YMMV / Shed 17

• Awesome Music: The heavy metal remix of "The Runaway Theme" and the electronic remix of "Devious Diesel's Theme" from Project G-1.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The climatic scene where Thomas discovers his botched clones and his human skeleton breaks out of his body and rips his face off. It's the most graphic and disturbing part of the video but it happens with no real explanation nor is the cause of it given. The only real information given after this scene is that Thomas went through numerous reconstruction operations and the unethical practices executed by bio-fusion was exposed to the public, resulting in its ban in the UK and Europe.
  • Paul explains it here: https://twitter.com/VidsPaul/status/847201049203134464
  • Project G-1 has a long, drawn out boxing match between Duck and Oliver which has little to do with the rest of the story and is never mentioned again.
• Broken Base: 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, Nightmare Fuel filled, Black Humor 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 Darker and Edgier tone as a cruel, insulting and mean-spirited jab at Rev. Awdry’s original stories.
• Fridge Brilliance: The idea of turning people into trucks makes a lot of sense when you remember that the people in this universe are wood, like the figures in the real show that represent them (but apparently with organs inside), and trucks are also made out of wood.
  • It gets even better. During Project G1, Keith 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 to do the same to him!
  • There’s a Running Gag in which Keith continuously pukes at the pure mention of Thomas, but in his most recent interview he subverts this as he’s more calm and professional without puking even once. That’s because Keith has seen the other atrocities that have happened to the other engines, such as Gordon blowing up and Harold the Helicopter’s guts being ripped apart from the inside. Add on how many years it’s been since the events of Shed 17 first happened, and it’s clear that he’s grown numb to it all.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Keith mentions earlier in Project G-1 how being turned into a truck and left to die would be a horrible fate. Come the end of the video after an angered Thomas rips Keith in half, he is abducted by Prof. Owen Ruth and Sir Topham Hatt to be biofused into a truck as an act to keep him quiet.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A moment during Shed 17 involves Gordon's boiler exploding and him dying as a result. In the 2016 special for the series, The Great Race, Gordon has a similar problem, with much more humourous results.
• Misaimed Fandom: A sizable part of this videos fandom (and hatedom) believe that Paul was trying to link his video to the main books and tv series to explain why the trains have faces overall. In reality, Paul wasn’t aiming for fan fiction and was trying to make a fun horror comedy parody.
• Narm: Depending on your point of view, the premise can be this since it is a horror story about Thomas & Friends and friends being created by Nazi super science.
  • The screams are all Stock Sound Effects. Which isn't so bad given how effectively used they are, but this results in Thomas having a woman's blood-curdling scream during the finale and James and Edward yell out the same Big "NO!" as them.
  • In Project G-1, the Welsh Coal segment. It starts off genuinely unsettling and only a bit Narmy as Ferdinand is shown to have symptoms similar to a true drug addict... Then we get to the incidents on the set of the TV show, and Thomas and friends are shown with ridiculous faces for when they're stoned.
  • At the end of Project G-1, 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 near the conclusion of his narration of the scene: "It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything."
• Tough Act to Follow: Shed 17 proved to be pretty popular, both by fans of Thomas the Tank Engine and those who love deranged, twisted videos on YouTube, so naturally it’s sequel, Project G-1 had a lot of shoes to fill. Thankfully it was received very positively, so it hasn’t completely fallen into the shadow of the first.
• Unexpected Character: In Project G-1's finale, there is a sudden appearance from The Boulder, who in this universe is discarded biofused material formed into a giant... Boulder.
  • The Stinger from Project G-1 where two kids try to sneak into post-secession Sodor and are greeted by an angry Diesel 10.
• The Woobie: Honestly any of the engines qualify. Such examples include
  • 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. They are however given an opportunity 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 immoral 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 monetary reasons. This almost makes his eventual salvaging by Hit Logistics seem downright merciful in comparison and that is not even going into the deleted scene...
  • To say Keith Hartley is this is an understatement...
  • Roly's happy moments are few and far between. Most of the time he is alternately abused or neglected by the world or the other characters.

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