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00:00Sonic the Hedgehog Friend or Foe. Another book with A.O.S.D.H. Eggman on the cover that has the sad
00:07AM world in it anyways. I want to be so annoyed, but every sad AM book has been awful so far,
00:14and this is by the same writer who wrote the rest of them. It starts out by wasting everyone's time
00:20with the memory of Sally's, with her running up to her father, who turns into Eggman and shreds
00:25up the list of hero groups because it was all a dream. I mean, technically this is something
00:31that never happened before. It still doesn't feel new to me because Sonya already had a
00:37dream like this. How did the illustrator for these books think they had to use the wrong
00:43design for Eggman? I already knew Sally didn't like that Eggman was in power. This scene is
00:50worthless. It would have felt a little less pointless if it was Sonic's dream. The same
00:56thing applies to him, but it would be more impressive. It would be more surprising. When
01:02she wakes up, it continues wasting her time because she tells Antoine a dream. The story
01:08says Antoine used to be a guard in her father's palace, which makes no sense because he was
01:13just five like the rest of them were when the kingdom was taken over. So he was a five-year-old
01:20guard from nepotism who was surrounded with real guards anyways, apparently. Well, he actually
01:26works better as a character if he's older than the rest of them. Sally says that ever since
01:32they had found the list in Eggman's fortress last book, she hasn't been able to rest even
01:37though she just did. Wild getting good news give her nightmares. She feels some wind and
01:45smiles because she figures it must be from Sonic running up to her. For no reason, Sonic says
01:51she's been playing and Antoine is rude to him for wanting to go on an adventure when they
01:57rely on that. Sally tells them not to start bickering again and Sonic admits that doing so
02:04is a waste of time. Antoine calls him stupid. It's obvious he only mistreats him from jealousy,
02:12but knowing the universe excuse doesn't keep something from being bad writing. There's no
02:17reason to have Antoine in most of these books. He's not worth it. He never gets karma. Rotor could
02:24have tripped snively in the last book. At least he's not written to waste a whole bunch of time with
02:30being a coward and lying about it, but he wastes just as much time arguing with Sonic. At least the
02:36books don't waste as much time as the show does with Sally arguing with Sonic in every episode,
02:42but Antoine fills that role anyways. It gets rid of my biggest problems with Sad AM, but it replaces
02:50them with stuff that's just as bad. Somehow, Sally thinks Sonic could help her plan the next adventure
02:56instead of trusting herself to make a good plan, even though her convoluted plans always magically
03:02work out or else the plot wouldn't go anywhere. And she never asks for his help with the plans.
03:10Sonic says they don't need a plan, and he is right, because if they know where to go to find all of the
03:15heroes, they only need to have Sonic do a meet and greet, which would only take a few minutes.
03:21He could bring them a photo of his friends, so he doesn't even have to bring them.
03:28Or if they insist on it, he could have his friends hold on to each other with one holding
03:33hem so they would all meet them in seconds. Sally explains that the list doesn't give their exact
03:39locations for literally no reason, and just refers to general areas. And she doesn't even explain that
03:45the king couldn't have possibly known where exactly they would move to after Eggman took over,
03:50and so this makes sense. So what? Sonic's so fast that he'd still find them in no time on his own anyways.
03:59They really don't need a plan. Sonic humors her that sounds good to him, and there's more padding
04:05until it has Sonic visit Rotor and care enough about him to ask what he's making in the workshop.
04:11Rotor made a device that he calls an MFG that makes a powerful magnetic field destroying any robot
04:17they'd find, and he never would have made this in Sad AM or Archie. That's only going to be needed for
04:24adventures where Sonic and Bunny aren't with the others who are also in danger. Continuity was
04:29established, so I know the heroes can fight robots here. The problem is, tension is kind of the whole
04:34appeal of Sad AM other than the characters, and that's gone when the heroes can fight robots.
04:40Because why is the action engaging if it's really easy to deal with?
04:46Sonic calls Rotor's gadget awesome, and when Rotor tests it out,
04:50every metal tool comes flying towards Rotor, requiring Sonic to pull him out of the way.
