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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.
00:11That means mostly screenshots, or entirely if I have to. And when I have to reference that there
00:17was padding, there won't be as much to show to prove that. It starts with some padding,
00:22since Knuckles does some running and punches a boulder, but it wasn't even necessary.
00:27I can get him wanting to exercise, but that doesn't mean he would have to exercise like
00:34this when he thinks Robotnik's gone forever, so what's to train for? It's not like he fights
00:42criminals for fun. This is extremely dangerous. He wouldn't do this if he didn't have to.
00:50He's out of character already. Sonic's narration calls him a maniac for it,
00:55but it's still never explained why he did it. So the writer knew it was weird, and did it anyway.
01:03The story also wastes time recapping the last movie, but it doesn't explain enough to keep
01:09someone from being confused. My problem is that the writer didn't really figure out what Knuckles
01:16would do on a day-to-day basis. He barely put any effort into thinking about it. Just,
01:23well, he does this sort of in the game, so let's just have him do that as a daily thing.
01:30Even though there's a reason Knuckles did that in the games, which would not apply to this context,
01:37without Robotnik. This is the real world, so there aren't any levels here.
01:43Like, what TV shows does he watch? I don't know.
01:48I hate that Knuckles sounds like an adult. At least it softens the blow a little from when he's acting
01:54different from the one from the games, because he doesn't come off like the same person at all.
02:00Knuckles ends up doing something that scares the daylights out of someone who had every right to go to
02:05his house, so he gets mad at Tom's wife. It's so frustrating that he accused her of wanting that
02:13to happen to him. She asked him what's going on, and he heard the tone in her voice. He'd know
02:20she
02:21didn't approve of what happened to him. He wouldn't leave a trail of chips. Why would he waste chips?
02:30And 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. Makes it look like they don't know what they're doing
03:12with the character, though. Wait, Tails is supposed to be able to fix that, because he's able to invent
03:18things. And he gets the material to invent something in the next movie, so it's not as if he can't
03:28invent
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, this psycho? Tails doesn't
03:52look like he cares either. It also turns out Knuckles is planning on doing something that could hurt the
03:58dog after 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
04:13most 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
04:36sent. He tells them to make himself at home. This causes Knuckles to startle Maddie with the wooden
04:44things and candles he put behind himself. And he happily tells his friends to fight him in trial by
04:51combat. Even 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 and advantage he has. And so it's
05:07pointless to even get them to fight him. Sonic shows no attitude, impatience, or coolness the entire show.
05:16He never feels like Sonic the entire time. And his whole dynamic with Knuckles is off too. He respects
05:25him too much, and he's too scared of him instead of giving a pushback. Then it turns out he kidnapped
05:32the mailman. There's being stupid, and then there's just acting impossibly. It's satisfying to see him get
05:42grounded until he says he's got no idea what that means. Why does he keep calling her the informal silly
05:49little nickname Sonic gave her? Wouldn't he know it's not a respectful nickname? He's too formal to use it.
05:56He's not fun-loving and quirky like Sonic is. He doesn't call Tails Tails, but this happens.
06:07Tails reveals Knuckles threw something out of their car too. I don't know why he did that either.
06:13He didn't need that for the throne. Why even have this beginning at all? That's what I'm wondering.
06:21It cuts away trying to encourage himself to start bowling. And the kid distracts him when he's about
06:27to start bowling, so he lets go of it on the backswing and it hits something and someone screams.
06:33Since there's no consequences, it only makes sense if that's because he didn't hit anyone.
06:40The story does nothing but waste my time for a while until Wade loses a bowling game to some kids.
06:47Well, people can get unlucky in real life. He even blows trying to make a pin fall down,
06:55even though anybody would know that wouldn't work. So I get why I was picked as the main character.
07:00He's not too entertaining enough to keep my attention. It makes me look past the fact that it feels out
07:06of
07:06place to see someone act like a cartoon character in live action. This reminds me of that janitor from
07:11Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. I guess that's why I always found him unbelievable and
07:17charming instead of ridiculous and cringe, like I worried I would. He finds out he's off the bowling
07:23team, so a bunch of time is wasted on that too. She'd never accept being called Little Susie. At least
07:32the
07:32people who end up getting sick of him got to enjoy an entire scene of people being mean to him,
07:38and the fact that the entire show had everyone be mean to him and disrespect him from time to time,
07:43instead of things being easy for him. As long as he's treated believably instead of a creator's pet,
07:49it's easier to deal with him. There's a lot of time wasted in this scene. It was just annoying
07:55padding where people were rude to him. It would be worse though if we were supposed to think he was
08:01cool to begin with. We were always supposed to think he was a loser and stupid, unlike with the
08:08game characters, so it was actually fine to make him at least believably stupid. Sonic tries to reassure
08:16Knuckles who childishly blames him for his getting grounded when I thought he was supposed to be
08:22mature. I did like that when Sonic put the VR on his face he got scared and asked him where
08:28he sent
08:28him. Wait a minute, why did Sonic's parents keep the VR in the attic where he was going to be
08:35grounded?
