Cgi Emily Is So Underwhelming Because She Lost Her Assertiveness In This Essay I Will-

cgi emily is so underwhelming because she lost her assertiveness in this essay I will-

OMG!!!! Wonderful art!!! :3 this seriously looks like it could be a storyboard for an episode. so so so good!! but of course, this put my thinking cap on, and two things in particular here grabbed me. 1) This was one of (the only?) bad things Sonny has done without direct influence from Baz and Bernie. Granted, they probably told him to be standoffish with other engines he meets, but growling at Rosie was wayyyyy out of line. Out of everything Sonny has done, this is probably the one thing he agonizes the most over because he has no one but himself to blame. I wouldn't be surprised if this messed with Sonny's sense of self a little too. Since STH's engines are expected be good and upstanding engines, Sonny might find it a bit difficult to view himself that way because how rude he was to Rosie. 2) Rosie holding a grudge feels perfectly in character, at least in this iteration of her. She probably has other moments of this before BWBA, but to be BWBA-specific, "Rosie is Red" comes to mind. The rest of the episode is STUPID but something that stuck out to me was how quickly she was to get annoyed with the teasing, and how she tried distancing herself from Thomas pretty early on. This makes to me because not only does she have a bit of a fiery personality, but now that she knows her worth, and has picked up a set job that is probably pretty stressful (piloting at Vicarstown station), I imagine her tolerance for nonsense is lower than it was, than when she was lavender and carefree. This is the end of the rambling (for now) and once again, beautiful art!!! :D with all this sonny talk, maybe this could be the start of the SONNY FANDOM REVOLUTION!!!! >:3c

i have been thoroughly inspired by wonderful comments on my previous sonny post by @mindthegoop and @friendly-emerald-emily and it has made the rosie and sonny dynamic take over my entire brain!!! ...you maaay have got my brain on the sonny and rosie dynamic ! i can't believe i didn't mention it in my initial post aaaaaa! i think him feeling genuinely terrible and rosie being rightfully annoyed would be an interesting episode concept! him being rude to her was one of the only times he instigated something bad himself instead of being cooerced by baz and bernie (we assume, at least) and it was so uncalled for! i imagine he would indeed feel dreadful, but rosie deserves to have her feelings and shouldn't just have to forgive him without him redeeming himself to her!! i also just like the idea of rosie being one who can hold a grudge, hah. thanks for adding to the sonny enjoyment/analysis to my smol sonny post :3

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OMG THIS IS GORGEOUS!!!

"I've got big wheels, and I'll do my best!"

...she's gonna need a lot of custom colored parts 😭

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OP!!!!! YOU TOOK A SLICE OF MY BRAIN AND PUT IT INTO WORDS!!!! i love sonny. so much. fav cgi character. i completely agree, it really feels like sonny was made to stay. his relationships with a handful of characters were shown/hinted at, went through an arc, and got a whole episode to himself and a special with a b-plot! like...can you say the same for billy? flora? hank? stafford? its such a shame the series was axed at this point...if only for the sake of more sonny content. as much as i disliked BWBA, i could've put up with it if it meant sonny became a prominent secondary. i would LOVE to see an episode based around him meeting rosie for a second time, and trying to make up for being so rude to her at the beginning. people tend to forget she was the first sodor engine sonny interacted with, no matte how brief. ANYWAY im rambling good art and FANTASTIC analysis op :333 you have my heart <3

iiiiit's sonny!!

sonny is such an intriguing little character to me. i really like him, but am very curious about his character and his placement in the series. i'm gonna stick a few thoughts about him (and diesel, honestly, and their interesting dynamic) under the cut!

even though sonny first appeared in the Last Series of the show, he felt like he had been designed with longevity in mind (at least to me!). he had personal character relationships with thomas (positive), diesel (complicated) and james (intriguing). unlike a lot of the characters introduced at the very of the series run, sonny was given these relationships that made you feel he could have his own character growth and also influence other characters and their stories.

sonny and diesel specifically are an interesting pair. diesel had only relatively recently had his minor/major redemption arc in springtime for diesel, but more recent relevant episodes, in my opinion, are diesel glows away & diesel do right. these episodes have a very interesting understanding of diesel which honestly remind me quite a bit of james (which is probably odd to say!). he thinks he is great, and that his presence makes the railway a better place, but in reality… he isn't really helping all that much because his high opinion of himself makes him do his jobs worse than if he just… tried to do them himself. it makes the other engines have a worse opinion of him than if he just talked to them as equals.

this is where sonny comes in. diesel, who has learnt through his past few episodes that he can't make other engines like him by being a nuisance and that he must put his own effort in to do his jobs correctly, is introduced to a new engine who has no preconceptions about him at all. in fact, he seems to enjoy his presence! but this is a whole new thing to diesel, who has not really had a chance to have a new interaction without the other engine involved having been told about his ways~~. while he probably hadn't had toooo many interactions with nia before diesel glows away, it was never implied she was unaware of the way he is, where as this is clearly all new to sonny.

these interactions between sonny and diesel show the two growing close very quickly- neither has really had any close buddies at any recent point, as far as we know. nobody seems to particularly enjoy the company of diesel, and sonny has been implied to have been on his own engine-wise, with only baz and bernie for a while at least. sonny is shown as inherently good- he tries to help james, he tries to do the other engines jobs. diesel as shown as inherently bad- even though he has grown, and we have seen him grow, his first instinct when given the opportunity is to use someone for his own gain. but it is different this time! when diesel causes something to go wrong for somebody else, he apologises without having to make it a whole ~thing~, which was exactly what he struggled with in springtime for diesel. he could apologise, then, but not directly. now he was able to manage it!

sonny managed to bring out the best in diesel, get a direct apology from him ((and also a direct (though sliiiightly reluctant) apology from james)), and get himself into the good books of other engines in essentially one day. though this happens quite a lot in the childrens-morals stories of thomas, there is something about him that brought that out in the characters in a way that felt entirely natural. and i just think that is neat!!