Finally watched through Sonic Prime season 2. Another good season! I'm definitely looking forward to where part 3 will be taking us. There definitely seem to be improvements to the show here and there. Although...I do worry that they haven't really done a great job explaining (or maybe even thinking through) the bigger-picture ideas and concepts that they're working with. We'll see.
Nine turning traitor: Hmm...now who's the rugged, handsome individual who predicted that?
Okay, okay, fine, it didn't QUITE happen the way I thought it would. Nine actually seemed to be genuinely bonding with Sonic before those last 5 minutes of the last episode. And he didn't seem to MEAN to help create Chaos Sonic. That seemed like a genuine mistake on his part. Seeing all his alternate counterparts and him slowly putting the pieces together, though...I just KNEW he wasn't going to take that well. And he WAS plotting things behind the scenes for a good portion of this show. And we still don't know how much of a threat he's actually going to be, because we now have a different potential final boss that I'll talk about later.
Shadow just wanting to punch Sonic: Yeah, it feels a little off in the first episode of this season. "Sonic...calm down...I just want to talk...*BAM* *BAM* *BAM*!" Still, I can't really blame the guy, his whole dimension blew up around him. And he does get better later on in the season, the problem is really just that one episode. I guess the reason he can't get into the other dimensions is because he didn't absorb any of the Prism's energy like Sonic did? It seems like time isn't passing for him at the same rate as it is for Sonic. It doesn't seem like he's spending hours alone in the void by himself, it seems more like seconds are passing for Shadow where Sonic is experiencing minutes inside the different worlds.
Chaos Sonic: Heh...this is why Sega doesn't want Metal to talk. This was kind of a fun change of pace from our usual robotic copies of Sonic. So Sassy. I kind of wonder if he'll end up getting repaired or something so we'll see him again before the end of the season?
Boscage Maze: I keep hearing this as Boss-Cage Maze, like it's a prison for a giant monster or something. But, no, "Boscage" is a actual word meaning "Massed trees or shrubs". Learn a new word with Sonic!
Rusty Rose joining the Pirates: I'll admit, I really thought she was going to end up betraying the pirates to get herself back in good with the Chaos Council. But nope! And I'm okay with that. Hopefully, she's happier with them.
Captain Dread: I guess we know which splinter-self got the original Knuckles' one-track mind and love of giant gemstones? He doesn't care which dimension he's in or even if he has to fight himself, he just wants hisEmerald Shard back.
Mr Dr Eggman looks like Captain Marvel: I don't know. This just popped into my head during this season. But, does anyone else think "Middle-aged" Eggman looks a LOT like Carol Danvers' costume? He's even got the hair. It's probably already been pointed out. Maybe someone's a comic book fan?
The Two Other Empty Dimensions: Having BOTH the Grim and "Ghost Hill" be kind of lifeless and void of anything interesting is....probably a budget thing. I'm a little disappointed that we seem to just have the three Shatteredverse worlds, but...it probably couldn't be helped. *shrugs*
The Loop De Loop: They ARE focusing on this more than the Palm Tree this season. And is anyone else getting big-time "Cabbage Guy from Avatar the Last Airbender" vibes from how many times they destroy it?
Season 2 Episode 7: I just want to tip my hat to "Cracking Down", since this entire episode is basically just Sonic trying to get up to speed so he can travel back into the Void. Almost the whole episode is one LONG chase scene across dimensions, and I just appreciate the work that probably went into story-boarding and planning this episode.
"Pinnacle" Eggman: Yeah, I'm guessing the Chaos Council can kind of..."sense" that they're not entirely whole. Either that or it's just a joke about Eggman's ego. He considers HIMSELF the Ultimate Life Form.
"Paradox" and "Prime" Sonic: Yeah, these were kind of neat. I'm not sure if we should consider Sonic's "copies" as him ACTUALLIY creating shadow clones or if he was just playing around a little since he basically had too much cosmic sugar. I'll admit, the second "purple" form was...just less interesting since it didn't actually DO anything new. It was just strong. And I wish his gloves and boots changed along with these new forms, too. It'd just be cooler if he got slick new threads along with these new forms, instead of the "Ghost Hill" wire-frame look. Still, it did look cool. Kind of gives me a "Sonic and the Fallen Star" vibe.
The Void: So we learn there's some sort of black hole eating up the shards outside of time (and at least one Chaos Emerald). Yeah...I'm guessing this is going to turn into some sort of cosmic horror-terror that everyone's going to have to team up against by the end of the season? Like Solaris or the Time Eater or The End. I'm not sure if it got released from the crystal or maybe it was just drawn by the creation of the Shattered Dimensions? Maybe the Paradox Prism was basically a Cosmic Bathtub Plug and now a creature is crawling it's way up the water pipe? Anyway, I"m guessing that's the TRUE final boss...after Nine tries to create his utopia.
