The Thomas Fanbase Shits Itself Again

Another day, another example of whiny little brats getting pissy over opinions. And this could be their most disgusting little stunt so far.

For context, some fans wrote and produced a shitty little fanfic for YouTube: Journey Beyond Sodor: How It Should Have Been. Now I was going to write this narcissistic piece of garbage off as soon as I’d heard about it. Partly due to the narcissistic title, partly due to the fact that past experiences taught me that most fans can’t write a story to save their lives. But, in order to properly have an opinion on it, I bit the bullet and decided to watch it, tweeting my reactions as I did so.

45 seconds in, the destruction began:

This is the message that shows itself 45 seconds in...

Yeah, so this was made out of spite towards Mattel because these idiots took some blatantly imagined criticisms (and things that worth giving a shit about. Seriously, go to a real railway if you don’t want engines to bounce) pic.twitter.com/lR3HZczqSC

— Chris Tomson ♿️🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@CWTWheely) January 5, 2018

I won’t embed all the tweets as there’s so many of them, so I’ll sum up all the problems here:

• It panders to fans to the point of obnoxiousness (and even then, half of the references are wrong or pointless),
• Their idea of an “in character” James is an egotistical racist,
• Gordon ends up becoming a discount James, only he’s discriminatory to other characters,
• The story constantly contradicts itself,
• There are so many plot conveniences,
• The plot itself falls apart after 5 minutes or so,
• You don’t really care that James is captured because you can’t root for him,
• It’s completely hypocritical (it’s made as a “fuck you” to Mattel, yet uses so many Mattel era tropes and words),
• Oliver’s “character” is reduced to “Remember Escape!?”,
• The realism the film aims for works against the plot constantly,
• Other characters are severely underused,
• The songs (and singing) are shit,
• The sound editing is really bad,
• There are basic continuity errors between shots,
• The lack of respect for British terminology and railways is pathetic for a film that says “we’re respecting the Thomas universe”,
• The themes are atrocious,
• The pacing is terrible,
• The film, overall, feels like Sudrian propaganda.

The only counter arguments I’ve seen so far are “the visuals are really good” which simply isn’t true. They’re passable at best, but the blatantly obvious use of green screen for tracking shots look bad. Especially when they’re used to have the engines travel on roads instead of rails.

The other one is “but they spent so long on it”... as though that matters for any reason. Here’s a little reality check for those fans: quality isn’t defined by the amount of time put in, but by the amount of effort put in in that timeframe! With its script that seemed like a first draft, music and sound design that seemed orchestrated in around half an hour and visuals that were hastily cobbled together, this felt like a rush job.

But that’s the thing: every time any two bit hacks throw together a project and release them to the public, they feel as though they deserve praise solely for making something, regardless of quality. And they, and their sycophants, will come up with any excuse to give them that praise when, more often than not, they don’t deserve it at all. And when they don’t get it, they turn into the whiny, screeching manchildren they truly are. Case in point, this thread (I'll embed the first tweet here, feel free to scroll through it in your own time):

Quick reminder how pathetically some lowlives act when someone criticises a shitty fanfic for a preschool show pic.twitter.com/oi52sf9wp1

— Chris Tomson ♿️🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@CWTWheely) January 5, 2018

How sad and pathetic must your life be to attack a disabled person solely for being disabled? Solely because they had the sheer gall to say a shit film was shit? Solely because one opinion doesn't march in lockstep with theirs? These scumbags are the lowest of the low, and they do it for two reasons:

1. They can’t think of a good counter argument as to why it’s good, so they just go on the attack.
2. Their lives are so empty and meaningless that they’d rather tear someone who’s happy and confident down to try and force them to change their minds.

Here’s a newsflash for those fuckwits: I’m not changing my mind until you give me a good reason as to why it’s good. Insulting me will only make me hate it even more, and will result in further exposes with regards to your shitty behaviour in the future. Because I’m done sitting back and taking it. I’m done ignoring it. Last year proved that, and I will continue to call you out this year. Because your behaviour is unacceptable and you’ve been getting away with it for far too long.

EDIT: Since publishing this post, the fanbase has stooped even further, implying homosexuality is a mental problem akin to autism.

So @toz76 has made me realise that this tweet is homophobic. Subtly implying that homosexuality is a mental illness.

Because this fanbase really wants to aim to be the worst one at every opportunity pic.twitter.com/ieLrYtT0xD

— Chris Tomson ♿️🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@CWTWheely) January 7, 2018

Seriously, fuck this fanbase. Hard. All of this bullshit was because someone actually bothered to treat a piece of art like a piece of art and be critical of it. If you're a content creator that can't handle criticism, stop being a content creator.