Okay so someone shared this link on the server for the Chronicles of Darkness game I've been running since 2020 and I looked at the link and went 'yeah right' and then I read the article and went 'hunh' and then I watched the first three episodes of 'Knuckles,' which didn't take long because each episode is about half an hour long, and actually I fucking cried my eyes out at the big fight that is referenced because like... it's ... good, actually?
The show is very silly, and a lot of the humor is very childish, which makes a lot of sense, right, because it's about a fucking video game, but, at least so far, it's an extremely sincere show.
The siblings in this show act like highly exaggerated siblings. Of course adults wouldn't act like this, but it doesn't matter, because that's not really who the show is for. The show is for kids. It's goofy. The heart of sibling rivalry is there. The heart of hurting over a parent who abandoned you is there. The heart of a parent missing a family tradition is there.
The jokes that are made are made with love for Jewishness. Whoever made the food jokes has eaten a lot of gefilte fish and matzoh ball soup. Whoever wrote the episode understands how important it is that nothing puts out the Shabbat candles. Whoever wrote the episode understands the importance of minhagim -- the traditions that are unique to your family, to your synagogue, whatever.
Clearly they're not shomer Shabbos because their traditions include watching movies after Shabbat dinner, but that's not presented as them being Bad Jews -- it's just their family tradition, and that's just how it is.
Mom's bracha for the candles has the 'Adenoy' pronunciation which is so very New York Older Ashkenazi Jewish that it made my heart ache and made me powerfully homesick for the East Coast, since so many of the older people at my old shul used that specific pronunciation.
The fact that they literally centered a pair of Shabbas candles (with what are clearly kosher candles burning!!) in the fight, and the entire fight revolves around those candles? It just hit me right in the middle of the chest.
There's a difference between a show being silly and a show being insincere, and Knuckles is silly but it's not insincere. I will fully admit that I watched the first three episodes to get to the episode entitled The Shabbat Dinner, but you know... I might just finish the series? It's got heart, and all of the actors are clearly having such a good time. It's one of those projects that I refer to as a Summer Camp Show/Movie, where everybody's getting a nice paycheck and having a very good time and not taking themselves too seriously.
Plus, Christopher Lloyd made me laugh until I choked.
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⚠️Blood warning⚠️
The iblis trigger
me: I don't feel like drawing anything and also I have to study for my exams
The knuckles series
me: YEAHHHH MF!!!!
So anyways the knuckles series sure was a series! I loved seeing my son so much, he was so cute and precious <3
I was always wondering why his fists here on fire in the trailer and then you're telling me he killed memphis tennessee!? and you told me that in a fucking musical!?!?!? Listen– I know it was probably just to reference the games and he's not really the iblis trigger, BUT, what if he was? I mean c'mon, it's knuckles, he does not seem like the type to cry easily, so something REALLY BAD has to happen for him to cry >:) think of the angts material!!! PLEASE I wanna see more iblis trigger knuckles content here 🙏
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In the light of recent events please enjoy this absolute gem, my beloved, beautiful, amazing issue and Knuckles in it. This might be my favorite issue of archie I've read. I think about this at least once a week.
Sonic Universe Issue 70 my beloved my beloved my beloved my beloved my beloved my beloved my beloved my beloved my beloved!!!!!!!!!!
Knuckles and Shadow - stubborn as brick walls.
Knuckles and Shadow going from trying to kill each other to saving each other to killing each other to a nice little beat of teamwork.
Knuckles showing Shadow secret routes through Angel Island
Knuckles being so broken up about the possibility of having to break the Master Emerald again in order to save it there's multiple moments where he contemplates it.
HE LITERALLY GOES I'M SORRY AS HE'S ABOUT TO DO IT
Shadow going "was that... chaos control?" when he sees Knuckles break the M.E.
Knuxadow holding hands
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can i just say that as someone who got interested in the sonic universe only after the movies i LOVED the series?
seriously i read SO MANY complaints about the series from sonic’s fans and they make it sound so damn serious.
it was fun, it was nice and most importantly we got to see knuckles having fun and getting friends with wade and his family.
LOOK AT HIM. THE DEFINITION OF CUTENESS.
he has always been on the run, he has been ALL ALONE since his father and whole tribe died. he is not used to a normal, peaceful life. and he obviously feels overwhelmed because, despite sonic and the wachowski’s best intentions, they simply can’t understand how strange and different this all is for him.
and thanks to wade he got to feel a bit more comfortable and carefree. wade didn’t tell him what he was supposed to do to get accostumed to earth. instead, he showed him how much fun it could be if he let his guard down. and so knuckles got to act silly and open up to someone who, despite the obvious differences, he could relate to.
so yeah, there obviously were times in which i was like “where the heck is me boy?”.
but when i read people defining the series as “ridiculous” or “trash” i get pissed. it was good enough, sonic’s veteran fans gotta chill.
ALSO
she called him “one of her kids”. KNUCKLES WACHOWSKI CONFIRMED. WE KEEP ON WINNING Y’ALL.
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