Commentary for June 20, 2022:

So, as far as I’m concerned, Rouge the Bat is no hero; but she’s not a villain either. Like I said before, I tend to think of her as chaotic neutral. She’s out for her own personal gain, but not at any cost, and forced to choose between letting the Chaos Emeralds get away and letting Sonic die, she’ll ultimately do the right thing.

Now, in the original version of this story, the G forces were just too much for Sonic and he lost his grip as the rocket took off. But I figured he’s managed to cling onto spacecraft pretty well before (look at Sonic the Hedgehog 2... the game, not the film), so instead I came up with the idea of him holding onto a booster engine that gets jettisoned during the rocket’s ascent.

And once again, Rouge wasn’t on the rocket in the original, but... well, we’ll talk about that in the next commentary.