04:56How is Rotor so stupid, and is to think using a big magnet in a workshop was a good idea?
05:03Why does the narration recap that Bunny is half robot, and why?
05:09The book is boring enough because of the book. Move faster!
05:12She comes flying to the workshop. She was already bothered by a magnet and Archie.
05:18It's just a different place this time.
05:21Rotor turns off the machine and apologizes. Bunny forgives him instantly, and is also
05:27smart enough to say anything that'd stop a robot is okay to her.
05:31Sonic says he's glad she's here. They have a good chemistry. I wish it was just the three of them
05:37in these books. Sonic, Bunny, and Rotor meet up with Sally and Antoine, and walk all the way to a
05:42boulder in front of a cave. The book didn't have to call them brave when I already knew that.
05:48Why didn't they have Sonic run while they formed a chain behind him to get them here
05:53way faster? I assume hiked means walk, which is so stupid. They can get exercise anytime.
06:01Sonic calls the rock an oversized pebble at the sarcastic quip. His dialogue's always more
06:07interesting than the others. I'm just always living in dread of him saying some lame dated slang.
06:14Once again, Bunny's given a limit to her strength because she can't push the boulder.
06:20But it's not like it's made of concrete. Why doesn't she try to punch or kick it?
06:25Because Sally noticed his sunlight glinting off the rocks, she assumes it has some metallic ore.
06:32Rhoda should've been the one who noticed this because he's the genius.
06:37Sonic also has his intelligence eaten up by her because he somehow didn't realize what she was
06:42getting at and is sarcastic with her. Even Bunny knows what Sally's getting at. That's out of character.
06:49Oh, this is treating Sonic horribly. Sonic doesn't need to be made stupid to give value to his other
06:55friends being smart. Stupid's not cool, and being not a gadgeteer and of average intelligence most
07:01areas is enough of a contrast. This kind of writing is why Sally was creator's pet in the show.
07:09Rhoda uses the MFG to move the boulder and has to dive out of the way when it nearly hits him.
07:15I appreciate that his invention creates some tension by nearly hurting him every time.
07:20I thought it'd be an effortless I win button in EMP.
07:25Again, why are they just walking? They get swarmed by cave bats looking pathetic,
07:32because if they just held Sonic while they ran ahead, they wouldn't have them to worry about.
07:37Antoine slips on a slippery floor and slides down a steep incline into the darkness.
07:43So I just have to infer that the risk of sliding or falling is why they weren't running, because it
07:48was pitch dark. And none of them were smart enough somehow to just tell Sonic to run home
07:53for a lantern for them. I think this is the first time this has ever happened to Antoine in the
08:00franchise though. Sonic comes up with a plan to make a tornado hero-style to bring the bats upwards,
08:06where they wisely decide to leave him alone. You'd think it'd be Sally or Rhoda came up with the plan.
08:12But I'm just glad Sonic was allowed to have one. He lampshades the lack of gratitude
08:18he's getting by telling them to hold their applause, which is the tiniest bit annoying.
08:24Bunny thanks him and so does Sally. She assumes for no reason that everyone's forgotten Antoine.
08:30Why did he take so long to respond to them? I guess he was passed out. He thanks Sally for her
08:35concern and says he landed near a river. So Antoine was useful for once. Anybody could have done this.
08:43But it's better that it was him, because it was about being clumsy. I would have liked him dealing
08:47with this if I didn't assume the heroes would be stressed out and sidetracked with trying to find him.
08:54Sonic says cool, and the heroes reveal that they had kept inflatable canoes in packs they had.
09:00So they have a way to paddle down a river they had no way of knowing they'd deal with and were just
09:04smart enough to assume they might. Why did they think to bring these but not a way to light up the
09:10darkness? Antoine pads it out by whining and Sally says they should be patient. The river gets faster
09:17and Sonic relatively appreciates that. He should have known it was because they were heading for the
09:22cliche waterfall. Sally tells Rhoda and Sonic to paddle over towards their boat and says they all
09:28need to be in one boat. When the boats get close enough, Rhoda grabs Sally's boat and he and Sonic
09:34get into it. Sally tells them to form a chain and tells Bunny to be in front while everyone else has
09:41to grab someone's legs. She tells Rhoda to turn on the magnet as they start leaving the cave and throw it
09:48onto a flat ledge on the side of the mountain as they'll fall. Sally just has to be the dumb one
09:54questioning her. Predictably, her complicated plan saves them using Bunny's robot legs.
