Board Thread:Sonic Boom/@comment-679780-20150919181809/@comment-679780-20150921041716

Thurrn the Ranger wrote: I enjoyed the episode, just wondering about one detail. Namely, at the end of the episode, when Earl was again hit by a horseshoe, why did Sonic and Knuckles laugh in response? That seemed to be a bit of an odd reaction. However, it's not a major concern, just a bit of a curiousity to me. I simply believe the writers are sloppy and cut corners. For example:
 * Multiple Percis, Freiberger excused an obvious error of two Percis as one of them being her twin sister Staci.
 * Foreman Fred being renamed "Earl", a problem the writers could of easily resolved if they actually played the game or at least browsed SNN.
 * Sometimes the story feels rushed at time, understandable the episodes are 11½ but it seems the writers had ideas for an episode in mind and simply crammed the relevant parts in and string it together with what they pass as "comedy" in hopes it will pass as a story. It doesn't.

My guess the reason why such sloppiness is that they're catering for an audience much younger than us. Around 6-11 and believe kids just won't care for such sloppiness and their limited intelligence can easily understand and enjoy the episodes. We complain because most of us have been fans of Sonic since the 90s and believe the show should be for us.

I'm not saying we older Sonic fans in the wrong to believe such so since we have fond memories of past cartoons like AoSTH, SatAM ans Undergrounded, granted these cartoons are rooted to our nostalgia, but Sonic Boom could still be targeted to a very young audience while still appeal to it's older fans at the same time. Brony phenomenon is an example of this though an older audience was unintentional score for Hasbro, they just found the right formula that works. Sega already has the older fans long before Sonic Boom announcements and need to make their show enjoyable for kids and young adults.

Still while I don't think Season 1 was all that great, I strongly believe the series will get better over time.