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00:00Knuckles Show Episode 5
00:02It starts with Knuckles driving a motorcycle we never find out he learned how to ride
00:07wearing the hat from Archie Sonic, so that's nice.
00:11It's not impossible for him to have learned how to do this off-screen beforehand,
00:17but it's not narratively satisfying to have a character just suddenly know how to do something
00:22instead of briefly seeing and start learning how to do it.
00:26Wade should have driven it.
00:28Because he's a cop.
00:30Cops have motorcycles sometimes.
00:33And that applies to him, too, because we didn't know he could ride a motorcycle.
00:39They stop in front of the bowling alley, and somehow even Knuckles takes it completely seriously.
00:46Taking bowling seriously is something that makes sense for Sonic Boom Knuckles.
00:52There's nothing warrior about this, and he just became friends with Wade yesterday.
00:58So they shouldn't have quite enough of a bond for this to make total sense.
01:03And it goes on to waste my time with characters talking with no plot progress.
01:09At least a federal agent girl calling something a Wanderita and calling everyone here dorks is trying to do something
01:17new with her.
01:18It's trying to give her some charm and a new personality trait.
01:25It's hypocritical of her to call people dorks just for going bowling somehow, when she just did something dorky right
01:31here.
01:32I guess that was the whole joke.
01:35It doesn't really work for making her likable, so so far I'm still thinking they shouldn't have brought her back.
01:40Because it makes no sense that she'd care enough to go here.
01:44Because she hates Wade.
01:47She doesn't have any faith in him.
01:50Wade said his dad's so cool that he wouldn't even know what to say to him.
01:55How does he think he's cool when he's dressed like that?
01:58He looks crazy.
02:00Just because someone's a dork doesn't mean he can't recognize coolness.
02:06He tries to imitate action movie heroes all the time.
02:10He tells Father Whipple that he's his son in the most stilted, lame way.
02:16It's justified because he's only talking like that because he's saying what Knuckles wants him to say.
02:22And Knuckles talking in a stilted way makes sense because he spent most of his life alone since he lost
02:29his family.
02:31I guess the idea is that for most of every day, he didn't talk to anybody.
02:37So his communication skills degraded.
02:40His dad's got practically no emotional reaction to seeing his son again.
02:46Knuckles somehow ends up forgetting what he was doing to talk to what he thinks is a ridiculous looking mascot.
02:52But somehow he doesn't think that.
02:55Thankfully, Wade immediately realizes he should speak for himself at this point.
03:00When I thought it'd be a long, dragged out, cringy joke at his expense.
03:05His dad's got no reason to have no faith in him to be great at bowling.
03:10At least he immediately started being nice to him and they started laughing.
03:15So it ends up looking like all of the drama and tragedy around his dad built up to nothing so
03:19far.
03:20Which is nice.
03:22After a while, Willow B and her friend find out they were being taken to the building of the guy
03:28they were working for.
03:29The music works to make him intimidating pretty well, actually.
03:34It's doing all of the heavy lifting because he hasn't done anything menacing or said anything yet.
03:40And then he just threatens them generically and then starts rambling.
03:44It's finally revealed that he used to work for Eggman until he met Sonic.
03:50And when Gunn decided to erase all connections with Eggman, it sent a team to take him out.
03:56Which only sent him underground.
03:58I assume this means he liked Eggman?
04:03Otherwise, he's not Eggman.
04:11He also lampshades that he shouldn't have any faith in them since they failed to capture Knuckles before.
04:17She makes an argument that just has her explain a backstory.
04:22She had dedicated her entire life to looking for aliens to kill them.
04:27And didn't like that Sonic and his friends were being trusted to do what they want in Green Hills.
04:31And that because she complained about it, she got a desk job instead.
04:37Okay, I already knew that she was racist against aliens, though.
04:41This is a giant waste of time.
04:44Her saying this doesn't explain why he should think they're competent.
04:48He only makes them think he's gonna execute them.
04:52So he's just sadistic.
04:53And he just made them think he'd do this to pointlessly further intimidate them.
04:58He conveniently gives them another chance.
