72% Looking Forward To Sonic Boom Cartoon

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1. Well, at first, people only knew Sonic Boom was going to be a cartoon, but when the whole video game fiasco was revealed, things got a lot more complicated.

   1. The show and the games were announced on the same day.

      1. Actually they weren’t because if you remember correctly, The Silohoutte Images were revealed in about late summer/early fall last year saying that it will be a tv show, it was then back in february that they revealed both show and game plus merchandise info

         1. A mere technicality 😛

         2. Thanks for backing me up! 😉

2. The cartoon actually looks enjoyable. I’m not looking forward to the game, at all.

3. Of course everyone is more excited about the TV show because it is the first one since Sonic X and we all know how that turned out!
   Sonic Boom looks like it’s going to be good and maybe even better than Sonic SatAM yeah I said it!

   1. Actually, all Sonic TV shows suck, including this one

      1. Yeah, but which one is the least worst to you?

      2. SatAm didn’t suck. A touch too serious for some people, not including myself, but it didn’t suck at all. Sonic X sucked though, at least the dub did, I never took the time to watch the subs.

         Maybe that’ll be my next “project”.

         1. Not all the voice dubs are bad; after all, ol’ Eggo is voiced by Mike Pollock, and he’s the only 4Kids VA to still be doing the job. And while Jason Griffith didn’t exactly shine as Sonic, his Shadow voice was pretty good.

            I’ve been watching through the English dub again recently, and as bad as the voice acting can get, the writing is really where it suffers. Aside from the SA/SA2 plots, there’s no storyline that stands out, and a lot of them are just poorly thought out. A prime example being the whole Egg Moon thing; we’re meant to buy Sonic having an understanding of celestial mechanics that neither Tails (the boy genius) nor Chuck (a professor) has? Not to mention all the scientists employed by GUN.

         2. I wasn’t really complaining about the voices. There are a lot I don’t like to be sure, but the rewrites are what bother me, like you said. Even without seeing the original you could always tell when they changed something (usually for the worse). There’s a lot of really poor editing too and even whole episodes missing in the English version.

         3. What episodes are missing? Last time I checked, there were 78 in both Japanese and American dubs.

         4. Sorry, I’m mixing up my 4kids screw ups. There are still pieces of episodes missing here and there though, either for time or for their stupid guidelines. Which anime was that that they cut episodes from, this is bug me forever now….

         5. In the episode titled “The Last Resort”, there is a part where Amy is smacking Eggman’s robot repeatedly with her hammer not saying anything. In the Japanese version of the episode at that same part, Amy yells the word “Bastard!” repeatedly as she smacks the robot. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather watch the version where she stays mute.

   2. Sonic SatAM still remains the best! Sonic Boom will be lame.

4. Lol, why was toys even an option?

   1. Money

      1. Unless you meant why was it an option on the poll, in which case potato 🙂

5. I can wait for the toys

6. It’s only because the show’s probably the least offensive and repulsive of the bunch, and even then, the show looks pretty meh to me. Looks better than Underground, but probably worse than everything else.

   1. I voted “show”, but I’m not actually looking forward to it. It looks pretty dumb to me, wish it was more along the lines of Avatar: The Last Airbender (I’d say Legend of Korra but that show got pretty intense and I don’t think they’re to for that). I voted for it because with all the push Boom is having, the show will be the first thing they could change if they want to change it’s direction.

      1. You have a good taste in television shows. You are officially awesome in my book. Did you know season 4 of Korra starts October 3? The same day Super Smash Brothers for 3DS is released. Then the next day is October 4th when the Sonic Boom event takes place. Looks like I’ve got a busy weekend. 😀

         1. Ha ha, thanks for the vote of confidence. The Walking Dead also starts back up in October too (the 12th I think). It’s gonna be a good month.

7. I wish there was an All of the above option. I actually look forward to everything Sonic Boom has to offer

   1. I’m glad to see you do. You earned a thumbs up! 😉

8. Guess what everybody….

   The show isn’t really aimed at you! So your opinion is invalid.

   1. It’s still a Sonic TV show. Just because it’s not targeted at an older fanbase doesn’t mean it shouldn’t appeal to all audiences as well as long-time fans of the series.

      1. Exactly. Disney-Pixar knows how to make children’s stuff that adults can get into. OK, it’s not that easy, but it’s certainly doable.

      2. I know that, but you haven’t even seen a full episode of the show, so you can’r t really judge whether you’re going to find there is stuff for you in it or not.

