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00:00The Jet Black Hedgehog, Chapter 1.
00:03It starts with there being an emergency up on the Ark because a giant lab animal is on the loose and wants to eat the scientists there.
00:10It's good that it starts out exciting.
00:14But why can't I see the eyeballs of this guy running away from it?
00:17And why does he look angry?
00:18And why does the guy to the left of him have these stupid swirls on his glasses that don't even cover all of them?
00:25It gives you mixed messages because the situation is serious but the art is so goofy that it looks like it wants you to laugh at it.
00:33It's kind of derpy that the eyes of this monster are just circles with no circles around them.
00:38I hope I learn why the situation happened.
00:41But how could it be justified anyways?
00:44You'd think scientists would make a cage for this thing that can't be broken out of by it because they'd have known how strong it was in the first place.
00:52It's weird that these people are impressed by his powers instead of intimidated.
00:57He takes forever to actually get to the thing somehow when he's supposed to be fast.
01:03He even has the time to say a full sentence to it first.
01:07And then he just kicks it.
01:09I thought I was going to spin dash at it.
01:12It would take more effort for him to kick it instead.
01:15The whole point of the spin dash is that it's got sharp spines that are lethal so he's just kicking so he won't kill it on the people who wanted to research it.
01:25But still, why did he make it look like he was going to spin dash it then just to do something generic that's lame by his standards?
01:32And he says this when everyone thought he was only this way because he lost the people he liked.
01:39Apparently, he'll still spend the whole time in gruff anti-kira mode.
01:44Not caring that people are praising him.
01:47Why doesn't he get asked to get them the sedatives?
01:51He could get it for them much faster.
01:54Do they just assume he only helps in a combat way?
01:56And he could also get them the fire extinguisher much faster.
02:01But he just walks away lazily.
02:04I went into this figuring it was overrated because it was only praised for being like the games.
02:09And I'm seeing nothing but stupid stuff that proves me right.
02:13I don't buy that there wasn't any hedgehog DNA involved that just happens to have the same powers as Sonic for him.
02:21Jill just lied to him about this for no reason.
02:24Oh, I wanted for no reason.
02:26It's so he wouldn't ask to meet the hedgehogs he's related to and potentially want to live with them or visit them daily and thus not be on the Ark 24-7 to protect it.
02:36The needs of the many, it's doing more good if he's here to protect all of the people here.
02:41Crema has a mother, so I don't know why he wouldn't be allowed to be made from hedgehog DNA.
02:47Because that would be giving a game character a relative when they were fine with Crema having a mom.
02:52It's interesting to see Shadow angst for a new reason this time.
02:58He's insecure because he didn't turn out to be capable of healing Maria of her disease.
03:02They literally did try it as soon as possible, they just failed somehow, despite making him to do that.
03:10It finally explains why she was still in the Ark after he was made then.
03:14But I'm just wondering why the scientists ever made him then.
03:17Because they should have known science well enough to know he wouldn't turn out to be a miracle cure for everything.
03:22And the very idea of a cure for literally everything that isn't even nanobots is so loftily unscientific anyways.
03:31Oh, I guess they were desperately hoping that his black arms and bio-lizard DNA would make him a panacea without being to research black arms first.
03:39No wonder he was made with magic's assistance.
03:42Because they didn't understand after all of human history somehow that the emeralds' power can't cure diseases.
03:49People have said that because chaos is power enriched by the heart, you can literally do anything with chaos powers.
03:58Then Shadow would have healed Maria.
04:01Why don't he bring back Maria?
04:03He's had an emerald in his hand before.
04:05The angstest he's ever been has been half because of himself not measuring up because it's an ego thing.
04:13When it's the sorts of angst that only involves someone else suffering, his reaction doesn't involve an emotional outburst.
04:19I'm not even really judging him.
04:21I think he's been acting just like I would so far.
04:24I did two of the WhatSonic character are you tests and got Shadow in one of them.
04:29But there was room for interpretation in regards to how his personality was when he wasn't just interacting with Maria.
04:36Because before now, we only saw how he was back then when he was talking to Maria.