05:01We could have very easily not been told that he kidnapped them to get them here.
05:07They could have just come to meet him.
05:10It's good that he's got an intimidating menace to him.
05:14But he doesn't really have a personality.
05:18You could describe him as the jerk just as fine.
05:21So it doesn't really matter that I don't remember his name.
05:24The commentators are also an insulting waste of my time.
05:29There's a lot of wasting my time here.
05:32They didn't need to have the montage where they played bowling take so long.
05:37The only reason I found it even tolerable was because I liked the song.
05:42And even then the song was cheesy because of how old-fashioned it was.
05:47It's not like every show plays the entire song when it licenses one.
05:51Just look at Malcolm in the Middle.
05:53They could have just played a little of the song and had a really short montage to tell us the
05:58advance in the tournament in a narratively satisfying way.
06:02After the montage, the dad references the birds and the bees, and it turns out Wade logically already knew about
06:09it, and just wanted to have a father-son thing happen.
06:13It's impressively gutsy that it even got referenced in a Sonic story.
06:18He finally works up the nerve to ask him why he left, and he gets told he got bored of
06:22his old life and was searching for something in the lanes instead.
06:26Something he could have easily told his family about in a letter.
06:31A weak excuse, but at least he admits he was wrong.
06:34And gives him the mixes he kept sending him as a kid.
06:38He thankfully explains that he just never had the courage to write him back.
06:42That's also a pathetic excuse.
06:45Obviously, know that ghosting him for no reason would only make it worse because then it'd be official that he
06:49wasn't in his life anymore.
06:51They also hug.
06:53And then Wade's mom gives him a gift and a kiss.
06:57I hate waiting around bored as she takes forever to start talking to him about when his dad left them.
07:03She takes so long to get to the point that she was worried his dad would hurt their feelings again.
07:08This is succeeding at being an emotional, sentimental scene just a little, but I'd much rather have the story be
07:15about Knuckles.
07:17And it goes on too long.
07:20She reassures him at the end and ends up going to the same elevator as the most entertaining villain in
07:25the show.
07:27Wade ends up enjoying the look of his dad's penthouse and complimenting it a lot.
07:31But he does it too much.
07:34This is officially boring.
07:37I don't need to hear this much of him flattering him and how he's got a better life than other
07:42people because he's rich.
07:44Off of nothing but playing a game.
07:48Eventually, he says sorry for leading him to his mom and sister who are being threatened by the agents at
07:53gunpoint.
07:54So it's impressively good writing that he at least apologized.
07:59Wade jumps to the conclusion that his dad gave him up.
08:02Even though Wade would have come to the penthouse anyways.
08:06And this isn't the first time the agents try to come down to a bowling alley.
08:11But because his dad says sorry, they all just assumed it's his fault they found him.
08:16It turns out he had to get threatened into doing this anyways.
08:20They talk as if him barely having to be threatened is a big deal.
08:26But of course he barely had to be threatened.
08:28It wouldn't take much for the average person to be threatened into doing something.
08:32Because like, what do they mean by they barely had to threaten him?
08:37Because what they would have said to him is they're going to kill him if he doesn't do what they
08:43want.
08:43They wouldn't say anything else.
08:46Since it was actually his idea to kidnap them, I'm glad he gets called out on that.
08:52But I think the agents should have had the idea.
08:55Because there wasn't really any hint that he was evil enough to have that idea.
09:01Well, these guys were supposed to be more intimidating than him.
09:04He says he's the only Whipple that matters.
09:07It's trying to take the story seriously when his last name is Whipple.
09:12They only need to make him a jerk here so he works the villain.
09:16Why should I be worried about his sister being the first one who's getting threatened?
09:20That's not menacing.
09:23It was actually pretty relatable and cool that he was like, I'm okay with that.
09:26Do whatever you want to her.
09:28That's just like Knuckles saying that monks know skin off his nose and Archie.
09:32I get that kid's bad writing because it's been nothing but nice before, but it would be completely unrealistic to
09:38have him be a perfect, completely flawless Mary Sue.
09:43She stabbed him with a fork earlier.
