Hey, guys. Today, I will be reviewing the Sonic Boom episode: Blue with Envy. Boy, did I have high hopes for this one. I was expecting some kind of a Toy Story plot. When Woody and Buzz Lightyear started out as enemies/rivals and ended up becoming the best of friends. I'll get to the idea later, but let’s get this review out of the way first. Just a quick warning: this review contains spoilers, so if you haven't watched the episode yet, please do so before reading this.
The episode starts with Team Sonic dining at Meh Burger, when suddenly a green blur zooms past them. Revealing to be an animal of some sort, he starts pulling off tricks and impresses everyone (except Sonic), and he introduces himself as Swifty the Shrew. Amy isn’t entirely impressed with the shrew, but when she drops her burger, he catches it and she falls in love with him as he feeds it to her. Isn’t Sonic supposed to be ‘the one’ for her? Sonic then tries to feed (or, in this case, FORCE feed) Knuckles a hamburger, but it doesn’t work.
A walrus woman then screams that her baby (an actual baby) is in danger. He is up on the roof and is about to fall. Tails says that someone should save the baby, and Swifty gets to it, much to Sonic’s dismay. Question: how did the baby get up there, and why isn’t Tails FLYING up there to save him? I honestly don’t know.
Sonic tries to beat Swifty, but because Swifty was one step ahead of him (due to the stunts he pulled to make Sonic look bad and fail) it doesn’t work out for him. Swifty saves the baby, is hailed as a hero and everybody loves him. Especially Amy and Sticks (why wasn’t Sticks suspicious of him, like she would normally be?).
Meanwhile, in Sonic’s shack (I think), Sonic is complaining about Swifty while the girls are complimenting him. Sticks says that she would disable all her booby traps if he came to her, while (presumably) pointing to her chest. Is this the kind of booby trap she would like to disable? That would be difficult, with the censors getting in the way.
Sonic goes to Tails’ workshop, only to find Swifty and Tails talking about his airplane. Sonic angrily calls him ‘a punk’ and tells him to back off of Tails. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Sonic supposed to be the hero? The mature and responsible leader of the group? Oh, wait. This is (Boom) Sonic we’re talking about, I forgot.
Swifty asks Sonic what’s wrong, and Sonic explains his feelings towards him. Then Swifty starts acting unlikable, to Knuckles, Sticks and Amy’s surprise as they enter Tails’ workshop. Why? Was this supposed to make Sonic any better of a person, just because Swifty is a jerk now? Swifty challenges Sonic to a dual race, with some rules: the winner has bragging rights for a year, while the loser is banished from the village.
Some time later, Swifty and Sonic race each other and… I’m just going to skip to the part where Sonic wins. Actually, no. Swifty beat him to it, so Sonic is banished for losing the race. This is definitely going to end well(!) Five seconds later, it turns out that Swifty is evil and has cloned versions of himself, all of which belong to Dr. Eggman. Whoop-dee-doo. Sonic goes back to the village, destroys the Swifty robots, defeats Eggman and becomes the hero again. The end.
Ugh. I honestly have to say that I don’t like this episode; everyone was a jerk to Sonic, Sonic was a jerk to Swifty, who in turn was a jerk to Sonic and friends. Ugh. When I read the summary of this episode, I thought it was going to pull a Toy Story on me (where Woody and Buzz Lightyear go from being rivals to becoming the best of friends), but no. It was disappointing.
Why couldn't Swifty just be a cool, but humble guy who just wants to do the right thing (like Cole from Infamous, when he takes the Hero's Path), and NOT a robot? Sonic might be affected by this because Swifty - in his eyes - is everything that Sonic isn't. The episode could give off a slight Toy Story feel (like Woody and Buzz Lightyear getting off to a rocky start, and finally becoming friends) and Swifty would be just a person who is trying to help.
In fact, why couldn't the episode itself be about Sonic wanting to take a break from saving the village and Swifty coming in as a TEMPORARY replacement until Sonic has rested enough to get back on his feet? Sonic would get the wrong message, be a jerk to Swifty, Swifty would tell him the truth, they reconcile, Eggman attacks the village, and Sonic and Swifty save the day. Sadly, Swifty has somewhere to be (kind of like Nanny McPhee), and everyone waves goodbye to him. Nope, can’t have that in a kid’s show. Because… who cares?
Well, that’s it for my review. If you like the episode, that's fine. If not, that's fine too.
Thank you guys for reading, and take care.
No comments:
Post a Comment