10:01There's different kinds of geniuses, and judging from Rhoda never making plans, we're supposed to
10:06assume Rhoda isn't a tactical one. It's a bit confusing in a group that already has the smart
10:11one in it, so it's a shame that the only usual purpose Sally can serve is this one then. Because no
10:17one would have been skeptical of a gadgeteer also being good at thinking up plans. You could have
10:22rewritten it so that Sally had Rhoda's talent and Rhoda never existed and saved money for Sadie M,
10:29and she would have just been more popular. It's a kid series with a magic hedgehog, so no one would
10:34have been skeptical that Sally was a gadgeteer. It's also a shame that Sally's whole purpose so far
10:40is just making plans, when Sonic is fully capable of doing that. Sonic says way to go and uses marine
10:48slang, calling it an aces plan. Antoine says well done, and somehow Bunny says she never thought
10:55she'd be so glad to be a cyborg, even though she already learned that did her a favor. I wonder if
11:02the magnet's gonna get snatched. The heroes have some rest, and there's some padding until the next
11:07morning has him get woken up by robots aiming lasers at them from hovercrafts. Somehow Antoine
11:13thinks they're doomed, and they waste time hiding behind trees instead of them all telling Sonic to
11:19grab them and run ahead. Because they inexplicably stood still, they saw a ram person get chased down
11:26and eject himself out of a hovercraft while the hovercrafts of the robots crash. Sally's overprotective
11:33of Sonic for no reason when he decides to help this guy, who's probably lazily taken from that
11:39episode of SadieM where he betrayed Sally to try to save his friends. And just using him again has me
11:45suspicious of him right away. What is even the potential of this story anymore if it's just gonna
11:50give up and recycle a SadieM episode? If the whole underground problem was in the SadieM episode,
11:58how did I forget that? That was the most awesome part of this story. The ram thanks Sonic, and the
12:05robots stand there letting Sonic taunt them somehow before he runs into a lake where they short circuit.
12:12Why does he waste time doing an interesting strategy when the other books had him able to spin dash
12:17robots? Then he has some lame dialogue. Why did Broder take so long to use the magnet to one shot a robot?
12:25The ram thanks him three times and predictably says his name's Eri again. Sonic makes himself look
12:32humble saying no problem bud when earlier he was talking all cocky like saying that he's just out for
12:38exercise. I'm so bored by the preceding pages. I don't think the exposition Eri gives even matters
12:45enough to mention. It's probably the same as in the show. Though I don't remember him having 20 members
12:52of his team. I wish he explained how the hell five of his friends weren't competent enough to get
12:58captured after all of their experience, because it seems forced. He thanks them for the meal and
13:05Sonic Hill says he's got to be on his way instead of knowing he could and probably should take advantage
13:10of their abilities. If he wants to lure Sonic into a trap, why is he saying he's gotta be on his way?
13:17Why is he leaving it up to chance and hoping that Sonic will tell him that he's gotta help him?
13:24Sally doesn't trust Eri, despite him saying he's gotta be on his way.
13:29Aw, this is really ripping off the show. She's psychically aware that he's gonna betray them for
13:34literally no reason considering that she's not actually psychic. Just because we're supposed to
13:39think she's smart and heaven forbid she ever be wrong. That'd make her actually relatable. No,
13:45her angsting over missing her father doesn't happen enough to make up for creator's pet moments like
13:50this. Or her bickering with Sonic, like she does here. She says he's always rushing off without
13:56thinking. Even though at no point in the books did he ever do that, because that would actually be in
14:02character. Normally Sonic would be right to think she's just overly suspicious to question how a hero
14:09happened upon them in the middle of nowhere. It's called luck. You could say the same about them meeting
14:15the wolf pack later. Why didn't they meet them a lot closer to the great forest if that was all an
14:20act? She has a better point that it's weird that everyone but Eri was captured considering that robots
14:27don't ever give up. And actually Sonic isn't convinced because that's still just an assumption.
