History YMMV / Shed17

* BrokenBase: ''Shed 17'' has shown itself to be quite divisive and controversial within the Thomas fan community. One the one hand, there were many who loved it for its twisted, NightmareFuel filled, BlackHumor take on the show, seeing it as a relief from all the repetitive, paint by numbers fan films that all do the same thing as the main show, but much poorer. On the other hand, there are fans who absolutely despise it, dismissing the DarkerAndEdgier tone as a [[TakeThat cruel, insulting and mean-spirited jab at Rev. Awdry's original stories]].

* RonTheDeathEater: The Fat Controller. In the book/television series, he's a stern yet kind ReasonableAuthorityFigure who cares dearly about his engines and employees. Here he's a FatBastard CorruptCorporateExecutive who only cares about making money from the railway and bio-fusion. He also doesn't care about work ethics or safety and lets his subordinates die if it means saving himself from legal trouble.

** Duck and Oliver: Childhood friends with a shared dream of becoming engines and working on Sodor. By the time they are biofused the ban had already taken effect. [[spoiler: They are however given an oppertunity to work by the japanese railway. Only for it to be a trick and they are forced to fight one another to the death in an imorale cage match. Duck wins and completely loses it when it sinks in what he had done.]]
** Smudger: Like in canon he was converted into a generator but with a much darker context. A point here that is not made clear in the actual show is that he was converted due to budget cuts of the mine being unable to pay to fix his faulty wheel alignment rather then punishment for his clumsiness. Meaning that in this universe he was a liability being butchered for monotary reasons. This almost makes [[spoiler: his eventual salvaging by Hit Logistics seem downright merciful in comparison and that is not even going into the deleted scene...]]

* BrokenBase: ''Shed 17'' has shown itself to be quite divisive and controversial within the Thomas fan community. One the one hand, there were many who loved it for its twisted, NightmareFuel filled, BlackHumor take on the show, seeing it as a relief from [[SturgeonsLaw all the repetitive, paint by numbers fan films that all do the same thing as the main show, but much poorer]]. On the other hand, there are fans who absolutely despise it, dismissing the DarkerAndEdgier tone as a [[TakeThat cruel, insulting and mean-spirited jab at Rev. Awdry’s original stories]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Keith Hartley constantly badmouths Sir Topham Hatt. However, he still works for and helps Hatt as PunchClockVillain and never entertains the notion of quitting. To be fair though, it's worth noting that this version of Sodor (and implicitly the rest of the world) is an absolutely nightmarish hellhole; Keith most likely cannot afford to lose his job lest he risk homelessness and starvation.

* UncannyValley: While most of the human characters resemble the wooden figures used in the TV series, human Thomas is just Thomas the Tank Engine's face on a human child's body, and it looks a bit off-putting. [[spoiler: Thomas' skull is also oddly shaped, it somewhat resembles a human skull but in a way doesn't. It looks squished and warped, possibly intentional to emphasize the the BodyHorror and mutation Thomas went through with bio-fusion.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: A moment during ''Shed 17'' involves [[spoiler: Gordon's boiler exploding and him dying as a result]]. In the 2016 special for [[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine the series]], ''The Great Race'', [[spoiler: Gordon has a similar problem]], with much more humourous results.

* {{Narm}}: Depending on your point of view, the premise can be this since it is a horror story about ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' and friends being created by [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi super science]].

* UncannyValley: While most of the human characters resemble the wooden figures used in the TV series, human Thomas is just Thomas the Tank Engine's face on a human child's body, and it looks a bit off-putting. [[spoiler: Thomas' skull is also oddly shaped, it somewhat resembles a human skull but in a way doesn't. It looks squished and warped, possibly intentional to emphasize the the body-horror and mutilation Thomas went through with bio-fusion.]]

* BrokenBase: ''Shed 17'' has shown itself to be quite divisive and controversial within the Thomas fan community. One the one hand, there were many who loved it for its twisted, NightmareFuel filled, BlackHumor take on the show, seeing it as a relief from [[SturgeonsLaw all the repetitive, paint by numbers fan films that all do the same thing as the main show, but much poorer]]. On the other hand, there are fans who absolutely despise it, dismissing the DarkerAndEdgier tone as a [[TakeThat cruel, insulting and mean-spirited jab at Rev. Audrey’s original stories]].

* BrokenBase: ''Shed 17'' has shown to be quite divisive and controversial within the Thomas fan community. One the one hand, there were many who loved it for its twisted, NightmareFuel filled, BlackHumor take on the show, seeing it as a relief from [[SturgeonsLaw all the repetitive, paint by numbers fan films that all do the same thing as the main show, but much poorer]]. On the other hand, there are fans who absolutely despise it, dismissing the DarkerAndEdgier tone as a [[TakeThat cruel, insulting and mean-spirited jab at Rev. Audrey’s original stories]].

** It gets even better. During Project G1, [[spoiler:Kieth mentions on camera that there's nothing worse than being turned into a truck. If the ending happens after filming has stopped, this could mean that Keith, unwittingly, gave Ruth and Topham Hatt the very idea!]]

** At the end of Project G-1, [[spoiler:Thomas has lost his last connection to the past as the form Project G-1 took falls to the depths of the canyon. Everyone, even the military general who ordered the use of the dead biofused material hidden in the mountain by exploding the rock holding it, seems to feel genuine pity for Thomas. The music, lighting, everything combines to make the moment horribly depressing. Then Keith Hartley proceeds to say a single memetic line: "It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything."]]