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00:00Knuckles Show Episode 1. Thanks to the copyright system being psychotic about live-action series,
00:07I won't show any unnecessary motion on YouTube for longer than a second. That means mostly
00:12screenshots, or entirely if I have to. And when I have to reference that there was padding,
00:18there won't be as much to show to prove that. It starts with some padding, since Knuckles does
00:24some running and punches a boulder, but it wasn't even necessary. I can get him wanting to exercise,
00:31but that doesn't mean he would have to exercise like this when he thinks Robotnik's gone forever,
00:39so what's to train for? It's not like he fights criminals for fun. This is extremely dangerous.
00:47He wouldn't do this if he didn't have to. He's out of character already.
00:53Sonic's narration calls him a maniac for it, but it's still never explained why he did it.
00:59So the writer knew it was weird and did it anyway. The story also wastes time recapping the last movie,
01:07but it doesn't explain enough to keep someone from being confused. My problem is that the writer didn't
01:13really figure out what Knuckles would do on a day-to-day basis. He barely put any effort into
01:21thinking about it. Just, well, he does this sort of in the game, so let's just have him do that
01:28as a daily
01:29thing. Even though there's a reason Knuckles did that in the games, which would not apply to this
01:36context without Robotnik. This is the real world, so there aren't any levels here. Like, what TV shows
01:45does he watch? I don't know. I hate that Knuckles sounds like an adult. At least it softens the blow
01:53a little from when he's acting different from the one from the games, because he doesn't come off like
01:58the same person at all. Knuckles ends up doing something that scares the daylights out of someone
02:04who had every right to go to his house, so he gets mad at Tom's wife. It's so frustrating that
02:11he accused
02:11her of wanting that to happen to him. She asked him what's going on, and he heard the tone in
02:18her voice.
02:19He'd know she didn't approve of what happened to him. He wouldn't leave a trail of chips. Why would he
02:28waste chips? And Knuckles looks especially unlikable because he doesn't feel bad at all about this.
02:36This is supposed to be the main character. This doesn't even feel in character for movie Knuckles.
02:44It turns out he kept scaring away the people who were supposed to fix the hole in the house Knuckles
02:49caused. None of this would have happened because she would have told him the crew would be here.
02:55She would have told him they'd be here and why, so he wouldn't have bothered any of them.
03:01You'd think after the fourth time she would have told him what would be happening in the morning.
03:07It was sweet of him to offer a chip though.
03:10Makes it look like they don't know what they're doing with the character though.
03:15Wait, Tails is supposed to be able to fix that because he's able to invent things.
03:20And he gets the material to invent something in the next movie, so it's not as if he can't invent
03:29anything because he can't get any materials. I wish it was explained that Tails can't get the exact
03:35materials for fixing the house. You'd think Knuckles would at least be trying to fix the hole because
03:44he caused it so he should be feeling guilty. Why is he smiling about this, the psycho? Tails doesn't look
03:53like he cares either. It also turns out Knuckles is planning on doing something that could hurt the dog
03:59after putting him on the roof. Why should I care about this character? Just because he got raised by
04:07warriors, he's acting like an out of control lunatic. And he hardly got raised by them because he spent
04:14most of his life without them raising himself. They still look out of place next to the dog.
04:22It'd be completely hypocritical to be like, well, this is fine, but not when Sonic 06 did it. Both are
04:30bad.
04:31Sonic tries to make himself useful by reasoning with them calmly that he should stop acting like that.
04:38He tells them to make himself at home. This causes Knuckles to startle Maddie with the wooden things
04:44and candles he put behind himself. And he happily tells his friends to fight him in trial by combat,
04:52even though he knows he's got super strength and they don't. So he couldn't be unaware of how
04:59lethal that'd be on the first hit, or of how incredibly unfair an advantage he has.
05:05And so it's pointless to even get them to fight him. Sonic shows no attitude, impatience, or coolness
05:14the entire show. He never feels like Sonic the entire time. And his whole dynamic with Knuckles is
05:23off too. He respects him too much, and he's too scared of him instead of giving a pushback.
