It should be a rhetorical question. How do you mess up Thomas? It's a solid concept with a grounded lore and you use that as a starting base for your stories.
The newer Thomas and his friends was further from the original source material then when I was a child but it was still pretty solid and at least made a distinction between the trains and the humans around them.
This absolute mess is a ridiculous disappointment. Especially as is now what is show on morning TV that my children watch. Like others have said it is just so chaotic and so abstract from everything Thomas was.
Awful art style, mundane stories, they inhabit a clearly cartoon world opposed to what was previously presented as the real world, they jump around, pick things up with the wheels that become extendable arms, the theme tune is joke and the way the characters are presented is weird.
In the UK anyway, on TV at the moment you have the big hitters, Paw Patrol, Peppa Pig, Fire Sam and Thomas. I'm not saying they are all brilliant but the point is they stand out as unique concepts and are instantly recognisable. This new Thomas.. it could easily be any other of the background filler shows with abstract stories, poorly written episodes, generic cartoony look.. the fact they are trains is just completely incidental.
A joke.
The newer Thomas and his friends was further from the original source material then when I was a child but it was still pretty solid and at least made a distinction between the trains and the humans around them.
This absolute mess is a ridiculous disappointment. Especially as is now what is show on morning TV that my children watch. Like others have said it is just so chaotic and so abstract from everything Thomas was.
Awful art style, mundane stories, they inhabit a clearly cartoon world opposed to what was previously presented as the real world, they jump around, pick things up with the wheels that become extendable arms, the theme tune is joke and the way the characters are presented is weird.
In the UK anyway, on TV at the moment you have the big hitters, Paw Patrol, Peppa Pig, Fire Sam and Thomas. I'm not saying they are all brilliant but the point is they stand out as unique concepts and are instantly recognisable. This new Thomas.. it could easily be any other of the background filler shows with abstract stories, poorly written episodes, generic cartoony look.. the fact they are trains is just completely incidental.
A joke.