Sonic Boom TV Ratings – Season 2 Week 1

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1. I only knew the second season had started when I saw a YouTube post of the premier episode. I still don’t know what time it airs or when it starts. Checking out Cartoon Network’s site a bit also didn’t illuminate anything either. (tho I suppose I could have digged a bit more, but should I have to dig that much?)

   I really don’t know a thing about this show right now, and I want to know. I want to watch it. But it seems Cartoon Network doesn’t share my opinion.

2. One rumor, one tweet, and a 6am time slot? I’m surprised it even got 500,000.

   1. Cartoon Network says “Just According to Keikaku (Translator’s note: Keikaku means plan)”.”

3. Cartoon Network is working it’s “magic” right on cue, it’s a shame they’ll keep getting a way with this. Good thing they weren’t the force in the early 90’s things like Batman the Animated Series would have never lasted 10 episodes, it’s actually a miracle that Justice League and Unlimited had a good run.

   1. Good shows, but he company itself is shit and prefers to promote shit shows instead.
      But then again, I think we can all agree that at least they have things worthwhile to watch, unlike Nick which only has like 2 or 3 shows truly worth watching at this point. And Power Rangers isn’t even theirs, they just picked it up after Jetix sadly died and it wasn’t till Dino Charge that thing have been actually picking up.
      Fairly-Odd Parents has pretty much become a hollow shell of it’s former self, they air like five-hundred live action shows with only one or two that are somewhat interesting. Spongebob’s in a similar boat as FOP but at least you get the offshoot good episode every so often, and Loud House is the only other original show that’s really worth watching.
      Heck, I think it’s the only one they actually somewhat advertise. They hammer in Spongebob and FOP so much it’s a wonder anyone would even find out Nick has more than just two shows.

4. It seems only the internet even knows about the existence of Sonic Boom.

   1. Because they’re the only ones to care.
      This show was made for Sonic nerds with low attention spans and low expetations to nerdgasm every moment a vague reference, inside jokes or a fanservice is made or whenever a joke is being made about one of the characters’ stereotypical properties, not for actual viewers with actual expectations.

      It’s for those Sonic nerds who are gathering at the official channels to laugh at Knuckles/Sanic/Sonic and Eggman being bestbuddies/Bigdacat/gtgfast jokes and “liking” them all the time even if they’re being posted for the 26247th time.

      Post-2010 Sonic The Hedgehog, everyone – the swamp of hypocritical hipsters who are dismissing everything even remotely badass or exciting and are only living for nostalgia pandering, in-house jokes or shitty soulless sitcom bastardifications of a formerly great franchise.

      But I digress, Boom WILL die sooner or later and I’m still hopeful for the future with Project 2017, the movie and those re-releases (still waitin’ for infos about these though) coming towards us from the horizon.

      1. Is it really plausible to call Sonic a “once great” franchise though? For everything cool thing that has existed in Sonic’s history, there’s been something equally lame right by its side. Sonic Boom isn’t the first Sonic cartoon of questionable quality: Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was just as ridiculous, but without the self-awareness. And Sonic Underground was….I don’t know, I never actually watched it. Like, um, people. And then, of course, we’ve had no shortage of crappy spinoff games, from Sonic Spinball to Sonic R to Sonic Shuffle, and that’s all before Sega went multi-platform. Of course, these games were balanced out by quality titles like the four-part Genesis trilogy, and Sonic Adventure….a good game when it came out, and a hilarious game now, in 2016.

         I guess my point is that the Sonic franchise has been bastardized and re-bastardized since day one, even moreso than a lot of ostensibly kid-oriented franchises. And the behavior you mentioned, laughing at the most idiotic of jokes? It’s a survival mechanism, man. Having a sense of humor is pretty much the only way to get through being a fan of a franchise that often seems to go out of its way to pander to everyone’s unique distastes. At the end of the day, isn’t it just remarkable that people are still thinking about Sonic at all? I mean, when’s the last time anyone thought about Crash Bandicoot?

         1. I find little reason to keep a franchise alive for the sole reason of it being alive, it sounds like a bedridden comatose human with a broken spine and a half splattered brain.

            At least Crash Bandicoot never had the misfortune to be developed or be written by people who are either absolutely unfamiliar with it’s past or are wanting to push their own agendas by using it as a tool or with simple outright lies.

            Same goes for Spyro in a sense, but only in a sense because even though Skylanders does spit at his legacy in a way, he DID have an epic (well executed) ’06-esque finale on his own which closed his franchise for good.