04:41So of course he would have been willing to open up and seem vulnerable.
04:45It's not a retcon if there's nothing to contradict but a false assumption of ours that Shadow only became about ego as a coping mechanism after losing Maria.
04:53It's not even worth being called a retcon if it doesn't contradict anything.
04:57Him being the ultimate life form and the coolest person on the arc would make him always feel superior because he was and get Sorbo not measuring up because of the big shoes he had to fill.
05:09My point is it would be hypocritical to not admit there was room for interpretation anyways about any other stories that failed on canon from the games.
05:17And only say to excuse Shadow as being an introverted grump before he said it would be a date to die for.
05:23Maria puts her hands over Shadow's eyes and he's got the common sense to assume it's her because only she would trust him enough to prank him.
05:32I like seeing Maria do something new and be quirky and not 100% pure good.
05:37Nothing about her character before this manga implied that she would ever do anything even slightly immoral.
05:42And then this comes along and has her do something to annoy him just for kicks.
05:48But because it's framed in a playful way that's not hateful, it's actually fine.
05:54As long as this is as far as it goes.
05:57Because this seems out of character as it is.
06:00I like that I had the guts to just barely escape the boundaries of how she was before in a way that makes you start being interesting as a person.
06:07Why did the writer have Maria say he was just looking grim when she would have heard him talking?
06:19The talk bubble should have been a thought bubble.
06:22If he was really talking, he would have known she was only pretending to not hear him.
06:28Maria says she had something to show him and starts running holding his hand.
06:32And he gets overprotective of her because he doesn't want her to get too worked up.
06:36He says out of nowhere that she's subdued by low gravity but still very sick.
06:42Like it is going with the idea that Flynn came up with out of nowhere that somehow low gravity is Maria be less sick.
06:49Which is actually not how it works in regards to disease.
06:54This isn't written by Flynn.
06:56And the person who was responsible for the plot of SE2 didn't have this idea in mind and disagreed with Flynn's idea on that.
07:03I wonder if the sentence clause wasn't actually in the original script and the fan translator just added it in because there was room.
07:12He clearly shouldn't have.
07:13This is convoluted bullshit.
07:15Everyone knew she was on the arc because there were less people there so it was less likely that she'd catch something.
07:22It's simple as that.
07:23Speaking of convoluted, I guess I always assumed that he could have cured Maria, but it was just taking a long time to make it cure.
07:35She shows Shadow that the earth is shining because the sun looks like it's rising over it.
07:41He points out that she's seen this a lot before.
07:44She acted like she was going to show him something that never happened before.
07:47What took her so long then?
07:50I assume this isn't the first day she ever met him.
07:54She falls over while overheating, but then she sits up and starts acting like she's fine, but I guess she's just pretending she's fine.
08:01And out of nowhere she says that he was made to heal her, but couldn't.
08:05And reveals that she did realize what that would make him go through.
08:09This is only not out of nowhere if she did hear him earlier in the story.
08:13Why don't you just have this conversation with him right away?
08:17How would anyone have forgotten that Cutscene 2 where he told Maria with no prodding that he just doesn't know anything anymore?
08:26Which isn't something this Shadow would admit.
08:29That Shadow would have just told Maria how he was feeling immediately.
08:34Or if she heard him, she would have thought she needed to pretend she didn't hear him until after she showed him something nice.
08:41She says she wants him to see things that are beautiful, kind, and strong.
08:45So she's talking about animals as well.
08:48So things isn't necessarily the right word.
08:52She says there's a meaning to being born, and for no reason he says there's no such thing after all of that.
08:59He was never this angsty in the games.
09:02Why can't she of all people reason with him?
09:04This is the same person who convinced him to be a hero later with just a couple of sentences that were hard to understand to begin with.
09:12He didn't even say the word hero.
09:14And yet he didn't take her seriously here.
09:17Even taking this on its own merits, how is this better?
09:20Apparently he only humored her on her wish for him because there were her last words.
09:26I guess her getting a fever was because she caught it from someone else.
