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00:00Knuckles show episode 4. The story wastes my time right away by showing Wade wake up and do his
00:07morning routine while a happy song plays even though he's still a wanted man. Knuckles can't
00:14just be his 24-7 bodyguard to keep him safe from gun. He's got other friends. And this doesn't
00:21have anything to do with progressing the plot because it could have started out with him
00:26already awake. It was nice of Wade to thank someone for throwing something he wanted at him.
00:33There's more padding after this. Why does he think today's gonna be a beautiful day?
00:38How did he forget that he's a wanted man? Why did he even go outside? Wade ends up getting caught
00:47in
00:47a trap by a bounty hunter that drags him away. Surprisingly Knuckles says he's not gonna save
00:53him with the excuse that he's gotta learn to toughen up to be his apprentice. And somehow
00:58he thinks he'll be fine even though he doesn't have superhuman powers or intelligence. But I do
01:05think it's a good joke that he says he'll be fine and Wade shouts that he won't be. But the
01:11show
01:11already wasted so much of my time at this point I don't have the patience to find it funny. It
01:18turns
01:18out he's been dragged by a motorcycle. And this guy who knows Wade ends up shooting him with stuff
01:24that shocks him. And he wakes up in a cage and I'm glad he explains that the guy he got
01:29the shocking
01:30stuff from was really weird. Implying that he got them from Agent Stone. Or at least someone who worked
01:36for Gunn after Gunn stole that technology from Eggman. I wish it was explained that Gunn got all of
01:44its awesome technology lately from stealing it from Eggman. It wastes my time because the bounty hunter
01:51used to be Wade's best friend. And at least explains that he's doing this because he desperately needs
01:58the money. I also find it hard to believe that he still thinks some robot birds at a restaurant were
02:04personally insulting him even though he got told they say the same joke to everyone. Which would
02:09be very easy for him to find out the truth about. And he still shows that there are personal insults
02:16like it's a cartoon character. Even though he should know that his world doesn't have sentient AI yet.
02:24Wade would have proven him wrong. And again this is Tone Whiplash. It's not secure enough to just stick
02:32with the seriousness of the situation. Sometimes the show has the same problem as Sonic Unleashed. You're
02:38supposed to have comedy after the serious situation, not during it. After some more padding, Wade gets
02:48shocked by the clearly unnecessarily capable of shocking him cage and starts having a dream where
02:54he meets the ancient Chief. Somehow he screams from seeing him, despite being used to Knuckles and
03:01already aware that aliens exist. The Chief changes his outfit to the uniform of someone who'd work at
03:09the bowling alley to make him more comfortable. And they waste my time talking some more. I guess it's
03:16believable that he just assumes Knuckles sent him here instead of thinking he started dreaming. Because he
03:22already knows he's got magical powers and those don't make sense either. The Chief says there's
03:28going to be a low budget rock opera. I'm glad he said low budget in the sense that it lampsheets
03:34the
03:34real reason for Knuckles barely being around. But it makes no sense in universe because it's all with
03:40magic so there's an infinite budget. He doesn't explain that magic is finite and so the amount of magic that
03:48can be used is limited by money. Eventually Wade ends up in a goofy Knuckles costume that still shows
03:56his face so the actor can keep showing his expression. Mind you this is the same episode where he got
04:03kidnapped by a bounty hunter. He ends up finding out he can talk with Knuckles' voice here for no reason.
04:10If that doesn't stay consistent the whole time that's not going to make any sense. In fact it doesn't.
04:19So then why did he give him the ability to talk with Knuckles' voice? If he's able to do anything
04:25he
04:25wants because it's a dream then he should take more advantage of that. At least he'd try to lighten the
04:32mood with a joke because he's told not to make it weirder than it already is.
04:37As silly as the rock opera looks it sounds good so I don't really mind that most of it's padding.
