[I'm reviewing the Japanese version... the voices in English are too irritating...] This is a great improvement from season 2 (the season of failed adaptations and a story arc of failure - an easy 3/10), season 3 offers a few great episodes, a few good episodes, the majority of the episodes being "meh" but close to good, and 2 bad episodes that could easily be treated as one. I already reviewed those two episodes on this page, so let me tell you what I feel about all of the others:
Episode 53, 62, 68, and 74 are great episodes. Some of the best episodes of the entire show. Episode 53 is on par with the first episode of the show... the first 2 thirds are great, but then Chris shows up. The only difference is that Chris isn't nearly as much of a problem. Episode 62 has some of the most clever writing in the show, and watching it again reminds me of why I consider Tails to be one of my favorite characters... it also makes me want to play a Sonic X Season 3 Video Game... Episode 68 is a definitive example of tragedy done correctly. This is where it develops the characters (giving Shadow something to fight for, and helping him to become a good hero... even without his memory returning), creates a beautiful story (I'm not spoiling anything, watch it yourself!) and has the best dialogue, as well as the placing of it, that Hiro Masake (the writer of all this shows' season 3 episodes) has ever written. Episode 74 isn't as good as episodes 62 and 68, but it's still a really good episode. It develops Cosmo's character by teaching her to be grateful for what Tails did for her an episode prior (I'll get to that) and shows the backstory of the Metarex... it's done rather well.
The good episodes of the show are episodes 55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 64, 65, 69, 73, and 76. I'd talk about all of them, but it's best you watch them for yourselves... but I will talk about episode 73. Imagine this: Tails vs. Shadow in a similar fashion to the Samus vs. SAX parts of Metroid Fusion... and Shadow being almost like a mix of SAX and the Terminator. How could that not be awesome? Anyways, Tails is determined to protect Cosmo from being killed by Shadow... now you get what I meant when talking about episode 74, right?
Last of all, the "meh" episodes; pretty much everything else (with the exceptions of episodes 77 and 78, which are bad episodes)
This is a good season
Sonic X Season 3 Review
[I'm reviewing the Japanese version... the voices in English are too irritating...] This is a great improvement from season 2 (the season of failed adaptations and a story arc of failure - an easy 3/10), season 3 offers a few great episodes, a few good episodes, the majority of the episodes being "meh" but close to good, and 2 bad episodes that could easily be treated as one. I already reviewed those two episodes on this page, so let me tell you what I feel about all of the others: Episode 53, 62, 68, and 74 are great episodes. Some of the best episodes of the entire show. Episode 53 is on par with the first episode of the show... the first 2 thirds are great, but then Chris shows up. The only difference is that Chris isn't nearly as much of a problem. Episode 62 has some of the most clever writing in the show, and watching it again reminds me of why I consider Tails to be one of my favorite characters... it also makes me want to play a Sonic X Season 3 Video Game... Episode 68 is a definitive example of tragedy done correctly. This is where it develops the characters (giving Shadow something to fight for, and helping him to become a good hero... even without his memory returning), creates a beautiful story (I'm not spoiling anything, watch it yourself!) and has the best dialogue, as well as the placing of it, that Hiro Masake (the writer of all this shows' season 3 episodes) has ever written. Episode 74 isn't as good as episodes 62 and 68, but it's still a really good episode. It develops Cosmo's character by teaching her to be grateful for what Tails did for her an episode prior (I'll get to that) and shows the backstory of the Metarex... it's done rather well. The good episodes of the show are episodes 55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 64, 65, 69, 73, and 76. I'd talk about all of them, but it's best you watch them for yourselves... but I will talk about episode 73. Imagine this: Tails vs. Shadow in a similar fashion to the Samus vs. SAX parts of Metroid Fusion... and Shadow being almost like a mix of SAX and the Terminator. How could that not be awesome? Anyways, Tails is determined to protect Cosmo from being killed by Shadow... now you get what I meant when talking about episode 74, right? Last of all, the "meh" episodes; pretty much everything else (with the exceptions of episodes 77 and 78, which are bad episodes) This is a good season