THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM
SHAKE, RATTLE AND BRUNO
Written by
Daniel Share - Storm
Directed by
Campbell Bryer
Produced by
Suzie Gallo
Air Date
18/09/22 - CAN
12/09/22 - USA
23/09/22 - UK
14/02/23 - AUS
Plot
While Bruno helps Diesel with a heavy delivery consisting of a fragile light, Diesel fails to listen to his advice, causing them both to get stuck in Crumble Canyon. Now it's up to the two of them to listen to each other to find a way out and complete their delivery.
I think the best outcome of this episode is Bruno as a character. A great represntation towards anyone diagonsed with autism. He's not a typical autistic character who is seen as helpless and is seen more as intelligent, kind and concerning as we've seen with Diesel and all written by and even one of the consultants for the character of the show, Daniel Share-Storm who is also autistic and also voiced by two respective child voice actors who are autistic.
I may not understand autism myself since I don't have it, I do have mild global development delay, but Bruno helped me to understand it, his eye contact was the biggest draw as well as him being overstimulated by the chaotic nature of the yards when the engines were playing 'train-tag' though ironic that this show is mostly chaotic.
He's a nice character though I wish he was given a proper debut episode instead of just an episode where he just came out of nowhere. His debut episode should be about him being new to Sodor and have him go through what a child with autism would go through when transitioning to a new school. Have the engines not understanding why he's like that and he tells them that he has autism, and there should no fear of saying that he has it.
'Sesame Street' had a character who has autism since 2015 and showcase the traits of an autistic child for the general audience to understand, though sad to say, to my knowledge, they had partnered with autism speaks, whom I had mentioned earlier in my review for 'Fast Friends', and the organisation they had parted ways with due to that was ASAN, who were one of the consultants, including Michael White, for Bruno.
The episode itself though was fine and it had a much better and cohesive story than the last two episodes in my opinion. I'm not a big fan of the songs from this show but I think it was alright, not great but fine. All in all a much better episode than than the previous episodes so far and probably a personal favorite of mine from this show along with 'The Super-Long Shortcut' a nice gem. Though it kinda sucks that around the same year, it was stated by Railway Productions LLC that Mattel didn't want to associate with the autistic community for the former's idea of a quiet day at Thomas Land at the time, I'd also mentioned this in my review for 'Fast Friends'.
But remember all the love, care and attention for Bruno were made by the production team and not Mattel.
Series Rating:
Fast Friends - 1/10
Fast Friends - 1/10
Percy Disappear - 5/10
Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10
Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10
Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10
New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10
Hot Air Percy - 2/10
Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10
Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10
Overall Rating (So far):
32/90
