Michael White - Thomas Crew Review 

Sorry its taken this long to post my response. Been very busy with the Awdry Extravaganza and at the end of each day Ive just been too tired to do anything. But thanks for your video. It was very kind of you. And thank you everyone for the birthday wishes

Michael was the best writer of the BWBA era.

Free the Roads is not only Michael White’s best work, but the best use of the BWBA format in the entire era. The way the whole episode ties together with the theming of “Bulgy thinks of himself as a hero” is immaculately constructed; the fantasy sequence not only tells us things we didn’t know previously about Bulgy as a character, but also foreshadows what his ultimate plan will be (poisoning the water supply, a common threat in superhero stories). I don’t think it would be as strong an episode without the fantasy elements and that is the ONLY episode in this era I can say that about.

Understandably, not many people like Big World Big Adventures, but one thing that we can't deny is the fact that a Thomas fan-user gets to write for the official show and is considered by many as the only good saving grace of a mediocre era where everything is all too flashy instead of being a calm and realistic world as of now. Michael (WhitehouseFilms) has written some incredible episodes, some favorites of mine include Hunt the Truck, An Engine of Many Colors, Free the Roads, Deep Trouble (which includes my favorite fantasy realistically), Heart of Gold, Great Little Railway Show and Royal Engine.

5:55 I like to think diesel represents how James started off as being painted black in The Adventure Begins, Michael White would be the writer to make such a callback

Michael white was the #1 masterpiece of bwba. Happy birthday to him.

I think my favorite Michael White episode is ,,An engine with many colours". Not only because it is a episode where James isn't a selfish jerk. It is also a episode where did a good job with dream scenes.

Michael has definitely written some very good episodes even in a pretty terrible era. My favorite episode has to be Heart of Gold it really gives Toby some well needed justice after his character inconsistencies throughout the entirety of the CGI era

I actually see a few parallels between Michael White and Christian Whitehead, who worked on Sonic Mania. They both started with fan projects before working with people in charge of the series and eventually making fan favorite entries. Given what Whitehead is doing now, I hope these parallels will continue.

Its rlly wholesome seeing micheal climb the ranks of being the one of the best writers in the show, its also wholesome to see how much he looks up to brenner and brenner just telling him to be himself. Honestly i wish we couldve gotten an episode where a character like say rebecca or nia doubting themselves and looking to henry or edward for advice like how andrew passed the tourch to micheal. Its also funny hearing micheal replicating of how he felt when he was told to write the royal engine, its honestly how i expect him to act lol.

I do agree. His railway modelling was really good and his written episodes in the BWBA Era were pretty good. I especially liked Hunt the Truck, Free the Roads, Heart of Gold and The Great Little Railway Show. Also Happy B-day to Michael White.

What a fantastic video. Michael put a lot of effort into his writing and I love how he wrote episodes for characters like Edward, Toby, Max & Month and more. What I like about his stories is how much RWS references he puts in. Happy Birthday Michael White 😀🎉🎂🎁🎊.

1:25 Heard of Pablo. The Theme song is SO CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED

Micheal White is like Andrew Brenner 2.0 Really good writer like the other great writers out there. Also Happy Birthday Michael White

Happy Birthday to Michael White

The Guy Was A Thomas Fan?!!?!?!? Now I Am Having The Jaw Drop!

Watching the end scenes made me remember that we might never again see original thomas and it's really sad cus it was so good and I love all the episodes Michael White rote us and I love that so thank you Micheal White and everyone who on thomas and friends ❤

Well, I must say, I did not expect to know that Michael White and Andrew Brenner know each other since Pablo and that Andrew give Michael a job of writing episodes for the show and help him out despite leaving it as his mentor. Very good. I bet if Andrew stays on the show (if it continues) and work with Michael to write episodes together with his guidance, even getting it back to the original story telling format and his era, they would have made the show even grander than before with more returnee characters and other things. Michael White's experience shows that if fans want to pitch their ideas for a movie and TV show company, they have to be part of it since they wouldn't accept ideas from fans because of policy either way. Also, you forgot that George is going to appear in Free The Roads but was replaced with Max and Monty. Many happy returns to him.

