Sonic Boom (Untagged Spoilers)

[SonicWind]

Oh, sure, sure. Give us just the littlest taste of season 2 and expect us to be okay with just that for at least two weeks.

I don't like CN's mistreatment of Boom. Not one bit. What makes it worse is that the other two third-party programs they have on Saturday mornings are still airing new episodes!

I said it before, and I'll say it again: something needs to be done about this. I'm tired of seeing one of my favorite shows in recent years being continually thrown under the bus.

...Unless this is just placeholder stuff, in which case I'll have ranted for nothing.

[Mad Convoy]

Well, this is annoying.

Seriously, the way this show has been treated is frustrating. I hope the schedule is just a mistake or something but knowing CN it wouldn't surprise me. It comes off like CN is actively trying to kill the show-- putting a show in the dead hours of the morning and messing around with the schedule are actually two common tactics networks employ when they want a show to die.

Please Sega, put Boom on Hulu or Netflix next season (if there is a next season). I will seriously buy a subscription to those websites if you do this.

[FriendBot]

Ok, I was just told that schedule for the 12th is just a placeholder. It might change over time but yeah, still kinda sucks.

[Lucid Dream]

Ok, no wait what? Seriously, this is just unacceptable. I don't care if I'm not even that into Boom, this is just disgusting treatment, and it makes me increadibly bitter seeing people be absolutely horrid dickheads to a series that was making an honest attempt to improve and become better.  

This is pissing me off so much. Sonic Boom F&I was thrown under the bus even though it was an honest attempt at an improvement, and now Sonic Boom season 2 is getting similarly bad treatment? This really needs to stop. 

Seriously, do these people even care about quality and morals? Do they not see how much of a horrible jerk they are being? Honestly, fuck them. 

[Dantemustdie00]

WTF, the episode was at 6AM? And no advertisment for it!?

I really, really do hate Cartoon Network man, I had no damn warning.

[SonicWind]

Good time to mention-- for those of you in the US who missed the episode, you can watch it on CN's official website. Just sign in with your cable info and you're ready to go.

[CottonCandy]

I was watching the short stream from the Sonic Social Media Team today. When Webber was asked about season 2, he responded that he doesn't know exactly when it'll air on television. Soo... is Sega not aware that Cartoon Network aired Season 2 already? :/ Or am thinking too much into this?

[Graystripe2000]

Link?

[CottonCandy]

55 minutes ago, Operationgamer17 said:

Link?

https://www.twitch.tv/sonicofficial/v/98273321

*28:21

Okay, he didn't say exactly say he doesn't know when it air but he basically said there's no news on it yet. 

[Mad Convoy]

Its possible that CN isn't keeping Sega informed on the schedule. Possibly because Sega simply never asked (Sega has never been too involved with the show-- it always focused more on the games and comics), but also could be because CN doesn't want Sega to know for whatever reason.

[Ellipsis-Ultima]

Agh, I was hoping both schedules were placeholders. 

CN'S treatment of this show is terrible.

[Kiah]

On 10/29/2016 at 5:32 PM, Soni.exe said:

Anyways, we have two references to AoStH in the show along with a reference to Underground. So here I am wondering when we'll get a reference SatAM, the OVA or X?

Welp, for the OVA reference....

We had one already (courtesy of Episode 50 "Cabin Fever") :

This counts, right?  

Anyway, Season 2 of Sonic Boom is finally here! I'm so excited!

A bit late but after a weekend full of a wedding and work, I am just now getting a chance to give my take on the latest Sonic Boom episode like I did with all 52 episodes in Season 1. I've been waiting nearly a year to do this again so let's do this!

Tommy Thunder: Method Actor was a good episode. Not what I expected to see to be an episode to debut a season considering what a home run "The Sidekick" was with Sonic Boom's debut. The improvements in the animation, addition of action scenes and music...This was good to see (and hear!) and I'm looking forward to seeing more of it in Season 2.

Some observations on my end of this Season 2 debut of Sonic Boom:

Everyone is all smiles upon seeing Tommy Thunder...except for Sonic. I can't really blame him as I probably was making the same facial expressions when Tommy showed up as I wasn't feeling the dude either.

Looks like Team Sonic is about to kick some Eggman butt!

Another day, another victory for Team Sonic. These celebrations among them never gets old!  

