Yeah, the whole "your worth depends on your usefulness to to the corporation not only that you work for, but which owns you and determines everything about your life and death" thing kind of got to me!
I had an entire theory about class stereotypes being mapped onto the steam/diesel divide, but thank god I have been able to forget most of it by now. Likewise most of my rant about how like 90% of the trains are male (why do you even NEED them to have gender, they're TRAINS gah).
I do like to hear that the original author put a lot of different trains in. I did think it was part of the marketing ploy to start off with just Thomas, Gordon, James, Henry, Percy, and Toby (oh god, I can't believe I just did that - at least they're probably not in numerical order) and then keep adding more in the stories so that parents would have to keep buying more.
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Date: 2011-08-22 04:52 pm (UTC)I had an entire theory about class stereotypes being mapped onto the steam/diesel divide, but thank god I have been able to forget most of it by now. Likewise most of my rant about how like 90% of the trains are male (why do you even NEED them to have gender, they're TRAINS gah).
I do like to hear that the original author put a lot of different trains in. I did think it was part of the marketing ploy to start off with just Thomas, Gordon, James, Henry, Percy, and Toby (oh god, I can't believe I just did that - at least they're probably not in numerical order) and then keep adding more in the stories so that parents would have to keep buying more.