Board Thread:Sonic News Channel/@comment-24560510-20140217220116/@comment-26569191-20140812044222

Myself 123 wrote: Well, clearly Sega didn't put a lot of thought into that. Light cannot escape, but as I pointed out neither was Sonic until the intervention of the Wisps. Is this a response to the emerl fight? If so: You say that as if you hold the truth of the matter. That is, the only reason you would be able to legitimately say that SEGA didn't put too much thought into it is if you

a.) knew for a fact that Sonic cannot FTL

b.) were told by the writers that he was not moving FTL, and the developers just screwed it up

c.) had some gauge in game to tell whether Sonic was moving FTL during that fight

We have none of that so saying SEGA didn't think it through isn't a reasoniable thing to say.

True, if he didn't escape it, that doesn't necessarily make him move beyond the speed of light, but like we just discussed, it was catching up to him. No one knows exactly what it looks like when light is falling into a black hole, so you can't try and compare it directly with the speed with which Sonic was moving away from it vs being pulled in. That is, we can't compare the speed with which light is sucked in vs the speed with which Sonic was being sucked in. That being considered, this is still a viable point.