Welcome to my first blog post for 2019, everyone! Hope you all had a merry Christmas.
This time, I am going to say how I feel about Thomas the Tank Engine now.
As you all know, I am mixed on Season 22. There were some good episodes, like Hunt the Truck (I was hoping Boco would return in that one, but I guess you can't have it all), An Engine of Many Colours, Outback Thomas, Thomas' Animal Ark, What Rebecca Does, Counting on Nia, and School of Duck. There were some mediocre at best episodes like Banjo and the Bushfire (I was personally hoping that Banjo would be a bear to reference Banjo-Kazooie, but he was actually a bear-like marsupial known as a koala), Numbuh One Engine, Forever and Ever, and Trusty Trunky, and even some atrocious episodes like Thomas Goes to Bollywood, Thomas in the Wild, Thomas and the Monkey Palace (And this is coming from a monkey lover), The Water Wheel, and the ever-so-appalling, putrid, rancid, toxic, anger-inducing atrocity Apology Impossible, which proves that the series has been on for too long!
I have been looking through all the tweets on Twitter, comments on rants about Thomas' revamp, and even comments on the episodes. I have been looking very deep into those comments and realised how many people have been taking the series so seriously. It made me realise I've been taking the series for granted too. Just like how I've been taking The Simpsons for granted (Trust me. I've given up on that series after that Apu controversy).
And here is the announcement I'm going to make. It's going to shock a lot of you.
After reading what Season 23 is going to be like, having an episode in Italy (regardless of how exciting that might be to you guys), and more episodes in China, India, and Australia, I've made the real decision.
I am not going to be watching anymore future episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine ever again. Not for the sake of any of you, but for the sake of not adding so much stress on my life. That's it.
I did plan on reviewing episodes of Season 23, but after I made this realisation and done my research, I decided, stuff it! I'm not reviewing that season.
One of my main problems with the newest series is the Around the World episodes. Most of them are really pointless. Thomas went around the world in Big World! Big Adventures!, so why is he travelling around the world again? And they're focusing too much on animals.
Next problem. Where's the variety? Why is Thomas travelling to Australia, India, and China again? He's seen those parts of the world already!
What does Fat Controller think of Thomas travelling the world again? Wouldn't he think that overkill?
And also, who is doing Thomas' work while he's away in China, India, Australia, wherever else in the world? He can't just leave his work and get back to it once his international adventures are over!
Or better yet, why not make a spinoff just focusing on the international engines?
It's too much for a small 6 wheel tank engine to do all of this! Thomas has already travelled the world! He's seen the world already! So this series shouldn't even exist!
We all know that this series does exist for one reason. Mattel's fake reason being "A kid said "Thomas never goes anywhere"". I'm calling it fake because I doubt that kid even exists. Besides, if Thomas never went anywhere, Thomas would just be stuck in the shed all the time, or stuck in a siding all the time. That would be downright boring to watch.
And another problem with this series. I've been feeling this way since Andrew Brenner took over as head writer. And it sucks that he's left the series, and that Season 23 will be his last season with the show. I've been feeling that many Thomas fans have been taking the series for granted. Overexcited to see characters like Terence, Bulgy, Duck, Oliver, Daisy, Donald, Douglas, etc. return to the series. It's great that they're back in the series, but do we really need to be this crazy about it?
I've been feeling that many fans are forgetting what they really did like about Thomas in the first place. Taking the series far too seriously, even forgetting it's a children's series.
And also, I feel people are overrating this series like Spongebob, Teen Titans Go!, Frozen, etc. Especially those people who are involved in that appalling Thomas Creator Collective! A series which I really hope will get cancelled soon!
What I've heard about Mattel is that we don't know what they'll do with Bob the Builder. And I heard they ended the ugly CGi Fireman Sam reboot (Thank goodness!). Probably because they want to focus more on Hot Wheels, Barbie, and even Big World! Big Adventures!.
Also, I've been realising this for the last couple of years. A lot of people overrate certain things like this. Just about everything that gets made nowadays is all quantity over quality. Especially when it comes to Nickelodeon (Especially Spongebob and The Loud House (I still refuse to get into that series)), Cartoon Network (Especially Go!), The Simpsons, Family Guy, and even shows targeted towards small children. This is why I don't plan on having kids of my own, or if I do have kids of my own, I'll just expose them to what I grew up with and pretend they're from the present.
Speaking of TV, I'm only going to be using it to play video games from now on. There's mostly reality shows, talk shows, news reports, soap operas, and dimwitted commercials on TV nowadays. That's why I don't watch TV anymore. When it comes to entertaining myself by shows, I just watch whatever I want online nowadays.
So there you have it, folks. I am not going to be sticking around for future Thomas episodes, especially with the lack of variety in their international episodes and overuse of fantasy sequences (regardless of how funny they can be). But if you are going to be sticking around for future Thomas, that's fine by me, but don't expect me to. Besides, I've had it up to here with Mattel's dimwitted marketing ideas (being the reason their sales are going down, and the Trackmaster Push Alongs replacing Adventures may just as well be the final nail in the coffin for them). As a company, Mattel has lost my respect as a Thomas fan.
I'm just going to go back to Seasons 1-7, maybe a bit of Seasons 8-12, and Seasons 17-21. I am also going to be sticking with fanmade projects, like fanfictions and made up episodes. Plus, I have more interests apart from Thomas!
So there. I'm done. And this time, I mean it! I really do mean it this time.
