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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 that
01:24shocks him. And he wakes up in a cage and I'm glad he explains that the guy he got the
01:29shocking stuff
01:30from was really weird. Implying that he got them from Agent Stone. Or at least someone who worked for
01:37Gunn after Gunn stole that technology from Eggman. At which it was explained that Gunn got all of its
01:44awesome 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 be very easy
02:10for him to find out the truth about. And he still shows that there are personal insults like it's a
02:16cartoon 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
02:31stick with the seriousness of the situation. Sometimes the show has the same problem as
02:37Sonic Unleashed. You're supposed to have comedy after the serious situation. Not during it.
02:45After some more padding. Wade gets shocked by the clearly unnecessarily capable of shocking him
02:51Cage. And starts having a dream where he meets the Ancient Chief. Somehow he screams from seeing him.
02:59Despite being used to Knuckles and already aware that aliens exist. The Chief changes his outfit to the
03:07uniform of someone who'd work at the bowling alley to make him more comfortable. And they waste my time
03:13talking some more. I guess it's believable that he just assumes Knuckles sent him here instead of
03:19thinking he started dreaming. Because he already knows he's got magical powers and those don't make
03:25sense either. The Chief says there's gonna be a low budget rock opera. I'm glad he said low budget in
03:33the sense that it lampsheets the real reason for Knuckles barely being around. But it makes no sense
03:38in-universe because it's all with magic. So there's an infinite budget. He doesn't explain that magic is
03:46finite. And so the amount of magic that can be used is limited by money. Eventually Wade ends up in
03:54a goofy
03:54Knuckles costume that still shows his face so the actor can keep showing his expression. Mind you,
04:01this is the same episode where he got kidnapped by a bounty hunter. He ends up finding out he can
04:07talk
04:07with Knuckles' voice here for no reason. If that doesn't stay consistent the whole time, that's not
04:15gonna make any sense. In fact, it doesn't. So then why did he give him the ability to talk with
04:21Knuckles' voice? If he's able to do anything he wants because it's a dream, then he should take more
04:29advantage of that. At least he'd try to lighten the mood with a joke because he's told not to make
04:34it
04:34weirder than it already is. As silly as the rock opera looks, it sounds good, so I don't really mind
04:42that
04:42most of its padding. Like almost none of it actually progresses the plot. It's just about telling you
04:49Knuckles' backstory when anyone who watched that previous movie already knows it. Why is the lesson
04:57being delivered to Wade through a musical anyway? It's creative, so I get the meta logic, but the
05:04chief's a ghost from thousands of years ago on another planet. To be fair, he's also been spying on
05:10Knuckles. So he could have heard rock music and learned about musicals that way and become a huge
05:16fan of them to the point of wanting to do this. So it only seems weird because it came out
05:23of
05:23completely nowhere that he has this personality trait. What would have been the harm of him having
05:30one lie and explaining that? It's pretty surprising that the musical number made reference to the
05:36flames of disaster in Iblis because most fans hate the game they came from. The only people who wanted
05:43to see Iblis again were a small minority, and half of them were pissed to see him look laughable here
05:49anyway. So it wasn't worth it to reference him. Iblis only exists because scientists split a god into two,
05:57but it's never been explained that Knuckles lives near people who did that despite living in a warmongering
06:03tribe. And the fact that it had Knuckles have the flames of disaster without explaining that they
06:09had the same origin as in Sonic 06 means they're not really the flames of disaster, which only pissed
06:15off the fans anyway. So there was no point in calling the power that, because you can't undo 06.
06:23I don't mind this because it's doing something new with the concept, and I take a moment of creativity
06:27over wasting my time any day, and it's better to have the flames of disaster be possessed by somebody
06:32cool. And Knuckles already had a bit of a firepower. He had the maximum heat Knuckle attack. So the only
06:41creativity you can get out of that is to give it a name it didn't have before. Giving it a
06:47brand new name
06:48would have made it more creative though, without risking annoying people. It's too bad the episode's title
06:56ruined the surprise of the reference a little. Maybe if it was a complete surprise, more people
07:02would have rationalized it as being good in context because they were hearing some good music.
07:07But if you find out about something out of context without being absorbed in the story it's in meant
07:12to justify it, you're more likely to not be accepting of it and assume the worst without the
07:16justification told to you. Which is the problem with getting spoilers. Sure my reviews spoil everything,
07:23but they tell you the context of the story justifying the spoilers. So you should feel the
07:29same way you would have if you just experienced the story normally and got to the spoiler part.
07:35At one point Wei thinks the point of this opera was to tell him to use its fist even though
07:40obviously it wouldn't tell him such an obvious lesson. Or else what would be the point of even
07:47making an entire rock opera instead of just telling him that right away in one sentence? He even lands
07:53sheets could have been an email. And even though he's getting told that's not the lesson, he still
07:59leaves which he's somehow able to do in this dream that the Chief's got full power over. Somehow the
08:08Chief doesn't prevent him from leaving and he thinks he can just punch the bars that he knows are
08:13electrocuted to get out and it doesn't work. And he at least humorously lampshades why do I think that
08:19would work? To be fair he must have thought he got given superhuman powers because he's friends with
08:25Knuckles. It makes as much sense as Knuckles having super strength and speed. Eventually when they shout
08:32the warrior's heart, the song ends even though it didn't seem like it should have. And Wei jumps out
08:39of the cage with an uppercut so he really did get a superhuman power based on using his fists. But
08:45he only
08:45got allowed to use it after letting the rock opera finish. It just arbitrarily had it that he would
08:53only be able to get out of the cage this way but not by using his fists the other way.
