Board Thread:Sonic Boom/@comment-30202703-20160315230749/@comment-24658561-20160320185129

The reason why people like SU, AT and FiM is because of the characters and the creativity that was put into the world the show takes place in. Look at episodes like "Hurricane Fluttershy", "The Answer" or "I remember you" and you'll see that you can't compare them to Sonic Boom. "Hurricane Fluttershy" not only takes advantage of being in a world with ponies(pegasi in this case), but also deals with social anxiety in a way I've never seen any cartoon handle it before. "The Answer" is about Ruby and Sapphire breaking the rules of the Gem society and abandoning their lives and purposes of being to be together. "I remember you" started to portray the Ice King as more of a tragic villain rather than just a pathetic smelly old guy who can't get a girlfriend and it gave us an insight into the backstory Marceline and the Ice King share. Sonic Boom could and would never do something like that. This show is scared of emotions. Whenever there could be a genuine character moment, they ruin it with a joke. The only times when they are trying to look emotional it comes off as incredibly manipulative. Why should we care that Tails crashed in the first episode? We don't even know this character yet. But he's apparently friends with that other guy we don't know yet and hey, wouldn't it be tragic if your friend was caught in a plane crash? It's like a dog getting run over and crawling to his owner just to lick his hand one last time. It doesn't matter what kind of person the owner is, if you don't find this emotional, you must be a soulless demon. If you watch "The Answer" after "Jail Break" or find out how tragic the Ice King is after first thinking he's just a petty Bowser knock-off it will make the emotions much much stronger. In Sonic Boom, even if we count episodes that aired after "The Sidekick", it will stay the same.

They explicitly stated that Sonic Boom takes inspiration from Teen Titans Go! and Phineas & Ferb(though the only similarity between Boom and P&F is that Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Dr. Eggman are pretty much the same character). And I see much more similarities to TTG than to shows like SU or AT considering that especially SU planned the entire plot from beginning to end. Freiberger being on SNN at some point explains a lot. For example why they use Knuckles' nickname from the Archie comics in the TV show when it's clear that noone working at the show ever read the Archie comics. SNN is a Wikipedia for Sonic, it's part of the Wikia Network. It's only a website where information on Sonic is stored. Do you know when exactly Knuckles Chaotix came out in Japan? Of course not, it's a rather obscure game. You can just look it up on SNN and see that it came out in Japan on April the 21rst, 1995. However, looking up information on the characters so you can write them is not what SNN is for. Do you think that any fanfiction author writes the characters by SNN? No, they write(or at least try to write) the characters the way they were portrayed in the game or TV show they like the most. I'm sure the writers of TTG did some research with the Teen Titans Wiki but the only thing they had in mind was making fun of something the original show did. Pontac and Graff probably took a good look at SNN too, that explains why their writing is so bland. I'm sure that if they watched Sonic X from beginning to end they'd at least have some idea on how the characters work. But they said it themselves, they simply don't care enough to do that.