            Sonic and the Black Knight could have been that game here if it wasn’t a darn Wii exclusive title (still hoping that it’ll be re-released eventually, it’s a damn awesome game). 😀

         2. I hate to be that guy, but are we really pulling the “Sonic was never great” here?
            The Mario cartoons are quite honestly just as bad as the Sonic ones, (and don’t get me started on Captain N and the Game Masters). EVERY video game from the 80’s to 90’s suffered the “Americanization”, you should see what happened to Darkstalkers and Street Fighter. What about those Mario edutainment games? Not just the ones on SNES/NES, I mean the utterly horrible ones on DOS.
            Paper Mario was good for 3 games and now we get Sticker Star and the only slighty better Color Splash. Also, did anyone really need NSMB2? Wasn’t NSMB Wii already that?

            Are we really getting to the point where in order to bash Boom we need to bash the series as a whole?

      2. “This show was made for Sonic nerds with low attention spans and low expetations to nerdgasm every moment a vague reference, inside jokes or a fanservice is made or whenever a joke is being made about one of the characters’ stereotypical properties, not for actual viewers with actual expectations.” You do realize you just talked down to hundreds of thousands of Sonic fans because they like a show you don’t, right?

         1. @SSF1991

            Maybe I did. It was a love letter for all of the Boom fans out there. If others can constantly spit at parts of the franchise that I value and love, then why couldn’t I do the very same thing with the things that they value and love?
            This is how I do my part to ensure a great future for this community and besides I’m just trying to have fun here. If you don’t understand my superior sense of humor then I guess you should just leave the Sonic fanbase altogether or maybe ignore me or something (insert whatever bs here which is being said when people tend to defend the never ending nostalgia-pandering or the very same stupid jokes being constantly thrown into our face over and over again). xD

            According to Sonic Retro Shadow The Hedgehog sold at least 2 million copies back when it was released, so whoever disses the game in any possible way is talking down at least 2 million Sonic fans who tried it, boo-hoo.

            1. “Maybe I did. It was a love letter for all of the Boom fans out there. If others can constantly spit at parts of the franchise that I value and love, then why couldn’t I do the very same thing with the things that they value and love? This is how I do my part to ensure a great future for this community and besides I’m just trying to have fun here. If you don’t understand my superior sense of humor then I guess you should just leave the Sonic fanbase altogether or maybe ignore me or something” And there it is. The mindset of “I’m right, everyone else is wrong, and they’re not allowed to have an opinion”. I had a feeling it was there, judging from previous comments you’ve made, but now that you have basically admitted this, that’s all I needed to hear. The sheer fact that you go out of your way to talk down to people like this and make it act like you’re a hero for doing so saddens me. If your idea of “fun” is to upset people and treat them like trash because they like something you don’t, then I recommend you undergo some of Amy’s “sensitivity training” from the “Just A Guy” episode of Boom. And this comes from someone who isn’t even that sensitive, to be honest.

               “According to Sonic Retro Shadow The Hedgehog sold at least 2 million copies back when it was released, so whoever disses the game in any possible way is talking down at least 2 million Sonic fans who tried it, boo-hoo.” Firstly, it wasn’t 2,000,000. It was 1,590,000. Secondly, Sonic Colors and Generations sold more than Shadow’s game (1,850,000 for Colors, 1,630,000 for Generations), which I discovered on the very same site you sourced. Using your logic, you’re “talking down” to these fans who tried those two games by blatantly ignoring this. Which leads me to my third point. I find it rather ironic that you feel people are “talking down to fans” because people express dislike of a game that sold well. Why is this ironic? Because you’re being a hypocrite. If a game selling well is all it takes for you to throw people’s opposing opinions to be thrown out the window, then you really have become very close-minded. And even more of a hypocrite, considering how you have talked down to Boom cartoon lovers all the time, despite the show having plenty of evidence of ratings success in the past.

      3. Ah what a lovely suprise it seems like the sa3 bs propaganda has reached the comments of a tssz News article how lovely

      4. Sonic X/SA3 fanboy, huh?

         1. @OZTHETROLLHATER1

            Random guy with the implicating ability of a random generator, huh?
            Put a Sonic R between those two and you’ll burn me even more! 😀

      5. And this is exactly this train of thought that gives the Sonic fanbase the reputation it so rightfully deserves….

         Look i get it, Sonic Boom is basically dumbed down…but you have to remember the demographic its going for..and sure there are some cases to where we can appreciate the humor (not to mention listening to the Eggman all day everyday) But i’m not gonna go around complaining and stomping my feet and calling people names because they like something i dont. That’s childish and immature at best.

         (Now i could be going off on a completely different filter here but for the sake of censorship, i’m gonna keep it PG)

         Do you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe..the fanbase KNOWS its a meme? I mean really…its not that hard to figure out. We know half the time that a sonic game/tv show/movie is probably going to end up on the crapper, and we’ve gotten to the point to where we dont get our hopes up too much.