Some problems with the larger plot: I think it's a problem that...we don't KNOW yet if repairing the Prism will collapse these different worlds back into Green Hill or not. But, Nine seems to maybe think that? ("What do you think would happen to ME when you brought your friends back?"). If these worlds WEREN'T created by the Prism...then it's a little weird that we never see a Sonic or Shadow variant. And I'm not sure what Nine means when he's using the Prism as a "blueprint" if he's not planning on completing it. How is it a "blueprint" for anything? Just...how the energies interact with each other? And we still have no idea why all five Eggmen variants are all in the same world instead of spread out in the different worlds. It's just...a lot of unexplained weird stuff? And it probably isn't REALLY the focus, but it still kind of bothers me.
Shadow just wanting to punch Sonic: Yeah, it feels a little off in the first episode of this season. "Sonic...calm down...I just want to talk...*BAM* *BAM* *BAM*!" Still, I can't really blame the guy, his whole dimension blew up around him. And he does get better later on in the season, the problem is really just that one episode. I guess the reason he can't get into the other dimensions is because he didn't absorb any of the Prism's energy like Sonic did? It seems like time isn't passing for him at the same rate as it is for Sonic. It doesn't seem like he's spending hours alone in the void by himself, it seems more like seconds are passing for Shadow where Sonic is experiencing minutes inside the different worlds.
Chaos Sonic: Heh...this is why Sega doesn't want Metal to talk. This was kind of a fun change of pace from our usual robotic copies of Sonic. So Sassy. I kind of wonder if he'll end up getting repaired or something so we'll see him again before the end of the season?
Boscage Maze: I keep hearing this as Boss-Cage Maze, like it's a prison for a giant monster or something. But, no, "Boscage" is a actual word meaning "Massed trees or shrubs". Learn a new word with Sonic!
Rusty Rose joining the Pirates: I'll admit, I really thought she was going to end up betraying the pirates to get herself back in good with the Chaos Council. But nope! And I'm okay with that. Hopefully, she's happier with them.
Captain Dread: I guess we know which splinter-self got the original Knuckles' one-track mind and love of giant gemstones? He doesn't care which dimension he's in or even if he has to fight himself, he just wants his
Mr Dr Eggman looks like Captain Marvel: I don't know. This just popped into my head during this season. But, does anyone else think "Middle-aged" Eggman looks a LOT like Carol Danvers' costume? He's even got the hair. It's probably already been pointed out. Maybe someone's a comic book fan?
The Two Other Empty Dimensions: Having BOTH the Grim and "Ghost Hill" be kind of lifeless and void of anything interesting is....probably a budget thing. I'm a little disappointed that we seem to just have the three Shatteredverse worlds, but...it probably couldn't be helped. *shrugs*
The Loop De Loop: They ARE focusing on this more than the Palm Tree this season. And is anyone else getting big-time "Cabbage Guy from Avatar the Last Airbender" vibes from how many times they destroy it?
Season 2 Episode 7: I just want to tip my hat to "Cracking Down", since this entire episode is basically just Sonic trying to get up to speed so he can travel back into the Void. Almost the whole episode is one LONG chase scene across dimensions, and I just appreciate the work that probably went into story-boarding and planning this episode.
"Pinnacle" Eggman: Yeah, I'm guessing the Chaos Council can kind of..."sense" that they're not entirely whole. Either that or it's just a joke about Eggman's ego. He considers HIMSELF the Ultimate Life Form.
"Paradox" and "Prime" Sonic: Yeah, these were kind of neat. I'm not sure if we should consider Sonic's "copies" as him ACTUALLIY creating shadow clones or if he was just playing around a little since he basically had too much cosmic sugar. I'll admit, the second "purple" form was...just less interesting since it didn't actually DO anything new. It was just strong. And I wish his gloves and boots changed along with these new forms, too. It'd just be cooler if he got slick new threads along with these new forms, instead of the "Ghost Hill" wire-frame look. Still, it did look cool. Kind of gives me a "Sonic and the Fallen Star" vibe.
The Void: So we learn there's some sort of black hole eating up the shards outside of time (and at least one Chaos Emerald). Yeah...I'm guessing this is going to turn into some sort of cosmic horror-terror that everyone's going to have to team up against by the end of the season? Like Solaris or the Time Eater or The End. I'm not sure if it got released from the crystal or maybe it was just drawn by the creation of the Shattered Dimensions? Maybe the Paradox Prism was basically a Cosmic Bathtub Plug and now a creature is crawling it's way up the water pipe? Anyway, I"m guessing that's the TRUE final boss...after Nine tries to create his utopia.
Some problems with the larger plot: I think it's a problem that...we don't KNOW yet if repairing the Prism will collapse these different worlds back into Green Hill or not. But, Nine seems to maybe think that? ("What do you think would happen to ME when you brought your friends back?"). If these worlds WEREN'T created by the Prism...then it's a little weird that we never see a Sonic or Shadow variant. And I'm not sure what Nine means when he's using the Prism as a "blueprint" if he's not planning on completing it. How is it a "blueprint" for anything? Just...how the energies interact with each other? And we still have no idea why all five Eggmen variants are all in the same world instead of spread out in the different worlds. It's just...a lot of unexplained weird stuff? And it probably isn't REALLY the focus, but it still kind of bothers me.
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