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00:00Chaotix's 30th anniversary special.
00:03The story starts at a museum that has its name lazily inspired by the name of a real museum.
00:10But also it's a university at the same time, apparently.
00:14Well, that seems new to me.
00:16So that's gonna factor into the plot, right?
00:19And Amy's telling Sonic about ancient history that's useless for him to know.
00:24Why is Sonic just standing still in a museum, which would be boring to him?
00:30And he'll never get used to him wanting to hang out with Amy for fun.
00:34Especially not on his own after the way she kept coming on too strong.
00:39Because there was never a cutscene that explained that she learned not to do that and why.
00:45That's not character development. It's a brain transplant.
00:49And it was Sonic Boom Amy who cared about archaeology.
00:52But there's nothing bad about another Amy getting this trait.
00:57All it does is add to her personality so she lets one note and make her look book smart.
01:02It just still isn't enough because this is such a useless trait that never comes up.
01:08Why is it that in the first page of the Chaotix special, the Chaotix are nowhere to be found?
01:14It goes without saying that Sonic shouldn't be in this.
01:18Sonic does a game reference as a cheap way to pander to the fans.
01:23And nicely calls Amy cool and reveals that he had no idea she knew so much about this ancient history
01:28even though they're friends.
01:31Which is there for him to be an audience surrogate because we were also surprised to see if he liked
01:35this outside of Sonic Boom.
01:36And then it reveals that she stayed up late last night researching all these exhibits online.
01:43Well that undercuts it.
01:45So it makes her less impressive for knowing this.
01:48Why would you do that?
01:49I guess the writer thought that it'd be too hard to accept otherwise since this is marketed as Game Amy.
01:56Well people accepted that Boom Amy was from another universe.
01:59Which makes it weird that Sega didn't let the people in charge of Boom Rise Lyric be as creative as
02:05they wanted.
02:06Which they thought they could do because it was an alternate universe.
02:09Forcing them to redo a lot of their plans for the game.
02:13I guess she still cares about ancient history genuinely because she could have chosen a different museum.
02:20And the story has Amy look evil for misleading Sonic about how good her memory is.
02:25Well that's fair because it might backfire on him if he relies on her good memory later.
02:33But he won't.
02:35I'm surprised that it did that after nearly all of IDW did nothing but portray her positively to an out
02:40of touch extent.
02:42And now it's back to her being portrayed as a flawed character who isn't entirely a good person.
02:47That's good because it's actually interesting.
02:50And accurate.
02:51It just sticks out because it's a contrast.
02:54Then Vector shows up to greet them and lampshades out of character it is for Sonic to be the museum
03:00type.
03:01Sonic doesn't really justify it.
03:04There isn't any evidence that he was the type to do this in the games.
03:07And there wasn't any evidence of this with this Sonic either.
03:11Sonic in IDW is just an idiot.
03:14But to be fair, like with Amy, it's not established that he's an idiot in the academic sense where he's
03:20not book smart.
03:21We just naturally assumed that.
03:23Because he looks like someone who isn't that way in the games.
03:26Someone who didn't even start reading the one book he checked out.
03:30I like that the artist thought to have Amy look annoyed with Vector for showing up when she wanted to
03:35have alone time with Sonic.
03:36Of course she'd be annoyed.
03:39But having it be only silently implied that she wanted that is a way of maintaining her crush on Sonic
03:45without it being annoying like before.
03:48Vector says the rest of the Chaotix are around the museum reminiscing about one of their first big cases because
03:54it was solved right here.
03:55In a place we never saw until now.
03:58And this is the anniversary event.
04:01I hope we'll find out what makes a big case big in the first place.
04:06Well it would be too predictable if the anniversary issue for the Chaotix took place on Carnival Island because that's
04:12where they first showed up.
04:14I'd rather a new setting for a new story.
04:17It's just that it being new and boring looking means I've got no attachment to it.
04:22Vector goes from hesitating to tell them about the case because it's a long story to agreeing to it.
04:28And Amy deserves this because maybe she would have avoided this if she hadn't lied.
04:32What a shame.
04:33If she was okay with being rude to Sonic in Sonic Adventure being like,
04:38What's your problem?
04:40She wouldn't be nice and two faced.
04:43Like who is this?
04:44That's why I mocked Vector by having him call himself a munt.
04:48I always start to lose patience when I see Vector get portrayed as someone to laugh at with bad comedy
04:54when that was only one time in his first game.
