As a big fan of Movie Sonic, the Knuckles Miniseries had me pretty excited! But unfortunately, whilst I liked a lot of stuff about it, it left me feeling pretty disappointed. Let's discuss why!
Very on point review. Though you forgot one thing: Pachacamac telling Knuckles to teach Wade into becoming an Echidna Warrior goes nowhere later down the line. I mean, Wade really adopt any of their customs at all. Lol
ur right. but as u said its a side quest. They should have put some more enemies that goes after knuckles so that knuckles gets more screen time. and wade's father tries to defeat wade, and after the training, in ep 4, knuckles fights his enemies while wade fights his. And dr whatever his name is.. has an army.. AND I MEAN AN ARMY OF ROBOTS to defeat knuckles and wade. And wade gets the gloves from his sister who should have used a WAYYYYYYYYYYYY better catchphrase.. and they actually do take knuckles powers. then sonic and tails showed up, after looking at the news about knuckles and wade and stuff. and used the emerald to create super knuckles and after absolutely destroying the army of robots, he kills dr whatever his name is.. by using the flames of disaster while in his super form, and just zoomed into him and he poses the same way in the series and say his line, "Victory is ours." And the emeralds came out and forms the master emerald. and they all collect wade's trophie, went home and became ungrounded and showed him actually playing VR with sonic, tails and wade. Then it ends there!
This show should have no doubt just been a straight to streaming movie. If we cut this down to like 2 hours it could have been way more streamlined and had a better balance for the screentime.
I liked the show man, I ain't a die hard sonic fan so I really enjoyed it, I understand people might not like it, it's fair, we live in a democracy but in my opinion it wasn't bad as many people say it was.
Why the hell didn’t they have Knuckles and Sonic be the character dynamic? Both had child traumas from the abandonment of important people and parental figures. Sonic is more silly, Knuckles would still be the one who takes everything literally and Sonic already knows a lot about Earth. It would serve an even greater motivation for the GUN defectors and the buyer. Srly why didn’t Knuckles take Sonic as his apprentice? they could still do silly and funny shenanigans with the human characters even more so because they could use their speed and strength in tandem and maybe even then incorporate those combinations into the fight against the villains. Sonic would learn some of the Echidna ways, Knuckles through his funny and social antics with Sonic would have gotten him to appreciate the good in Earth and serve as his motivation to protect it by adopting it as his home. Srly THIS as an 1hr long short film would have been absolutely FANTASTIC! It’s actually starting to Piss me off how easy of an Ace in the hole this could have been!
That season is the worst Ninjago thing to exist*remembers ai art that was used and then again used by Lego for a car promo set* Never mind also, lol that ending statement sounds like a dig at the Mcu which after secret invAsIon, yeah. Well at least there’s Deadpool 3 oh wait nvm, the multiverse saga will always have a way to taint a production with certain elements that will make them seem bad. I’m surprised the critical drinker actually likes more of the saga on a technicality that he likes no way home, never expects you to win the crown of liking nothing in this saga lol, respect your opinion. Anyways yeah Sonic 3 over another live action lion king… wow I made another long comment again
After growing up in the 2010s around a Sonic franchise that constantly stumbled and embarrassed itself, its crazy how it literally took me giving one good piece of Sonic media a chance to get into the games proper.
Iblis being killed off by Wade/Knuckles is perfect because Sonic 06 is a DUMPSTER FIRE IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD!!!!!!!! If you liked Sonic Movie 1, then (IN MY OPINION) THIS IS Sonic Movie 1, But ABOUT Knuckles and Wade. (AND BETTER THAN SONIC MOVIE 1 BUT NOT BY MUCH)
Doing the Sonic 1 plot with Knuckles and a Comic Relief character is a genuinely fun idea that I like alot! The character focus is just not balanced well and the show is not written nearly as well as the films
Hearing your review and how the episodes play out... I think I understand what ended up happening... They didn't want Knuckles to Develop... What I mean is... There's a more than likely chance the writers knew that despite his popularity... No one would really care to watch Knuckles' spinoff show... They told us straight forward this is just a little, "What is Knuckles doing?" Bop around mini series to tide our tastes until Sonic 3... So they didn't want to risk any kind of character development happening with Knuckles until the Movie, because they knew people really wouldn't care that much about the show, and they didn't want people to be confused going into Sonic 3... The problem... They were issued 6 Episodes and ran out of ideas around 4... Oh I'm sure they had PLENTY of ideas of what to do with Knuckles... But those Ideas would develop him too much and Knuckles HAD to stay relatively stagnant until the Movie came... (Which I agree was the best idea by the way...)
This is an interesting theory, and it's possible that if they're using the 'unreliable narrator' effect for the Sonic movies, they could develop him in the fourth movie if that ends up being an Adventure adaptation.
