I’ve had a new obsession of taking cat pics of the interwebs and drawing Tails over it. Not all of them keep the trend but here’s an art dump of my child.

Anyways i dont really have anything else to say.

Just my opinion, please let’s be civil about disagreements 😭😭😭

Ok, soooo… It was exactly what I was expecting, like, precisely, and I was expecting a great movie so I ain’t complaining, but it- idk, it felt predictable?

I don’t mean it in a bad way, I loved the movie, but I feel like if you know about Sonic and are decent at theorizing you can almost 100% tell what will happen, I think that only like 4 things genuinely took me by surprise

Which- like, it’s not necessarily bad, but it felt a little less hype, it’s like you could already see the movie just from the trailers.

I don’t think that’s a fault of the movie itself though, after all it’s a SA2 adaptation, so of course it was going to follow almost the same story

For example, Sonic 2 the movie adapted Sonic 3, but Sonic 3 is such a lose story that they could stir away from the original material a lot and still keep the general premise, while SA2 is a much more lore and story heavy game, so they couldn’t do a lot of changes without loosing the main substance- and I’m not saying that they didn’t changed anything. They were lots of changes, and one particularly big one, but not enough to feel THAT far from SA2

Which, again, it is a good thing, but that makes it so (at least in my opinion) Sonic movie 2 ended up being more exciting that the third, even if I think Sonic 3 was overall the better one

As for characters, Sonic locks the fuck in after a certain thing happens and stays like that the entire movie, and it’s glorious. The fandom owes an apology to movie Sonic he was A BEAST.

I feel like he grew a lot in this movie and I’m so happy about it. Like, in the post credits scene he was such a cocky bastard and I love that. I love him he was so cool I hope he stays like this for Sonic 4

Tails was done SO god in this movie, the directors took the “he’s barely in the movie” criticism from sonic 2 TOO personal and made him the most useful mf on the movie.

He’s the one doing the plans, he saves everyone’s ass multiple times. He’s great, dare I say the best character? Tails’ fans won with this one

Knuckles doesn’t stay far behind either. I was worried that he’d be nerfed from the trailers but no, he also saved everyone’s ass multiple times, he wasn’t watered down, he was still glorious. Also what a surprise the flames or disaster weren’t used, which, good, I fucking hate the knuckles show let’s pretend it doesn’t exist.

Shadow… was ok. Don’t get me wrong, I loved him, but like… He felt underutilized? He wasn’t ACTUALLY underutilized, he appears a lot, but like- he barely feels like he has a presence in scene until the last minute?

This didn’t felt like Shadow’s movie, it felt like Sonic’s movie- which, duh, or course, he’s the main character. But like, Sonic 2 was knuckles’ movie, he was the main guy, and it FELT like it, while that wasn’t the case with Shadow here

And I get why they did this, I mean Sonic 2 was Knuckles’ movie SO MUCH that Tails was barely a character. In this one everyone got their spotlight in exchange of making it less about just Shadow and more about everyone… Which is objectively good, ok? But I WANTED it to be Shadow’s movie, you know? Hell, I brought my Shadow plushie to the function, so, while it was the objectively best decision to make, I am personally the ever so slightly disappointed. Shadow was still great, but I wanted more of him, most of Shadow’s character is what’s already in the trailers, that’s what I’m saying

And I feel that the fact that there’s gonna be a Shadow spinoff confirmed held his character back. His backstory was barely explained, and I’m suspecting that they’re holding it for the Shadow series, which… Good, but that sacrificed a bit of his character in the movie, since they barely tell the audience shit about his lore

Anyways, human characters great, I’m not going in detail about them, but I liked them- the commander specifically, such a great guy. And agent stone was spectacular as always. I just wished that Jim carrey’s characters were more serious, which is a bizarre thing to say about Jim Carrey, but I felt like they overdid the comedy with him a but TOO much. Specifically with Gerald, he should’ve been more of a serious character but eh, it is what it is…

From the few flashbacks she had I loved Maria, she had so much personality in so little time. I get you Shadow, I’d also try to destroy humanity over that little girl.