Great video! Happy Birthday do Michael White!

Hearing Northern Ireland being mentioned/represented in Thomas is honestly amazing, you don’t see too many references to it anywhere else so that’s cool!

He needs to come back for the revival era for sure.

Cheers and Happy Birthday to one of BWBA's best writers. A true gem in my heart.

Happy Birthday Michael White 🎉🎉

Happy birthday Michael

Happy Birthday to Michael White!

Happy Birthday Michael White 💓

Happy birthday Michael! I've heard that Michael is working on an animated show based around railways and he hopes to release it next year. I hope it's successful

Amazing review. 🙂

Those episodes should’ve been the entire bwba era

Free the Roads was my favourite episode from BWBA

I have an idea for a video if you ever see this. List your favorite episodes that use the 3 strikes formula and explain why you like those episodes.

Bro, this guy is the best. He may inspire me (maybe when the original series comes back or something).

Happy birthday Michael White!

The Great Little Railway Show feels like a TCC special, but one of the good, really fun TCC specials.

Happy birthday micheal white ! I may be biased (james is my favourite character) but an engine of many colors is the best micheal white episode.

Happy birthday to Michael! :D But I will say this history of how Michael White became part of the Thomas team, and I do appreciate the support that Andrew Brenner have to him throughout the years. I love Thomas and Friends a lot, I don’t watch much of All Engines Go, but I honestly would’ve liked to see more stories by both Andrew Brenner and Michael White. As for the autism community, I myself have a bit of autism and Thomas and Friends has always been a big part of my life, even now to this day :) Maybe even one day, I would like to write my own episodes in the future about Thomas and friends, but who knows :)

I never know too much about Michael White since he worked on writing for the episodes of Thomas and friends but now I could absolutely respect him and absolutely liked the episodes that he worked on and I literally had a list of favorite episodes written from White himself. 1: Thomas and the Royal engine 2: Heart of gold and Free the roads 3: An engine of many colors 4: Out of site and deep trouble 5: The great little railway show. As for all engines go itself I'm really surprised that Michael White had wrote an episode during that time, along with some consultanting of an autistic character such as Bruno I have seen Nia's surprising surprise recently since it was the only season 1 AEG episode that I didn't watch and it was pretty decent and I think White did good these are a few occasions of some episodes being a guilty pleasure or somewhat enjoyable like Sandy's sandy shipment overall, Michael White is a pretty good writer during that time of BWBA and I have yet to see one of his RU-vid content.

Happy Birthday, Michael White! From one Thomas Fan to another, thank you being a shining light through a questionable era of the Thomas Franchise.

Thank you for a good memory with my father, he's still alive but it was a afternoon and my youtube account was connected to the tv and my dad click on it, and the first thing he saw was this video and he clicked on it and we ended up just watching the whole video and discussing and talking about it, so thank you for a good memory.

Wow Michael White’s birthday is directly after my birthday

Happy Birthday Michael!

Happy birthday Michael, your episodes are great

This is a good Video, I think not really a lot of people including myself knew about Micheal being a Thomas Fan. Also 17:49 I always thought that he referenced SLOTLT, but S1 could also be counted I guess, I mean we didn't get to know which one he means. 😅🎉. 🎉🎉 Happy Birthday Micheal White, if Thomas returns in CGI or even the Model Era, we hope you stay for a long time as a writer for the Show.

Happy (Late) Birthday, Michael!

hearing Thomas Theorist describe how nothing makes sense in an engine of many colors describes how real dreams are and i think that’s why he wrote it like that

I feel like some of Michaels episodes have some uneeded fan service but I appreciate Michael trying to plesse fans and giving different characters a shine he seems like a lovely man

I'm late but happy belated birthday, Michael White! You made some of the best episodes of the era, I love Heart of Gold I think I should watch it again.

A very nice unique video, would love to see more of these

Happy birthday michael

The BWBA-Era is definitely the worst era of the show. However, despite that, Michael made some really fantastic episodes!😄

In a bad era, his were the few golden nuggets we needed.