09:46Of course his mom gets threatened after this because of what he said.
09:50So realistically he ends up telling Knuckles to go into the elevator and he makes a believable excuse for not
09:56going with him.
09:57It takes longer than it really needed to in this scene.
10:00It would have felt just as dramatic without being padded out.
10:05This episode by John Whittington had Wade go bullying with absolutely nothing creative being done with the bullying itself.
10:13And then he reconciles with his dad in a more heartwarming way than I expected, which was sorta nice, but
10:20better than the character deserved for how he was being built up.
10:23But then Gunn threatens Wade and Saffin to give up Knuckles to protect his mom.
10:29It's totally understandable and Knuckles can fight for himself.
10:32And before this, his father betraying him was justified realistically because he got threatened into getting Gunn here and his
10:39wife never had faith in him.
10:41So for once the series actually had well-written betrayals in it.
10:45It's completely unnecessary drama though that his dad betrayed him because Gunn tracked them down on their own just fine
10:52last time.
10:53So this just takes away from the competence of the agents and makes it seem like his good times with
10:58Wade told us nothing about him.
11:01And the episode got especially boring when Wade started complimenting the penthouse too long.
11:07Most of it's taken up by a montage that didn't need to be so long with how uncreative and mundane
11:13it was.
11:14But it was fine to go through because of the song.
11:17It's lame that Knuckles is hardly a part of the episode at all when that's not what anyone comes to
11:21a Sonic show for.
11:23But Wade in the story around time was engaging enough for me to forgive it.
11:27I hate Knuckles in the show anyways, so what would I even add if he was in every shot?
11:32There's nothing for him to do in this plot anyways.
11:35It'd make no sense if he was fighting anything.
11:38It's not like he's got great dialogue.
11:41And most of the story was about progressing the plot, so it didn't have room for Knuckles to do anything.
11:47But I had a lot of kind of cut out to make room for Knuckles doing something at the end
11:51instead of ending on a cliffhanger.
11:54Hating that there's exclusively focus on an engaging character just because he's not from the source material is ridiculous and
12:02hypocritical.
12:03I still don't buy that anyone is like that with every character exclusive to an adaptation ever made.
12:09Did anyone get mad that Lord Farquaad had a scene to himself because he wasn't in the book?
12:15As long as it's still interesting, it's still a good story.
12:18It got all the right emotions out of me when usually Sonic stories get me nothing but bored and frustrated.
12:24It seems like the people who hate this episode the most just hate it for what it isn't, but the
12:29writer succeeded at what he was trying to do.
12:31But you should never think that's enough, because all saying that does is encourage writers not to improve.
12:38And he shouldn't have tried to do it like this, because it could have been a good story instead if
12:43they just cut out filler to give Knuckles an action scene.
12:46I get that he had to hide because him being an alien attracts attention, but when he met Wade's family,
12:52they only took a few seconds to adjust and everyone already knew about Sonic, so they get used to Knuckles
12:57in seconds here too.
12:59The real problem with the episode is that it's mostly a boring waste of time.
13:04At least it's new to dedicate an entire story in Sonic to a character reconnecting with the father that abandoned
13:10him.
13:10And I mean actually reconnecting, not just the father giving him a history lecture that is only tangentially related to
13:20why he wasn't with them his whole life.
13:22But there's a reason stories in Sonic don't usually do this.
13:26There's no action scene in the story related to that.
13:30They didn't even do anything but talk.
13:33It's not like they played catch, because they couldn't have.
13:37They're just trapped in a bowling alley the whole time.
13:41I felt like it was a miracle they just happened to see his dad again just because he came here.
13:46Because it could have easily gone to a different bowling alley for the tournament.
13:50The writer didn't really know what he was doing with Wade's dad.
13:53Does he want him to be more sympathetic than you'd expect, or a lot worse than you'd expect?
13:59Why even make him have a soft side if you're gonna make him one-dimensionally evil anyway by saying,
14:05Well, it's only one Whipple that matters.
14:07Well, if you didn't think your son mattered, then why did you even talk to him like you did?
14:13Why did you keep his mixes then?
14:15I'll see you all again.
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