05:29Sonic. Then it turns out he kidnapped the mailman. There's being stupid, and then there's just acting
05:38impossibly. It's satisfying to see him get grounded, until he says he's got no idea what that means.
05:46Why does he keep calling her the informal, silly little nickname Sonic gave her? Wouldn't he know it's not a
05:53respectful nickname? He's too formal to use it. He's not fun-loving and quirky like Sonic is.
06:02He doesn't call Tails, Tails, but this happens. Tails reveals Knuckles threw something out of their car too.
06:11I don't know why he did that either. He didn't need that for the throne. Why even have this beginning
06:19at all?
06:19That's what I'm wondering. It cuts away trying to encourage himself to start bowling. And a kid distracts him when
06:27he's about to start bowling,
06:28so he lets Govid on the backswing and hits something and someone screams. Since there's no consequences,
06:36it only makes sense if that's because he didn't hit anyone. The story does nothing but waste my time for
06:43a
06:43while until Wade loses a bullying game to some kids. Well, people can get unlucky in real life.
06:51He even blows trying to make a pin fall down, even though anybody would know that wouldn't work.
06:58So I get why he was picked as the main character. He's acting entertaining enough to keep my attention,
07:03and makes me look past the fact that it feels out of place to see someone act like a cartoon
07:08character in live action. This reminds me of that janitor from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
07:14I guess that's why I always found him believable and charming instead of ridiculous and cringe,
07:19like I worried I would. He finds out he's off the bullying team, so a bunch of time is wasted
07:26on that
07:26too. She'd never accept being called Little Susie. At least the people who end up getting sick of him got
07:34to enjoy an entire scene of people being mean to him, and the fact that the entire show had everyone
07:40be mean to him and disrespect him from time to time instead of things being easy for him. As long
07:46as
07:46he's treated believably instead of a creator's pet, it's easier to deal with him. There's a lot of time
07:52wasted in this scene. It was just annoying padding where people were rude to him. It would be worse
07:59though if we were supposed to think he was cool to begin with. We were always supposed to think he
08:05was
08:05a loser and stupid, unlike with the gang characters, so it was actually fine to make him at least
08:13believably stupid. Sonic tries to reassure Knuckles who childishly blames him for his getting grounded
08:20when I thought he was supposed to be mature. I did like that when Sonic put the VR on his
08:26face he got
08:27scared and asked him where he sent him. Wait a minute, why did Sonic's parents keep the VR in the
08:34attic
08:35where he was going to be grounded? What kind of grounding is that? I guess they were stupid enough
08:40to forget it was in there. It was also nice of Sonic to leave the room. Then Knuckles gets talked
08:47to
08:47by the Chief from Sonic Adventure out of nowhere, so it looks like he's hallucinating. He tries to hug him
08:55and the Chief goes through him, and there's some orange light after that and he falls before going back
09:00to him. He was taken completely seriously in the game. That was a different context from this though.
09:07Nobody's telling him not to go to war or try to take a Master Emerald that he didn't actually own.
09:14It makes sense that in Sonic Adventure the Chief could have had a different side to him that we just
09:20didn't get to see because he barely got to talk at all. And this guy's a lot more entertaining than
09:25he was.
09:27It's just that it would be dumb if he never had a serious side. He wants Knuckles to train Apprentice.
09:34Now I'm just wondering why this was never the case for Knuckles in the games. The Chief tries to float
09:41away and he hits the ceiling somehow. At least he lampshades how does this stupid ghost stuff even work.
09:48It makes no sense that he'd be selectively intangible in that specific way. I can see someone really
09:56liking that gag. It stood out to me. But I did notice that it's weird to do this with him.
10:05But the kind of
10:06people who would be really mad at him being portrayed weird are not going to like this show no matter
10:11what
10:12it's like. Knuckles goes to the goofy comedy character Wade to make him his apprentice. To be
10:20fair nobody else in Tom's house wanted to participate in the trial by combat. The Chief told him to train
10:27Wade. But he spies on Knucks so he had this thought process. Why would he say this in response to
10:34being
10:34told he'll be taught how to fight? They take too long discussing the idea. Knuckles gets to show off
10:42his strength bending a barbell. Too bad that inconveniences him. And when Knuckles throws a
10:49barbell at him he's somehow not too injured afterwards to be his apprentice after that. I guess Knuckles's
10:56mere presence transferred some rings to him. Most of the dialogue is just a waste of time in this episode.
