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Stefan Jones
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03-13-2003 07:57 PM ET (US)
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My, Diesel certainly looks a might peeved in that photo, doesn't he?
If British kids are avoiding trains, it's more likely over their disappointment that real engines don't have big anthropomorphic faces on 'em.
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| Schuyler
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03-13-2003 07:59 PM ET (US)
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Edited by author 03-13-2003 07:59 PM
Well, realistically speaking... What other kinds of drama can one concieve of on a kid's show where the protagonist is a railway engine?
"Oh, Mummy, Thomas has gone and spit up his coal pablum again!"
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| chico haas
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03-13-2003 08:07 PM ET (US)
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1. A mean engineer
2. The haunted tunnel
3. The big race (with cheating)
4. Crashes
5. Crashes
6. Crashes
7. Threats of a MagLev that mysteriously crashes.
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| Alison Scott
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03-13-2003 08:37 PM ET (US)
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What this is really about is the way in which new stories in the series (and hence new TV shows) betray the vision of the Rev. Awdry. Who was, to be fair, a bit mad. But he was very careful to write only about actual incidents that might happen with trains; for the most part taking his inspiration from actual incidents that had happened with real trains. And of course, the vast majority of his stories don't involve crashes; small children really don't need that much dramatic tension.
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| Keefy
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03-14-2003 06:24 AM ET (US)
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You have to laugh, considering it's originally a UK show (narrated by Ringo Starr!). If anything, the UK rail network does all it can do to scare people away, the regular real crashes out-do anything Thomas can throw at you.
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