Spills and Thrills DVD Ep.1: Away From The Sea

Despite that these episodes had aired its run on Australian and Japanese television in 2013, these episodes have not appeared yet on UK television and so with the release of Spills and Thrills here in Australia as soon to be in the UK, here are my views of the episodes from the 17th series. Please note that the air dates are from Australian television run: 

THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND NOT FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FAN BASE

AWAY FROM THE SEA

Written by

Andrew Brenner

Directed by

David Baas

Produced by

Robert Anderson (Arc)

Ian McCue & Haliam Jabbour 

Air Date:

18/10/13 - (AUS)

Plot

When Salty the dockside diesel develops engine troubles, he's worried about being sent away from the docks. A new engine named Porter arrived to help out and Salty feared he was brought to the docks to replace him!

PRO:
- Season 6 reference
- Sandboxes references 
- Porter 

CON:
- N/A

Another great episode by Andrew Brenner, the first time in ten years we see Salty having an episode to himself. It's great how they referenced 'Salty's Secret' at the beginning of the episode and I appreciate it that much. It's also great to see the references of sandboxes, a sandbox is used for a locomotive to have extra grip incase of slippage. Great to see that Andrew Brenner could turn young viewers into possible railway enthusiasts, especially the differences of where sandboxes are placed, such as Porter and Roise having three domes. Speaking of Porter, he turns out to be a great character and of course, like the characters from KOTR, have a reason to be on the Island of Sodor, by helping out Salty at the docks. Even though Porter hasn't have a big role in this episode, I can tell he will have more episodes to come in future. His character is good, like in other episodes, he has the persona of a hard worker down to earth persona.

Rating: 5/5