In Defense of "Sonic’s Stupid Friends" 

No! That being depressing sonic don't need to be alone and that why? he has his friends for, They like family to him.😒🙂😏

Thanks so much! We'll keep working hard over here! There'll definitely be more videos on Sonic, especially with Shadow Generations and movie 3 coming out later this year! + A bunch of other stuff! It's funny that you mentioned Sonic Prime cuz-- despite agreeing about the whole Sonic characters thing this video's about-- I actually wasn't a big fan of that one lol (made a whole video about it even). I have my issues with some story/character inconsistencies, the pacing and the overall style of writing. But as you said, being a Sonic fan is kind of a spectrum nowadays haha. It's chill, and I'm glad you were able to get into the series in your own way

Oh thanks so much! Small world, eh? I really enjoyed what I've seen of you guys' work! Keep it up!

Wow that's a really cool perspective, actually! I never thought of putting it like that, but it makes a lotta sense, yeah!

Pretty sure Ian Flynn's been on-record saying we shouldn't worry about the ages anymore. As far as official Sega channels go, I think there hasn't been anything overt, but the silence speaks for itself. I don't think Sega would want to be overt about it either way. Maybe "retconed" isn't necessarily the right word to use, but from the looks of it, the idea itself seems to be abandoned. Having hard ages for the characters can be extremely limiting, especially when there's like-- no way all of these stories took place within a single year. I think the lack of recent mentions of character ages (with Izuka specifically dodging the question once in a Sonic Frontiers interview) after they've specifically delisted from the official site, in addition to Ian-- as one of the series' main writers-- outright stating the ages don't matter anymore is enough evidence that that's the case for me. Basically, the ages are intentionally up in the air now. Believe whatever you want. No one's gonna stop ya. As for the Amy thing, yeah, that's fair. I know a lotta people don't like her sudden change in characterization. Personally I even think it could've been done a lot more gracefully from a writing standpoint. Still, I choose to believe that, in-universe, this is just the product of her off-screen character development and maturing, rather than some misunderstanding of who Amy even is. It's clearly a deliberate choice made for external reasons, so I don't think there was much of a way around it tbh

@@ashster_sunshine I’m not too worried about what Ian Flynn says. He made Prime’s canon explanation sound big and just said “well it takes place Sometime after Advance 3” (we literally see Cubot at the beginning of the series with his post-Colors voice portrayal) And no, the silence doesn’t speak for itself as far as I’m concerned. If anything, it just means they don’t want to have to stick to anything concrete, but doesn’t imply that the ages aren’t valid anymore until they so overtly say otherwise. It likely just means they want to be able to portray Sonic at different points in time. Otherwise Iizuka wouldn’t need to dodge. He can just say “they don’t have set ages anymore”. And actually my thing about Amy… It’s hard to say. It’s like they did something drastic to her and didn’t do anything at all. But at the same time. She has little personality now that makes her stand out. What they described was basically a replica of Sonic, ironically sorta bringing her back to square one when she has no personality in CD and was just a girl Sonic by design. The other thing is that they seem to act as thought this traits are in conflict with her infatuation with Sonic. Really, they can do both. But the problem is that her dynamic with Sonic (all the characters have a dynamic with each other) was taken away because people mistook that for her personality trait. Her dynamic was also in part a running gag that they ruined by going to far and giving her a temper in Sonic X (which is way out of character if you play the Adventure games prior) and now the gag was taken too seriously and is being used as a claim of character development. Except there’s no development. It just suddenly changes. In the form of an announcement. Not even in practice. They just SAY she’s different now but didn’t actually DO anything with her. The other odd thing is they try to silence the fangirl aspect but still say she likes Sonic…. And Ian Flynn is a SonAmy shipper. Nothing against SonAmy fans, but in terms of official portrayals, they were always one-sided romantically. It was cool having an MC who didn’t really HAVE to date someone. It was a huge appeal for me growing up. Didn’t mind Sonic dating on other continuities because they’re different continuities. But despite them trying to hush this dynamic of Sonic and Amy, Ian still finds ways to squeeze in hints of the ship only not as a gag, but as an actual relationship development like Sonic saying that to himself about Amy that he should’ve made up his mind sooner implying he was just indecisive. (But also what’s making him say this? It’s not like he was too late or something.) If anything, it sounds like they paid attention only to the modern tunnel vision Amy, ignored the plethora of traits from Adventure Amy, and decided to do what Adventure Amy was already doing as “new traits” only much more watered down because it was probably an unconscious influence. So it’s not like I HATE what they’re doing with her. But it feels like they don’t know what they’re doing with her, and that they’re only doing it because Amy is starting to fall victim to the poor treatment of female characters in modern times. With the irony of trying to make them better. Just think about all the classic cartoons that got a piss poor reboot like Ben 10 or PowerPuff Girls. That’s how I see what’s happening. lol Sorry to come off aggressive with a wall of text btw. Your video was actually rather great. I’m just really invested. lol

I have been defending them for the past 15 Years when I was upset by their removal from the games.