08:59That was mean.
09:01I learned nothing from that rock opera. I guess it's about never giving up. But Wei already agreed with
09:09that. You'd think the rock opera would be about teaching him how to do martial arts so he could
09:16actually be qualified as an apprentice. It's good that it's realistic by having Wade cry out in pain
09:23from the landing and complaining about his back. Most stories wouldn't bother doing that and make the
09:28impression that the writer didn't even think of this. That only makes us wonder why he's acting like
09:35he's not hurt for the rest of the show. The bad guy goes from seeming to threaten his life to
09:40going
09:41far away from them forcing them to shout just to hear each other. I guess that's a great joke but
09:46it's completely forced. He's being expected to risk his life to fight him. He's so optimistic he'll just
09:54trust in the idea that he'll survive because he wants to win a joust that badly. And he's not thinking
10:00ahead enough to realize he'd get in legal trouble from killing him. He's got no reason to challenge
10:05him to a joust in modern day. The Sonic franchise already did a joust in AOSDH so there's not even
10:13the fact that's creative going for it. It would have actually made sense if they simply got into a fight
10:19after Wade was taught how to fight. They could have justified him learning martial arts right away
10:25with magic. Then Wade winning it would actually prove he became a worthy apprentice who learned
10:31something from the rock opera. The story also takes its time having Wade buy a bike from a kid
10:37to do a joust. I thought that the kids respected his power because he escaped the cage in front of
10:43them.
10:44I didn't think one of them would have the guts to demand money from him to use the bike when
10:49he still
10:49got his sword. After he just had superhuman jumping ability in front of them. To be fair,
10:56kids are reckless and he didn't threaten him with a sword yet so he had a good chance of being
11:00right
11:01about the assumption that he was like the average person who'd think that a murder charge wouldn't
11:04be worth it just to get a bike temporarily for a joust. Luckily, Wade somehow has some money on him
11:11that he took out of his pocket even though he didn't take it out of his wallet. He took it
11:15out of
11:15something he was wearing when he just woke up. Okay, it can be explained as he's got a habit of
11:21forgetting his wallet so he started keeping money in here. But that's not explained in the show so we
11:26don't know if that's the writer's intent or a plot hole. And it's a silly show that's mostly based
11:31around jokes and clearly doesn't care about logic that much so I've got good reason to assume the
11:36writer didn't think this through. It shouldn't be your job to write things about the story for the
11:44writer. That's the writer's job. Of course, they don't handle the joust in a gory way. Wade cuts
11:51off his ponytail. Good. He only says he's lucky he didn't do worse to him because he's a dork trying
11:58to imitate action movie heroes to be cool. I assume because there's no way he would have actually
12:03wanted to hurt him with a sword. That would seem out of character? And then gets to slowly humiliate him
12:10by telling him to give him his clothes over and over. It's satisfying, but still padded out.
12:17The bounty hunter starts running away and Wade just lets the bad guy go without considering going
12:23after him on his motorcycle. But it makes sense in context because all he wanted to do was get
12:29home to Knuckles and then do a bowling tournament. It's still not narratively satisfying because the
12:34bad guy got to get away in keeping a jerk and it was never established that there's any reason he
12:39won't be able to try to capture him again. His only punishment was that Wade got to get away with
12:45stealing some stuff from him because he's a cop. I guess that's the logic, which is surprisingly
12:52corrupt of Wade. This episode was by John Whittington. Most of the episode was a waste of my time,
12:59but I'm not even annoyed by it. And that's not what I expected. The rock opera was a waste of
13:06time and was
13:07silly looking, but a lot of the show is silly already and it's just going with how silly Wade is.
13:12And I already watched all of AOSCH, so I guess it got me used to the idea of seeing something
13:18silly
13:18in the Sonic story. The plot's still serious in its premise because Wade's going to get kidnapped and
13:23keeps getting shocked and Knuckles forced him to have to save himself. It also helped that I liked the way
13:29the song sounded, and it gave me a bunch of free time to type about what I wanted to say
13:33about the parts of the
13:34episode that didn't have a song playing in it. Plus, I knew that by sticking to a live-action format,
13:39there was no way the rock opera couldn't be stupid looking, and the show explained that it didn't have
13:44the budget to do it properly. So it's good that they played it for comedy because if they didn't know
13:50it was
13:50silly, that'd be even more off-putting. Of course, it'd be better looking if they went to full CGI for
13:56this, but 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 and
14:09disrespectful to the character completely unwarranted, as well as to the movie that the backstory was in.
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