14:33Eri could have gotten lucky. And I'm assuming that is the case. So if the writer really does rip off the
14:39show, this would be a creator's pet moment for her. But at least one that Sadie M is to blame for and not
14:45the writer. Seriously, the books should have been forbidden from stealing stories from the show. This is
14:52one of the very few times where a mandate would be a good thing objectively, because it only increased
14:58creativity. He's officially similar to my least favorite Sonic writer. If you want to hack, he would
15:05subvert our expectations after this. Sonic goes off with Eri, and Ryder eventually restores his power
15:11to the swamp bot's head and finds the chip that controls his speech to make it play aloud. Sally wishes
15:18that Sonic weren't himself anymore. And why it's about having no faith in him? Why is this wasting
15:24my time? Antoine says he agrees, but who knows? He'll say anything to try to get into her non-existent
15:30pants. But he stupidly wastes her time trying to reassure someone who doesn't have the ability to learn
15:37that Sonic's recklessness never matters in the long run. And it doesn't. If Sonic wasn't running into
15:44danger and not thinking in the games, he never would have chased down Eggman to even go through
15:50the classic Sonic plots. The swamp bot head tells the heroes that Sally was psychically right.
15:56And it goes over to Sonic's perspective to bore me with more plagiarism. What a hack fraud plot twist.
16:03What's the point of doing the same story again? I wonder if most fans didn't bother to read the rest of
16:09this. I'm only going to mention what I have to. What's good, what's different, and what makes no sense.
16:17If I know for a fact that something's stealing from Sad Anne's episode, I'm not going to waste your
16:22time with it. The problem is, I don't remember it very well. Eventually, Aerie sinks in a sand whirlpool.
16:30I don't remember them having to overcome any traps, so it must have been really forgettable
16:35while the show handled it. Actually, that is fun the episode. I only found that out again after I
16:42looked it up after I was done reading the bunk. This time, Sonic runs around the whirlpool's edge,
16:48pulling on Aerie's arm as he went, and makes him emerge. Aerie thanks him, and while Sonic is
16:54impressive here, I wish it was someone else he saved. Aerie's at least written to be silently guilty.
17:01Sonic carries him and keeps out running all of the sandy whirlpools. At the gate of the fortress,
17:07Aerie holds Sonic bent and throws a rock at a force field which effortlessly destroys it.
17:13The force field, not the rock somehow. It must have been rigged to be destroyed that easily.
17:20Sonic somehow doesn't lampshade this and wonder if Sally was right. Aerie also presses the right buttons
17:25and opens the door, which makes Sonic surprised because Eggman changes the codes on his lock every
17:31hour. Even though he should know the heroes have a hacking computer with him. I mean, at that point,
17:38who cares what the codes are? She's gonna figure them out and hack into them anyways.
17:44The gate slams clothes behind them, and a robotic arm grabs Sonic to pull him into the wall anyways.
17:51Aerie apologizes repeatedly in a whisper and says he had no choice. Yeah, he did.