11:04I like the way he referenced the nickname Knucks. He gets annoying when he puts on music and starts
11:11repeating something in monotone. He should have known there'd be consequences. Knuckles damages his
11:18radio to get him to stomp. It wastes my time with the villain scene after this in Gunn headquarters where
11:26people found out Knuckles left Green Hill. I'm forced to just assume the reason they know that based on
11:33looking at a map is that they have people hired to constantly hide tracking devices in the fur of
11:39Sonic and his friends when they're sleeping. The writer could have had a more natural way of
11:44introducing the names to the main villains. You don't normally call people by their names right next
11:50to them. Willowbee's the girl. What a forgettable name. And she takes the satellite service down so
11:58that only she can track down Knuckles. At least it's good to make one of the villains look threatening
12:04right away because she's responsible for someone being thrown into the ring warping onto the mushroom
12:09planet because she had some guy do it. It would have been better to establish her threateningness
12:16if she didn't. Instead some other guy who didn't have any menacing build-up, who didn't have any
12:23attention before this, is the one who doomed somebody to die. The goal of the bad guys is to
12:30want to bring the echidna to someone because he's an alien. Most of the scene was unnecessary.
12:37While I told the name of the guy who got sent away to never be seen again but not told
12:41the name of her
12:42accomplice in the scene he first showed up in. Can you believe I couldn't even find the names of
12:49them in the credits? I like that it showed Knuckles eating grapes because it's supposed to be his
12:54favorite food but he was never shown eating them until now. That is a cheap way to make people like
13:00a story. It became critical to not notice that here too. My point was never that it was bad to
13:07have
13:07references. It was that they were there as a band-aid to put over a bad story that successfully
13:13fools people to liking it when it doesn't really have a bunch of actually good things that make
13:20it seem like it's justified to like it otherwise. But I don't have the impression anyone unironically
13:28likes this show. Satirically I suppose in a so bad it's good sort of way. And as bad as this
13:37episode
13:37has been so far it's just been barely good enough that I didn't see the grapes and immediately feel
13:44cynical. I feel like it's a bad faith mockery of Knuckles to make fun of him for not using his
13:51individual fingers despite liking grapes a lot. I assumed he doesn't have a harder time eating
13:58grapes because he could remove the gloves. Every time I say eventually it's because a bunch of boring
14:06padding happened with no plot progression or anything else valuable to me. Eventually Knuckles gets taken
14:13to the bowling place and even though he doesn't like it he stays there. Why is Knuckles putting up
14:21with this instead of just insisting on training him in martial arts? Bowling has nothing to do with
14:27guarding the Master Emerald. It's not something that make him a better fighter. It was nice of Knuckles
14:33to compliment him on his bowling. But this is the same guy who was a complete sociopathic asshole at the
14:41start of the episode. So how is he now acting in character? I mean even then I can't really remember
14:49a time when he was polite to the point of complimenting people in the games. He'd never say
14:58this in response to what Knuckles said. He asked him what happened to his father. Then he opens up to
15:05Knuckles about the fact that his dad abandoned him. Surprisingly Knuckles cares about that. If we find
15:12out about his daddy issues later there's no point in seeing this so early. People show up wanting to
15:20capture Knuckles. When the villain says he doesn't need his power his boss says they do need it and he
15:28has to explain that he just wanted to sound cool. Even though it's meant to be a scene you take
15:33seriously.