Honestly Michael white it’s better than the person who created the show in writing

20:40 "How the hell am i going to top The Adventure Begins? That's the best special!" The way he said it made me laugh.

I was right it's Michael white

Not sure if I still am in time to say it or not but happy birthday Michael, you took a period of the franchise people have extremely polarising views on and you made it stand out Thank you for the contributions you made to the show

Michael made really great episodes for this lovely railway series. Thank You so much, Michael.

Happy belated birthday to this wonderful individual. He seems like he himself has a heart of gold.

Nia’s Surprising Surprise, despite being apart of the shitty AEG reboot - should’ve been apart of the cancelled series 25 of the original series so it wouldn’t break continuity

Michael White deserves the best ❤️❤️❤️👍🏾

superb work with the video

Happy birthday Mitchael White

Happy Birthday Michael White! I do like Michael White as a writer and since he is a fan of the show, I do love his stories. If I was the showrunner for a revied series of Thomas and Friends, I would have him as a writer.

Andrew Brenner documentary when????? By the way happy birthday michael!!

Very good video highlighting some of Michael Whites best episodes in the CGI era and final series of BWBA my all time favorites are definitely An Engine of many Colors, The Great Little Railway Show, Free the Roads, Hunt the Truck, Heart of Gold and The Royal Engine thanks for sharing this and Happy Birthday Michael White 🎂🎉🎈

For the Great Little Railway Show episode I secretly would've loved if Christopher Awdry had also been the person chosen to voice the Thin Clergyman for the episode. Now that would've been a big surprise for the fans for sure.

Happy Birthday to Michael White. I for 1 hope that if All Engines Go does fail and they do decide to continue the Thomas & Friends series in CGI, I'd be more than happy to see Michael White helping out with more stories for the episodes. And I've got to say that I myself do have some memories of watching some of his content on RU-vid mostly about his model replica of the Ffarquhar branch line layout. Also sometime last year in 2022 I had actually stumbled upon some of his own Thomas & Friends audio stories and his Model Railway Adventures on SoundCloud and right away I thought to myself that those stories would be super perfect for new episodes in the Thomas & Friends CGI series. Who else agrees with me?

The bit bass boosted music, specifically when Monty fell down the hole was funny

*I just hope that Michael White will bring back Thomas back to it's FORMER GLORY!!!* (1984-2017)

This is awesome Micheal white is the new Andrew brenner

As an autistic person i think that's very sweet

With Michael's backstory in writing in mind, I must take this moment to encourage anyone who hasn't to check out Pablo. Not just Michael's episodes but all episodes I've seen are incredible for autistic representation

Writing episodes for the actual show sounds like a fan’s dream. Michael White was really lucky. His work was (imo) one of the only good things about BWBA. Episodes like Hunt the Truck honestly feel too good to even be a part of the era, in spite of things like the bouncing, dream sequences, pacing, etc. Hearing about his insight when he was writing was also really interesting!

MATE I SCREAMED IN HAPPINESS WITH THE DERRY GIRLS REFERENCE

Happy birthday Michael White

Imagine if Micheal white was brought on during the renaissance era..

