Ok, my apologies for unintentionally vague wording again, cause it seems I've made you assume a lot of things.
First, my goof for misunderstanding and not specifying the scene earlier, but the pre-boss cutscene I was talking about (and the cutscene I was talking about in the first reblog) is not the post-Refreshinator one, it's the cutscene before Admiral Jelly and Frigate Skullian. My mistake here.
To add, the reaction I was talking about happened because this was after Tails chastised Sonic for talking to things that can't answer back, but hey at least these two are sorta alive, at least.
Speaking of which, you seem to have assumed I am trying to present my opinion as one of some vague made up group (maybe you thought I was the OP as well, I dunno). I apologize for giving you the wrong impression, because I was just showing the abridged version of the shitstorm that usually happens in the Russian Sonic community whenever the writing of Colors gets brought up. I didn't want to make a long post even longer by dumping my translation of a good chunk of comments written in Russian in here, so, you only have what I put in quotes in the previous reblog. Yeah, that's what I meant by "an outside view". I am very straightforward, I know, should have specified, that one is also on me.
Finally, please point in my post where I openly said that the reaction I was describing is in any way, shape or form reasonable and/or acceptable. My reaction is exactly that shrug of apathy you described, I don't think those cutscenes are bad, I just didn't find them funny, that's all. I agree with your point about the exaggerated "oh no cringe" reactions being insane.
I just wanted to say that, yeah, you can explain the context of the moments that are considered "stupid" to those people all you want, but if that's general impression the cutscene has left on the community, even if it's just a part of it, those explanations aren't going to matter, because the reaction you'll most likely get in return is "what was the point of the scene, then?" This is not my opinion, but just something I've been noticing crawling not just in the English Sonic community, but also in other parts of the world.
Again, I apologize for making stuff confusing or demeaning to read at parts. I wanted to make it brief, but it all blew up in my face, haha.