#dont let him lose to a guy whos had like 3 minutes of screentime so far

[sonknuxadow]

all these best version of whatever sonic character tournaments are acting as a painful reminder that most people Havent read the entirety of archie sonic actually and im in the minority here

[jay-cult]

hi, bit of a rant ahead

i wanna talk about the obvious so let's get that out of the way i guess

yeah i DID enjoy the evil jay angst a lot. i mean cmon just the fact that it like. was There yknow. obsessed with nya just taking the blows because she didnt wanna hurt him. absolutely iconic classic 10/10 trope that i did lose it over. but thinking it over it felt a bit. anticlimactic?

i think the whole appeal of an evil jay was that he has (had at least, it fell off a bit in wildbrain) a very charming and goofy personality, which we can see carried over when he lost his memories in the form of sarcasm and wit already!! and that is a very appealing and fun thing to see in a villain. so i'm a bit confused why he just kinda lost all that and became a blank basic blunt mad guy under raz. (i mean, maybe that's the point? there's something to say about him losing all his personality when choosing to shatter his goodness? man idk.) he was saying things that didn't make sense and confused me quite a bit.

like why the heck was he saying stuff like he hated nya when he didnt even know her?? even if it was because he was p much possessed, that was still HIM, yknow? no memories jay doesnt know who she is right? alright. you can't tell me it wouldn't go down more like him finding intrigue in the girl taking him down, even if raz lied to him about her. (super minor nitpick, but i kinda dislike that we dont know those details either. did he just tell jay the ninja would lie to him? or did he go into deeper detail and say nya would try to manipulate him into believing that they were partners?)

i don't have gripes with the lack of jay screentime! because i trust the writers to build it into hopefully the best arc we get in the show. but slip ups like this that i am not too fond of chip my trust off a little. still looking forward to the sibling journey that appears to be ahead of us in season 3. i will stay tuned.

on a couple more notes, the arin betrayal seems completely convoluted TBH. like what his best friend of many years is suddenly his enemy because she wanted to lift his morale, even if in a faux way? and what do the ninja have to do with wu causing the merge??? why does he just ASSUME it wasn't an accident?? its not like the betrayal came out of NOWHERE, i was excited to see what they'd do, but the execution did absolutely disappoint me. him suddenly caring that much about bringing his parents back was pretty last minute and felt like a new thing this season, i mean sure he missed them before, but to be so desperate as to leave the ninja for it? it's off for sure.

anyways, stuff i liked was pretty much whenever nya is on screen because as dragons rising goes on the more i fall in love with her, sora and jordana's whole debacle, and wyldfyre was SO entertaining. her and roby are so so fucking cringe and i mean this with all the affection in my heart. like okay girl.... follow your heart i guess, even if it leads you to the stang zoot

clicks tongue chat ima be fr. this season was mid as hell