04:57There's a flashback that resorts to ugly black and white art that makes it harder to understand what I'm looking
05:04at.
05:05And that combined with the ugly looking green text boxes with worthless white narration makes it hard for me to
05:11motivate myself to care about what's going on.
05:15Usually I make it a rule not to talk about the art because it's just a superficial criticism that's pointing
05:20at the obvious.
05:21But this is really distracting.
05:24So far this is a really disrespectful anniversary story.
05:29RG Sonic did this kind of thing and it did it a lot better.
05:33It was just normal looking art except it was in black and white.
05:36The comic does what narration and comics have done for the entire history of comics.
05:42Be a boring waste of time and state the obvious.
05:46And it's especially bad when there's no dialogue either.
05:49And I have to read all of it because I'm reviewing it.
05:53The narration starts by saying that business was slow.
05:56And then it keeps going on to say other things that don't matter and just restate the same point over
06:02and over.
06:03I forget if I mentioned this, but this is just showing that this writer learned nothing from Scrapnik Island where
06:09he constantly had redundant texts that stated the obvious.
06:13Which only hurts the immersion and bores us treating us like idiots.
06:17But I know better than to mention every single time that this was a problem.
06:21Because that would get boring and redundant too.
06:24If I had done that for the first issue he wrote, the review could have stretched on to an hour.
06:29Let's just be quick about this by saying that every single time this narration it over describes things and pats
06:35out how long it takes to finish the book.
06:38The narration reveals that Vector thinks the streets of his city are filthy and people there are liars all of
06:44a sudden.
06:45So he's cynical like an Archie apparently.
06:47I mean writers are supposed to surprise you and there's no reason to think he wasn't cynical.
06:52A nervous woman called Vector and her boss was a professor.
06:57Why should I care about what the headmaster is saying here?
07:01And this is easily the worst looking art the comics ever had.
07:05This is the equivalent of that comic drawn by many hands in Archie Sonic, but for IDW.
07:11But at least in that, the snowflakes looked nice.
07:15The comic wastes time saying that the headmaster was a retired archaeologist.
07:20Another thing that doesn't matter.
07:23But not why in the world he retired at that point.
07:27It raises the question for nothing.
07:29And the story is just mean to the Chaotix for no reason because he's skeptical of them based on their
07:34looks.
07:35Even though only Chami would give him doubt.
07:38The narration calls Espio a ninja looking guy.
07:41It's insulting to our intelligence to think we would ever agree with this.
07:46Nobody would look at Espio and know that he's supposed to be a ninja.
07:50And why would the fact that he's a ninja make him seem like an incompetent detective anyway?
07:55How does that skill set go against the detective skill?
07:58The headmaster asks what they make of this.
08:01Which has to be revealed by the dialogue to be a card.
08:06Then why did Chami snip it?
08:08Why didn't Vector the adult grab it right away to prevent this?
08:12Vector says this is the stupid calling card of an elusive master thief.
08:18Yeah, I'd assume he was an elusive master if he hasn't been caught after all this time.
08:24He has to be leaving calling cards out of justified confidence that he won't be prevented from stealing after warning
08:30the victim.
08:31And there's no way Espio would say they've never been caught instead of he's.
08:37Especially since it's statistically proven that criminals are more likely to be men.
08:43So it makes no sense that he would assume otherwise.
08:46I say this because Espio doesn't say the thief's non-binary so that's not why he said this.
08:52It ends up being revealed that the Chaotix are here to find out what the thief plans on stealing.
08:58The headmaster says he found his employee's choice of which detectives to trust to be dubious.
09:04Making the narration about it worthlessly redundant.
09:08I guess it's believable that he didn't immediately reject them because then he'd have to wait for real detectives to
09:16show up.
09:17I'm guessing the point of those panels then was that the writer thought they would be funny to some people.
09:22Who tuned in to see a story starring the Chaotix because they respected them so much.
09:28Vector gets told that he got the headmaster's name wrong in a way that insulted him.
09:33And there's another mean joke at his expense too in the form of a few panels of silence where nothing
09:38happens.
09:39Why not have all of the jokes at Chami's expense instead of the guy that everyone's begging to see taken
09:44seriously again?
09:46It turns out almost right away that Sonic and Amy ran away from Vector which lampshades how boring Vector was.
09:54How can you think it was both boring and interesting enough for us to read?
09:59Then why did you write it like that?
10:01And of course this is only a symbolic representation of what happened because it makes no sense for this to
10:08be what actually was there.
