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Airdate: October 18th, 2010 (UK)/November 27th, 2010 (USA)
Written by: Sharon Miller
Directed by: Greg Tiernan
Produced: 2009
Positive Qualities:
- The beginning shots give out such nostalgia to the second season with the viaduct added in.
- One of the examples on how you do a worried Henry episode well.
- This episode does show rolling stock can cause accidents if they are stranded on the main line.
- The crashes are priceless.
- Henry being pointed as old shows that Henry has lived on the railway since his arrival on Sodor.
- Victor saying "BAM!"
- Thomas gets only one line this episode, but of course, he is likable in this episode.
- "Things can go wrong", yes things can go wrong.
- Henry's smile to Victor and Kevin is pretty charming.
- Henry's old persona is in this episode, even though it is only in there for this episode sadly.
- Moral: There is a time and a place for health and safety.
Bad Qualities:
- Henry's traction rods breaking after a big bump on the freight car is pretty confusing.
- Why couldn't the workman warn Henry about the car he rammed over?
- Henry should know what health and safety is.
- The repetitive alliteration and rhyming.
- What's the rush Percy? I mean really, what is he going that fast for?
This is one of the few good episodes from season fourteen that I can find alongside "Victor Says Yes", "Thomas and Scruff", "and "Being Percy" as examples. I would have to say this one is a good way on how you do an episode where Henry is worried. He isn't a wimp scared of what would happen to a magic box or even squeamish about trees being cut down. He knows that things that block the line like freight cars as an example would get stranded on the main line and cause an accident to occur to happen. He wanted to make sure everyone is safe.
This episode does follow a good moral from the Fat Controller that health and safety has a place and a time when he is telling Henry about what he is doing. Okay, if there are a few issues I can criticize the episode. Well, Percy going really fast didn't make sense because I don't know why Percy was running this fast on the main line, which showed that he ran out of water because of that. Henry's traction rods breaking after bumping into a freight car was pretty confusing as well, trains can't have their traction rods break apart if they bump into a freight car. Oh, and again, the annoying rhyming and alliteration!
Aside of those main three things, this is the episode where they could have done more crashes often in S12-16. Engines getting smashed, engines coming off the rails, things going insane on the railway where you wouldn't know what's going on. All that! This episode wasn't so bad when watching it again, even if you think Henry was being a bit too stupid. But in defense of that episode, this episode shows that Henry wanted to make things safe, but ends up screwing things up until he makes amends, even when he had to help Toby get back onto the rails with the help of Rocky of course.
EPISODE OVERALL: PRETTY GOOD (8.5/10)
Written by: Sharon Miller
Directed by: Greg Tiernan
Produced: 2009
Positive Qualities:
- The beginning shots give out such nostalgia to the second season with the viaduct added in.
- One of the examples on how you do a worried Henry episode well.
- This episode does show rolling stock can cause accidents if they are stranded on the main line.
- The crashes are priceless.
- Henry being pointed as old shows that Henry has lived on the railway since his arrival on Sodor.
- Victor saying "BAM!"
- Thomas gets only one line this episode, but of course, he is likable in this episode.
- "Things can go wrong", yes things can go wrong.
- Henry's smile to Victor and Kevin is pretty charming.
- Henry's old persona is in this episode, even though it is only in there for this episode sadly.
- Moral: There is a time and a place for health and safety.
Bad Qualities:
- Henry's traction rods breaking after a big bump on the freight car is pretty confusing.
- Why couldn't the workman warn Henry about the car he rammed over?
- Henry should know what health and safety is.
- The repetitive alliteration and rhyming.
- What's the rush Percy? I mean really, what is he going that fast for?
This is one of the few good episodes from season fourteen that I can find alongside "Victor Says Yes", "Thomas and Scruff", "and "Being Percy" as examples. I would have to say this one is a good way on how you do an episode where Henry is worried. He isn't a wimp scared of what would happen to a magic box or even squeamish about trees being cut down. He knows that things that block the line like freight cars as an example would get stranded on the main line and cause an accident to occur to happen. He wanted to make sure everyone is safe.
This episode does follow a good moral from the Fat Controller that health and safety has a place and a time when he is telling Henry about what he is doing. Okay, if there are a few issues I can criticize the episode. Well, Percy going really fast didn't make sense because I don't know why Percy was running this fast on the main line, which showed that he ran out of water because of that. Henry's traction rods breaking after bumping into a freight car was pretty confusing as well, trains can't have their traction rods break apart if they bump into a freight car. Oh, and again, the annoying rhyming and alliteration!
Aside of those main three things, this is the episode where they could have done more crashes often in S12-16. Engines getting smashed, engines coming off the rails, things going insane on the railway where you wouldn't know what's going on. All that! This episode wasn't so bad when watching it again, even if you think Henry was being a bit too stupid. But in defense of that episode, this episode shows that Henry wanted to make things safe, but ends up screwing things up until he makes amends, even when he had to help Toby get back onto the rails with the help of Rocky of course.
EPISODE OVERALL: PRETTY GOOD (8.5/10)
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