This episode is great, the moral/tone is handled well, and the crash is great, unlike Thomas and the Rumors, this episode takes it's time to show the rumor getting worse and has some serious consequences.
I honestly don't get the criticism with this episode, those exact people hate on the hit era because Thomas is too nice (which isn't true by the way) or because the seasons writing is so dumb and gimmicky, well here you all are, an episode with a serious plot and a jerky Thomas, oh no, that's not what you wanted either, people say Thomas intentionally spread rumors about Neville when he clearly did nothing wrong, but that is not true, Thomas didn't see the entire situation, he only saw Arry and Bert laughing at Neville, and misinterpreted it as them laughing with him, he then reported the story as he saw it, and then it was his friends that blew it out of proportion 1 by 1 leading to the shenanigans in the episode, first of all, that's a strong moral, and secondly, it wasn't Thomas' fault, and even if it was, he was a total jerk in the railway series and people praise it there, but when it's an episode disliked by general consensus, no no, now we have to change our views, the criticism is ridiculous
The only nit pick I have is that Edward was a bit out of character, and I few he should know better than to spread rumors about other engines, in conclusion, this episode is great, and much better than Thomas and the Rumors.
I honestly don't get the criticism with this episode, those exact people hate on the hit era because Thomas is too nice (which isn't true by the way) or because the seasons writing is so dumb and gimmicky, well here you all are, an episode with a serious plot and a jerky Thomas, oh no, that's not what you wanted either, people say Thomas intentionally spread rumors about Neville when he clearly did nothing wrong, but that is not true, Thomas didn't see the entire situation, he only saw Arry and Bert laughing at Neville, and misinterpreted it as them laughing with him, he then reported the story as he saw it, and then it was his friends that blew it out of proportion 1 by 1 leading to the shenanigans in the episode, first of all, that's a strong moral, and secondly, it wasn't Thomas' fault, and even if it was, he was a total jerk in the railway series and people praise it there, but when it's an episode disliked by general consensus, no no, now we have to change our views, the criticism is ridiculous
The only nit pick I have is that Edward was a bit out of character, and I few he should know better than to spread rumors about other engines, in conclusion, this episode is great, and much better than Thomas and the Rumors.
