382024-01-06T08:00:00.007+11:002024-01-06T08:00:00.252+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.32 - For All the Marble<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>FOR ALL THE MARBLE</b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGEo932LZ5PsHYzETeuTKoSANij8HU5ar2Bu_i70Yw6bCFhcnQJiXTuewF9dGA3ri34xt6ghG0Emvu7aMMA4QTm0CtN0y2cwIKq14c0zR_wc-HIEXRC48IdPdk-fqrtpUbvVfSN4gyThlO0rZPooFoVl5qEmrNB68bcmjMj09i-qtJNSQlm1f9xciUyN0/s1000/ForAlltheMarble75.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGEo932LZ5PsHYzETeuTKoSANij8HU5ar2Bu_i70Yw6bCFhcnQJiXTuewF9dGA3ri34xt6ghG0Emvu7aMMA4QTm0CtN0y2cwIKq14c0zR_wc-HIEXRC48IdPdk-fqrtpUbvVfSN4gyThlO0rZPooFoVl5qEmrNB68bcmjMj09i-qtJNSQlm1f9xciUyN0/w400-h225/ForAlltheMarble75.webp" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Johnathan Hernandez</i></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>10/06/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>17/05/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>7/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>31/07/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When a precious marble statue of his great-grandfather arrives, Sir Topham Hatt enlists the help of Thomas and Bruno in delivering it to Vicarstown Plaza. During their journey, Thomas disregards Bruno's suggestions by doing what he thinks is best -- but his actions cause the statue's top hat to begin to crack!</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally some respect to the Railway Series' lore, a statue named after the first Sir Topham, nice little easter egg that unless that was the intention, even it being placed at Vicarstown was a nice touch given how the NWR was based there in its early days, though I think that might be a big coincidence than intentional. As for the episode this was another good one and I see this working in the original series, given the previous production team's respect to the source material. There was no useless filler to fill in time, there was conflict of the statue being cracked and trying to find the best route and the statue of Sir Topham Hatt I changing faces when going through the canyon did give me a bit of a chuckle. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This might be a nitpick but I think the rain sequence was kinda pointless since it didn't do much for the story. You could still have Thomas and Bruno pulling into the tunnel without it and it would still be the same. All in all this is probably one of the best episodes of the show and I think it's another personal favorite.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; text-align: start;">Series Rating:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Speedster Sandy - 7/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>For All the Marble - 9/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">125/330</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-79455894037948022172024-01-05T08:00:00.006+11:002024-01-05T08:00:00.261+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.31 - Speedster Sandy<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SPEEDSTER SANDY</b></span></i></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY0DidEJ0lKSdb3KIKJ5igurrLrZok1jK8IG-BQ3JnF70l1Ps2SrGfg2gEZFp4EvTqsBkIThyphenhyphenU9PAE4ugFR9RDhbgjcgMQfzcLssoCQmCXFkyDsLGEUwEs0z_Wl1OkKXz99u07usCkgFYUrOlXcZU2joGiNyfP-_-ANJ86qw4QSXbXDT8sk1S3UJ6fz1o/s1000/SpeedsterSandy44.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY0DidEJ0lKSdb3KIKJ5igurrLrZok1jK8IG-BQ3JnF70l1Ps2SrGfg2gEZFp4EvTqsBkIThyphenhyphenU9PAE4ugFR9RDhbgjcgMQfzcLssoCQmCXFkyDsLGEUwEs0z_Wl1OkKXz99u07usCkgFYUrOlXcZU2joGiNyfP-_-ANJ86qw4QSXbXDT8sk1S3UJ6fz1o/w400-h225/SpeedsterSandy44.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Jordan Gershowitz</i></span></div><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Directed by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Produced by</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Air Date</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>10/06/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>16/05/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>6/09/23 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>28/07/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i>Plot</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After yet another victorious race, Kana seems unbeatable! No engine on the island is as fast as Kana! However, this does not stop Sandy from challenging the electric engine. Everyone is sure Kana will win again. Sandy picks the route for the race, using her smarts and her small stature to her advantage!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow after one season of Kana being a bland good hero character they actually gave her some personality that didn't take a special to convey. It was nice seeing Kana acting a bit boastful and full of confidence about her speed. The episode show cases Sandy strengths and while the song showcases that I think it would still work without it. This was a good episode and it's so rare to see something like this even if it's just another racing episode. Plus this is a better episode than '<i>Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon</i>' when it comes to the message that racing is all good fun in the end.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; text-align: start;">Series Rating:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Valentine's Hearts - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Speedster Sandy - 7/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">116/330</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></span></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073526768669847196.post-87934955159828438442024-01-04T08:00:00.002+11:002024-01-04T08:00:00.131+11:00All Engines Go! Reveiw - S2 Ep.30 - Valentine's Hearts<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM</b></span></i></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>VALENTINE'S HEARTS</b></span></i></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTks9BbJovZEDzEGCtTvLEiUipwdEyk31aj0wrl1n8Ql6JsLKUnqhQAEy2_Ep0r4LrwqMwhyphenhyphenDNY7hgHDvLbRNCjBAoQOhNbD3vp9BKmW30nvCFmjDpflpcIduFrEzWAQPI9IaEViaGs2L5Hjkd30m95o9h10seTqsTVHKWVKzV3qk-8ropoBKNP_eyQMU/s1000/Valentine%2527sHearts6.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTks9BbJovZEDzEGCtTvLEiUipwdEyk31aj0wrl1n8Ql6JsLKUnqhQAEy2_Ep0r4LrwqMwhyphenhyphenDNY7hgHDvLbRNCjBAoQOhNbD3vp9BKmW30nvCFmjDpflpcIduFrEzWAQPI9IaEViaGs2L5Hjkd30m95o9h10seTqsTVHKWVKzV3qk-8ropoBKNP_eyQMU/w400-h225/Valentine%2527sHearts6.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by</b></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Susan Kim</i></span></div><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Directed by</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Campbell Bryer</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Produced by</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Suzie Gallo</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Air Date</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>4/06/23 - CAN</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>13/02/23 - USA</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>2/24 - UK</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>27/07/23 - AUS</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Plot</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the other engines prepare for a Valentine's Day party, Kana is worried because she doesn't know what to bring!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Another AEG episode where the message is all over the place. One part was about Kana trying to bring something for the party and then for some reason the message was about being together for Valentine's Day is the best of all but wouldn't it just be better if you have Kana trying to make a heart with all the stuff she could find but wanted it to be something special instead of just copying Sandy until she realises she can make one using her electricity or maybe she can make an electric heart but can't use up her electrical energy but the message of the story is that being at the party is what makes a Valentines party so special, it would at least give the message about being together some sense. The show may have better pacing but it bypass much needed progression to maybe make it more character driven than story driven. It felt like they had no idea which plot to work with and so slap them together to at least give it some sense. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; text-align: start;">Series Rating:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast Friends - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Percy Disappear - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot Air Percy - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackout - 2/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brand New Track - 5/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stink Monster - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas Mountain - 7/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whiteout! - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good as New - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas In Charge - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kana Recharges - 3/10</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Off The Rails - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Bring It On Beresford - 2/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>What's in a Name? - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Sheep Shenanigans - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Tunnel Troubles - 4/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>The Case of the Missing Crane - 1/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Not-So-Secret Mission - 5/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>A Very Percy Valentine - 3/10</span></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span>Valentine's Hearts - 2/10<br /></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overall Rating (So far):</span></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">109/320</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><br /></b></span></div>NWR1991http://www.blogger.com/profile/17965545840841476681noreply@blogger.com