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> The trains, who have children's minds, are unquestionably servile The trains, who have children's minds, are constantly breaking rules, forming petty cliques
by falsedan 9y ago
> The trains, who have children's minds, are unquestionably servile
The trains, who have children's minds, are constantly breaking rules, forming petty cliques, tormenting each other, and ultimately getting some comeuppance.
How could they be used to teach obedience if they never showed the folly of not following instructions??
- pygy_ 9y agoI didn't watch it as a kid, and only sampled a few episodes. From what I've seen, while they may break rules, they do so in order to comply with an order coming from the humans (or to fall into their good graces).
- falsedan 9y agoThat's not the case at all, Thomas is always doing things he shouldn't for fun, like disturbing sleeping trains (Gordon), winding up trains with remarks (also Gordon), passing warning boards in mines, and falling into subsiding mines[0]. Then there's not being nice to trucks, refusing to pull trucks, panicking from a near-collision and running away, ignoring advice from more-experiences engines and losing a head of steam, deliberately causing passengers to get wet, … The ones where they do as they're asked to are the minority… I don't recall any instances when an engine was directed to ignore a rule by a driver or the Fat Controller. 0: http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Down_the_Mine http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Down_the_Mine
- pygy_ 9y ago> The ones where they do as they're asked to are the minority. As I told you I only sampled a few episodes (4-5), and servility and/or racism (Diesel) were present in most of them, without any distance or criticism. I'm glad there are other themes, but I don't want to watch every episode before I show them to my kids, so I avoid the series altogether. Edit: BTW, By Diesel, I meant Trucks, that's how they are called in the French translation.