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00:00Issue 85
00:02The story starts in Icy Cave in Holoska, where Belle complains that this place sucks to get through because she
00:10has to walk around some stuff,
00:12and Sonic says she's wrong just because he likes jumping around like it's a platforming area.
00:18So at first it just feels like it's a reference to how he is in the games, but he's disrespecting
00:23her right to have an opinion that's not his and treating her like an idiot,
00:26despite having almost nothing but positive experiences with her, making fun of her for not being a platforming character when
00:36it's not her fault Sega never put her in a game and had her jump around levels.
00:42So it was cathartic when Sage asks if he's always been like this, and she thinks he has, which is
00:49depressing to see because I don't remember any times in the games where he was like this in particular,
00:54and if it was, he was only with people he likes to tease, so it's not how he usually is.
01:01It's sweet that it's established that Tails thinks he's hilarious, but I don't think he's ever laughed from any of
01:08his jokey dialogue in the games.
01:10It makes sense that he would though, because they're supposed to be good friends.
01:15It's true to the spirit of what it's intended to be like, in the first place.
01:21Tails didn't laugh when he called Eggman Baldy Mcnosehair.
01:25Sonic hardly ever makes any jokes outright, so I can't just bring to memory an example of him doing that
01:32in front of Tails and his reaction on the spot in the games.
01:36I think he laughed and said good one to one joke of his in front of Eggman in Lost World,
01:42when he said that it feels like the end of the world to work with him.
01:45It feels like a flanderization because we don't see him interact with Tails enough in the games to know for
01:51sure because he doesn't joke around enough for that.
01:54But it'd be uncharitable to just assume this is wrong when we barely have anything to go off of in
02:00the games either way.
02:02Because there's not that much dialogue and there's not that huge a variety of character interactions in the games, when
02:11almost nothing in the classic era had any dialogue.
02:15Sage thinks Tails finding someone funny that she doesn't is unintelligent of him.
02:21So she really is new to the world, because if she had any street smarts, she'd know your sense of
02:27humor has nothing to do with your intelligence.
02:29Aside from determining whether you'll find something funny because of ignorance.
02:34But intelligence isn't about whether you've memorized a lot about a topic or two.
02:39Any idiot could do that. As long as he doesn't have memory issues, anyway.
02:45People learn a lot about their favorite franchises just from experiencing them.
02:50She's basing her idea of intelligence off of its second definition of having good judgment and defining good as agreeing
02:57with her subjective opinions.
03:00She's interacted with so few people that I guess it's believable that she'd have been exposed to such a small
03:05amount of sense of humor that she'd just assume most people have the same sense of humor as her and
03:09so she thinks humor isn't subjective.
03:12But someone can have good judgment in every other area and bad judgment in what good humor is.
03:19Why is Sonic smiling when he's telling them to shut up and save their energy for finding a way out
03:23of the cave?
03:25It's like the artist was mandated to keep a smile on his face most of the time so their mascot
03:31won't look flawed.
03:33And while he can still be flawed, nobody gets to call him out and be in the right because then
03:38it's obvious that it was meant to be a flaw.
03:41I hate how the story starts. I came into it looking forward to it and it's just blatantly wasting people's
03:49time on nothing but annoying dialogue with no plot progression.
03:53There's a reason that most of what I took issue with was Tails find Sonic funny though.
04:00I genuinely don't think that one example of Tails finding Sonic funny in all of the games is enough to
04:10make that in character.
04:11It's been like 30 years, but I think the reason I'm feeling like this isn't worth the deviation apparently from
04:21the games is that it's being established in a bad context because it makes it look like Tails has a
04:29bad sense of humor and it's just annoying.
04:32I would be fine with it if I just saw Tails laughing and having fun around Sonic when Sonic wasn't
04:40being annoying, then I wouldn't even question it.
04:44Instead, it's Sonic being annoying and apparently Tails finds that funny, but he's not there, so Sonic's not getting to
04:53benefit from him enjoying his time with him.
04:57The story continues wasting time by having Belle recap what just happened an issue ago.
05:04At least it feels natural here until her last line in the panel.
05:08Sage has no reason to do any recapping.