10:10I hate that.
10:11Amy ends up saying a Japanese word phonetically in a way that tells us how she's pronouncing it.
10:18Like a normal person would.
10:20But the story does nothing to indicate how SBO pronounced it any differently.
10:24So it fails at educating us on the word.
10:28I'll still insist on pronouncing it how Amy does anyways.
10:32After all, it's an easy way to troll the people who care about Japanese stuff,
10:35which I want to do because there's a lot of overlap between those people and people who present themselves as
10:40Sonic fans
10:41when they hate most of the series and are constantly being wronged about how they interpret it
10:45from seeing the out-of-character portrayals of the 2010s onwards as worth defending
10:50and taking interviews that contradict the games as canon, but still insisting they respect the games.
10:58So somehow they respond to every instance of Shadow having a conscience in Archie or fan portrayals as headcanon
11:04misinterpreting him with an outright softie because he's an unlikable asshole in most of the new games.
11:10Anyways, Amy gets realistically startled by SBO suddenly appearing in front of her and instinctively tries to attack him.
11:19Of course SBO dodges because he was fast in the games.
11:23And of course Amy does get ridden to apologize and show that she cares about him.
11:29But I won't take this for granted because since when do we get to see Amy show that she cares
11:34about him?
11:35Vector doesn't take the hint somehow that they don't want to listen to his story and instead stupidly goes to
11:41tease his own friend
11:42about how he almost got thrown out of the museum in a fight causing him to start some boring long
11:47-winded narration
11:48as there's yet another flashback that Amy didn't want to listen to.
11:53Thankfully the art isn't complete garbage this time, but they still rushed it out having it be monochrome anyway, so
12:00it's half garbage.
12:01It'd be nice if the writer had the common sense to just instantly start the flashback with something happening
12:07instead of the chaotic waiting and SBO searching on his own and then chasing the thief.
12:13He would have instantly caught up to him.
12:15And why is it being disrespectful by only having SBO search for the thief? Like Vector wouldn't.
12:22I hope it's explained that the reason he didn't find him right away is that he can go invisible too,
12:26or this is ridiculous.
12:28It would be cool if he could go invisible.
12:31After wasted time, the narration says that sight's a distraction to a true ninja.
12:36It doesn't prove that to be the case when this could apply to people who aren't ninjas too.
12:41But I get its point when SBO throws something lethal in the direction of a robot.
12:46So it means he heard a move.
12:48He threw something that could kill someone at the thief.
12:51I know he said evil must die in Sonic Heroes, and while it wasn't canon, the fact that the Sega
12:56approved that means they thought it was a real reflection of his personality.
12:59But there's time and a place for everything.
13:02SBO's meant to be smart enough to know that if he killed the thief, he'd have to go on the
13:05run from the law, and the headmaster would look down on his friends for associating with him.
13:10It's not like SBO was called smart by anyone in the games, and I can't remember any examples of him
13:15being street smart, but I can't remember him being stupid either.
13:18So it's bad faith to assume any character from the source material that wasn't consistently meant to be depicted as
13:23stupid as it's supposed to be.
13:25I hate that the thief doesn't look like a chameleon.
13:28I'm glad there was a surprise where the thief turned out to be a robot, especially since it means he's
13:34menacing to look at.
13:35The fight scene doesn't have the catharsis of showing the impact at any point.
13:40It's always better to have the padding be a fight in action series so it's got worth in that respect,
13:46but it's still padding and how it's handled because of that.
13:49For once Eggman's made a robot shaped like a mobian that can go invisible.
13:53There's a so-called threat of the thief wanting to use a knife, but we all know the comic won't
13:58have that hit him, so he should have been given a blunt weapon instead.
14:03Nothing happens for a page, and the robot throws a weapon that knocks an exhibit at a museum off its
14:09pedestal.
14:09And Espiel thought of himself as careless for it, which he was because he should have been at a different
14:15side from the robot so it wouldn't throw in that direction.
14:19But it's believable that he didn't think of that because his life was in danger, so he would be entirely
14:23focused on fighting.
14:25Espiel thinks he must have overlooked the crystal on his earlier patrols of the museum, and he wonders what it
14:31was doing here.
14:33First he assumes he overlooked it, which means he's thinking it was always here.
14:37And then he asks what it was doing here. Why did he change his mind?
14:42Obviously it would be here because it was always in the museum.
