![]() ![]() ![]() The second season seems to pretty good as well with a parody of Misery so I would encourage you to check it out. Sonic Boom skews younger with it's bright colours but the writing really does put it up there. This decade is a time of truly great cartoons, Bojack Horseman, Rick & Morty, Archer, Adventure Time, Legend of Korra, and others. Eggman points out the relative size of the head to the tentacles making it clear what animal it is. Eggman has an octopusbot that Sonic mistakes as a squidbot, Dr. There are jokes with a specificity that kids shows normally don't bother with, it isn't enough that Dr. There are jokes about the mundane aspects of everyday life. It's a neat high-wire act, simultaneously charging ahead with a story while pointing out how ridiculous the situation is. : In the Sonic Boom episode, 'Battle of the Boy Bands', Justin Bieber is parodied as Justin Beaver, and his manager brainwashes all of the girls in the village, resulting in Sonic and friends forming a Boy Band to fight back. the plots are clichéd and hackneyed because you've seen them on every cartoon and sitcom before, the writing is aware of this and highlights tropes while continuing on with the story. (Take that Sonic fans!) Finally, there's the absolutely stellar writing. I don't really care if sonic's arms are blue or not, if he looks off-model it's still good. It would be nice if they could hire an action director to help. It don't showcase amazing setpiece battles and there's never a huge amount of stuff happening on screen but I'm pretty sure that they're limited by their budget. The animation is bright, colourful, and expressive. Eggman assembling a group of villains to attack Sonic and to train they go through a series of team building exercises while Sonic and friends try and fail to build a piece of off-brand IKEA furniture. Eggman is in the background trying to pickup a courier package but continually missing the delivery. One episode is about Tails in love with a girl with his friends in the giving advice on how to approach her while Dr. Sonic Boom has answered the age-old question "So you want a realistic down-to-earth show that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?". It's not an adventure show and I feel that's why many reviewers are disappointed. These characters combine together to work through standard sitcom plots. Eggman is a villain but more of a needy overblown weekly threat bully instead of an existential. So Sonic is arrogant, Tails is brainy and good natured if a bit naive, Knuckles is a strong dimwit, Amy is conscientious, and Sticks is a paranoid anarchic lunatic. The characters are reduced to their basic personalities which is bad if you've watched them grow but great when you intend to have them bounce off each other in stories. Sonic Boom tosses all of that out the window and it is all the better for it. When a company continues a franchise there's always a concern about whether they will be treating the characters and story with the reverence due to them. I am aware of the lore that's grown around it and the concerns of people who've followed Sonic and friends throughout the games. I was a Nintendo kid when growing up so played Sonic a couple times at friends houses but that was it. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |