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** And, to a lesser extent, Season 5, probably due to it coming directly after the extremely well-received Season 4. It's still generally accepted, though, mainly due to its awesome [[Grand Finale]] (the two-part final battle, ''not'' the [[Broken Base|controversial]] actual last episode.)
* This happended to ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' after Season 7, the last season of the classic era, due to the loss of Britt Allcroft and other original crew members and HIT Entertainment outbuying the series.
** While Season 8 is considered to be good in its own rights and has been [[Vindicated Byby History]], Seasons 9-12 come under criticism for continuity errors, plot holes, incorrect portrayal of how railroading works, weaker writing, increasingly repetitive and formulaic storylines, like the infamous "three strikes formula", where one of the characters makes a mistake three times before realizing their error and setting things right and introducing a bunch of one-off characters for merchandising. Not helping is the introduction of CGI animation in Season 12. While this wouldn't have been too bad on its own, the mix of CGI with the model set was poorly done, resulting in the series veering into [[Uncanny Valley]] territory. Also, this is when Sharon Miller became head writer for the series after writing a handful of episodes for Seasons 9-11.
** Seasons 13-16 of the CGI era is considered to be the nadir of the series, as the problems of Seasons 9-12 worsened and became much more noticeable. These seasons suffer from terrible writing and storylines, massive flanderization of several characters, loads of bad episodes, like the infamous "Wonky Whistle" and the introduction of infamous characters such as the Logging Locos and Charlie. These problems and others are due to Sharon Miller's run as head writer.
** Thankfully, the rot finally got reverted during Seasons 17-21. With Andrew Brenner replacing Sharon Miller as head writer, the series was set to recapture the charm of the classic era and the Railway Series Books.