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Rainbowser wrote: Sonic Boom should:

1. Take more advantage of being Sonic. The TV show takes little to no advantage of having Sonic characters in it. (I don't count their powers because they're nothing Sonic exclusive.) There's a few jokes about it, but that's pretty much it. Well the episodes do have little to work with since they are limited to just Bygone Island. Would be nice to further explore the Boomiverse around the island and expand the lore, or the very least a Chaos Crystal ark, given past Sonic series usually had chaos emerald story arks. I guess more challenging stories would be nice.

Rainbowser wrote: Sonic Boom should:

2. Go somewhere with the "Alternate Dimension" concept. Don't use it as a cheap excuse to throw whatever sh*t the writers come up with at us. What exactly is different in this dimension? Why are the character's personalities different? How did Sonic and Tails meet? How did they become a team? What's up with Shadow? Explain, Sonic Boom, explain! Honestly, I would much rather be interested in the Boomiverse equivilent of Moebius than that Mirror Boomiverse. Though would be interested to know why Dr. Eggman wears green and whats he like.

For all we know Intelligent Knuckles realised he was in the company of heroes and faked being good for the sake of returning home so possible the Mirror Boomiverse can be the Negative Boomiverse. Still I've had hopes Nega-Boomiverse Team Sonic would appear more evil, like the use of black sports-tape to differ them or something.

Rainbowser wrote: Sonic Boom should:

3. Pay more attention to the characters. The characters should take on the plot, not the other way around. Think over the character's personalities so they are more relatable. Make Sonic more caring and less selfish. Give Knuckles actual qualities to balance out his stupidity and him being a jerk, qualities, not jokes. Make Tails more interesting, have him make progress in his inventions. And, by god, give Amy a consistant personality. Chose what kind of character she's supposed to be, mature or immature, because she can't be both. You should also make clear why the characters like each other. Knuckles doesn't trust Sonic, then why does he stay with him though? Sticks is weird, but everybody likes her anyway. Why? In the current Sonic Boom TV, the good guys also turn on each other way to easily. Give them conflicts that need actual emotion. Develop them, so they'll become something unique. It's what made the episode Tails' Crush so charming. Each character had little understanding of romance but they tried their best to help with Tails interest in Zooey. It would be nice to learn more about the characters as individuals though, such as was Sticks abandoned? What is Angel Island like? How did Sonic and Tails first met? Will we have more SonAmy shippy moments?

Rainbowser wrote: Sonic Boom should:

4. Be more original. Don't try to be hip, try to be timeless. The selfie jokes and Justin Bieber will be outdated in a few years. Don't use every clichéd plotline in the book, whether it should be part of Sonic or not. Think of something new. Create new and interesting characters and villains. Have the main cast save the world once or twice in a special. Down with the Status Quo! It's the worst god ever! You don't need a story arc, but the stuff happening shouldn't be pointless either. You can combine it with character development, have the characters take something from their adventures, have them learn from their mistakes. I agree with this. AoSTH for example didn't just try to be hip, but attempted to combine slapstick childrens comedy with moral heroics and even tackled some deep matters at times such as romance, Tails' abandonment issues and Over the Hill Hero and so on making it stand out as one of the first series of Sonic cartoons.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is pretty much my expectations for Sonic Boom.

Rainbowser wrote: Sonic Boom should: 5. HAVE MORE ACTION! Sonic Boom TV calls itself an action show and has little to no action in it. Don't have every enemy go down in an anti-climax! Have actual fight scenes! You could combine it with 4. and have action based plots. And please, less slow-motion. This is a show about the fastest thing alive, slow-motion is a little counter-productive there, isn't it? I think the show can balance comedy and adventure than just excuse it all with one of Dr. Ehhmans usual raids. For example Double Doomsday climactic to a really good action scene with the black holes created. Screw science and quantum physics of light into black matter, that was awesome!

Rainbowser wrote: Sonic Boom should:

6. Not make a joke out of everything. Amy being a girl is not a joke. Sonic being fast is not a joke. Knuckles being stupid is not a joke. I don't think Sonic Boom should be 100% serious, but I think it should have some serious moments to give us a break from the constant jokes and weirdness. Sonic Boom needs to be more sudden with it's jokes. If one character always makes the same type of jokes, it's not funny anymore after a while. I can't laugh at Sonic Boom because I always expect it to make a joke. And the humor is pretty much all there is, that's why I don't like it. Examples include the entire episode of Buster, my least favourate episode. Sticks is suppose to be the paranoid, cautious one of the group in yet takes in a stray robot dog that spews slime everywhere. It was not funny, just course overly done fart-joke tier humour.

ALso there tend to be gags irrelevent to the story, like in Don't Judge Me decides a disco rave in the middle of the court trial for some reason and it just finishes up the episode poorly.

The series can be funny and it has made me giggle now and again, it just shouldn't try so hard to the point of breaking the story. Force-humour is rarely ever funny.

Rainbowser wrote: Sonic Boom should: 7. Have the show and the games REALLY be related. Just saying: "The TV show takes place after the games." isn't enough. Don't have the games be one thing and the TV show be another thing. Where is Shadow, where is Metal Sonic? Don't make it like you HAVE to play the games to get the show, but have at least some continuity, if you're even saying the TV show and the games are related. I think it be nice if the TV show had more ties with the games but it doesn't have to fall back on it. For example I'm hoping the series will have a Chaos Crystal story ark someday just as passed Sonic cartoons had, but it doesn't have to take us to all those places in Rise of Lyric for the sake of tying in as it can still be it's own story.