09:30Because while simply having a weaker immune system alone, cause a fever by itself at random that isn't always the case.
09:39Yeah, Maria was great in this scene, but the comic's not just Maria talking.
09:43Shadow starts this moody teenager narration about his life, by thinking that Maria's always a hassle that he's just dealing with.
09:52What?
09:53So what, he never liked her and only cared about her because he cared about anybody?
09:58This is the way modern Shadow would think about some other sick kid than Maria he'd have to help.
10:03The reason Shadow downplays in his thoughts out of discomfort that he can feel sorry for someone and not want people to get hurt and just express his pity as annoyance instead,
10:14is because Maria already died so he doesn't want to focus on any more depressing things after that.
10:20It was relatable to me that he was like that.
10:23It's not just because he doesn't want to feel weak because then he'd be on the same level as those weaklings who are inferior because he can't win in fights with dangerous stuff.
10:31That sounds like Surge.
10:35It dawns him down and makes him annoying to make him think like any typical tough guy just because he's strong.
10:41And pretend he wasn't motivated by Maria.
10:45We only assumed at first that he was a snob for being the ultimate life form,
10:48but the appeal of him in SC2 was that it turned out he had a best friend in the past and acted nothing like that back then,
10:55revealing that he wasn't always like that.
10:58Or else he would have looked down on Maria too.
11:00Shadow's thoughts say that he's just doing stuff because he can.
11:05There has to be more to it than that.
11:08What's the point of narration by him if he's just as dishonest about himself as he is when actually talking to people?
11:14If he thought there was no point in saving people, he wouldn't actually do it.
11:19Then he thinks that dealing with Maria might not be so bad.
11:23I still hate the phrasing.
11:26What's with the might?
11:28Like, he was just born.
11:30Why would he not want her positive energy around to uplift them when he feels bad about not being her cure?
11:38He would be like her shadow.
11:40She says she wants him to watch the shooting stars with her.
11:44And again, shadow doesn't appreciate it because he can't notice beauty.
11:48Why does she bother?
11:51Then they say Earth Defense Forces already.
11:54That one's best.
11:56Why doesn't it just say Gun Forces?
11:59And she of course tells them to look for and help anyone who'd be more in need of it.
12:03The soldiers send the scientists running and are conveniently terrible shots despite being trained as soldiers so they don't hit any of the scientists two feet in front of them.
12:15It could have easily had the scientists be around the corner in a hallway.
12:18The soldiers have the good motive of wanting to destroy dangerous biological experiments.
12:23And since they don't care about the scientists there, to them this would only be worth doing if they jumped to the conclusion that Gerald only made them in a plan to try to use them to cause trouble on Earth.
12:36And they could have thought that even if he told them otherwise, because of course they would lie about it.
12:41Was their new management gone recently?
12:45Why did they let Gerald make stuff for so long when they were always suspicious types?
12:50Why did they even hire him?
12:51Why did the soldier even volunteer this information to these guys when he didn't have to if he didn't care about them?
13:04Shadow kicks down the soldiers.
13:06And just now can a character hear what someone said without sharing a panel with him?
13:12Why would the next group of soldiers just talk stating the obvious instead of instantly trying to shoot Shadow and the researcher?
13:19They would suck in a war.
13:21The soldiers already know their orders.
13:25I assume they are the same soldiers, or why did they get back into a standing position?
13:30Shadow remembers the researcher saying he is so proud of him.
13:33But then after Shadow takes a dumb risk of looking back at him to tell him what he should have already assumed he knew, during which they should have both been shot, he sees the guy who was asking for help from the soldiers, and actually tries to get on his side the larger amount of people who could talk the other soldiers into sparing him.
13:52Because Shadow can't always look at him, so as soon as Shadow's back was turned, he could have just been shot anyway.
14:00He swears he'll stop doing research, but the soldiers shoot him anyways, without it showing it.
14:07So he should have just run away and trusted the really fast hedgehog who could carry him to safety while running fast in seconds.
14:16Shadow could have done that instead of stopping to state the obvious for no reason in a dangerous situation and easily avoided this.
