Web of Lies - Chapter 9 - Victoria

“He had worked his entire life to escape this job, and now, he was about to return to it voluntarily.” That one sentence alone perfectly summarises Thomas’ entire character growth.

This is when this story shifted from “Thomas and diesel go on a wacky adventure” to “dissecting two characters that are complete opposites”

Man, that "Shut the fuck up!" held so much emotion. That's your strength with narration, Lemy. You can really evoke the emotions from the characters you speak for. I can't wait to see how this wraps up.

I actually really liked Thomas’s backstory in this. It’s funny to think that several days must’ve gone into simply drawing up the designs of the E2, and then months must’ve been spent actually putting even a single one of them into operation… but then they turn out to be so mediocre but the only reason their entire class is remembered is because of a A couple books and a TV show. If it wasn’t for that, the E2s would probably be one of the most obscure classes of British locomotive you could think of. Neither great or terrible enough to be remembered. They were simply unremarkable. That, in the eyes of someone like Thomas, would be a fate worse than death. It’s funny to think that that entire class of engine probably would’ve fell into obscurity if the artist had followed Awdry’s vision and made Thomas something resembling a J50. Would anyone have cared that all of that class of engine was cut up and scrapped in real life? Sure I wish that at least one of them was preserved, but I won’t pretend for a second but that has nothing to do with Thomas. Even though the blue tank engine isn’t real, he undoubtably had an impact on that class of engine.

Diesel reminds me of Shockwave; both of them are meticulously and tenaciously cold and think logically. However Diesel serves the pure concept of Efficiency, while Shockwave serves pure logic.

Mannnnn out of all of the episodes this one probably hit the absolute hardest. The arguments, the setup, the first and most recent pilots training together, the conspiracy to get back at Duck somewhat with legit terrorism in Paddington. By god my dude. You literally could make a whole series on this type of storytelling!

HAH! What timing! I literally just got done watching Part 8. 😅.

Thomas is right. You don't just joke about war like that. War is VERY real.

I love this. I’ll write a long multi-paragraph comment about this story once the final chapter comes out but I felt like writing this one because this is so layered. First of all, I like the foreshadowing of the third rail electrification before they even get into the yard (or at least I think that’s what Thomas was referring to when he said they actually did it). Second of all I find diesels disregarding and denial of BRs electric transition rather ironic to say the least, and not in the way you might expect. You see from my understanding diesels were absolutely never in the plan for any railway on the globe until about half a decade before ww2. The “plan” (or vague future that people saw in railways/railroads) was always that they were going to start with steam and transition to electric. Diesels were honestly from some perspectives a missstep in progress clashing with diesels entire sense of identity and self worth.

This is why so many people relate to Thomas the tank engine

Wow Thomas has grown a lot, I wouldve left diesels sorry ass back at Paddington💀

27:33 Thomas: Shut the f--k up! Don't ever p--s Thomas off, folks!

Chapter 8 was a hell of a ride god damn diesel is a genius

How do you write. HOW! I mean, really. This is the best Thomas Fan work I have ever experienced. Thank you.

Your diesel reminds me very deeply of Peridot from Steven universe, and that is an interpretation I wholly enjoy.

WOO just watched 8 and was thinking about 9 and its here now noice

26:58 Thomas: F--k you! Damn! Imagine if Thomas had that to the Fat Controller in SLOTLT!

Oh my god this is amazing I loved that argument at the end!! The one line that upset me was the line “if it were really there” referring to Diesel’s tongue

Damn that ending

When Diesel said that BR would brought an end to Engines of Sodor and take over the NWR,but there is one thing he doesn't know,the NWR is not with BR anymore,they cut ties with them in 1967 during Flying Scotsman's visit,so BR cannot do anything to the NWR because the NWR are not with them anymore,so they can't do crap to them.