14:46The thief didn't come with a bag, and he didn't have it in his hands when he first came here.
14:51So he didn't have it at first, and there's no reason he'd bring the jewel back here.
14:56His enemy ran off because in a life or death situation, this experienced, self-proclaimed ninja somehow stared at the
15:04jewel long enough for him to decide to run away for no reason instead of kill him when he was
15:08distracted by his shiny thing so he could leave with the thing he stole.
15:12This is so stupid.
15:15Vector says that the crystal being here could have meant only one thing, and it's frustrating that he doesn't explain
15:21what that one thing is.
15:24He says that Espio blew their case wide open. What is he talking about?
15:29They got hired to find out what the thief wanted to steal.
15:32But from what I've seen, Espio didn't find that out.
15:36He found out what the thief DIDN'T care about stealing.
15:39That doesn't narrow it down.
15:42Sonic and Amy had taken off because Espio was boring them, even though the story would have stopped being boring
15:47as soon as the fight got described.
15:49They wouldn't have left at the most captivating part of the story.
15:53Sonic wants to know about some random ancient jar.
15:57Since when does he care about this?
15:59Sure, it would make him look flawed to some people if he didn't care about ancient history, but he was
16:03always supposed to be a flawed character because having an attitude into being cocky and impatient are all flaws.
16:10Why not make him apathetic to this?
16:12This just depicted him as a Gary Stu goody-two-shoes where everything about him is meant to be aspirational,
16:18which is a blatant misinterpretation of the original character because it can backfire on you if you have the personality
16:23traits that he originally had, so they weren't meant to be seen as good in and of themselves.
16:29What was aspirational about Sonic was that he wasn't afraid of Eggman, which was why he still showed those flaws
16:36around him.
16:37Him running away instead of letting people finish their stories isn't a goody-two-shoes thing to do, but the
16:42stories depict him as justified in doing so anyways because there's other areas where the story makes a joke out
16:48of the Chaotix.
16:49And remember that Sonic wasn't depicted exactly the same way in Archie Sonic because he wasn't arrogant about not wanting
16:56to kill his enemies in that, and there's no reason the writers would have changed their minds about how they
17:00wanted to depict him.
17:01So the only explanation is that Flynn writes him differently because he thinks that's how Sega currently misinterprets Sonic as
17:07in the games, which was his excuse.
17:09So maybe this writer doesn't really think Sonic from the very beginning would be interested in ancient history, but thinks
17:15that he'd be told by the middleman at IDW that Sega doesn't want Sonic to be bored by it because
17:21it depicts their mascot negatively.
17:24Even though he got popular for not being perfect.
17:28Amy gets nervous because she clearly didn't research this jar, so she's planning on lying about it.
17:34I don't mind Amy being the victim of comedy relief here since that is how she was meant to be
17:39portrayed, even if this isn't the joke that originally got used against her.
17:44But it's good to be creative, so it's good to have a new joke at her expense.
17:47And she also wasn't meant to be an expert on archaeology anyways.
17:51And while we were led to believe that she researched everything in the museum ahead of time, so it's counterintuitive
17:56that she'd be clueless about this,
17:58It's more realistic that she wanted to memorize everything she learned, so she forgot about this.
18:04But I'm sure what we're supposed to assume is that they just added this exhibit today.
18:10Which is much less likely.
18:13Charmy flies out of the jar and says she found him, even though he'd know that nothing she said indicated
18:19that.
18:19So I can only give this the benefit of the doubt by assuming he knew that and was pretending she
18:23was looking for him for fun and just wanted an excuse to leave the jar and talk to her because
18:28he was bored by hiding in it.
18:30This still makes him a complete idiot in a way that's impossible to relate to.
18:34But at least this is based off how he was in Heroes in Shadow.
18:38Okay, but in his first game, there wasn't any hint that he was an annoying idiot.
18:42So the later games mangled his character with no explanation for how he changed.
18:47This just like Shadow being just a disrespectful grouch to Sonic in newer games because Vance joked about his edgelord
18:54dialogue from his own games.
18:56The same logic for rejecting the new characterizations of characters like Shadow applies to Charmy.
19:01We just don't think about it with Charmy because Knuckles Chaotix didn't have cutscenes that showed off any personality for
19:08him for us to get attached to and respect.
19:10There's no way to indicate his annoyingness in Knuckles Chaotix with no dialogue, so it doesn't directly contradict anything, but
19:17most people hate the way he's now.
