Heck No Pooh's Adventures

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psyga315:

Now, a while after I made my Thomas rant, I have confronted myself with this question: “Do I have a lack of imagination?” The source of the lack can be seen when I look at the trains and said to myself: “No. They’ll rust. It will never work.” A few days later, the Heck No Pooh’s Adventures tumblr posted a poster where Thomas and the Ponies flew, and I said to them that I could believe it, linking to a video where a train goes off a ramp with super thrusters, flies for a while, then the five carts combine into a giant robot.

I began to confront myself with the above question ever since I said I believed trains could fly. I can believe a train can fly, yet I can’t believe it can exist underwater. I’m going to over-analyze my own thought process to figure out if I have some sort of imagination problem and that Pooh’s Adventures and other Adventures as a whole are good if some imagination is pulled off.

I seem to complain a lot that trains have restrictive movement. Now, I have seen a few shows where trains can go pretty much anywhere, though there is usually a reason why. For example, the rails could be forming right under their wheels and thus the train can move freely, or the rails go up into a ramp and you can apply super thrusters to fly off the rail. Usually there is some reason why the trains can move.

So I decided to do an experiment. I would imagine Thomas to move around freely, with the rails forming as he moves, and it seems to work just fine. He can go anywhere and even get off Sodor since, again, the rails can form where he moves. So Thomas can work, right? Wrong. I still have to get over his size troubles.  

So I imagine the above, but now Thomas can go into a shop… And now I just imagined a bull in a china shop. Anytime I think of Thomas in a crammed space, I always revert to that simile. So it seems I have limited imagination. Then I realize: I’m applying real world physics to fan fiction. If not that, then I’m applying what is established in Thomas’ own universe, especially with what I seen in the Blue Mountain movie.

It makes sense to me now. It’s not that I have a limited imagination. It’s that I have too much imagination. I, based off what I have seen, imagine Thomas being applied to an Adventure, with what is considered acceptable in both universes, Thomas’ universe and the world that it’s being crossovered into. I’m not poking at petty plot holes. I’m pointing out why they won’t work given the rules established in both canons. In order to enjoy most of the Pooh’s Adventures, I usually must purge those rules and must believe in anything, even if it doesn’t seem logically correct.

In short: Pooh’s Adventures is the crossover equivalent to 2 + 2 = 5.