ThomasNATION Reviews - Rocket's Fall

Man, this second half of Season 2 seems to be the season of episodic follow-ups, doesn't it?  I mean, we've already had a follow-up to Season 1A's "License To Deliver" just a few episodes ago with "Not-So-Secret Mission" which was an okay adventure even if it continued the trend of turning Sir Topham Hatt from a respectable authority figure into a complete joke and we literally just had an indirect follow-up to Season 2A's "Hot Air Percy" which in all honesty was just another Miller Era retread of older episodes from the original series where the engines were running scared by one of Salty's tall tales with the only difference here being that he actually apologized for it. 

And now, we come to today's episode which serves as a follow-up to Season 1-A's "Thomas Blasts Off"-one of my favorite episodes from that season-which features Thomas learning that the rocket he helped deliver is finally falling back to Earth into the ocean outside Sodor and wants to help Bulstrode and Carly as well as their team of retrieval experts fish the rocket out of the water.  Right from the start, this sounds like an awesome idea for an episode especially with a cast of characters made up entirely of ones from the original series. What could possibly go wrong? 

Well, while you could make the argument that the moral of working together as a team and plotline of Thomas wanting to help with everyone else's jobs feels very similar to "Thomas Blasts Off", it is actually told enough in a different way this time around with a different moral of knowing when it is the best time to help out and using your set of skills in order to prevent itself from feeling like a complete rehash which would've really brought this episode down in my opinion.  Oh, and did I mention that we get another absolute banger song from Salty with "When You Go to Sea"?  In fact, I'd love to see someone make a mashup of this song and "The Sodor Shanty" someday. 

Now as for my overall rating while I think that "Thomas Blasts Off" was the better half of the story, "Rocket's Fall" was still an okay way to close out another two-parter that no one saw coming thus I'm gonna give it a 3/5.

Final Rating: 3/5

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