17:57I hate that the story wastes my time with Sonic's friend slowly following Sonic's trail and stating the
18:03obvious, like Antoine saying he doesn't want Sonic hurt. I'm so bored. Sally says Sonic's valuable and
18:11also says he's their friend. Only a complete idiot wouldn't know that. And Antoine comforts Sally when she
18:19whines that she always hoped that they would see that fortress for the last time. No duh. If you don't
18:25want to be a hero anymore, give up and stop whining to your friends. She's like Belle. The pacing keeps
18:31stomping to focus on her angst. I wish I only switched back to their point of view right before Bunny
18:38aimlessly kicked a stone into a sandy pit that they didn't know was there. How convenient that she did that
18:45on a whim. I guess it's believable. It's a response to her own stress to feel like she has power over
18:51something. Oh, for fuck's sake, I thought I'd at least have the integrity to not rip off the pinball
18:57table element from the episode. That's the most memorable part, so everyone's going to know what
19:01you're doing. Sonic's use as a pinball by Eggman just like in that. Nothing to see here like last
19:10time. It's nice that it's a reference to the games, but it should have just not even shown Sonic's point
19:14of view if it's going to be derivative. Literally nothing new happens until Rotor uses a magnet to
19:20make the door to the fortress land to the ground so that Bunny and Rotor could smash apart the robots
19:26holding Aerie. I think Bunny should have slammed the door though. I feel like if the book officially
19:33crossed the line by not having Bunny able to do anything to that boulder, at some point you start
19:38wondering if she's being nerfed. Because they don't explain the chemical composition of the boulder
19:44compared to the concrete from earlier. It's hard for me to believe that a rock is as good as concrete.
19:51The point is why even have Bunny around if you're not going to take advantage of her super strength?
19:57I hate that the heroes just do nothing and talk to Aerie when Sonic's in danger at the moment.
20:03Again, that's the writer making the characters look worse than they're intended to be. Bunny used
20:08their robot hand to slide open a panel, so she was useful. And Aerie says he should be the one to save
20:15Sonic since he betrayed him. Sonic's distracted enough by yelling at him asking a stupid question to get
20:21hit by a pinball, and nearly knocked into the vortex. He should have known if Aerie was here to
20:27antagonize him, he would have just immediately started attacking him and not looked upset in
20:31his expression. Aerie saves Sonic, the story doing that to rip off the episode. But I have to say it
20:38because you'd have no idea what was going on if I didn't. I don't actually remember if Aerie and Sonic
20:44ramming to the pinballs and upping their score made the vortex disappear. I would expect pulling
20:49a lever or pressing a button outside of the pinball machine to do that. Why would Eggman make it
20:54possible for them to do anything to get themselves out of this? Also, why in the hell would Eggman put
21:00Sonic in a trap that would risk him being lost to a vortex, when what he wants to do is roboticize
21:07everyone, and that would prevent him from doing that to him. Sonic's just a special case where he's
21:13admitting defeat because he's so powerful. Even though he's supposed to be very stubborn and arrogant,
21:19and he would be extremely useful to roboticize if he was just as fast that way. According to RG,
21:25he is. Ebol gets hit by Sonic, so they get to escape. Aerie tells them he discovered a secret
21:31exit when he was here before, and leaves them far away from the fortress. So finally it does something
21:38different by changing the ending. This time, it doesn't have Aerie get trapped in the void,
21:44and that is a better ending because his actions in the story were understandable,
21:48being motivated by the desire to do the right thing. He was still wrong because Sonic's team is
21:53probably much more capable of fighting Eggman than his own team if they got captured. Not to mention
21:59you practically never see any Satiem or Archie background characters have magical powers. So he
22:07was letting his personal preference for his friends blind his judgment. He was given two choices, to
22:13either do something harsh by betraying Sonic, or also be harsh by giving up on his own friends for the
22:19greater good. Game Pure has always holded against Sally when she makes or considers harsh decisions
22:25that her friends don't like for the greater good. But I'm willing to bet they wouldn't have held it
22:30against Aerie if he abandoned his friends in favor of Sonic. Just because Sonic's a game character. If
22:36Sally abandoned other friends of hers who had no special powers and abilities because the alternative
22:42was betraying Sonic, I bet she'd still be called evil because she already is literally called that by people
22:48who don't understand complicated moral choices. For example, they completely overreacted to her
22:54considering not risking destroying the world by making a plan to free Enerjack Knuckles. They
23:01completely overreacted to that and called her a horrible person even though she clearly looked upset
23:06about it. If he destroyed the world because she freed him from the egg graves, that would destroy Sonic too.
23:13He planned on remaking the world. What if he remade the world without Sonic in it?
23:20Aerie thanks Sally for being polite enough to ask him to stay with them for a while. And he says
23:25he's got to get back to his remaining friends. Sally's polite enough to say she understands instead of
23:31getting mad at someone making a decision she disapproves of. Because she's actually mature here.