15:34I pointed this out because I guess it's a sort of good joke. The jokes in the show are great
15:42by Sonic
15:43standards. Wade was useful. He set up bowling balls to damage something. Eventually Knuckles gets to hit
15:53someone into something. Making me wonder if it's believable that he even survived or if there have
15:58to be invisible rings that heal people on earth too. And that was the only time anybody got a hit
16:04on
16:05anybody. I mean a hit on him not just his armor. Until a ring gets thrown under Knuckles when he
16:12was
16:12distracted fighting someone else that sends him into something to be captured. Cool she actually
16:18shoots them. It's like she had a ring portal gun. The writer didn't have to go through the effort of
16:24thinking that up. The fight scene kept my attention just fine so it's not boring but it's underwhelming
16:32in retrospect that it was nothing but Knuckles preventing someone from hitting him blocking his
16:38attack over and over again. And the bad guy tries to tell her to lie that she didn't have to
16:44save him
16:45which gives him some character. And then he goes back on that because she looks like she won't go
16:51along with it. The theme songs for this show don't match it or Sonic at all. It sounds old-fashioned
16:59and lame. That's my issue. Why even make actual songs at that point? Just have instrumentals.
17:08They sound nice but I won't remember them. This episode written by John Whittington was a story
17:16mostly full of padding where Knuckles gets written to act in a way that everyone in the house hates
17:22just because he was raised by warriors so he assumes they won't have to worry about any consequences if he
17:27keeps antagonizing intruders in the house in his eyes or somehow trying to engage in violence with the
17:33people in the house. Not to mention he takes something out of Tom's car. There's no way he'd
17:39plan on hurting them because he knows he has super strength and he's gone into fights before so he
17:45knows he'd kill them and that they'd know that. But he was forced to act like that anyway so he
17:51could
17:52get grounded but it turns out that wasn't even necessary to write because even if that hadn't happened
17:58he still would have gotten a visit from a ghost telling him to train an apprentice. It makes sense
18:03since if Knuckles dies without an apprentice who would guard the Master Emerald. I have to just
18:08assume the reason he waited until now to do this was that Knuckles finally has a stable home and his
18:14friends so he's been spying on him until he could see who is in that position and he thinks he's
18:20got no
18:20other choice but to trust Wade to be his apprentice. But Sonic's so good at fighting he could guard the
18:27Emerald and they already all agreed to be the guardians of it together in the last movie. I
18:34just have to assume that Knuckles thinks Sonic's so emotional and impulsive that he might abuse his
18:38super form he'd get from the Emerald someday because he was in a bad mood and that the Chief
18:45thinks that too so that's why he didn't just tell him to train Sonic. That should have been explained
18:51because Sonic's right there. It'd be harder to get the idea he doesn't trust Sonic to be
18:56responsible with the Emerald if he hadn't seen the third film where he wanted to use it when he was
19:01angry. I know the name of the Chief it's just annoying to try to pronounce it so I'm not bothering.
19:08This could have been the perfect opportunity to give him a different name since it's a different
19:11character and somehow he decides it's not a waste of time to go to the bowling place but it would
19:17have
19:17been tracked down anyways. Well I guess not if the only reason he left Green Hills was to go to
19:24the
19:25bowling place. They could have easily written it that the place he talked to Wade in first was
19:32outside of Green Hills despite most of the episode being a blatant waste of my time. In fact the scenes
19:39that don't have Knuckles were almost entirely worthless. Most of the time I was fine with watching
19:44this episode. It wasn't as boring as reading a bad comic book like the recent IDW ones. It wasn't even
19:51as
19:51boring as the past Sonic cartoons. It even had a bunch of moments that were especially good.
19:59So that impressed me. The people working on the show probably had to go out of their way to find
20:05out about those references to the games. That's more work than they could have done which proves that
20:10they aren't completely ignorant about them. I was dreading watching this show but I've been through a lot
20:17worse. This is the first time bowling's been relevant to an entire story arc in Sonic.
20:23So it feels new. Even though Sonic Boomhead Knuckles go bowling first. This isn't even the first time
20:31Gunn's gone after the game characters wanting to capture them either. I guess the biggest saving grace
20:37about this then is that the pacing wasn't as slow as I expected. Also it's pretty stupid then the whole
20:43entire episode. You're never told the name of the bad guy with the most personality.
20:48Of course obviously you can look at TV tropes to find the names of any character you want
20:53but you obviously shouldn't have to do that. Normal people aren't gonna bother doing that. Your average
21:00person is not gonna do that. So you shouldn't need external media.
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