Sonic Watermill Press Book Review Newbie's Perspective

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00:00Sonic the Hedgehog Watermill Press Book.

00:03It starts really similar to an old Archie story because Sonic has shown a ring his uncle made

00:09and has been practicing running every day, and a teenage Eggman's living with him

00:15who blames Sonic for his robot being destroyed, which was an accident.

00:21So that's interesting because he usually does it on purpose.

00:25And I don't remember him destroying his robots by accident before.

00:30He decides to stop living with them, which is a nice surprise,

00:34because I thought it'd rip off the whole story off of the comic.

00:37Or the novel, more accurately.

00:40But then it goes on to rip off the novel anyways,

00:43because it moves on to rip off the story where 200 chili dogs get ordered for Sonic to deliver,

00:49and it was all a trap of Eggman.

00:52So what's new here?

00:54Well, his dialogue's unique.

00:56It gets lame when he starts saying,

00:59but not for long,

01:01and infers himself in the third person.

01:04Why did he waste time he could be spending trying to save his uncle and dog,

01:08stating the obvious to himself?

01:11Just because it's a picture book doesn't justify it being cheesy.

01:15When Sonic's supposed to be cool, obviously.

01:17Oh, how nice.

01:20This is the only version of the story that colors Sally correctly.

01:24At least that's relatively new.

01:26Anyways, it's just like in the novel again.

01:29After padding, since like all of the other picture books,

01:32there are a bunch of unneeded words in it,

01:35Sally leads the way to the back of Eggman's factory,

01:38and Sonic sees his family getting turned into horrible looking robots

01:42from the other side of a window.

01:45It's all Sally's fault for slowing him down.

01:48He's faster than her,

01:50so why would he let her lead the way instead of picking her up

01:52and asking her which way to go and running?

01:56This is easily the worst version of the story.

01:59Sonic would have been in such a hurry to save his family,

02:02he would have been too impatient to stop and stay still while listening to her.

02:06He would have picked her up and started running with her

02:09and saved his family in time.

02:11So when I think about it,

02:12it's just as much Sonic's fault

02:14because the writer made him possibly stupid.

02:17At least it's a bidding character

02:19because Sonic's supposed to be a little bit reckless.

02:22Because he's confident,

02:23and that's the natural result of it.

02:25And he's also an optimist,

02:27so it'd be in his nature to let himself believe

02:29that maybe he'd get away with slowing down

02:31because he wants to believe it.

02:34I just find it insulting to his character

02:35that he'd be made reckless in a way

02:37that seriously backfires on him

02:39when this really wasn't a time for him

02:40to think it was worth taking a risk

02:42when his uncle's life was on the line,

02:44and he's supposed to be a good guy.

02:47It's not like he wanted Sally to tell him

02:49why he shouldn't go past the fence

02:50because his only response was to ask who she was

02:53when he had no reason to care at the moment.

02:56And of course,

02:57like in the comic,

02:58I'm wondering why he didn't recognize

03:01the princess of his own kingdom.

03:03To be fair,

03:04not everybody watches TV constantly,

03:08especially not a kid,

03:09so maybe it makes sense

03:11that he didn't happen to see her in the news

03:14or in media.

03:16And she's not on the coins,

03:17she's just the princess.

03:18And it's weird that one moment

03:21she told him she wouldn't go to the factory

03:23if she was him.

03:24And then the next moment,

03:25as soon as he said,

03:26come on,

03:27she didn't nag him

03:28and try to stop him

03:29from going to the factory anyways,

03:31which would have been annoying.

03:34So in this version of the story,

03:35Sonic jumps over the fence

03:36and the book says he took a hold of his ring

03:38and smashed the robots one by one.

03:42This implies he needed the ring

03:44to be able to do that,

03:45which is just disrespectfully weakening him

03:47for no reason

03:48because it doesn't even benefit the story.

03:51Because it's so short,

03:53this is the last time

03:54he's going to deal with robots.

03:56And anyone's going to assume

03:57he's guaranteed to escape alive anyway,

03:59so why even bother raising attention a little

04:01by doing this?

04:02And it's just going to be frustrating

04:04instead of tragic

04:06with you taking it seriously

04:07if a problem for a character

04:09only arises in an adaptation

04:11because the writer made the character

04:14less competent

04:15than he's supposed to be

04:17in the source material.

04:19Like, it's fine to introduce a concept

04:20that wasn't originally there,

04:22but not really to weaken

04:24the character himself.

04:26To be fair,

04:26you could interpret this in good faith

04:28by saying that Eggman's

04:29so competent at making robots

04:31that they're made of such tough material

04:34that Sonic needs a ring

04:35to slice through them

04:36instead of just slamming into them lethally.

04:39But then this really should have been explained

04:41because the instinctive interpretation of this

04:44is that it makes Sonic weaker

04:45because he's the main character,

04:47so you'd prefer for him to be portrayed respectfully

04:49and you think of him first.

04:52Anyway, this is another way

04:53this is a unique version of the story.

04:56Sally didn't have to get grabbed

04:57for Sonic to fight the robots,

04:59so she isn't humiliated.

05:01Though it does bring into question

05:02why Sonic didn't fight the robots directly

05:04and save his family and Archie then.

05:06Because Sally didn't need to be grabbed

05:08to make him do that.

05:10In this one,

05:11he's smart enough to think

05:12if I move really fast,

05:14then my spines would cut through it

05:16and my spines are just my hair,

05:18so it shouldn't actually hurt me.