14:22So combine this with the fact that the soldiers would have shot the researcher without politely listening to him talking first.
14:30And this is forced drama.
14:33The soldiers had no way of knowing the researcher was telling them to help him out of panic.
14:38It was more intuitive to assume he would just rely on his previous savior with amazing powers to save him again.
14:44So they would have shot him before he could get a chance to betray Shadow.
14:47And even though the sky was so upsetting to him, seeing him die still made him mad and got him to attack his way past them.
14:57Everyone assumed Maria was the first and only person he saw die, but apparently this OC's solar identity there.
15:05Once again, it's not a retcon, but it's a bit of retroactive continuity that's annoying for nothing.
15:12He runs away going to help Maria.
15:13And I wonder if this is even real or just a hallucination or bad dream when Maria says a lab animal would be disgusting to know.
15:22As if she'd be disgusted by animals.
15:26Sure it would be smart of her to tell them whatever she can to make them spare her.
15:30Somehow, Shadow doesn't figure this out and just takes it to heart that she's just as two-faced.
15:36The soldier knows she's lying to them from intel, which justifies why she ends up admitting that she does know Shadow.
15:44Because she's already screwed, so why not yell at them at that point and look cool?
15:49Again, it tries to make her have more of a character than just a nice girl.
15:53And in fact, she's the opposite right now.
15:55Even though there was no hint that she would act like this in the games.
15:59It never seemed like she would have a backbone enough to yell and be disrespectful of anyone.
16:05Like the last time she was out of character.
16:08I see both sides of the story in this one.
16:10It makes just as much sense to hate it as it does like it.
16:12It fits with how depressing Shadow's backstory is that this manga would be so emotional in how it tries to present itself here.
16:21Shadow remembers what we already saw Maria say, as if we were so stupid we needed this to understand why he'd want to save her.
16:28He thinks that the meaning of his birth is Maria.
16:31I thought he'd pick her up and instantly run far away with her over his shoulder.
16:37Why does he just stay still in front of her and risk them both being shot?
16:41They already know their order, so why does the soldier waste his time talking, which gives them enough time for Shadow to beat them all up?
16:49Maria's not even someone who could make dangerous experiments yet.
16:53You'd think the person who first made the order to kill everyone aboard would have already known that the arc doesn't just consist of researchers.
17:01So the order wouldn't have been so broad.
17:04So they had to make the soldiers jerks.
17:06Shadow asks Maria if she's okay, and she realistically screams out of fear.
17:12This makes sense because she doesn't know for sure that she's going to die yet.
17:16So she's not accepting of her fate.
17:20Then another soldier shows up as they were wasting valuable time staying still,
17:25and as the soldier shoots without being given a reason to,
17:28the background shows some eye with a pupil that's so narrow that it doesn't even look like it's human at all.
17:33And that's the end of it.
17:35It doesn't explain any further what that was about.
17:38I already heard people saying this was supposed to imply that Black Doom's eye brainwashed him into it.
17:44Bringing up the question,
17:45why didn't Black Doom instantly brainwash Shadow into obedience then?
17:50And how can he do this to someone without his blood to control?
17:53I would have assumed this was symbolic of what a monster this guy was.
17:58Especially since it's a comic that's already full of exaggerated art anyways.
18:03There's nothing actually behind him, so it really does look like he wasn't even there.
18:08Anyways, how is it necessary to establish that Black Doom brainwashed him into it?
18:13Can't you just keep it simple and go with the assumption that everyone already made?
18:18That the soldiers were just dicks?
18:21I remember hearing that the story isn't canon anyways, and so this doesn't even matter.
18:26I remember that because I saw this panel.
18:29Which is exactly what was being talked about.
18:31What's the point of this issue then?
18:33It's not enjoyable to see Shadow be an angsty, grimdark edgelord at the wrong period of time.
18:40Maria gets shot before getting to make her speech to Shadow and uses the escape pod to have him escape.
18:48So how would she have lived long enough to make her speech then?
18:51This would only make sense if this whole scenario with the soldiers never happened.