19:19I get why he changed because it gives him a unique role and personality, but that's the case with Shadow
19:25being an antisocial jerk too.
19:27Amy wonders if Charmy's gonna tell him about more of the story, and he wasn't going to.
19:33Which leads to Amy being drawn in a ridiculous position she has no reason to put herself in for the
19:38sake of comedy yet again.
19:41While none of the jokes land, I can't get enough of Amy being the butt of a joke.
19:46Especially since it's not at the cost of Sonic being made uncomfortable like it was before.
19:51Still, since there was barely any humor in the classic games, it goes without saying that Sonic wasn't meant to
19:58have jokes this often to the point where half the point of the story is trying to be funny.
20:03I don't mean to sound like a classic purist when I keep referring to the first games.
20:07I prefer the adventure games, but there's barely any differences between the adventure games and them with how the world
20:13and characters are portrayed.
20:15So every time I do that, I'm saying the series should be like the adventure games too.
20:19And the series started with the classic games, so I have to refer to them as a reference for how
20:23the creators of the series wanted it to be like.
20:26Vector and Espio show up, and Amy gets startled because she didn't expect them to follow them here somehow, even
20:33though Vector tracked her down to finish his story last time just for the sake of finishing his story on
20:38principle.
20:39Inconsiderately.
20:40He's just that desperate for someone to talk to besides the Chaotix.
20:44We never see him talk at length to anyone but them in anything.
20:48But the same logic applies to Amy insisting on telling a whole story to anyone but Sonic, and that'd also
20:53be annoying.
20:54We don't usually see these characters use their loneliness as an excuse to be inconsiderately chatterboxes, and it's non-sympathetic
21:01because their loneliness is self-inflicted.
21:04But at least in the case of the Chaotix, I can imagine they're so busy with their jobs all day
21:08they don't have time to get a social life.
21:10We didn't have to be shown them acting this way for the first time.
21:14That sucks. That's not a good story.
21:17But it's only a character who deserves to be annoyed by it who is.
21:20The reason I'm annoyed by it is because it's always padding out how long it takes to get back to
21:26the part where the past event is being described when it has Amy run away just to be annoyed with
21:31getting talked to again.
21:33It could've easily just had the whole story be Espio telling them their story.
21:37And then it could've had Amy be shown getting annoyed just as many times as in the original story anyways
21:42for a different reason.
21:45Sonic interrupts Charmy when he starts trying to tell the rest of the story, which only pads out how much
21:50time is going to be wasted for Amy-ness.
21:52I hate that he's smirking when talking to Amy here, even though we're supposed to think he uncharacteristically cares about
21:58her feelings because that's why he's asking her permission to hear the rest of the story.
22:02Since when does he give a shit about the feelings of someone who ran away from their request of without
22:06explaining himself in Sonic Adventure?
22:08I know it's been a while since this, so that's why, but it's alienating to an audience that knows their
22:13history.
22:14This would only feel like it made sense if you assumed she was his girlfriend, and that's why he's humoring
22:20her.
22:20But she's not, so that's not why he's suddenly such a goody-goody cares about asking for permission now, even
22:25though he didn't before, when he's supposed to have an attitude.
22:29Without that, he's just like Mario.
22:31What kind of Sonic fan would want that?
22:34At least classic Sonic had a realistic emotional range because he looked impatient.
22:39This constantly smiling weirdo isn't coming off like a real person.
22:44It's portraying him as perfect just because he's the main character, and it doesn't trust us to understand who's supposed
22:49to be looked up to unless he's morally perfect.
22:52Or a moral guardian cares about Sonic being a perfect role model for kids instead of himself.
22:57But he's never come off as cool in this story.
23:00So what's the point of using him?
23:02The logic behind why he would ask her permission would also mean he wouldn't insist on hearing the rest of
23:07the story.
23:08Vector's mouth being opened means that he's commenting on what Charmy's saying.
23:12Why are the Chaotics talking to each other about their past case when the whole point of them talking about
23:16it was to tell Sonic and Amy about it who aren't listening?
23:20And they know about it.
23:21Amy agrees to humor Sonic on something, which is completely out of character.
23:26Seriously, name one time she's ever done that.
23:29One time she's ever valued what he wanted over what she did.
23:33We were never told that she went through anything that would cause her to change.
23:37This isn't the same Amy who pressured Sonic into going to Twinkle Park by running into it first or insisted
23:43on babysitting a bird for her or on humoring some ghost to finish their unfinished business.
