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Predictions for future Thomas Retrospectives

• Season 9:
  • Favourite episode: "Respect for Gordon" (he's already given it a positive review)
  • Worst episode: "Skarloey the Brave" (it kicked off his Flanderization)
    • Both confirmed
• Season 10:
  • He'll joke that Sir Handel is finally out of the Shadow Realm
    • Jossed
  • Worst episode: "Edward Strikes Out" (he's out of character)
    • Sort-of. He called it the second-worst.
• Season 12:
  • Worst episode: "Push Me, Pull You" (he said it might be the worst episode of the show in the Skarloey video)
• Season 15:
  • Worst episode: "Up, Up, and Away" and/or "Wonky Whistle" (they're both widely considered some of the worst episodes of the show, and Tug and Zeo did a video making fun of the former a long time ago)
• Season 16:
  • Stand-out episode: "Don't Bother Victor" (Other ThomasTubers have said it's the best Nitrogen episode, and it's the first CGI episode to show the Skarloey Railway.)
  • Favourite episode: "Happy Birthday, Sir!" (as discussed in the second hidden gems video)
• Season 17:
  • Favourite episode: "Henry's Hero" (he praises it a lot, and even uses a clip of it as an example of how much the Brenner era improved from the Nitrogen era in his Brenner seasons ranking)
• Season 18:
  • MVPs: Annie and Clarabel (they get their first focus episodes, which explore their dynamic with Thomas)
  • Stand-out episode: "Duncan and the Grumpy Passenger" (it's one of the few CGI episodes to show the Skarloey Railway, has some stunning visuals, and the only standard-gauge engines to appear are teeny-tiny cameos) or "Emily Saves the World" (it's bonkers)
  • Favourite episode: "Not So Slow Coaches" (he said it was his favourite CGI episode in the hidden gems video)
  • Worst episode: "The Flatbeds of Fear" (he keeps using it as an example of Henry's Flanderization, and says it's the only bad episode on a specific DVD in the home media collection video)
• Season 19:
  • Worst episode: "Henry Spots Trouble" (he also uses it as an example of Henry's Flanderization a lot)
  • Stand-out episode: "Slow Stephen" (it's a tense, season 5-esque action episode where Gordon almost dies)
• Season 20:
  • MVP: Daisy (as someone predicted in the comments of "Top 10 Hidden Gems of CGI Thomas"; she gets three focus episodes)
  • Worst episode: "Diesel and the Ducklings" (he said it was the only bad season 20 episode in his ranking of all the Brenner seasons) or "The Three Steam Engines Gruff" (he uses it as an example of the CGI seasons hitting the Reset Button in the Percy video)
  • Favourite episode: "Tit for Tat" (he repeatedly uses it as an example of a beloved CGI episode in the hidden gems video)
• Season 21:
  • MVP: Cranky (he's the focus of a two-parter, which ends with a permanent status quo change by giving him a new character to interact with)
  • Stand-out episode: "New Crane on the Docks" (it ends with a huge Pandering to the Base moment)
  • Favourite episode: "Springtime for Diesel" (he keeps praising it)
  • Worst episode: "A Shed for Edward" (it wrote off his favourite character)

Predictions for future videos

• A ranking of every Pixar movie
• An All Engines Go review (when the show and the Thomas Retrospective are finished)
• Reviews of either Theodore Tugboat or Chuggington (two shows mentioned in passing on his channel)
• A Bigg City Port map video

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