18:56And it was all just a bad dream of Shadow's.
19:00That would explain the laughter.
19:04I have no idea who wrote this.
19:07Even taking this on its own merits, which I didn't know to do at first because it doesn't tell you right away, this isn't canon.
19:16Of course Maria was interesting to watch, but not in character.
19:21And the last part of it is so depressing.
19:23My main problem with the story is that this is taking place in the happiest part of Shadow's life where the only stressful situations were ones he could easily fix, always.
19:33So everyone would expect him to not be gruff, antisocial, and angsty yet.
19:40Which he only became in Heroes.
19:42But he still is.
19:44So I don't feel like I'm even seeing Shadow's past for real.
19:48And it turns out I never was.
19:50But then it was too much like the game's universe anyways because it shouldn't have had the setting at all that primed me to expect the game characterization for Shadow.
19:59It's an uncanny valley.
20:00I'd rather continuity be so unfaithful right away that I'm not expecting 100% accuracy that makes me even more critical.
20:09Sure Shadow is distressed at Maria getting sick easily.
20:13But that's not so traumatizing that it would make it impossible for anybody to be a cheerful person.
20:19It didn't magically turn everyone who has to see that like Gerald into an introvert who's just annoyed at winning over a giant lizard instead of relieved that the people around him aren't in danger anymore.
20:30Or happy that he was so competent.
20:34Which is how normal people would react to that victory.
20:37Sure it's a failure for his original purpose.
20:40But he clearly had a unique purpose in saving people from experiments.
20:45So what's with them not knowing the meaning in his life?
20:48Because he didn't like those researchers anyways?
20:51Even though they fawned over him?
20:53Then why did he save them?
20:56He likes Maria because she's nice to him.
21:00I guess because she's nice to him out of more than just hero worship?
21:04I can't help but be alienated the whole time by the fact that Shadow's not being like how he was supposed to be like back then.
21:11And I'm not even a game purist.
21:13It can be different if it's still good.
21:15I'd be very surprised if people much more picky than me were not alienated by how Shadow is.
21:24I don't feel like this is Shadow.
21:27The guy who opened up to Maria without her even needing to try.
21:31I feel like this is just Steve the Hedgehog.
21:33Alternate universe Shadow who is always in his angsty teen face.
21:37And even taken as his own continuity, what's likable about Shadow if he's like this without a good excuse for it?
21:46I can't see a valid artistic reason for portraying Shadow like this even in his past.
21:52People liked his anti-hero personality because they assumed it was because of Maria's death
21:57and him having no one he liked as much as his lost loved ones anymore.
22:01And because he was around Sonic so he'd be redundant otherwise.
22:07Neither reason applies here.
22:09If you're gonna do this, why not go all out with it?
22:14Show a bunch of greenery all over the arc.
22:16Make it look different.
22:18I can't not be cynical about this betrayal of Shadow
22:21when the meta logic is so obvious that he's only being written like this
22:25because the writer's only familiar with recent Shadow.
22:28Or maybe Sega just told him to write like this.
22:31Because Sega only remembers how he was in the recent games.
22:35If it was written by the writer of SE2,
22:38that'd make me wonder why he forgot how his own character was
22:41and didn't go back to it
22:43or chose to just write him how people are used to him being now,
22:47continuity be damned, when he knows better.
22:50So that wouldn't make me feel any better.
22:52I heard that his official character bio is still written like he never stopped being a villain in SE2
22:58and hasn't been updated since.
23:00It looks like the writer was never a Sonic fan.
23:03Or if he was, he was either heavily restricted by Sega
23:07or he never saw the cutscenes in SE2.
23:10He was never a Sonic fan.
23:11He was never a Sonic fan.
23:13He was never a Sonic fan.
23:14He was never a Sonic fan.
23:15He was never a Sonic fan.
23:16He was never a Sonic fan.
23:17He was never a Sonic fan.
23:18He was never a Sonic fan.
23:19He was never a Sonic fan.
23:20He was never a Sonic fan fan.
23:21He was never a Sonic fan fan.
23:22He was never a Sonic fan fan.
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