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mean-scarlet-deceiver · 6 days ago

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Give us the tea on how Gordon was fumbled?

I appreciate this opportunity so much.

Unfortunately I don't think I can properly answer it short of a full-fledged essay. And I've been trying to write that one for years.

The shortest way I can think to say it is to repeat my insistence that in C. Awdry's final book, putting out that fire with Gordon's water reserves ought to have been Gordon's idea. It would have been the perfect a highly acceptable end to his character arc.

As it was a human's idea, and Gordon was just There, it is completely hollow and meaningless and I have to question if either Awdry ever understood what made Gordon a force to be reckoned with in the first place.

#it's not about his tractive effort 😭#this is an engine full of his own ideas #instead of his character arc being 'gradually gordon learns to be selfless and wise and therefore his bold moves genuinely help those #who most need justice and redress'#the awdrys write it as 'eventually the fat controllers made sure gordon was completely tamed 💙🙏🙃'#'trusts the man. never puts a wheel out of line.'#'dw he's totally happy (lies)'#(the way c. awdry writes him it's kind of obviously a lie)#(like it's ironic that c.a. is such a good character writer that even when he doesn't seem to know why #he accurately captures that sense of discontent and loneliness that would invariably hang around gordon under these circumstances.)#(BECAUSE WHY WOULDN'T THEY?)#(Gordon can't be happy like this. you are killing that creature.)#(Gordon was made to afflict! let him be a terror — to those who deserve to be a little terrorized!)#(he was made to cause big scenes! let him cause them for Good Reasons!)#ttte gordon

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