         Not to mention “Blue Arms”, “Green eyes”, plus fanfiction pairings, all the deviantart recolors with OP powers that make even a superhero look tame in comparison, as well as and dare i say it, “Where’s Sonic Adventure 3?”. Its Sonic 06, i’m sorry, gonna say it, that’s your adventure 3. We can christen Project Sonic 2017 as Sonic Adventure 4, but we all know how having a 4 in a Sonic title worked out…

         So for the sake of everyone’s sanity, sit down, take a chill pill, get your own thumb or head or stick out of your a** and let people enjoy whatever they want to enjoy.

         Sometimes i wonder why i’m even in this fanbase anymore…

5. Whoever’s in charge of advertising at SEGA should be absolutely ashamed of the horrible job they’ve done to promote this series. Not even the twitter account, which is entirely free advertising, and has over a million Sonic fan subscribers, has made even a peep about the show.

   That said, all things considered, 500k viewers at 6AM with no advertising isn’t bad at all. And making the list of top 50 original Saturday telecasts is an impressive feat when you factor in the lack of ads.

   1. Just goes to show how many loyal fans the series has actively awaiting it’s continuation, despite all the venom and negativity the brand seems to attract (or in spite of, whichever). Hope this doesn’t spell the end for the show.

6. Good shows don’t need advertisement campaigns; people just watch them if its good. This decline is just natual for anything related to Sonic Boom. The end is near.

   1. HOW DARE YOU MISS THIS EXCITING EXPERIENCE!
      THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF SONIC AND CO CLEANING TOILETS OR GIVING THE AUDIENCE BORED EXPRESSIONS WHILE EGGMAN IS CRYING ABOUT HIS PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES NOT TO MENTION THOSE UNFORGETTABLE PARTS WHEN THEY ARE JUST AWKWARDLY SITTING SOMEWHERE EATING FOOD AND STUFF OR SITTING IN THEIR LIVING ROOMS WATCHING TV!

      I’LL SHOW YOU, HATER!

   2. A show does need at least some bit of adverts to actually let people know it exists. Hell, I wouldn’t even know about the Spectacular Spider-Man series had it not been for the ads on KidsWB, and that shit aired WAY early in the morning.
      Not to mention what about good shows that don’t get the right ads like My Life as a Teenage Robot, Megas XLR, and Sym-Bionic Titan that get canned nonetheless.
      I’m with ya on Boom’s TV show being boring, but people still need to know something exists before putting it out and just hoping it’s seen by dumb luck.

      1. Wow, I knew it was possible to have an opinion about something and still talk sense about it. Thanks for giving a well thought answer instead of resorting to making fun of people who either hate or love the show like everyone else seems to be.

   3. “Good shows don’t need advertisement campaigns; people just watch them if its good.”

      Except yes they do need them, and people need to know the show is actually on the air again.

7. A 20 million dollars budget game, a year delay, a cartoon show, and toys.

   Burn Sega of America away and rebrand Altus as Sega Altus.

8. Thing is, Cartoon Network has really been mismanaging a lot of their shows lately. It’s so sad that it’s gotten to a point where a successful show of theirs is actually returning and they’re already treating it like the middle child of the family. I swear the people in charge they’ve had for the past few years barely know what they’re doing half the time.

9. Cartoon Network has been bad with this lately. And by lately, I mean at LEAST the past year. They haven’t even played Adventure Time reruns in 4 months despite it being one of the most popular shows on the network. And just a bit before summer, they wouldn’t even advertise new episodes of Clarence or Regular Show, despite also being decently popular. And that is just the surface of it. If your show isn’t called “Teen Titans Go” then you are lucky to even GET advertisements. It is sad, because I actually enjoy most things on CN, even the Sonic Boom cartoon. But I’m a senior in college. I don’t have time to try and figure out when all of my children’s cartoons play. I’d prefer the network to be outright with me.

   1. Same here, they’re being way too selective with what they promote and what they don’t. They may not be pushing live action shows anymore, but this current regime at Cartoon Network still has some very skewed priorities. I really hope we get another change in management soon, one that actually understands what viewers are looking for and how to properly support their own shows.

10. YEEEEEES! The ratings must keep going down so SEGA loses interest on this Sonic Boom shit as soon as possible.

11. Still impressive that it managed to gain over 500,000 viewers without any promotion and a even worst timeslot. Even if you hate Boom, you can a least agree the treatment of the cartoon is pretty piss poor. Terrible for any show really.

12. And now the second episode won’t air until the start of December.

13. I completely forgot the show was airing that Saturday. I hope they do better with announcing when the next batch comes out!…or, you know, find a better channel to air this show on 😛

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