08:36What kind of grounding is that? I guess they were stupid enough to forget it was in there.
08:42It was also nice of Sonic to leave the room. Then Knuckles gets talked to by the Chief from Sonic
08:49Adventure out of nowhere, so it looks like he's hallucinating. He tries to hug him and the Chief
08:55goes through him and there's some orange light after that and he falls before going back to him.
09:01He 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
09:19just didn't get to see because he barely got to talk at all. And this guy's a lot more entertaining
09:25than he was. It's just that it would be dumb if he never had a serious side. He wants Knuckles
09:32to train
09:32Apprentice. Now I'm just wondering why this was never the case for Knuckles in the games.
09:39The Chief tries to float away and he hits the ceiling somehow. At least he lampshades how does
09:45this stupid ghost stuff even work. It makes no sense that he'd be selectively intangible in that
09:52specific way. I can see someone really liking that gag. It stood out to me. But I did notice that
10:02it's
10:02weird to do this with him. But the kind of people who would be really mad at him being portrayed
10:09weird are not going to like the show no matter what it's like. Knuckles goes to the goofy comedy
10:16character, Wade, to make him his Apprentice. To be fair, nobody else in Tom's house wanted to
10:22participate in the trial by combat. The Chief told him to train Wade, but he spies on Knucks so he
10:29had
10:30this thought process. Why would he say this in response to being told he'll be taught how to fight?
10:37They take too long discussing the idea. Knuckles gets to show off his strength,
10:43bending a barbell. Too bad that inconveniences him. And when Knuckles throws a barbell at him,
10:50he's somehow not too injured afterwards to be his Apprentice after that. I guess Knuckles' mere
10:56presence 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,
11:25where people found out Knuckles left Green Hill. I'm forced to just assume the reason they know that
11:32based on looking at a map is that they have people hired to constantly hide tracking devices in the
11:38fur of Sonic 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
11:49next to them. Willowbee's the girl. What a forgettable name. And she takes the satellite service
11:58down so that only she can track down Knuckles. At least it's good to make one of the villains look
12:04threatening right away because she's responsible for someone being thrown into the ring warping
12:08him to the mushroom planet because she had some guy do it. It would have been better to establish her
12:15threateningness if she didn't. Instead, some other guy who didn't have any menacing buildup, who didn't have
12:23any attention 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.
12:36Whilst 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 them
12:49in 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 hypocritical to not notice that here, too. My point was never that it was bad to
13:07have references. 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 it
13:20seem 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's been so far,
13:39it's just been barely good enough that I didn't see the grapes and immediately feel cynical.
13:46I feel like it's a bad faith mockery of Knuckles to make fun of him for not using his individual
13:51fingers despite liking grapes a lot. I assumed he doesn't have a hard time eating grapes because he
14:00could remove the gloves. Every time I say eventually, it's because a bunch of boring padding happened with
14:07no plot progression or anything else valuable to me. Eventually, Knuckles gets taken to the bowling
14:14place. And even though he doesn't like it, he stays there. Why is Knuckles putting up with this
14:21instead of just insisting on training him in martial arts? Bowling has nothing to do with guarding the
14:27master amulet. It's not something that make him a better fighter. It was nice of Knuckles to compliment him on
14:34his bowling. But this is the same guy who was a complete sociopathic asshole at the start of the episode.
14:43So how is he now acting in character? I mean, even then, I can't really remember a time when he
14:50was
14:51polite to the point of complimenting people in the games. He'd never say this in response to what
14:59Knuckles said. He asked him what happened to his father. Then he opens up to Knuckles about the fact
15:06that his dad abandoned him. Surprisingly, Knuckles cares about that. If we find out about his daddy
15:13issues later, there's no point in seeing this so early. People show up wanting to capture Knuckles.
15:22When the villain says he doesn't need his power, his boss says they do need it and he has to
15:28explain
15:28that he just wanted to sound cool. Even though it's meant to be a scene you take seriously.
