I hate the personalities of Skarloey and Rheneas in S9-12 while season seven was the point they went backwards, season nine marked the point of no return for them, at least until Blue Mountain Mystery. If you're asking, no, this is not reminiscent to Up, Up and Away, especially since a skeleton is heavier than a balloon. Later, when Rheneas takes the dinosaur, he pulls it without trouble, but when it comes to climbing a hill, he isn't strong enough and ends up back at the bottom of the hill because he was a selfish idiot for not letting Skarloey help him! And by the way, considering Gallant Old Engine, I doubt he'd struggle with the dinosaur by himself! So Skarloey comes by and initially refuses, but when Rheneas apologizes, Skarloey changes his mind and helps his friend to the Transfer Yards. One word goes into my mind - why?! Why would they choose Skarloey and Rheneas for such roles? Why would they be treated as such? Why do the writers have to destroy some of the best characters beyond recognition?! Since they've been on Sodor for over a century, they should know better! As for Rheneas? Well, he wants to try again, does so, and is allowed to take the dinosaur himself. Yep, definitely the point where Skarloey went backwards. Rheneas shunts some trucks carefully, but Skarloey is reckless and smashes into the trucks, spilling coal. Percival needs two careful engines to take dinosaur skeleton to the Transfer Yards (why was it transported whole and not in pieces?) so it can be taken to the Sodor Museum. Doesn't he have his branchline to run? Oh wait he's the only large scale model they had, I understand. So one day, some archaeologists find some dinosaur bones, and Thomas is sent to pick up the photographer and take him to the Transfer Yards to photograph the dinosaur skeleton. Seriously, how on earth is he able to write good episodes like Gordon and the Engineer and Emily Saves the World - to be fair, it was a team effort with Laura Beaumont on the latter - and yet he can also write episodes like both piles of garbage?! Both were also written by Paul Larson.Both aired during season nine, which, in my opinion, was the TRUE point where Thomas and Friends slowly went backwards before redemption in season 17.So why am I tackling Rheneas and the Dinosaur and Skarloey the Brave head on together? Well, let's knock some similarities out of the way: Out of all the characters who suffered from character derailment in the Miller/Barlow era, Skarloey and Rheneas were possibly among the worst - it started with a few, erm, missteps in seasons six and seven, but when they came back in season nine with Peter Sam, Rusty, and Duncan (Sir Handel would come back the following season) their characters had been completely wrecked. THE OPINIONS, THOUGHTS AND MUSINGS IN THIS BLOG POST ARE SOLELY THOSE OF ZACK WANZER, NOT THE THOMAS FANDOM IN GENERAL
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