Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4220590-20161110184540/@comment-679780-20161117054130

Megalodon Commando wrote: DeCool99 wrote: Megalodon Commando wrote:

Mystic Monkey wrote: OK story idea using Cream...

Vanilla is the richest resident on Bygone Island... so rich she can hire Team Sonic to babysit Cream while she goes off on a business trip. Despite being a well mannered angel, she is still a handful and gets kidnapped. Team Sonic saves her from Dr. Eggman before Vanilla gets home from her business trip or something.

I can't really imagine this story being all that funny. I'd be doing darker plots than light-hearted shenanigans that the writers these days seem to epically fail at.

It's supposed to be a light-hearted cartoon, not a hard-hitting drama. Give them a break, dude. I know. But that's what I'd be doing if I was in their place. If I was in there place, if I was... executive producer or whoever calls the shots, for starters I'd double the episode lengths while still keeping the original scripts. I can easily stretch out 11½ minutes worth of script to 23 minutes long which I believe will help make the dialogues and jokes be delivered more convincingly and more better with transitions.

I will also assign homework to the writters, the homework will be to watch every episode of AoSTH. If we're going to make a Sonic cartoon for kids then we need to learn from the predeccessors. We can still make a brand new cartoon that appeals to the modern audience while still using traditional concepts established from original 90s saturday morning cartoons.

Lastly, I'll keep in touch with Sega's legal team in what we can and can't have from the games. I would like to have a Chaos Crystal story arc as well as introduce brand new characters based on characters from the game.

I don't have a favourate "episode" but the current episode Tommy Thunder Method Actor, I'd give it a good 8/10, maybe 4/5. Due to having to fit a whole action-adventure story in under 11½ minutes still makes it feel "compressed" in dialogue and transition but because it takes cues from AoSTH on how to be a decent SOnic cartoon for kids, going as far as having AoSTH temp music, I really like the episode so far and really hope Seaosn 2 will follow suit with it's quality.

Now some may seem me bias for comparing Sonic Booms potential with AoSTH, and yeah, it's better for it to be it's own thing than an old thing. But while I am aware Sonic Boom is catered for children first before the fandom in general, I just didn't enjoy Season 1 all that much. And thats a bad thing as a cartoon should be enjoyable to an audience than just catered for a set group. And if someone who lives, breaths and loves Sonic since the 90s has not enjoyed a Sonic cartoon catered for children, then something is done wrong. It's why I encourage the producers of Sonic Boom to watch AoSTH. They don't have to emulate it, just understand how the producers of AoSTH back then made Sonic both funny and heroic. And it was AoSTH Sonic and SatAM Sonic that defined Sonics personality for the later years, and given both are roughly animated and voiced by Jaleel White, no far off difference to one another.

So on off-chance BIll Freiberger or any workers on Sonic Boom see this comment, as an individual viewer I'm sorry I didn't enjoy Season 1, but I feel like I ma going to enjoy Season 2 after that episode. (And give warm regards to Alan Denton Greg Hahn for me if by chance this comment is read by Sonic Boom producers!)

Another thing, the reason why I praise AoSTH for a kids cartoon is because back in my pre-teen years I enjoyed cartoons that were either slapstick comedy (Looney Tunes, Disney cartoons, Hanna Barbera) or heroic adventure (X-Men, Amazing Spider-man, TinTin, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. We didn't have Sky TV until my mid-teens.) well AoSTH was the first cartoon I ever watched that combined both slapstick comedy and heroic adventure. I can't recall any other cartoons in the 90s that did that, but to me, AoSTH was the first and I don't think it ever gets credited enough for setting the bar for that.