Skiff & The Mermaid: ThomasNATION Review (by Lana and Team)
February 04, 2017
ThomasNATION member, Lana M. N. takes the pen for the review of the last (air-order) episode of Season 20, "Skiff & The Mermaid." Written by the talented Helen Farrall, let's see how the episode goes out...
Hi! I’m Lana Naoum and this is my first review on ThomasNATION. I’m here to review "Skiff and the Mermaid". Personally, this episode has made me laugh much more than it should and that’s saying something as the other episodes, I gave a low rating for.
We begin with the narrator introducing Skiff, we see him do his tasks as the narrator describes, for example the rail boat tours for the tourists. Skiff overhears Sir Topham and the museum owner talking about a mermaid coming to Sodor. He then says this piece of news to Duck who doesn’t believe him.
During the day, he looks out to the sea waiting for the mermaid to come. Toad and Oliver come and they tell him Toad’s story about how he saw a whale stranded on the beach. The next day, he keeps on waiting, eventually Duck rolls past him with Topham and the museum owner talking about the mermaid, of course Skiff overhears them - this strengthens his doubts.
Topham’s grandkids comes out and they talk to Skiff about land and water. Skiff notices something flapping in the water, so he rolls into the water hurriedly. Skiff instructs Topham to do a rail boat step, Topham has no idea what he says.
Toad and Oliver are worried for Topham and Skiff being in the ocean. Captain Joe reassures the kids that Topham is going to be okay. The kids shake their head "no" - this was quite funny. We cut to Topham saying “nothing can go wrong”. A seagull lands on his hat and then to the oar, making Topham throw the oar.
Hi! I’m Lana Naoum and this is my first review on ThomasNATION. I’m here to review "Skiff and the Mermaid". Personally, this episode has made me laugh much more than it should and that’s saying something as the other episodes, I gave a low rating for.
We begin with the narrator introducing Skiff, we see him do his tasks as the narrator describes, for example the rail boat tours for the tourists. Skiff overhears Sir Topham and the museum owner talking about a mermaid coming to Sodor. He then says this piece of news to Duck who doesn’t believe him.
During the day, he looks out to the sea waiting for the mermaid to come. Toad and Oliver come and they tell him Toad’s story about how he saw a whale stranded on the beach. The next day, he keeps on waiting, eventually Duck rolls past him with Topham and the museum owner talking about the mermaid, of course Skiff overhears them - this strengthens his doubts.
Topham’s grandkids comes out and they talk to Skiff about land and water. Skiff notices something flapping in the water, so he rolls into the water hurriedly. Skiff instructs Topham to do a rail boat step, Topham has no idea what he says.
Toad and Oliver are worried for Topham and Skiff being in the ocean. Captain Joe reassures the kids that Topham is going to be okay. The kids shake their head "no" - this was quite funny. We cut to Topham saying “nothing can go wrong”. A seagull lands on his hat and then to the oar, making Topham throw the oar.
An alarm blares out making Captain and Harold come out to find and rescue the both of them. Cut to, Topham going insane and loosing his mind. Topham attempts to start a fire as he wants to prepare for the night time. We see Harold flying by seeing Topham and Skiff. Topham draws a smiley face on a rock and putting his hat on it. Topham sees Harold and Captain and exclaims out. This whole sequence proves to be quite funny.
We see the kids being sad but we see Topham walking in - this scene is very heartwarming. Captain Joe apologies for Skiff’s behaviour. Skiff says he only wanted to see the mermaid. Topham says he got it wrong, we hear Thomas puffing to show the mermaid statue. Topham states that this was the mermaid Topham meant.
It’s not hard to say this is one of my favourite Season 20 episode. My favourite part is when Oliver makes an appearance because he is one of my favourite characters and when Topham looses his mind on the island because it is quite hilarious to see this. Plus the animation was nothing if not fantastic - Arc/JamFilled continues to impress. Personally, I don’t think there's anything wrong with the episode.
Rating: 5/5
The other members also gave it a positive review, while some thought it to be only above average. The highest rating was 5, and the lowest 3.
ThomasNATION Rating: 4.2 / 5
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