THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND NOT FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FAN BASE
THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS, CAUTION IS ADVISED
NOT NOW, CHARLIE
Davey Moore
Directed by
David Baas
Produced by
Kallan Kagan (Arc)
Ian McCue and Halim Jabbour (HIT)
Plot:
Charlie is a small purple engine who likes to tell jokes. One day Charlie discovers an elephant on the line and tries to alert the other engines.
PRO:
- Charlie actually doing work
- The elephant
- Moral: Don't make jokes all the time or otherwise someone won't take you seriously during a serious matter.
CON:
- Charlie's jokes
Charlie may as well be slowly growing to be likeable. He's not actually being annoying and goofing off his work just to have fun. He just jokes around while he's doing work, doing work! Sure he may as well did some work in S14 and S15, but this time it looks serious. Looking at the elephant, it looks so real! I thought I was looking at a real elephant for a moment, well done to Arc on such great craftsmanship. It does have a nice moral about making jokes all time or no one will take you seriously. But the one con I have with this episode and that is of course Charlie's jokes. They're not great, but not many people can be a comedian. I was kind of hoping that there would be a slight mention of 'Henry and The Elephant' but I can't expect too much. Plus the episode has a bit of similarity of the S7 episode 'Percy Gets It Right'. So I believe the episode is OK. It did its best and I find better then any of Charlie's other episodes.
Rating: 3.5/5
So far Season 17 has shown some good sign of its new writing style. Sure it still has the three strikes in some places here and there, but it's not as irritating as what S9-16 shows us. Sure the episodes aren't perfect but I'm not one of those people who were expecting it to be like the classic series dumped right in front of me or expecting everything to go their own personal way. It takes time to write good quality episode and who knows when it'll get better? Right now the seventeenth series is now on hiatus in the UK and more episode reviews will come when Channel 5, the provider of the episodes on their kids hour 'milkshake', will announce more new episodes.
So far Season 17 has shown some good sign of its new writing style. Sure it still has the three strikes in some places here and there, but it's not as irritating as what S9-16 shows us. Sure the episodes aren't perfect but I'm not one of those people who were expecting it to be like the classic series dumped right in front of me or expecting everything to go their own personal way. It takes time to write good quality episode and who knows when it'll get better? Right now the seventeenth series is now on hiatus in the UK and more episode reviews will come when Channel 5, the provider of the episodes on their kids hour 'milkshake', will announce more new episodes.