THE POST CREDITS SCENE THOUGH. I’m not saying anything, but that elevated the movie for me a 100%. It was such a hype moment, I was more hyped with it than with Shadow at the end of Sonic 2, because with this I don’t know what the hell are they planning for Sonic 4 and I LOVE THAT

I want the post credits scene tattooed. No, I want to BANG the post credits scene, that shit is going to my hear me out cake

It’s also just such a gorgeous movie? Visually stunning? Such an upgrade from Sonic 2. It’s a visual pleasure oh my god.

Surpisingly it’s not a musical disappointment. There’s was only like 1-2 game songs but the soundtrack was good (except the credits song I still don’t like it but whatever)

Anyways, I’m giving the movie a 25/30. Sonic 2 gets a 24/30 and Sonic 1 a 19/30. Even though I enjoyed Sonic 2 the ever so slightly more I think Sonic 3 is objectively the better one

Today I was listening to the Sonic and Tails R radio drama and at one point I realised something.

I’m starting to get pretty annoyed at writers making Shadow unnecesarely point out that he’s going a good deed because of his promise to Maria.

You may wonder why I’m having a problem with this, isn’t it actually good that writers remember Shadow’s past and don’t get rid of it like in his Sonic Boom incarnation? Well yes, but the problem I have is the consequences of going the opposite direction with this and the implications that come from it.

For a while my friend @colony-drop-program has pointed out the big problem Shadow has with writers not knowing what to do with him outside of his past, and not only is this a symptom of that problem but for me it puts into evidence one thing.

The fandom and writers actually misunderstand or underestimate Shadow’s devotion to justice from his own will.

What do I mean by this? See, when the trailers of Sonic Forces came out, the fandom speculated non-stop but a common theory was that Shadow became evil because of Maria, ranging from ‘’They offered him to revive Maria!’’ or similar nonsense. To go even further, we got stuff like King Shadow, a completely warped interpretation of Shadow who embodies this misunderstanding, as if having an angel Maria statue wasn’t enough to hammer it home.

See, this flanderizes Shadow’s attachment to Maria and in turn pushes the implication that Shadow is still dangerous, why? Because it implies that the only thing keeping him from flipping out is Maria...and that for me destroys a lot of what makes him compelling, and this particular flanderization carries much of the same problems that Boom!Shadow has with warping the character into something he isn’t.

What makes Shadow so compelling as a character for me is that unlike other ‘’edgy’’ characters, he’s not a morally grey character for the sake of it and is suprisingly mature emotionally despite what his personality would lead you to believe.

For instance, in 06 he constantly flips the bird to Mephiles whenever he tries to torment him with the idea that humanity is afraid of his power and will dispose of him when given the chance, and while this could be attributed to Mephiles being a poorly written villain Shadow’s attachment to Maria’s promise, I think the real reason Shadow doesn’t listen to Mephiles’ BS is because of his devotion to justice in general and his famous line ‘’If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have!’’ confirms this. Maria is never alluded to in this conflict, instead, there’s a constant emphasis on the idea that Shadow is the one who chooses his destiny and that he has his friends by his side.

Another example of Shadow’s more personal motivations for doing good is Sonic Battle, where Shadow flat-out states that no one should go through what he has, being his main motivation for trying to destroy Emerl, it’s even pointed out that Shadow never used his powers for selfish motives.

The point I want to get across here is that flanderizing Shadow’s promise to Maria heavily downplays the idea that Shadow by nature is devoted to justice and he himself chooses to do good, Maria’s promise only reinforces this, he’s not chained to be a hero. And I think this is what gives more dimension to his character, since Shadow has every reason to hate the world and he’s canonically a misanthrope, yet despite all of that, he’s still willing to stand for his ideals and do the right thing, because he is mature enough to be capable of putting his grudges aside for the sake of the greater good.