Chris wanted to join Sonic at the beginning of season 3 where he worked on a dimensional machine to Mobius which he completed at the age 18, so for 6 years Chris still didn't move on and he is an adult wow just wow.
That was season three? Really? So... I almost got to see all of
Sonic X after all? Well... at least I know where I can start at whenever I get around to actually watch it.
But yeah. To make it worse, I remember that even his
peers told him it was a stupid idea, and yet he went ahead and did it all for the sake of seeing his Sonikku. And of course, then he's
shocked he turned into a twelve-year-old. Gee, genius, what did you
think would happen? Okay, well, I
guess he didn't know, but still, it was a dumb move on his part.
The worst part is that upon dimensional travel, Chris is physically turned back into a whiny 12 year old boy due to Mobius having longer years.
To be
fair I can kinda see how that works, but why Chris would go back to being twelve makes it unrealistic. I don't think jumping through time dimensions works like that...
I kinda think that because 4KIDS paid them to animate new episodes due to its popularity over here, the writers had to come up with something. I don't really know if they had ever planned anything past Sonic's departure, especially since they went ahead to record lines for season three despite it never airing in Japan. Then again, that makes sense, since you can't really animate things out of thin air without a script, especially twenty-four-minute-long episodes.