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Hiii everyone!!! I'm back with my rants after way too long!!! Anyways, today I want to talk about Sonic Prime and why I don't really like that show...
Sonic Prime is the latest Sonic animated series and is very popular show among Sonic fans. Despite its popularity, I personally think that it's a very flawed show and it has lots of core issues with both its writing and animation.
My 1st issue with this show it that it's really uncreative. The shatterverses are very generic (dystopian city, pirate boat and forest), the idea of having Tails (well it's tecnically Nine but whatever) to turn against Sonic was already done before (and way better in my opinion) by the Archie Comics and even Chaos Sonic, one of few original characters from Sonic Prime is basically just Shard from the Archie Comics with a different shell. (and I would say that the concept of planets having a shard that keeps everything together really sounds like the planet eggs from Sonic X but comapring one thing to another is a bit of a stretch so)
Now let's talk about the animation. Sonic Prime's animation is not bad, per sΓ©, but its style bothers me a bit. It tries to apply the squach and stretch method of 2D animating in 3D like Spiderverse did, but I don't think they did it right. Why? It's simple: squash and stretch works because its's usally animated in 2s (for the people who don't animate, the concept of animating in 2s is having two frames that look the exact same and then progressing to a different movement) as it gives dynamic to movement that would look stiff otherwise. It works in 3D on Spiderverse exacly because that movie was mostly animated in 2s (I won't be going too deep on Hobie's animation process since this blog post isn't about that), but this isn't the case for Sonic Prime. Sonic Prime has the animating in 1s approach that 3D animation usually has so the movement looks as realist and smooth as possible, but then it has very extreme squash and stretch that really didn't need to be there, and it jsut makes the characters look like they're made out of rubber or any squishy material instead of flesh and bones. And to make things "worse", the wat Sonic's quills are textures only make him look even more like a plastic toy.
Another thing that bothers me on this show is that Rouge is there for no reason, basically. Each shatterverse is for one character to truly shine in there (being New Yoke for Tails, the forest one for Amy and the pirates one for Knuckles) but there's no shatterverse for Rouge. And to add more salt to the wound, her personality in every shatterverse is just a clichΓ© action girl, without all her defining traits. Why is she even there then? So the producers can say that the show doesn't suffer from Smurfette's Symdrome??? If it was for that, than she shouldn't even be on that show.
But what do I know, right? I'm just a teen with a spacehey blog not a movie critic so
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Anon
n they way they have the balls to js include rouge for no reason n pretend shes like sonics bestie SHE LITERALLY ADDS SHIT ALL TO THE SHOW
JS DONT ADD HER MAN...
EXACLY THIS IS 1 OF THE REASONS I HATE THAT FUCKING SHOW
THE ONLY GOOD THING ABT IT ARE THE SMEAR FRAMES
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THE SMEAR FRAMES R SO FUCKINF FUNNYI CANT
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FRFRRRR
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seabunny
finally someone talks about this
i hated sonic prime, like what is rouge doing in sonics team in the first place wasnt she a spy from the USA goverment???
and yeah the multiverse concept is done SO LAZY!!
and one thing that really bugs me a lot is how my bbg eggman with a recognisable and original personality got split into those flat and boring and terribly written archetypes (the chaos council) OH MY GOD I HATE WHEN THEY DO THAT (same thing as with Monocubs in Danganronpa V3) like, they did my man do dirty!!!
and also, both sonic and shadow and all the rest honestly got so misscharacterised its crazyyy
not to mention that sonadow content! they knew their work is shit so they at least fed the crazy sonadow shippers with some "canon content" UGHHH
bruhh i hate this show as much as i hate the movies, just use all this goddamn money to make sonic adventure remakes for fucks sake SEGA!!!! im waiting!!!!
fr!! I think the movies are good tho, bcs even though the characters are not portraited like their canon counterparts, it's still very obvious that it's an AU, and not "canon" like sonic prime tries to pass as. Also, even though it's pretty obvious they're made for kids, the writing isn't lazy like sonic prime's
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it kinda felt lazy in the first movie (didn't watch the 2nd one)
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I would say simple, not lazy
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lavender
I completely agree that the shatterverses are boring, they could have done so much more with this concept, When I first watched the show I thought that the shatterverses would be based on different aspects of the characters personalities, which IMO is not a bad idea, but no as you said they are just in generic pirate world or whatever.
I agree Rouge's personality could have been more fleshed out, but I think she deserves to be there just because we don't see her a lot in the games.
Overall the show just felt pointless to me, from the ending I got the implication that the shatterverses no longer existed because of the prism being put together again, but it was never really explained, so I didn't really get it.... that's just my opinion, and I enjoyed reading yours too
Honestly true, Rouge isn't in many games, but I prefer seeing that a character doesn't get used than seeing it just there bcs then they're just throwing budget money away to animate her instead of spending it in the actual story
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Galentine(blinged out chihuahua)
also something that didn't make sense to me is in the jungle forest thing rouge still had some sort of eyeshadow wouldn't she just be rugged? (unless she used some sort of plant to create the look but even then wouldn't it be messy or whateva) the new yoke rouge one looks like its a more natural soft glam look that makes it closer to her eyelid color but yk still makeup times
imo shadow and rouge being there didn't make much sense to me since shadow was floating in space most of the time and rouge is just in different fonts but generally the same idk rouge has the same vibe female characters do in a zombie apocalypse , hairless,clean etc despite materials are limited
not even amy had eyeshadow
Well Shadow ends up doing wayyy more in season 3, the other ones he was just there, like Rouge, but at least they didn't make him the edgelord he is in the latest games or comics so
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