05:20So he's smarter here.

05:22I guess in Archie,

05:23Sonic bumped his head really hard at one point,

05:25so he's too stupid to think

05:27to fight the robots.

05:29Or too scared of Eggman,

05:31so he just assumed

05:33that he made his robots

05:34too tough to damage.

05:35If that happened to a lot of characters in Sonic,

05:39that'd explain a lot.

05:41But that doesn't make it for idiot balls,

05:43because the fact that that's never explained

05:45means it's not the canon excuse,

05:47and it really needed to be explained to be

05:49because it took years to think of that,

05:51and most people won't.

05:53Anyways,

05:54all that's new here

05:55is that Sonic compassionately comforts Sally

05:58because he didn't find her dad.

06:00Sally says her friends in her

06:01will do anything to get rid of Robotnik.

06:03Oh, good, how unique.

06:06So this version of Sally

06:07is okay with having him killed.

06:09Which is good,

06:09because it reassures me

06:10that in this continuity,

06:12Eggman only stayed a problem

06:13for a little bit after this.

06:15Sadly, the story doesn't describe

06:17the Great Oak Slut.

06:19The story rips off

06:20the novel version of the story after this.

06:22By fortunately having a ring,

06:24conveniently bring Chuck and Matsuki

06:26back to normal.

06:27It's magical in another continuity,

06:29so whatever.

06:30I can assume the only other ability

06:32it can do

06:33is this.

06:35And Sonic's desperate and an optimist,

06:37so it's realistic that he would have tried this

06:39with no reason to think it would work.

06:42It still would have worked better

06:43if the story Adam already knew

06:45Rings can grant wishes, though.

06:48Or at least had the narration say

06:49that his desperation for him

06:51to be brought back

06:51and the sheer amount he cared about him

06:53is what caused him to do this,

06:56which would at least be

06:57emotional storytelling.

06:59Instead, it's like,

07:00maybe this will work,

07:01I don't know.

07:02And you'd think,

07:04a part of his wish

07:05would also be

07:06Eggman's nice.

07:09Chuck didn't remember

07:10what he went through

07:10for no reason,

07:11when what part of his brain

07:12being turned to metal

07:13and only altered to remove free will

07:15would make it not record memory

07:17it could play back later.

07:19And the story ends

07:19by reassuring the audience

07:20that the heroes would use

07:21Sonic's other rings

07:23that apparently existed

07:24to de-roboticize everybody else.

07:27We should have been told

07:28there were other rings.

07:29Not like that's impossible,

07:30so it's not a Deus Ex Machina,

07:32but it feels underwhelmingly easy

07:34when we thought

07:34there was only one.

07:36But it would be stupid

07:37if Chuck to only make one

07:39for no reason,

07:40even though it was something

07:41that the family benefited from,

07:43and he had all this time

07:44to make more.

07:45It says now they could

07:46defeat Eggman.

07:48They didn't need to be able

07:49to de-roboticize people

07:50to be able to do that.

07:51Sonic could just run back

07:52to Eggman in seconds

07:53and beat him up.

07:55So the author of this

07:57was Judy Mayer.

07:59This is a version

08:00of the first Sadie M novel

08:02where Chuck and Mutsuki

08:03get roboticized

08:04just as much because

08:05of Sally and Sonic

08:06as Eggman

08:07because Sally slowed him down

08:09talking to him,

08:10and Sonic uncharacteristically

08:11let her

08:12when he's supposed to be

08:13more impatient and compassionate

08:14than reckless.

08:17At least it cut out

08:18all of the lame filler

08:19by having teenage Eggman

08:20just leave right away

08:21after Sonic smashes

08:22his robots by accident

08:24this time.

08:25Good,

08:25because it always made

08:26Chuck look like an idiot

08:27with skewed priorities

08:28that he let Eggman

08:29live with Sonic

08:30despite his protests.

08:32And the Raiders

08:33once again

08:34too lazy to explain

08:35why he's an orphan

08:36living with Sonic.

08:38I have to wonder

08:39if the story

08:40was something

08:40Sega of America

08:41considered canon

08:42at the time

08:42because it kept

08:43getting remade

08:44even as late as 1995,

08:47which is confusing

08:48when they already

08:49had a better backstory.

08:51Again,

08:52Eggman gets Sonic

08:52to leave Chuck alone

08:53by ordering a ton

08:54of chili dogs

08:55from his stand

08:56so he could have

08:56them roboticized.

08:59And like in the novel version

09:00that's heavily ripped off,

09:01Sonic and Sally

09:02have the common sense

09:03to destroy the robots

09:04and save Chuck and Mutsuki.

09:06And Chuck and Mutsuki

09:07simply get to

09:08roboticize with a ring,

09:10which was only worth

09:10being anticlimactic

09:12because at least

09:13it's better than Archie

09:14where Chuck getting

09:15free will back

09:16made no sense as well

09:18and him being

09:20diroboticized

09:21was something

09:21Sonic didn't

09:22do anything to cause.

09:25Despite how much

09:26worse the story was,

09:28I'm glad it was

09:28different enough

09:29that he stopped

09:29feeling like it'd be

09:30seen as a waste of time

09:31to review this.

09:33But it'd feel

09:33less like a waste of time

09:35if they did more

09:36new with it

09:37had hammers

09:39not be the thing

09:40that was in that

09:40factory Sonic

09:41went through.

09:42So,

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