I love how Sonic X demonstrates how Sonic can be given a small, incremental character arc building off of his personality rather than contradicting his fundamentals. Sonic learns that it’s okay if he can’t control the pace every now and then. It’s reaffirming who he is.

So many times we see Sonic “character arcs” where they just regress him and have him learn lessons he already knows (Prime) or have him contradict the point of his fundamentals entirely. This takes Sonic’s pre-established traits and evaluates what ones he can improve himself on.

We know that Sonic is a reflective person. He’s not above improving himself, infact he seeks it. This episode builds on that. The juxtaposition of old and young. His young heart wanting constant freedom and being agitated at the fact that he cannot control the pace-

of his adventure on the cruise ship. That’s why he’s crashing out in an exaggerated manner the whole episode. Sonic has no freedom or control over his pace on this ship. It wasn’t that he hated being around water. No clue how people come to that conclusion 🤦‍♂️

The old people are his opposite. People who are tied down by their frail bodies and cannot excerise the freedom they might desire, but they’re okay with that. It’s part of life that we cannot control our pace in all of it. And Sonic is reaffirmed in that lesson here.

“It’s impossible to run fast on ice”

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Who is it speaking in this scene? Didn't expect God to be named dropped but I'm guessing that's a "closest equivalent" thing to the japanese term used?