05:12She knows everyone here already knows this.
05:15Then she thanks Belle to liability for no reason.
05:19She hadn't done anything to provoke that.
05:22And after Belle does some more worthless recapping, Sonic asks if she's sure if it wasn't just Metal Sonic being
05:30such a jerk that Belle couldn't read his mind.
05:33And I have to assume that's a joke because that'd be impossible.
05:37He should have said,
05:38He never has anything going on in his head anyway.
05:43Because he's a robot whose only interest is fighting Sonic. He doesn't have a mind of his own anymore.
05:50If it is a joke, it's just him being a bad friend to her again because now's not the time.
05:55She's not used to her life being in danger.
05:59ModaBud points and sometimes wasted as Sonic has to get them to stop arguing to look at the robot remains
06:05in front of them.
06:06Sonic thinks whoever would have had badniks torn up and kept like that needs therapy or a new hobby.
06:13As if Tails would never want to do that to research Eggman's badniks.
06:18He already knows stuff about how Omega and his programming is.
06:23He already knows stuff about Omega to the point where he was able to help him get his programming in
06:30a new body.
06:32And he made a robot in Tails Adventure.
06:36So he's done this too.
06:38I mean, how do you think Tails found out about how to make T-Pop in the first place?
06:45He could have researched the badniks. It would be a lot easier for him then.
06:50Apparently Sonic thinks the only people who would be responsible for robot research would be Eggman supporters.
06:57And you know, it wouldn't be so confusing if we were told that there were a bunch of Eggman supporters
07:03in this world like in STC.
07:04And exactly what they liked about his personal views and how he ran the country as in the world.
07:14Bell says this is mutilation.
07:15So no.
07:17Want the person here to be someone who's the opposite of like that because they hate his robots so much
07:22that he's mutilating them?
07:25I hope everything confusing about the situation gets explained soon because this is just annoying.
07:31Bell says the processors have been burned out.
07:34So then how does Sage know for sure that they were never brought online in the first place?
07:40She does feel sorry for them right afterwards.
07:44It's counter-intuitive to portray the enemies in the games as worth caring about when you smash them by the
07:50millions in the games.
07:52But in the games, there's no way to have the robots fixed and reprogrammed.
07:57So there's no real reason to care about them, especially since it wasn't established that that happens to them.
08:04It adds some nuance to point out that because that can happen, the badniks are worth sympathy.
08:11It's good that the writers found the universe of the game so interesting that they figured this out.
08:17It doesn't go to the lengths of portraying Sonic as in the wrong for defending himself against the badniks, which
08:23would miss the point.
08:25But these robots haven't even been turned on.
08:28And if they were, they would probably just be used against Sonic.
08:33So eventually, Sonic wonders if there's anything else he could find here, and another panel is wasted on him talking
08:38before he runs away.
08:40He could have said that in the same panel Bell was telling him to stay here.
08:45Considering how fast Sonic is, logically she's worried for nothing because he won't be leaving them unprotected for that long
08:52unless he's in a weirdly big cave.
08:54Because he should be able to explore all of it almost instantly.
08:58It is a magic filled world full of loop-de-loops because of it, so it makes just as much
09:03sense that the place they're in would be unrealistically huge.
09:07Or he's just staying away from them to avoid listening to them.
09:10I don't think it's that a character in Sonic can't go too fast or he'll hurt himself.
09:17Because they have to have reflexes and the ability to react just as fast as they're able to go.
09:24Or they would have long since died from slamming into a wall.
09:28So they could jump and navigate just as fast as they can run.
09:33No matter how many ledges they have to jump onto and turns they have to make.
09:38Why does Sage think there's any chance that Bell couldn't cross-reference what Eggman lost when she's already able to
09:45conveniently read the mind of any robot around here for answers?
09:49The only robot she's been around recently is Motabud who wouldn't know what went missing.
09:55But since she still does, I have to assume she knows it because she's around Sage.
10:00Sonic walks by a bed and wastes my time stating the obvious and hopes there's nothing ominous about the fact
10:06that there's screens around despite knowing better.
10:09I don't know what I'm supposed to think about this Sonic.
