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beauty queen breakdown
Dec 21, 2010

partially cromulent posting.
"2021's worst kept secret"


I'm sure everyone in this thread is already up-to-date on the Thanks, Ken Penders blog but its author just posted an excellent summary / retrospective of the Ken Penders Sonic era and all the batshit therein. Unsurprisingly, I highly recommend the read.

The thing that really gets to me that seems to be missing from that retrospective is the abysmal Titan Tails* piece. Penders takes my favorite character and somehow manages to give him a less sympathetic or interesting arc than he gets in Tails Gets Trolled. If you're not familiar, have a bottle of eye bleach handy and take a look.

The effort it took to introduce a half-assed 'chosen one' plot, mix in one of the series' most forgettable villains, and then resolve it in the most unsatisfying (and grotesque) way possible is a pretty great summation of the Penders era. And Penders as a person.

Thanks for being here for me, suck zone.





* god, I wish I was making that up

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beauty queen breakdown
Dec 21, 2010

partially cromulent posting.
"2021's worst kept secret"


Hemingway To Go! posted:

That's because that stories writer is Chacon not Penders.

drat, well spotted. :doh:

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