#i won't say thomas disliking ashima was unjustified

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I think The Great Race is the first movie I haven’t really enjoyed. Like, it’s not terrible or anything - it’s certainly better than Misty Island Rescue - but there was just a lot that dragged it down for me.

Like Diesel, for instance. All his subplot amounted to was taking Thomas out of commission. I think something that could have been fun was if he was upset that he wasn’t chosen to go, so he sneaks after the engines to sabotage them. And maybe he finds a way to shift the blame onto Ashima, giving Thomas a different reason to dislike her at first.

And there’s the railway show itself. It takes until halfway through the movie for them to actually get there, and then they blow through all of the competitions. If the movie focused more on it, and maybe shown the show sooner, we could have gotten to know the railway show engines a little. Maybe not their life stories or anything like that, but enough to justify making all of those new characters and never seeing most of them again.

And I know it’s been talked to death, but it would have been cool to see Gordon take the lead this time. Percy got two movies to himself - Well, more like one and one third - so why couldn’t Gordon?