10:13Isn't he supposed to like danger and challenges so he can overcome them?
10:17He finds a coffin and wastes my time joking around and tries to open it and then apparently the coffin
10:24disappears and I assume the blue fires weren't there before.
10:28And he turned them on.
10:30Because otherwise why would we only see them now in this big panel about showing us what's around him?
10:36So he activated the security system?
10:40There's some more boring dialogue that wastes my time explaining the obvious that the materials here were used to make
10:46the device controlling Metal Sonic.
10:48This comic really is written for idiots.
10:52It doesn't have to be written worse for everyone else just to pander to idiots.
10:58There isn't anything good that comes out of this needless stating of the obvious and recap.
11:05Nobody benefits from learning this stuff if they didn't already figure it out.
11:11Sage states the obvious again with a giant text bubble and I get to see Belle call her out on
11:16being fine with when Eggman controlled her.
11:19It wasn't necessary to show her response.
11:22We already know what it'll be.
11:25She should already know she's not opposed to robots being controlled on principle.
11:30Then Metal Sonic just stands outside the room for no reason when he would have found his way here by
11:35flying around the place non-stop and since he's being controlled he doesn't need to stop and look around every
11:41individual room first.
11:43He just had to hear them to know they're there so no stopping was necessary.
11:48It's just a waste of panel when he would have been scarier if he just jumped in right away.
11:54Metal Sonic attacks Sage who somehow didn't anticipate that a robot under the control of a device would attack her
12:00despite her telling him to stop.
12:04Somehow Belle thinks Metal Sonic can't touch her despite the fact that she looks different because he did.
12:10She says she's a hard light hologram so she can be damaged.
12:14She tells Sage to give her a signal boost that she apparently can do that she apparently knew she could
12:20do.
12:21It's better to only bring that up when it's needed because it makes just as much sense when it comes
12:26out of nowhere because it's a power based on technology that was made by a really competent person.
12:31The same reason I don't have a problem with when Rick reveals that he has amazing technology out of nowhere.
12:39I have more of a problem with this here because this is already a boring comic that doesn't do enough
12:45to keep me invested and make me take it seriously most of the time.
12:48And doesn't do enough to make me impressed by the competence of the characters.
12:53So at that point I would rather be told what their abilities are before they're useful so they don't feel
13:00like a deus ex machina.
13:01Because I would have the time to react to that and be impressed.
13:07Not just think, well this only exists to help them out because the writer wrote himself into a corner.
13:13I have to assume the only reason Metal Sonic even got in the ice cave that was blocked by boulders
13:18earlier was that he found another way in that there was no reason to make.
13:23Or the boulders from before got destroyed by him.
13:26Metal Sonic stops and after more stadium the obvious, Bell says he's had a signal strong enough to confuse his
13:33systems briefly.
13:34Why would it be brief?
13:36She should explain it only lasts as long as she's around him.
13:41Why didn't they do this signal boost attack earlier?
13:45It would have made sense that Bell knows it's not going to last for very long if she had done
13:52it before.
13:53This more wasted panel, Sonic tries to run out of the room and stops because he looped back around to
14:00where he was.
14:01So maybe it's like when that was the case in that maze he was in earlier.
14:05But it seems more like magic because last time the solution was to run fast enough.
14:10But here it doesn't work.
14:12All the magic theming would make no sense if it turned out that the villain was all about technology.
14:18He hears the same noise his shoe tapping is making coming from his shadow.
14:25Well I suppose robots that are so small that he can't see them could be making the shoe tapping noise.
14:33But that's not explained so your first thought is going to be magic and it's always better to go with
14:38the simple first assumption of what the writer intends.
14:42What doesn't make sense is when he thinks that a shadow imitating him exactly is a big deal instead of
14:49normal.
14:49He gets greeted by a green imposter rising out of the shadow in a Scourge reference.
14:55And now it's frustrating that the story cuts away from that to focus on Bell and Sage wasting my time
15:00hiding and having boring dialogue where Sage is panicking because of course she doesn't know what to do.
15:06And all of a sudden now Bell feels sorry for her.