Tommy is taking following Sonic around to a whole new level: he has the brown scarf, gloves, sports tape and not-so-iconic red shoes that Sonic has!

Dr. Eggman's pink pajamas are back! And he's baking again...This time it's muffins

Sonic using the Enerbeam all on his own in his battle against Obilterator Bot with one of several smug looks on Sonic's face during the battle-with that AoStH-ish music!  

At the expense of not telling the truth, Sonic, not wanting to Tommy's fans-especially the kids-to be let down, gave him full credit and chose not to mention his cowardice which definitely would of embarrassed Tommy. I thought this was very big and selfless for Sonic to do as he had every right to set the record straight and expose Tommy for the phony he was.

The second season of Sonic Boom has omissions of regular characters right off the bat. Cubot and Orbot didn't make an appearance in this episode.

Again, I thought this was a good episode although it definitely could of been better. The plot was nothing to write home about and Tommy Thunder fit right in with the rest of the townspeople overall being annoying as well as a jerk but I did get some laughs out of the episode, and I got my character interaction and good characterization (from Sonic) which are my main draws to Sonic Boom in the first place so I'm happy

From the lack of advertising, abysmal airtime of 6 AM to the current uncertainty whether we are getting a new episode next week or not, Cartoon Network's treatment of Sonic Boom is ridiculous and unacceptable. I understand wanting to show their own shows but it is necessary to have multi-hour blocks of them? Is airing a single 11-minute Sonic Boom episode that much of an inconvenience to them? This is assuming this isn't a placeholder nor a mistake which shouldn't be happening in the first place as it isn't fair to the fans of the show. Given Cartoon Network's track record of their treatment of Sonic Boom I can't give them the benefit of the doubt is a shame considering how much I like the cartoon. I'm looking forward to the next episode...whenever that will be. 

[blazefan519]

That is absolutely pathetic. As if the 6AM time slot wasn't bad enough. We were lucky to even get a Sonic Boom season 2, but with how CN is treating this show, season 3 may not even happen, which is sad because I love this series. As people have said earlier, this show needs to be switched to Netflix. We would be able to watch the new episodes at any time and it's easier to tell how the show is doing with the ratings. This is ridiculous and somethings NEEDS to be done.

[Mad Convoy]

I'm mostly wondering what the heck is going on at CN. It seems to be particularly hostile towards shows that have action elements in them. I think it would be interesting to hear what goes on with CN's decision-making-- though I doubt CN wants us to know what goes on behind closed doors!

BTW, I found some ratings for the premiere. According to ShowBuzzDaily, Sonic Boom ranked 43 in the Top 50 Original Cable Programs list at about 566,000 household viewers according to Nielsen. It performed best with the Male 12-34 demographic at 0.26, followed by the Female 12-34 and the People 12-34 demographic, both at 0.24-- this apparently makes the household viewership "average" according to the color-coding. http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-10-29-2016.html

This can seem very concerning at first. Sonic Boom usually performs well over the 1,000,000 mark according to Season 1's ratings-- and its usually expected that a season premiere gets more viewers than usual, so the 566,000 numbers looks incredibly lacking. On the other hand, the date of the premiere went basically unadvertised, an issue compounded by it being exclusively placed at ridiculous o'clock on a Saturday morning, making viewers extremely unlikely to stumble across it while flipping through channels. Plus, there was a huge college football game last Saturday as well as a baseball World Series game that got the highest amount of viewers since 2013 (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/saturday-cable-ratings-oct-29-2016/, http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-saturday-october-29-2016/). As we all know, big sports games tend to make Sonic Boom's ratings temporarily plummet. So while we do have cause to be a little worried, its possible that the lower ratings have less to do with decreasing interest and more due to fans not being aware that the show's second season has premiered or resting up for sports. Now that all the fans know that the show is on, they'll probably come and watch (though CN's inexplicable hiatus may put a damper on that as fans won't be able to predict when the next episode will air). And hopefully the next episode won't be on or around game day.

[Graystripe2000]

1 hour ago, blazefan519 said:

That is absolutely pathetic. As if the 6AM time slot wasn't bad enough. We were lucky to even get a Sonic Boom season 2, but with how CN is treating this show, season 3 may not even happen, which is sad because I love this series. As people have said earlier, this show needs to be switched to Netflix. We would be able to watch the new episodes at any time and it's easier to tell how the show is doing with the ratings. This is ridiculous and somethings NEEDS to be done.