23:37Which is why she and the rest of her friends aren't being ready to mistreat him. And she even wishes him
23:42good luck and shakes his hand. It's more than he deserves obviously. So it is a little frustrating.
23:50But I've already seen the alternative with her glaring at Fiona and Archie. And that image is burned
23:55into my brain. Sonic says they'll see Aerie again, which doesn't turn out to be true, and calls him
24:01Bud. And even tells him to be sure to visit if he's in the area. It's a bittersweet level of heartwarming.
24:08Aerie sweetly says that he will. And sadly, the story ends without anything bad happening to him for
24:14comedy relief. Hems suffering because he had to save Sonic doesn't really count because he's already
24:20used to going on dangerous adventures. He's a freedom fighter. Hems being trapped in the void was complete
24:25overkill. I mean he should have tricked, or burned himself on hot soup, or fallen down a hill. Just a few
24:33instances of comedy relief against him. So the ending isn't just annoying. Maybe it was misguided
24:39to change the ending. And a complete waste of time too, because what do you think was going to happen?
24:44That this would override the canon of the show? It's a book that nobody talks about.
24:50And it's not like in his next books he's going to use Aerie. So it's for nothing.
24:56I like that Sonic calls their adventure a success. Obviously I've been replacing the word mission
25:01with adventure because some people have overreacted to his adventures being called
25:05missions in western media. Even though he still treats them like fun little adventures.
25:11And functionally, they're the same thing as adventures. They fit the description exactly.
25:17Sally finally shows some optimism for us for once.
25:20And Sonic ends the story by saying way past cool twice. Which through no fault of the story ended
25:26up being extremely lame because that slang went out of date. But they didn't have a crystal bomb.
25:34This story was by Michael Taytelbaum. This story fucking sucked for me. Because it plagiarized an
25:40episode of the show which is insanely boring if you watched it, which chances are you did.
25:45He shouldn't have been allowed to do this. Not if he was going to make it so similar to the episode
25:51that it was actually recognizable as it. This combined with the pacing being shit to be unbearable
25:57once Aerie showed up. But it is a better plot than the episode since most of the changes are good.
26:04Rhoda makes the magnet instead of Sonic just conveniently finding it. There's no game-breaking
26:09Dulcy in the story. I think the story was okay before Aerie. That part where they avoided
26:15falling off a waterfall was awesome. I just read in the episode Sonic tries to use a ring that he
26:21shouldn't need. Glad that's removed. Aerie doesn't get trapped in the void. Though he should have
26:27gotten some punishments besides the expected distrust he got for it. What's awesome is the
26:33story doesn't end with Sonic being ridiculed by Sally for trusting Aerie and getting electrocuted and
26:39looking silly from it. And Aerie in this book doesn't need the magnet itself to save Sonic.
26:45So that's new. And that's the only thing good about it. So it's a version of the story that's
26:52much better than the show's. So technically it is a good story. Someone hating a story doesn't always
26:59mean it's bad. This is why it's best to review everything thoroughly to put all the cards on the
27:04table and show a story for what it is. This is why I talk about plot holes. If a story summary is full
27:11of plot holes then I could understand saying that it's a bad story. Even if I thought it was a good
27:18one. Maybe I just value certain concepts more than other people. I only hate it because I saw the
27:24episode first. It can try as hard as it wants to adapt a plot but it's never going to top it because
27:30it's a book. It's only going to have like 1% of it be better than the story because most of the
27:37experience is going to be better if you're experiencing it on a television. So the only way
27:42the books can have value is to be as original as possible. And I'm confident that interestingness
27:48and pacing are the most vital elements of writing to get right. I say interestingness because I might
27:55not actually notice if something was done before. If the last time it was done before it wasn't
28:00memorable enough. What I'm really thinking about is creativity. Because creativity is the most
28:05likely to be interesting to me. But I can still be interested in something that's not creative.
28:11It depends on how good the concept is. The most important thing to do is have an interesting plot
28:17and have good pacing. Because if you screw that up, I'm going to be suffering through that for the entire story.
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