Annie and Clarabel are older, and of course tire more easily. Thomas knows this and when they do grow restless he makes sure they get pampered as well as him.
@TheRedJinty@the_chairlord In general I think the Ulfstead Castle crew has an insane hit rate. These two, the glynn duology, runaway engine, literally anything with sir robert, you can tell the crew really loved this little section of the island, they were so inspired for it !
@solrocknroll you might be onto something there, I've never disliked rackstraw james (outside of the awful HERESSSS JAMES! bit) but if you are not it probably hurts the whole character, where narrators are more neutral in the sense
If best dressed engine dropped in S19 people would go ape shit cause holy fuck it's Murdoch, but also people'd complain Gordon is wildly outta character.
Never got these complaints w Gordon and James because these issues have been festering since the second NonAwdrys wrote them!
@BigMistakeYT I could write a entire movie on why Andrew's take on Gordon sucks, but I'll restrain myself for now, he erased everything about Gordon's character and reduced him to nothing more than an angry moron. Even when they introduced Flying Scotsman In the series-
No Brenner era episode about James would feel remotely out of place in S13 or S9 or S6 for that matter. These characters have been STATIC since a team of writers was decided essential to production post The Film that scared investors enough to throw brand integrity out the window
I find this criticism thrown to the brenner era specifically a lot and to me it feels like the era is punching so much higher than everything else in its weight it forces this discussion where otherwise it's drowned out by mediocrity. Theyre doing the best with shitty baselines
@solrocknroll what era of sugimori art because the water color trumps all but id kill to see them do a real shake up and redo the "base art" for everyone like in gen 3/4
@DustyMarie53@doverstoys when fergus (who was thrown into wave 2 for no real reason) comes with his never used on screen dented funnel as an accessory >>>