The only way we can get ANYTHING done about this is if there's a petition or a campaign. In fact, how about someone start one. Nothing's going to be done about this otherwise, it seems.

[FriendBot]

Petitions never work and they never will.

I mean, even Aaron Webber wasn't aware that Season 2 premiered last Saturday during someone asked him that on a stream yesterday. If the Brand Manager of Sonic isn't even aware of that, that just shows how terrible CN has been marketing this show.

It's aggravating because it's a good show and I want to see it do well especially since I want to Boom series to keep going.

But honestly, if this fuckery still keeps going through the season's run. I doubt Season 3 will ever come...... 

Also it's depressing to know that the Season 2 premiere is the lowest viewed episode in the series' run so far. I can't even...

[Mad Convoy]

I agree that this is super aggravating. Sonic Boom is such a good show yet people miss out because of incompetent advertising and scheduling problems-- which apparently Sega itself has no control or awareness of, so its all on CN's incompetant self to do it. Its not like CN lacks the time either. Surely it could afford to leave off one or two Teen Titans Go! episodes to air a few Boomisodes.

If I had a legal way of getting my hands on some episode downloads, I would honestly go, make some fan-made ads myself, and upload them. I mean, they can't be worse than Sega and CN's efforts, right?

Fans could also try a letter writing campaign to CN and/or Sega. Those don't work often but they do tend to get noticed by executives, who tend to value a written letter more than an online petition as the latter costs some money and takes some effort to do. Though I'd trust Sega more than CN about this-- I know that Sega is really, really good about actually reading and responding to fan letters, but CN I'm not so sure about and I know that some companies just throw out fanmail, pocket any money sent, discard any gifts sent, and/or don't even bother to read it before sending a premade response to the post office.

[SpongicX]

On 10/31/2016 at 10:12 PM, Kiah said:

 

Again, I thought this was a good episode although it definitely could of been better. The plot was nothing to write home about and Tommy Thunder fit right in with the rest of the townspeople overall being annoying as well as a jerk but I did get some laughs out of the episode, and I got my character interaction and good characterization (from Sonic) which are my main draws to Sonic Boom in the first place so I'm happy

 

Although I wasn't too fond of this episode, I will say I did like the characterizations in this episode. Sonic's ego wasn't as exaggerated in this episode. I liked how Sonic's friends and the villagers weren't treating Sonic like trash, because some cool guy showed up, like in Green with Envy.

Sonic's friends only showed annoyance towards Sonic 1 time during this episode, but it was truly understandable, since Sonic bragged about "Team Sonic" instead of just saying team, and giving his friends proper credit. They got over it quickly though.  

I liked how Sticks was random, but not too random.

Out of all the character portrayals, I was mostly happy with Amy's. While she was once again charmed by another man in town, despite loving Sonic, it was handled more in a way where she just admired him for his looks, but nothing more. That's a very common trait many girls have, I've had sisters and cousins who have boyfriends or husbands, yet still get charmed by some handsome actor. It just showed Amy gazing at Tommy, instead of having her talk about wanting to be his girlfriend, like she did with Swifty. I also liked how Amy wasn't naggy or grouchy in this episode, I absolutely hate it when episodes portray Amy as a whiny nag. I like seeing Amy having fun with her friends, not bossing her friends around, or have her friends constantly neglect her or moan at her.

She didn't chew Sonic out for having a different opinion of Tommy, she seemed to actually understand why Sonic wasn't too fond of him, and she didn't try changing Sonic's opinion of him. I also loved how she tried telling Sonic to give Tommy a chance to show him how to be a hero. She didn't get angry with Sonic for being stubborn, and the way she tried bluffing over the request being her idea, and not a desperate plea from Tommy was kind of funny. She also made a good point as to why Sonic should help Tommy, by pointing out that this is his chance to make Tommy's heroic acting more realistic. I want to see more of this version of Amy in future episodes. I like seeing her as a fun, cheerful, and quirky kind of character that brings the best out of everyone, instead of their worst. 