04:44Like almost none of it actually progresses the plot. It's just about telling you Knuckles' backstory
04:50when anyone who watched that previous movie already knows it. Why is the lesson being delivered to
04:58Wade through a musical anyway? It's creative so I get the meta logic but the chief's a ghost from
05:05thousands of years ago on another planet. To be fair he's also been spying on Knuckles. So we could
05:12have heard rock music and learned about musicals that way and become a huge fan of them to the point
05:17of wanting to do this. So it only seems weird because it came out of complete nowhere that he has
05:25this
05:25personality trait. What would have been the harm of him having one lie and explaining that?
05:33It's pretty surprising that the musical number made reference to the flames of disaster in Iblis
05:39because most fans hate the game they came from. The only people who wanted to see Iblis again were a
05:45small minority and half of them were pissed at seeing him look laughable here anyway. So it wasn't worth it
05:51to reference him. Iblis only exists because scientists split it god into two. But it's never been explained that
05:59Knuckles lived near people who did that despite living in a warmongering tribe. And the fact that
06:05it had Knuckles have the flames of disaster without explaining that they had the same origin as in
06:10Sonic 06 means they're not really the flames of disaster. Which only pissed off the fans anyway.
06:16So there's no point in calling the power that. Because you can't undo 06. I don't mind this because it's
06:24doing
06:24something new with the concept and I take a moment of creativity over wasting my time any day and it's
06:30better to have the flames of disaster be possessed by somebody cool. And Knuckles already had a bit of
06:36a firepower. He had the maximum heat knuckle attack. So the only creativity you can get out of that
06:43is to give it a name it didn't have before. Giving it a brand new name would have made it
06:49more creative
06:50though. Without risking annoying people. It's too bad the episode's title ruined the surprise of the
06:57reference a little. Maybe if it was a complete surprise more people would have rationalized it
07:03as being good in context because they were hearing some good music. But if you find out about something
07:09out of context without being absorbed in the story it's in meant to justify it you're more likely to
07:14not be accepting of it and assume the worst without the justification told to you. Which is the
07:19problem with getting spoilers? Sure my reviews spoil everything but they tell you the context of the
07:25story justifying the spoilers. So you should feel the same way you would have if you just experienced
07:32the story normally and got to the spoiler part. At one point Wei thinks the point of this opera was
07:39to
07:39tell him to use its fist even though obviously it wouldn't tell him such an obvious lesson. Or else what
07:45would be the point of even making an entire rock opera instead of just telling him that right away
07:52in one sentence. He even lampsheets could have been an email. And even though he's getting told that's not
07:57the lesson he still leaves which is somehow able to do in this dream that the chief's got full power
08:05over.
08:07Somehow the chief doesn't prevent him from leaving and he thinks he can just punch the bars that he knows
08:13or electrocuted to get out and it doesn't work. And he at least humorously lampshades why do i think
08:19that would work. To be fair he must have thought he got given superhuman powers because he's friends
08:25with Knuckles. It makes as much sense as Knuckles having super strength and speed. Eventually when
08:32they shout the warrior's heart the song ends even though it didn't seem like it should have. And Wei jumps
08:39out of the cage with an uppercut so he really did get a superhuman power based on using his fist.
08:45But he only got allowed to use it after letting the rock opera finish. It just arbitrarily had it
08:52that he would only be able to get out of the cage this way but not by using his fist
08:58the other way.
08:59That was mean. I learned nothing from that rock opera. I guess it's about never giving up but
09:07Wade already agreed with that. You'd think the rock opera would be about teaching him how to do
09:13martial arts so he could actually be qualified as an apprentice. It's good that it's realistic by
09:21having Wade cry out in pain from the landing and complain about his bank. Most stories wouldn't
09:27bother doing that and make the impression that the writer didn't even think of this. That only makes
09:32his wonder why he's acting like he's not hurt for the rest of the show. The bad guy goes from
09:39seeming
09:39to threaten his life to going far away from them forcing them to shout just to hear each other.