23:48I guess this is just here to hand her to Sonic and Amy fans by making her have a nice
23:52moment to him.
23:53Well that's just humoring people who don't understand her or don't care about whether she's in character and at that
23:58point their priorities are skewed.
24:01You can read Sonic and Amy fanfiction to see them on a date and it will give you way more
24:04of what you wanted than this one silly moment for them, so what's the point of this?
24:09I used to read a little of that, but eventually I realized it was silly to feel more sorry for
24:13Amy than the main character and root for her over him.
24:16So Tommy gets humored and acts annoying by saying yay vulture guy.
24:21Well at least his narration is actually entertaining to read.
24:25I actually look forward to what it has to say instead.
24:28He says that back then he was really sleepy because he had stayed up past his bedtime the night before.
24:33He was originally 16, but here's making him a kid and actually taking advantage of it gave him a unique
24:39role.
24:39And this doesn't make the story worse here, because it never affects the plot badly.
24:45Not every way that he has changed his character was bad.
24:48It just shouldn't have changed him in annoying ways.
24:51Anyway, Charmix somehow thinks Aspio lost to the bad guy from earlier even though he survived the last fight and
24:57he has no reason to spitefully lie.
25:00And the story bores me because the Chaotix confront the headmaster and there's way too much boring dialogue that isn't
25:05necessary.
25:06Aspio says he knows a lot about this exact crystal conveniently because he travels a lot and studies ninja things.
25:12I always thought he just stuck with the Chaotix, but this makes sense because he's really fast so he would
25:17take advantage of it.
25:19The problem is that like with Sonic he's always had super speed, so he would have seen the entire world
25:24long ago.
25:25So why would he still make a habit of traveling to this day?
25:29He doesn't explain what incredible fun he has and makes it worth it to revisit places.
25:33He doesn't say he goes on roller coasters or especially likes looking at some places in person, but I guess
25:38that's it.
25:40Anyway, he had it memorized that this jewel is from a specific city and that the people there care a
25:45lot about it.
25:46He says the people there would have never given the jewel to this museum, which he acknowledges as boring.
25:51That's in character.
25:53It was out of character of the entire Chaotix to think this wasn't boring.
25:57There's no way he would have ever come back to visit it, at least not for more than one second.
26:03None of them would be here longer than a second because that's all the time they need to spend here
26:07to reminisce.
26:08And they don't actually need to be in the building to do it.
26:11The headmaster gets scared and suddenly he literally says he's pretending to have no idea about the jewel.
26:18I thought I was supposed to take him seriously.
26:20But I get that we're supposed to find a cathartic that he's being made a fool out of because he
26:24was just a jerk before and he never did anything cool.
26:27So he never established that he was competent before.
26:30And of course he'd be scared even if he was.
26:33Charmy's retelling of the story as Vector says something he didn't say in a failed attempt to make him sound
26:38cool.
26:39Because more out of place jokes.
26:42But that was a little charmingly silly.
26:44I just never thought Charmy would make Vector sound cooler than he was because he always treats him with disrespect.
26:50This is more respectful to Vector and makes actual sense,
26:53but it doesn't mesh well with the times in IW itself where Charmy treated him with no respect.
26:58The art's distracting me with how bad it is here.
27:01I know why it's done, but that doesn't make it enjoyable.
27:05It just clashes with the mood.
27:08Vector says he looked up the other boring stuff there is here.
27:11Combine that with the fact that we're supposed to think the headmaster never really did mispronounce a word and say
27:16I'm just pretending not to know about it.
27:18And it was just Charmy because he gets corrected by Vector.
27:22And I'm wondering if the writer wants us to think that the museum's only being called boring by everyone else
27:27because it's Charmy putting words in their mouths because only he thinks it's boring.
27:30But I kind of wish that wasn't the case because then they'd all be agreeing with me on this.
27:35But there isn't actually anything bad about SVO and Vector caring about ancient history on its own.
27:42Because they'd have a new personality trait and look smarter.
27:46It's not who they are in the games.
27:49Anyway, Vector says a bunch of other people said that people stole the stuff from the museum earlier.
27:54As he just researched last night.
27:56I get the point of him actually pointing out what he was getting at even though it already got me
28:00clear.
28:01Because now Vector's shouting at him.
28:03So this was meant to be cathartic.
28:05It barely was because I had been given no reason to care about any of the people that were whining
28:10about the stolen stuff.
