Board Thread:Sonic News Channel/@comment-25212528-20150223190723/@comment-1669199-20150227232945

Yamir24 wrote: Genesjs wrote:

Yamir24 wrote: http://jakeanderson733.deviantart.com/journal/List-of-Things-Wrong-With-The-Sonic-X-Finale-482785530

I knew the writing was bad but glorifying suicide? That's far worse than any of Underground's sins. The author of that dA post seems to have no problem taking the moral high ground and condemning another culture's set of morals because they conflict with their own, despite acknowledging that Japanese culture handles things like addressing emotions differently from a number of other cultures (Also, as someone in the comments section of that article pointed out, SEGA has issues with writers making Sonic seem "emotional" or "weak" by making him cry or display any kind of seriously negative emotion/angst for more than a minute at best, so if anything the writer of the episode was most likely working with a handicap). To me that only shows that a number of the emotional reactions displayed by the characters were written with Japanese culture/audience in mind -- that's necessarily a bad thing. As for the other things, such as "glorifying suicide" and the like... I don't think they were glorifying suicide so much as playing it for drama -- I don't find anything wrong with that idea so long as I think its handled competently. SEGA had no problem with any of the other characters being sad. Hell they showed in detail the psychological torture of tails.

That's just how they want things with Sonic. The idea is that Sonic, being the image of cool and unstoppable, wouldn't (or rather, shouldn't) be deterred by negative emotions such as sadness or regret and just focus on doing what needs to be done. If you've got a problem with that idea, then address it to the people/company that's upholding it, not the writers who're forced to adhere to it lest they risk their careers with SEGA and its intellectual properties.