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Well, the rest of Season 17 of TTTE has resumed airing. Starting off with "The Lost Puff" sees good character development for Paxton. I have some pros and cons for this episode...

Pros: Discusses realism such as being careful when riding over buckled track, Fat Controller being in proper character with not putting up for any nonsense and getting a good view of Stephen pulling his coach.

Cons: Paxton going ridiculously fast for a BR Class 08, Thomas playing on the bumpy track when he clearly listened to the Fat Controller (But I guess it's to further show the cheeky side of his personality, but I find this silly rather than cheeky in my opinion) and there being no interactivity with an engine's crew. Yeah, I feel the latter con's not a real excuse because so far Brenner hasn't done anything about making the engine's driver and fireman speak or even being mentioned doing something. They're still being the engine's "hands" like they were condemned to be in the Miller era.

Misc: Really felt like a Miller-esque episode, but it was combined with good vocabulary and discussing how steam engines work. This is my 2nd least favorite episode of Season 17 - the 1st being Steamie Stafford. I found it odd, yet somewhat creative how the narrator said "The Fat Controller's words flew out of Paxton's cooling fans" instead of "funnel" which was often mistakenly used for Rusty and Mavis. At least we're getting better words for those boring infamous Miller quotes.

But at least Davey Moore (who wrote this episode) did an okay job. Not the worst episode of the season and did have some good moments, I'm looking forward to the rest of this season (no, not because of a certain pannier tank engine and saddletank twins).

Description
Well, the rest of Season 17 of TTTE has resumed airing. Starting off with "The Lost Puff" sees good character development for Paxton. I have some pros and cons for this episode...

Pros: Discusses realism such as being careful when riding over buckled track, Fat Controller being in proper character with not putting up for any nonsense and getting a good view of Stephen pulling his coach.

Cons: Paxton going ridiculously fast for a BR Class 08, Thomas playing on the bumpy track when he clearly listened to the Fat Controller (But I guess it's to further show the cheeky side of his personality, but I find this silly rather than cheeky in my opinion) and there being no interactivity with an engine's crew. Yeah, I feel the latter con's not a real excuse because so far Brenner hasn't done anything about making the engine's driver and fireman speak or even being mentioned doing something. They're still being the engine's "hands" like they were condemned to be in the Miller era.

Misc: Really felt like a Miller-esque episode, but it was combined with good vocabulary and discussing how steam engines work. This is my 2nd least favorite episode of Season 17 - the 1st being Steamie Stafford. I found it odd, yet somewhat creative how the narrator said "The Fat Controller's words flew out of Paxton's cooling fans" instead of "funnel" which was often mistakenly used for Rusty and Mavis. At least we're getting better words for those boring infamous Miller quotes.

But at least Davey Moore (who wrote this episode) did an okay job. Not the worst episode of the season and did have some good moments, I'm looking forward to the rest of this season (no, not because of a certain pannier tank engine and saddletank twins).