09:44I guess that's a great joke but it's completely forced. He's being expected to risk his life to
09:51fight him. He's so optimistic he'll just trust in the idea that he'll survive because he wants to win a
09:57joust that badly and he's not thinking ahead enough to realize he'd get in legal trouble from killing
10:03him. He's got no reason to challenge him to a joust in modern day. The Sonic franchise already did a
10:10joust in AOSDH so there's not even the fact that's creative going for it. It would have actually made
10:16sense if they simply got into a fight after Wade was taught how to fight. They could have justified
10:24him learning martial arts right away with magic. Then Wade winning it would actually prove he became
10:29a worthy apprentice who learned something from the rock opera. The story also takes its time having
10:35Wade buy a bike from a kid to do a joust. I thought that the kids respected his power because
10:41he escaped
10:42the cage in front of them. I didn't think one of them would have the guts to demand money from
10:47him to
10:47use the bike when he still got his sword after he just had superhuman jumping ability in front of
10:54them. To be fair, kids are reckless and he didn't threaten him with a sword yet so he had a
11:00good
11:00chance of being right about the assumption that he was like the average person who'd think that a
11:04murder charge wouldn't be worth it just to get a bike temporarily for a joust. Luckily, Wade somehow
11:09has some money on him that he took out of his pocket even though he didn't take it out of
11:14his wallet.
11:14He took it out of something he was wearing when he just woke up. Okay, it can be explained as
11:20he's
11:20got a habit of forgetting his wallet so he started keeping money in here. But that's not explained in
11:25the show so we don't know if that's the writer's intent or a plot hole. And it's a silly show
11:30that's
11:31mostly based around jokes and clearly doesn't care about logic that much so I've got good reason to
11:36assume the writer didn't think this through. It shouldn't be your job to write things about the
11:43story for the writer. That's the writer's job. Of course, they don't handle the joust in a gory way.
11:50Wade cuts off his ponytail. Good. He only says he's lucky he didn't do worse to him because he's a
11:58dork trying to imitate action movie heroes to be cool. I assume because there's no way he would
12:03have actually wanted to hurt him with a sword. That would seem out of character. And then gets to
12:09slowly humiliate him by telling him to give him his clothes over and over. It's satisfying,
12:15but still padded out. The bounty hunter starts running away. And Wade just lets the bad guy go
12:22without considering going after him on his motorcycle. But it makes sense in context because
12:27all he wanted to do was get home to Knuckles and then do a bowling tournament. It's still not
12:32narratively satisfying because the bad guy got to get away in keeping a jerk and it was never
12:37established that there's any reason he won't be able to try to capture him again. His only punishment
12:43was that Wade got to get away with stealing some stuff from him because he's a cop. I guess that's
12:50the logic. Which is surprisingly corrupt of Wade. This episode was by John Whittington. Most of the
12:58episode was a waste of my time, but I'm not even annoyed by it. And that's not what I expected.
13:05The rock opera was a waste of time and was silly looking, but a lot of the show is silly
13:09already,
13:10and it's just going with how silly Wade is. And I already watched all of AOSCH, so I guess it
13:16got
13:16me used to the idea of seeing something silly in a Sonic story. The plot's still serious in its premise
13:22because Wade's going to get kidnapped and he keeps getting shocked and Knuckles forced him to have to
13:26save himself. It also helps that I liked the way the song sounded. And it gave me a bunch of
13:31free time
13:32to type about what I wanted to say about the parts of the episode that didn't have a song playing
13:36in it.
13:37Plus, I knew that by sticking to a live-action format, there was no way the rock opera couldn't
13:41be stupid looking, and the show explained that it didn't have the budget to do it properly.
13:46So it's good that they played it for comedy, because if they didn't know it was silly,
13:50that'd be even more off-putting. Of course, it'd be better looking if they went to full CGI for this,
13:56but then it wouldn't have the so-bad-it's-good comedy value to make it better. The real problem
14:02is that it being about Knuckles' life makes it look like it's mocking it, which is major tone whiplash
14:08and disrespectful to the character completely unwarranted, as well as to the movie that the
14:14backstory was in.
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