         1. There is such a thing as first impressions and looking at what’s been shown in trailers and screenshots and seeing if it’s really worth looking at. True, so far the animation looks good, and I can say that there may be some potential for good comedy, but overall looking at how much the game is going up, down, and all around with it’s story and gameplay, and many other decisions that are being made, we have some basis to be sceptical about certain elements. Just because it’s a comedy series doesn’t mean it has to be completey devoid of interesting elements to it.
            Steven Universe is airing on the same channel that Boom is on, and I love the heck out of it both for it’s comedy and very well written stories. If Boom’s TV show can at least be as good as that, then I’ll accept it. But if the comedy is on the same level as 90% Teen Titans Go or the modern Spongebob episodes (save for some good ones that were made here and there), then no way will I or others accept this.

   2. Every opinion is valid

   3. You don’t know how old we are… … … … …

      1. I was making a general statement, the majority of people here are adults.
         I’m not, but I was just saying, overall. xD

         1. 😛

9. To me, the TV show is something I’m at least wanting to look at, and if anything, it’ll probably be similar to Adventures, but without being over-the-top insane and with animation that looks much better.
   Still prefer X to most any of the TV shows, Idk, I just never could get into SATAM. It didn’t really feel anything like the Sonic that I knew from the games. (that and that floppy mohawk design just looked bad to me, I blame the US artists)

   1. It’s about time I find somebody who prefers Sonic X over the rest. A knit-pick I have with the 90’s cartoons is that whenever Sonic went into a ball, he’d be shown literally turning into a 2-D disk that apparently could cut through stuff like a saw. I don’t quite remember it working out like that in the games. In Sonic X, whenever he went into a ball, he’d clearly be in a three dimensional ball. That is just one small reason why I like X better than the rest though.

      1. Sonic X is better then the rest, they portray everyone perfectly. I hate Chris though.

         1. Good to hear. Although, I watched the show the first time as a child so I never saw Chris as an annoyance. Now that I’m older, I can see why people hate him, but I just can’t.

10. Meh, people are hating on the game too much. Yes, it’s a videogame tie-in. Yes, it has a lot of combat. Yes, it’s had problems with da graffisk during the demos. So? We all thought Sonic Lost World was going to be a good idea until it was released(Yes, I know someone’s going to backtrack and claim they always thought it was bad, bare with me here.), what justified writing off Sonic Boom so quickly?

    1. It’s not that I hate the concept of a more combat based Sonic game, or the fact that it’s a tie-in, heck, some of my fav games like Toy Story 2 (PC/PS1/N64) and Spider-Man 1 and 2 for the PS2 are movie tie-in games.
       Just some the decisions being made make me very leery, especially with including time travel being a part of the plot, going back to the past as well as the future just seems rather overboard for something that’s going to be the first in what’s trying to be a full-on sub-series. And honestly, the combat doesn’t seem as fun as the Werehog’s, which I actually do enjoy unlike about 90% of everyone else that’s played Unleashed. (tho the PS2/Wii version of the Werehog combat was rather boring I will say, lacks the variety to the combos)

11. Not sure if okay to leave links to videos, but I will anyway:

    http://youtu.be/zBCA5plZTnI

    Also, I do not have high hopes for Sonic Boom, but I hope it is more watchable than Sonic X, for all the reasons in the above parody.

    1. Ya know, not every episode was just Chris centered, remember the times they had episodes totally focued on Knuckles and ones focused soley on Rouge and her teaming up with Topaz? And let’s not forget the Metarex Saga in which Chris was a genius and helped the others numerous times.

       And also
       
       The Knuckles and Rouge moments in here are just perfect if you ask me.

       1. True. I will give Chris credit in the final season for not being a lead weight to the plot like he was before, and the other characters did occasionally get some time in the spotlight, but it doesn’t change the fact that Sonic was barely a part of his own show. He was always so aloof and disengaged with what was going on with everyone else, assuming he was there at all.

          1. Well, Sonic is kinda like that, what do you expect? He’s a free spirit, he’s not one to let things tie him down completely, and if we just focused on Sonic running around for about 70% of the episode we’d have no idea on what the heck was going on when Eggman reveals his plans or just how or why the other characters got into danger and need saving.
             I will admit that Chris was more just the usual “kid with no friends” trope, but it never really bugged me as much, we did need someone to have Sonic and the others introduced to these very odd concepts of the human world that they would have no idea in thier world, I could have been done a bit better I will say.

12. Show looks fine. Game looks terrible.

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