28:11He's still a bad person for doing that, of course.
28:14But if he had stolen from characters he cared about, this would have actually felt like a powerful emotional moment
28:19that immediately got undercut by the joke where Charmy made Vector insult himself as a joke.
28:26Not to mention the art.
28:27Charmy saw a gadget on the villain's desk.
28:30It was some wasted time as the villain makes a believable justification for his actions.
28:35But it's all nonsense.
28:38Or at least it's believable that he would think it's justified.
28:42He's not making any convincing points here.
28:45It's all just post hoc rationalization for his only real motivation for why he thinks it's in the right.
28:50That anything he does is justified because he's rich and important.
28:54It would have been easier to understand if he just said that it was irrational for people to be upset
28:58about the stuff being in his museum because there's nothing objectively good about them being in their original places.
29:03They just want them to remain there because of traditions that are benefiting him.
29:07But if the stolen stuff all used to be in other museums, then they were benefiting other people before.
29:13So it'd be better for them to be the ones making money off them because then they'd be where they're
29:17supposed to be.
29:18It's safe to assume that stuff was in other museums because it's all ancient artifacts and the average person from
29:24where they're from know about them.
29:26And that's why it's in the wrong here.
29:28I just wish he outright said he took them from other museums.
29:31He hears this taunting of the Chaotix to echo back to him a lot.
29:35And eventually I realized it was because he stopped talking.
29:38So now he and the Chaotix are able to hear the echo of what he was saying.
29:42So he must have been talking especially loud to have not heard that what he said was being broadcast as
29:47a PA announcement in the other rooms of the museum.
29:50Considering how loud the speakers would have to be that even people outside heard it.
29:55Whatever, he was pretty heated so it would have been loud.
29:58So Charmy acting like a mischievous kid got taken advantage of in the story in a way that actually helped
30:04the Chaotix for once.
30:05That's nice.
30:06If Charmy had way more moments like this and way less annoying dialogue, the fans would like him because it'd
30:13be really justified that someone like him is on the team.
30:16That's why they keep a childish little kid around.
30:19But he could have easily just done this without it being because he's a kid and so he wanted to
30:24play around with something in the room out of boredom while everyone else was focused on the rant.
30:28Because it was so against him morally.
30:31He could have also held down the button because he was smart enough to know it would be a good
30:35idea.
30:36Because he knew what a microphone looked like.
30:39And so obviously the button would record what he said for the whole building and that'd get him in trouble.
30:45So this didn't do as good a job as it should have in justifying Charmy.
30:50Aspio could have done this too.
30:52I like the charm he says that the thief said a bunch of words Vector said he can't repeat.
30:57I just have to assume this means he'll get punished if he does because he never lets the fact that
31:02Vector doesn't want him to do something restrain his behavior.
31:06Him flying to Vector is a lot worse than swearing.
31:09He could have actually hurt him.
31:11So I have to assume that usually he doesn't punish him for anything but there are a few lines he's
31:17not supposed to cross.
31:19Finally after everything Amy's had to go through Vector decides to leave her alone with Sonic because she glared at
31:25him.
31:25So now he cares about her feelings.
31:29So I guess she looks especially mad at him.
31:32So now he thinks she might get violent with him.
31:35It's extremely unlikely that he'd have come back here on the same day they did.
31:40You're not supposed to write the story's promise in a way that draws attention to how unlikely it was stuff
31:44happens because you could easily not do that.
31:46The robot remembers someone standing outside of the museum going into it while the headmaster is being beaten up by
31:53an angry mob.
31:54Why the hell are we not getting to see that?
31:57This is the same series that let us see Sonic and Knuckles fight each other with the impact getting shown
32:02in two different eras.
32:04The last main Sonic story was pretty dark too.
32:07Why is the comic constantly being censored?
32:10It already had the mental virus arc.
32:13Who's going to read the later issues without caring to read those words?
32:17Anyways, the same woman who called Vector earlier goes to steal the jewel.
32:23But Vector happily talks to her and the story bores me with a bunch of dialogue where he seems oblivious.
32:30Until he throws a calling card at her and says don't forget your card.
32:34That was nice but we really didn't need to see him act oblivious at first.
32:39She had no reason to think the Chaotix would be clumsy morons because she isn't referencing any past events the
32:46general public is aware of where they were clumsy in contrast to how they are in the games.
32:52And again only Charmy would come off as unreliable.
32:56Like people would be respectful of a detective agency where one of them could turn invisible.