15:09So I guess this is some more thankfully silent storytelling.
15:13Where this time it's telling me she figured out it can suck for her to always want to live up
15:18to the high expectations that Eggman has for her.
15:21That is really not all it's cracked up to be if Eggman does love you and you are what he
15:27wants you to be.
15:29She says she could make a weapon and encourages her to figure out a way to make her work faster
15:34so she'll feel better.
15:35It takes up some more time with her doing more technobabble than necessary until Motobud runs into Metal Sonic to
15:43protect them.
15:44Since when does Metal Sonic silently fly around?
15:49He made noises when you played with him in the adventure games.
15:54He would have had to have uncharacteristically tiptoed up to them to sneak up on them.
15:59Because even walking makes noise.
16:02Sonic wastes my time talking pointlessly and tries to run.
16:06And then the story goes back to Bell as Metal Sonic's just standing still for seconds doing nothing for no
16:12reason.
16:13Which is like an eternity for a speedster.
16:16So she gets to shoot him with a laser just in time.
16:20This would have made sense if he showed up earlier.
16:23The story wastes some more time as it turns out the laser made a hole that went through to the
16:28room Sonic was in.
16:29And Sonic's being drawn with stupid swirly eyes that don't match the mood of the scene at all.
16:36Did they think that it was too scary for us earlier after the Metal Virus arc?
16:42Sage states the obvious again and Bell gets Metal Sonic off him and he immediately is fine.
16:48Metal Sonic gets up right away even though the thing that made him unconscious wasn't fixed.
16:55To be fair Gamma said in the hub world when you talked to him after the fight with him.
16:59That he's healing himself with an auto repair system.
17:03That you'd think Eggman's favorite robot would have in him.
17:08So Metal Sonic could have recovered because of that.
17:11It's just not likely that the writers of this comic thought of that after all the times they proved they
17:17don't think things through.
17:18And there aren't explanations for things.
17:21So they really should have explained this.
17:24I guess Metal Sonic got blasted through some rings which healed him.
17:28Because it was never established anywhere that Metal Sonic had auto repair systems.
17:34So Sage gets kidnapped and it's all just for a frustrating cliffhanger.
17:39I knew the issue would have a cliffhanger.
17:41It made me regret reading it so early.
17:45If they just got rid of all of the padding, more could have happened before the issue ended.
17:50It makes it harder to remember how I felt about the issue as a whole when I'm pissed off by
17:54the ending.
17:55And I've been given the impression that it's a normal thing.
17:59In this issue by Evan Stanley and Ian Flynn, the only thing that actually progresses the plot that happens in
18:05it
18:05Is that Bella ends up empathizing with Sage because Metal Sonic gets into the cave off screen, threatens to hurt
18:11the heroes, and then Sage freaks out because she doesn't know which path to take.
18:17And then Sage got kidnapped.
18:20Somehow she was kidnapped even though Metal Sonic was blasted with a laser that knocked him down.
18:25It ends up being mostly a waste of time full of boring dialogue that mostly just states the obvious just
18:30to fill up an issue faster.
18:32There was hardly anything worth seeing this time around with how Sage and Bell interacted.
18:38Sonic was annoying in it too.
18:39It sucks that his subplot went literally nowhere.
18:42Just implying that magic's involved in the story but still not showing me who's behind all of this and what
18:47he's like.
18:47That was one of the only things you'd look forward to with this issue.
18:51Most of the issue was just about telling you stuff you already knew or figured out or otherwise just worthless
18:56excessive dialogue.
18:58I was right.
18:59Every writer in this comic is like this with a dialogue.
19:03Not just Daniel Barnes.
19:04In the earlier comics, the dialogue was interesting by having a world building in it or something else great about
19:10it a lot more often.
19:11And the world was more interesting because it was less like the games that you already saw.
19:17So I didn't notice when there was too much because you can never have too much decent dialogue.
19:23I was always a little bored by it because reading dialogue in a comic is always boring.
19:30But it wasn't as unbearable.
19:32What will I do to hook up around for this movie before reading fromration?
19:32First of all right, I don't know.
19:32I'm scared I go wrong.
19:32You don't uh no.
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