15:34I pointed this out because I guess it's a sort of good joke. The jokes in the show are great
15:42by
15:42sonic standards. Wade was useful. He set up bowling balls to damage something. Eventually, Knuckles gets
15:52to hit someone into something, making me wonder if it's believable that he even survived or if there
15:58have to be invisible rings that heal people on earth too. And that was the only time any of the
16:03anybody got a hit on anybody. I mean a hit on him, not just his armor. Until a ring gets
16:11thrown under
16:11Knuckles when he was distracted fighting someone else that sends him into something to be captured.
16:16Cool! She actually shoots them! It's like she had a ring portal gun. The writer didn't have to go
16:24through the effort of thinking that up. The fight scene kept my attention just fine, so it's not
16:30boring. But it's underwhelming in retrospect that it was nothing but Knuckles preventing someone from
16:35hitting him, blocking his attack over and over again. And the bad guy tries to tell her to lie that
16:43she
16:43didn't have to save him, which gives him some character. And then he goes back on that because
16:49she looks like she won't go along with it. The theme songs for this show don't match it or Sonic
16:56at all.
16:57It sounds old-fashioned and lame. That's my issue. Why even make actual songs at that point? Just have
17:06instrumentals? They sound nice, but I won't remember them. This episode, written by John Whittington,
17:14was a story mostly full of padding where Knuckles gets written to act in a way that everyone in the
17:21house hates just because he was raised by warriors so he assumes they won't have to worry about it in
17:26consequence if he keeps antagonizing intruders in the house in his eyes or somehow trying to engage
17:32in violence with the people in the house. Not to mention he takes something out of Tom's car.
17:37There's no way he'd plan on hurting them because he knows he has super strength and he's gone into
17:43fights before so he knows he'd kill them and that they'd know that. But he was forced to act like
17:50that anyway so he could get grounded, but it turns out that wasn't even necessary to write because even
17:56if that hadn't happened he still would have gotten a visit from a ghost telling him to train an apprentice.
18:02It makes sense since if Knuckles dies without an apprentice who would guard the Master Emerald.
18:07I have to just assume the reason he waited until now to do this was that Knuckles finally has a
18:13stable home and his friends. So he's been spying on him until he could see who is in that position.
18:19And he thinks he's got no other choice but to trust Wade to be his apprentice.
18:24But Sonic's so good at fighting he could guard the Emerald. And they already all agreed to be the
18:30guardians of it together in the last movie. I just have to assume that Knuckles thinks Sonic's so
18:36emotional and impulsive that he might abuse the super form he'd get from the Emerald someday.
18:41Because he was in a bad mood. And that the Chief thinks that too so that's why he didn't just
18:47tell
18:47him to train Sonic. That should have been explained. Because Sonic's right there. It'd be harder to get
18:55the idea he doesn't trust Sonic to be responsible with the Emerald if he happened to see in the third
18:59film
18:59where he wanted to use it when he was angry. I know the name of the Chief. It's just annoying
19:05to
19:05try to pronounce it so I'm not bothering. This could have been the perfect opportunity to give
19:10him a different name since it's a different character. And somehow he decides it's not a
19:14waste of time to go to the bowling place. But he would have been tracked down anyways.
19:20Well I guess not if the only reason he left Green Hills was to go to the bowling place.
19:26They could have easily written it that the place he talked to Wade in first was outside of Green
19:33Hills. Despite most of the episode being a blatant waste of my time. In fact the scenes that don't
19:40have Knuckles were almost entirely worthless. Most of the time I was fine with watching this episode.
19:45It wasn't as boring as reading a bad comic book like the recent IDW was. It wasn't even as boring
19:52as
19:52the past Sonic cartoons. It even had a bunch of moments that were especially good. So that impressed
20:00me. The people working on the show probably had to go out of their way to find out about those
20:05references to the games. That's more work than they could have done. Which proves that they are
20:10completely ignorant about them. I was dreading watching this show. But I've been through a lot
20:16worse. This is the first time bowling has been relevant to an entire story arc in Sonic. So it
20:24feels new. Even though Sonic Boomhead Knuckles go bowling first. This isn't even the first time
20:31guns gone after the game characters wanting to capture them either. I guess the biggest saving grace
20:36about this then is that the pacing wasn't as slow as I expected. Also it's pretty stupid that in the
20:42whole
20:43entire episode you're never told the name of the bad guy with the most personality. Of course obviously
20:50you can look at TV tropes to find the names of any character you want. But you obviously shouldn't
20:55have to do that. Normal people aren't going to bother doing that. Your average person is not going
21:02to do that. So you shouldn't need external media.
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