Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4452849-20140209142518/@comment-1669199-20140301223622

Nobody231 wrote: I'll get us back on topic. The comics are better after the reboot, which cleared up all of the confusing stories.

Like Mike Gilbert said, the reboot cleared nothing -- because the original plot-line was left unfinished. Plot holes, some of which even Ian Flynn himself acknowledged (and expressed desires to fix), will continue to remain unresolved. Various side stories featuring various side characters, and even whole civilizations (like the Echidnas, for example -- last I checked, they were trying to survive and repopulate in a world where many other races/groups wanted them dead, and as such their struggles were understandably difficult -- and still unresolved, before this whole mess started), will not be touched upon as they were most likely originally going to be (this is assuming they will ever be touched upon ever again in any form at all), and they would most likely have to "evolve" in order to better fit with the new universe if they can still be introduced in some way. Even plot lines that featured the main cast of heroes and villains are effectively thrown out the window as a result of the soft-reboot.

Furthermore, the main cast of heroes still remember various things from the original timeline (if vaguely), so its not like anyone can simply pretend previous events that happened in said timeline no longer happened, because the fact that the main characters (even Eggman) still acknowledge these events (vaguely or not) despite the shift in the space-time continuum still proves they still did happen, even if the timeline said events took hold in no longer exists. So will all the previous plot-lines be cleared up? Not likely -- if anything, only a handful of plot-lines will survive to be introduced in a new form in the new timeline, so long as they have nothing to do with anything Ken Pender's made. So no, as of right now, not all the previous stories are cleared up, and as long as things continue to go on as they are now they never will be. So basically, the soft-reboot only served to create the problem of possibly leaving these old plot-lines, along with the original story's timeline, unfinished for possibly forever.