God, I really hope this video doesn't get the fans to scream out things like "OoOoOh... MiChAeL wHiTe iS tHe oNlY gOoD wRiTeR fOr tHe BwBa eRa wHiLe tHe oThEr wRiTeRs tHaT wOrKeD oN tHiS hElLhOlE oF aN eRa ArE iNfEriOr sCuM cOmPaReD tO hIm!!!!!" because I always get that more depressing feeling where people say Michael White is the only writer who worked in the BWBA era that did try whilst no one else deserves to be cared about other than being treated like scum and be given little to no respect for after everything they have done to try and make that short-lived era of three seasons work. It's like a 5th grader being treated like an outcast by the other 5th or 6th graders at an elementary school without acknowledging their efforts. It's really sad, not only is it really disrespectful and childish of the fandom if you think about it. And to put it bluntly, not everything a writer does will always be made as something great or something bad either. Which is something the whole fandom should have taken a huge note on that long ago regardless of their knowledge of the franchise and what not, especially when it comes to their hatred towards Sharon Miller. Like yes, Sharon Miller's tenure as head writer wasn't good at all. But witch-hunting a writer does not make them look better. But in all other words. I do have a big respect for Michael White in terms of looking further into the psychology of James (which I still believe he is a vain type of narcissist than what a real narcissist would be; looking at you Eric Cartman and Warren the Worm), giving Edward a chance to get his back on Bill and Ben in a really cunning way, giving Toby an epic kick-ass story where he once again proves he's not just a stupid dated tram engine that should have been a shed, or even giving Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt a story where they go to England with problems being thrown in all the way. And by that "new crew" you mentioned earlier, I am pretty sure most of that "new crew" was rather more likely say some of the same crew that gave out Seasons 17-21 because I can tell some of the writers from those seasons stuck on like Davey Moore, Becky Overton, and a few others to name. And happy birthday, Michael White!

NOT SEE YOU AGAIN DON'T PLAY WITH MY HEART LIKE THIS

Happy Birthday

No joke, but he looks identical to my best friend named Matthew.

Unlucky tug: take the hint mattel take the hint. Loved that

I really am glad we’ve had more “fan turned official employee of long running franchises” and ultimately become their silver linings in recent years

I wish we got the real season 25, where thomas go's to visit hiro in japan, I mean, like, how cool would it have been, and including michael white, about 3 episodes would be perfect

Who knew a Thomas fandom person could be a very great writer

I wonder if he would’ve written an episode about Oliver considering he never had one in cgi

The only 4 good bwba episodes are free the roads heart of gold the great little railway show and hunt the truck

Wow

I don’t mind AEOMC. It’s an ok episode Quick Note: that means TATMR is canon, so Lady is canon and Mr. Conductor

I don't really agree with your defence of Heart of Gold. You're right that Toby shouldn't have been a badass for all of it but I don't think showing him as a sad wimp was the only alternative, because that way this episode only ends up reinforcing that side of him, and when he has his heroic moment it feels like it's supposed to be a grand moment because Toby is a wimp, not because he's not. In my opinion, showing Toby be annoyed but not depressed would've been enough.

Well I wouldn't say all the VA's in All Engines Go are "new". Gordon's is actually his voice actor from Thomas and the Magic Railroad! And from the episodes I did watch from it, he did pretty good ^-^

This is like the ending of f&f 7

Not many people will have realised this of course, but I had been working on my pitch for a CGI retro-revamp of the classic "Thomas & Friends" series. I'm hoping that it will become a commercial reality in close cooperation with Mattel and with the respect of the original creators' intentions in time for Thomas's 80th year. I have been keeping it almost to myself up until now because I was working on it in-between upholding my family's commitments and related musings, but that has given me time to actually flesh out my ideas so they come across in a meaningful way. I did this because of how Thomas & Friends, and trains in general, played a pivotal constant throughout my life, and continues to in reflection of what I understand of it now. It was indeed a very personal matter, but the result may pleasantly surprise you. Regards, Samuel Farris.

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I'm watching the ending and bout to tear up

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You should do Helen Farrell for Writer’s Review, she’s my personal favorite writer the show ever had since none of her episodes are less than a 7/10 imo Edit: Also that scene in The Great Little Railway Show of all the secondary characters we’re probably never gonna see again puts a smile on my face everytime I will eat that spoonful of fanservice up

this is like furious 7 ending of saying bye to Paul Walker and this, is the Thomas version (I want to say happy birthday but I’m very early as of posting this comment)

Like the Unlucky Tug would say, his episodes are the best ones in the Big World Big Adventures era.

Just watch heart of gold and one of the international episodes and the difference is as clear as day

Its neat that they gave Ms. Jenny a north Ireland accent but whats not so beat is that nobody has a south Ireland accent. Edit: Yes! Likes! That means people are supporting southern Ireland rights! Fight for our totally non fictional country!!!

i love the engine for many colors its about there dreams in accidents for Alternative of james based