Xerxes-Break-Enjoyer

•So. It turns out I'm a pretty big Yellow Zelcova fan for the limited screen time he gets! He's out here living his best life, showing off his strength, gleefully attempting intergalactic war-crimes, dying like Metal Sonic in the Sonic OVA Movie- and I can't get enough of this guy. He's fun!

•It turns out the Metarex can actually choose to transform into kaiju, almost-Perfect Chaos-but-not-quite creatures at will. The transformation just isn't sustainable. I'm currently on the episode where we get Planet Greengate's backstory and how the Metarex came to be, 'Eye Spy'. (OOPS! Turns out the transformation is very unsustainable, as in it kills the male Seedrians! I vaguely remembered that, but it was pretty sudden- OH SHOOT! Zelcova's back! It's just a flashback but still!! :D)

•Shadow was very happy to fight Knuckles in the last episode! I was surprised at first and then remembered that some one; I don't know if it was a decision by Sega, Sonic Team, or some Localization team(??) but in semi-recent years Shadow's personality has been hacked and slashed. More recently though it seems like they're course correcting him, like with Tails in Sonic Frontiers, as evidenced by Shadow Generations and the Movie series giving him more ability to express himself and empathize. TLDR, I was just happy to see Shadow excited about something in my rewatch of Sonic X and that thing happened to be fighting against Knuckles.

•Oh dang, I kinda had a feeling it was the case but one of the Seedrian women who was aboard Cosmo's space colony has a dead husband. He was the guy who went kaiju and died almost immediately in 'Eye Spy'.

•WEIRD! Odd and strange! Black Oak's real name is LUCAS! I was not expecting that! Ohh, I don't like how he pronounces Earthia's name in the English Dub... AAH! I don't like how ANYONE is pronouncing her name! It's Earthia [Earth-ea], not Earthia [Er-thigh-uh]!

•Gonna be honest, just for me personally, watching Earthia and Lucas's confrontation feels like looking through a one-way window into a domestic dispute. This feels like Earthia's about to serve him divorce papers. Rightfully so, mind you!!

•Oh, so Earthia started the war with the Metarex by commanding that her space colony needed to take the first shot. Huh. I did NOT remember that! Well, she is the equivalent to a queen/leader of her people so she was trying to make the tough call to protect the many by killing a few hundred, I guess. Lucas's ambition DID end up bringing ruin to the entire galaxy in the end but it's still wild to me that Earthia was the one who commanded her colony to take the first shot.

•I don't think it's ever stated who the Seedrians(/Metarex) were fighting a war against initially, but due to how Molly described the people of Planed Cascade in the planet's prime; I choose to believe it was them. She said something along the lines of "There was no telling how far our territory could have reached!" or something to that effect which is an admission that they were conquering other territories for themselves, at the very least. Yeah, it can be argued that it was a peaceful conquest- maybe they made alliances and joined forces with others to expand their rule, but how common of an occurance is that, really? Anyway, I just think it'd be a neat twist, as a headcanon, if Planet Cascade was the reason the Metarex came into being and wiped them out in return for starting the war. Also it'd make Dark Oak's sadistic punishment/execution (because you CAN'T tell me they were alive- well actually... it'd probably be WORSE if they DID survive in that state...) of the Cascade Resistance thematic and horrifying. It's like "You stole our home, forced us to siphon the life force of our very planet to survive, now you too will know what it is like to be transformed and nourish the very earth that you lay upon!" or something like that.

It's interesting to me that the Seedrian women turn into trees while the men turn into plant/lizard beasts that tower over skyscrapers. I really do feel like the deaths or punishments Dark Oak mete out to the Cascade Resistance was/could have been thematic even if Cascade WASN'T the planet who started a war with the Seedrians.

•Okay, so I'd had a theory when I started rewatching this that there COULDN'T be thousands upon thousands of Metarex, unless they were cloning themselves, and I was right. There were only four male Seedrians who survived Earthia's bombing of Planet Greengate; Lucas (Dark Oak), and his four commanders Yellow Zelcova, Black Narcissus (the one who triggered Dark Sonic and personally beat Chris into unconsciousness; in the original Sonic said Chris wasn't breathing!), Pale Bayleaf, and ...Red Pine. Red Pine and Pale Bayleaf, so far anyway, haven't been super memorable to me. I think Red Pine died when Sonic and Shadow were fighting each other in their Super forms? He didn't do much.

•This is kind of a headcanon of mine but; I like to think that all Seedrians are actually half-plant half-lizard. While the men look rougher with their horns and giant transformations the women look more like salamanders or newts, very smooth looking. (I know this theory doesn't work very well with the Metarex's ultimate goal of wiping out all flesh-and-blood beings to leave only plant life in the galaxy, but who knows maybe despite being part lizard they aren't flesh-and-blood? I dunno.)

•Chris's VA seems to be actively trying to deepen her voice this episode; 'Eye Spy'.

•Rouge remains my favorite part of this series due to her perfect timing, snark, and just how in-character she is! Cream and Cosmo are both awesome too! Cosmo's personal crisis about learning the truth about why Dark Oak allowed her to live is great, very justified break down. -?! Holy crap, Bokkun just fell from space!! Welp, that's some dedication to delivering messages-! Ohh, Eggman's in jail again- Metarex jail this time! Something tells me they won't be giving him any faulty appliances to repair.

•I forgot to mention it in my last post but there was a bit in one episode where Decoe and Bocoe were hitting each other with big hammers and only one of them (Decoe) was all dented up. Bocoe asked if Decoe had gotten all of his dents out to which Decoe responded "You don't have any dents, I just like hitting you with this!" and a few seconds later they both chased Bokkun with their hammers for something the little guy'd said. I just thought this was a really funny bit for some reason.