33:02And it turns out that somehow the robot and the woman who needs glasses are the same person.
33:08And yet we're never told she worked for Eggman to get access to this.
33:12So I have to assume either she's in a robot costume or is like Mimic but for no good reason
33:18considering that Mimic's able to shapeshift because it's based on the Mimic octopus apparently.
33:24She's able to look different because of a convenient power she has for no reason.
33:29I guess it's the same technology that lets Sonic disguise himself.
33:35Hopefully we'll see her again so it's explained.
33:39I did care enough to say McGinney's name because at no point in the story did she ever have more
33:43than one personality trait until the fact attempt where she had two.
33:47But now all of a sudden she was important for the sake of a twist.
33:51She came to the museum because today was the anniversary of the first time she was ever bested.
33:57Even though she wasn't bested he stared at a shiny thing and she stupidly ran away.
34:02She would be embarrassed of that memory because she wasn't facing a worthy opponent.
34:08And yet she had gotten bored by years of flawless heists and liked having worthy opponents.
34:14So she's an idiot in the same way Eggman is.
34:18Wouldn't she just be annoyed and embarrassed that she got lost though and not visit here in nostalgia over her
34:24humiliation?
34:26And at the end of the story Vector figures out who was watching him, but then he doesn't care enough
34:31to pursue her to stop her from stealing again.
34:34Even though the very fact that he decided to become a detective who enforces the law implies that he does
34:40care about whether the laws get broken or not.
34:43Because he could always find a job where he has to figure things out that doesn't involve punishing people for
34:48breaking the rules.
34:49So how is this in character? Not to mention he knows someone who's really fast, so Aspio could catch up
34:56with her.
34:57Why are all the heroes obsessed with letting the villains go?
35:01He learned how bad it was to do that when he let Eggman stay in that one village because he
35:06had amnesia.
35:07He at least got to look smart because he was the only person who figured this out.
35:11That was trying to be a tribute to his character.
35:14But since he didn't actually see her, the only way he'd know she was there was he heard her.
35:19And then why did nobody around him hear her?
35:22He's got headphones on, so he'd actually be less likely to hear her.
35:27But apparently I was supposed to know he had better hearing than everyone else, even though he'd be hearing what
35:32Charmy's saying too.
35:33And that'd make it just as hard for him to hear her as it'd be for everyone else.
35:38This issue by Daniel Barnes has Sonic and Amy uncharacteristically visited a museum alone together when it could have easily
35:45been other characters like Cream and Vanilla that were constantly getting told about one of the past cases of the
35:50Chaotix.
35:51And it never felt like Sonic was in character.
35:54It keeps interrupting the telling of the story, which makes me feel sorry for Amy because she keeps getting caught
35:59up with and having to hear more of it even though they made it clear they aren't interested.
36:02Which makes the story seem less believable since it's not explained why they're the type to start forcing a story
36:07on them now.
36:09But it was the great thing about the story that it kept making Amy the butt of a joke.
36:14It was such a boring story because there's too much redundant dialogue I don't care about that I had to
36:19push through.
36:20Which made me impatient to get to the two good parts, one of which was the fight.
36:24But the fight was worthless because it never showed the impact and hardly I had any times where the bad
36:30guy got hit anyway.
36:32So it mostly felt like a waste of my time.
36:34And it didn't last long enough.
36:36And most of the time the art was distractingly bad when the flashback was happening.
36:41It did the bare minimum of telling a creative new story, where the Chaotix got to solve a case.
36:47And we need a lot more of those.
36:49But not if it's going to make Espio a moron instead of depicting the Espio we know and love.
36:54Why did it force Espio to stare at a shiny object in a fight just so the thief could get
37:00away?
37:01He could have just gotten knocked out.
37:03It's not the Chaotix's first case, so why is it's anniversary so special to them?
37:08It'd be more interesting for us to see their actual first case.
37:12What's so do about that case compared to the others that made them care about it?
37:16We don't know because we don't know what the cases surrounding that one were like.
37:20We just have to assume what was special about it was that it had what they thought was a robot
37:24involved in it and a microphone.
37:26Well so what?
37:27The other cases around that one would have had things that were unique about them too, I guess.
37:31Do they revisit the places they involved?
37:34I don't know.
37:35But that makes just as much sense as them coming here.
37:38My point is someone needs to teach this writer about the rules show don't tell.
37:42Because excessive dialogue with almost no action is what ruined the story.
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