Cautious Connor: ThomasNATION Review (by SunilFan48 and Team)
December 23, 2016
Hello there everyone, time for another one of my reviews. This time it is Cautious Connor! Another one of Andrew Brenner’s Season 20 masterpieces!
This episode gives Connor something that his character has needed all along: actual character! Sure he is fast, kind and caring, but in the Thomas universe, that literally equates to the personality of a stick.
But here we see another side of Connor, his worrisome side. And it makes sense too. As Connor has never been seen to have an accident before. Therefore going fast and accidentally breaking his coupling rod, made him worry that it will happen again, even though his speed had nothing to do with it.
Thomas tries to help him, but nothing seems to snap Connor out of it. So Thomas enlists the help of Stephen. Which is where we get possibly the single greatest speech in the history of the franchise! Stephen seems to know just what to say to pump Connor up and get him moving again!
Stephen definitely steals the show here in this episode. He is certainly one of the best and most well-rounded Arc era newbies (at least in my opinion). This episode also had some great visuals and music in it to go with a certainly entertaining watch. I also love the bits of dialogue such as Connor’s “I’m bang on time!” and “Better safe than sorry.” As well as Stephen’s little “Bang on time again Connor?” Feels like dialogue you would have found in the Classic series and Railway series. Definitely a very well thought out and written story, with great focus on emotion and character moments.
Though there are a few little nitpicks for me. One is the obvious: Thomas shoehorning. While it isn’t as forced shoehorning as in Salty All at Sea, and it does work better as he has Annie and Clarabel here to add their dialogue and gets someone else to solve the problem, but it still feels he could have been replaced with Caitlin. Caitlin and Connor’s dynamic has never been explored further than “they are friends who like to race each other” This would have been a perfect opportunity for this. Another minor niggle is the way Thomas slowed down to speak to Connor, it lasted to long and seemed unrealistic to me.
But those are very minor moments in a really splendid episode! Certainly one of the highlights of the season so far, and one of the most pumped up episodes to date! I give Cautious Connor a rating of 4.5/5!
Rating: 4.5 / 5
The whole team quite loved the episode, as well, averaging its rating upto...
ThomasNATION Rating: 4.65 / 5
About The Author:
Chris - @SunilFan48
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But here we see another side of Connor, his worrisome side. And it makes sense too. As Connor has never been seen to have an accident before. Therefore going fast and accidentally breaking his coupling rod, made him worry that it will happen again, even though his speed had nothing to do with it. 
Thomas tries to help him, but nothing seems to snap Connor out of it. So Thomas enlists the help of Stephen. Which is where we get possibly the single greatest speech in the history of the franchise! Stephen seems to know just what to say to pump Connor up and get him moving again!
Stephen definitely steals the show here in this episode. He is certainly one of the best and most well-rounded Arc era newbies (at least in my opinion). This episode also had some great visuals and music in it to go with a certainly entertaining watch. I also love the bits of dialogue such as Connor’s “I’m bang on time!” and “Better safe than sorry.” As well as Stephen’s little “Bang on time again Connor?” Feels like dialogue you would have found in the Classic series and Railway series. Definitely a very well thought out and written story, with great focus on emotion and character moments.
Though there are a few little nitpicks for me. One is the obvious: Thomas shoehorning. While it isn’t as forced shoehorning as in Salty All at Sea, and it does work better as he has Annie and Clarabel here to add their dialogue and gets someone else to solve the problem, but it still feels he could have been replaced with Caitlin. Caitlin and Connor’s dynamic has never been explored further than “they are friends who like to race each other” This would have been a perfect opportunity for this. Another minor niggle is the way Thomas slowed down to speak to Connor, it lasted to long and seemed unrealistic to me.
But those are very minor moments in a really splendid episode! Certainly one of the highlights of the season so far, and one of the most pumped up episodes to date! I give Cautious Connor a rating of 4.5/5!
Rating: 4.5 / 5
The whole team quite loved the episode, as well, averaging its rating upto...
ThomasNATION Rating: 4.65 / 5
About The Author:
Chris - @SunilFan48
Follow Me on Twitter!
Follow ThomasNATION on Twitter, so you never miss an update!
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