Reblog If Watching And Dreaming Made You Sob The Entire Runtime

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What was up with Chris Thorndyke, anyway?

I think it’s safe to say that Chris Thorndyke is one of the most hated characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, which is… a bit odd, when you think about it. In a world of Ken Penders’s Daddy Issues Personified and Octopus Who Kills Children For Fun (the latter of which basically being a fandom sexyman), why is a twelve-year-old boy so polarizing?

It would be easy to chalk this up to the bad 4kidz dub, but I don’t quite think that’s it. A lot of the complaints I’ve heard can go to “he got the main character slot in Sonic’s show” or “I just don’t like the human characters,” which are valid, but pale in comparison to basically all I’ve seen being: “He’s just annoying,” “I can’t fucking stand him,” etc. That’s basically all I hear, and when asking why, it usually boils down to two things: 1) his extreme attachment to Sonic and 2) his status as a rich white american only child basically puts any and all of his problems at “first world problems” at best. Those also seem like valid reasons, right?

Thing is, while on the surface it seems like this kid has no issues, as a kid with a, how you say, rough childhood, something stuck with me when I watched the show for the first time. I remember sitting through episode after episode, wondering, When does Chris stop being sympathetic and start being annoying? Since, you know, that’s his reputation.

It didn’t happen.

And it slowly became apparent to me that a lot of the things that made Chris “annoying” and “obsessive”… were just obvious symptoms of a traumatized kid.

Join me for my thesis presentation: Chris’s “annoying” traits are not a writing flaw, but an intentional character flaw brought about by severe neglect, which is resolved through his character arc, and why the fandom reaction to him is so furious.

Note: Throughout this meta, we will only be looking over the Japanese version of Sonic X, as it’s the original script and 4kidz did not translate it accurately. So if you see some lines you don’t remember being said, those are from the English subtitles/direct translation.

Once again, it is possible (also likely, we’ll discuss that a bit) that the kidification and cuts to Sonic X did a number on Chris’s likability, but for most of the meta we’ll be discussing his Japanese characterization with only a few references to cut scenes or lines in the dub.

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Smonch™.

Revolutionary Army’s Chief of Staff’s Special Move: Positive Reinforcement. Revered throughout his troops for it’s effectiveness as a morale booster.

I didn’t see him pay for that chocolate bar. Seems like inflation also affected the bears population.

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So everyone is making very valid points in pointing out that this thing should never had left the shore, much less go down to explore the Titanic especially since it had a history of getting lost but like…

One of the five passengers is a 19 year hold in that death trap and by now he has less than 24hours of oxygen left. This is horrible for him and the other passengers regardless of who they are, their money or questionable life choices.

Shot on Elon all you want, he deserves it and I hope he’ll pay dearly for this, but FUCKING HELL, 19! That poor boy isn’t old enough to be allowed to drink in some countries. That’s not a way to go for anyone.

Because apparently folks are confused and not looking shit up, this is the missing “sub”. It’s literally a metal tube.

It fits 5 people.

There’s no crew y’all. This isn’t Disney’s Atlantis. There’s one guy who presses a button on a Logitech controller to go up and down. Everyone else is whoever can afford a ticket.

Hope this helps cause I’m seeing some wild ass claims in the comments.