Some people complained about how Tails was in this episode, but I saw nothing to get offended over. When Tails said "it means a  lot less coming from you", when Sonic told Tails that he's a hero, I didn't take it as Tails intending to sound rude or cynical, I saw it more as Tails being so used to being called a sidekick, instead of a hero, and since Tails is Sonic's sidekick, having Sonic call Tails a hero isn't as flattering as having a celebrity say it. It's just like when a kid wants someone to say they care for them, only to have the kid's parents say "but we love you", kids already know their parents love them, which makes it less exciting to hear it coming from the ones they already know who love them.

I also loved how Tails got briefly offended by Sonic's criticism of being annoyed by being followed around. It was a funny jab at Sonic 2, since there are stories of gamers that dislike Tails, because they felt like he got in the way in Sonic 2 and 3. Tails also quickly dropped the attitude when he realized Sonic wasn't referring to him, so why were people mad at Tails for a small misunderstanding that got quickly resolved? 

In conclusion, what this episode lacked in storytelling, it actually made up for incharacter interactions, and didn't derail the characters too far from their comfort zone. It felt like natural interactions Sonic and his friends would have. 

[blazefan519]

On 11/2/2016 at 5:11 AM, SpongicX said:

Although I wasn't too fond of this episode, I will say I did like the characterizations in this episode. Sonic's ego wasn't as exaggerated in this episode. I liked how Sonic's friends and the villagers weren't treating Sonic like trash, because some cool guy showed up, like in Green with Envy.

Sonic's friends only showed annoyance towards Sonic 1 time during this episode, but it was truly understandable, since Sonic bragged about "Team Sonic" instead of just saying team, and giving his friends proper credit. They got over it quickly though.  

I liked how Sticks was random, but not too random.

Out of all the character portrayals, I was mostly happy with Amy's. While she was once again charmed by another man in town, despite loving Sonic, it was handled more in a way where she just admired him for his looks, but nothing more. That's a very common trait many girls have, I've had sisters and cousins who have boyfriends or husbands, yet still get charmed by some handsome actor. It just showed Amy gazing at Tommy, instead of having her talk about wanting to be his girlfriend, like she did with Swifty. I also liked how Amy wasn't naggy or grouchy in this episode, I absolutely hate it when episodes portray Amy as a whiny nag. I like seeing Amy having fun with her friends, not bossing her friends around, or have her friends constantly neglect her or moan at her.

She didn't chew Sonic out for having a different opinion of Tommy, she seemed to actually understand why Sonic wasn't too fond of him, and she didn't try changing Sonic's opinion of him. I also loved how she tried telling Sonic to give Tommy a chance to show him how to be a hero. She didn't get angry with Sonic for being stubborn, and the way she tried bluffing over the request being her idea, and not a desperate plea from Tommy was kind of funny. She also made a good point as to why Sonic should help Tommy, by pointing out that this is his chance to make Tommy's heroic acting more realistic. I want to see more of this version of Amy in future episodes. I like seeing her as a fun, cheerful, and quirky kind of character that brings the best out of everyone, instead of their worst. 

Some people complained about how Tails was in this episode, but I saw nothing to get offended over. When Tails said "it means a  lot less coming from you", when Sonic told Tails that he's a hero, I didn't take it as Tails intending to sound rude or cynical, I saw it more as Tails being so used to being called a sidekick, instead of a hero, and since Tails is Sonic's sidekick, having Sonic call Tails a hero isn't as flattering as having a celebrity say it. It's just like when a kid wants someone to say they care for them, only to have the kid's parents say "but we love you", kids already know their parents love them, which makes it less exciting to hear it coming from the ones they already know who love them.

I also loved how Tails got briefly offended by Sonic's criticism of being annoyed by being followed around. It was a funny jab at Sonic 2, since there are stories of gamers that dislike Tails, because they felt like he got in the way in Sonic 2 and 3. Tails also quickly dropped the attitude when he realized Sonic wasn't referring to him, so why were people mad at Tails for a small misunderstanding that got quickly resolved? 

In conclusion, what this episode lacked in storytelling, it actually made up for incharacter interactions, and didn't derail the characters too far from their comfort zone. It felt like natural interactions Sonic and his friends would have. 

Indeed. My favorite episode with Amy as the main lead would have to be Fuzzy Puppy Buddies, as she wasn't unneccesarily rude like in Closed Door Policy or Fire in the Crowded Workshop. She was nice to Eggman despite being enemies and it was nice to see her more quirky side like how she was in the premiere of Season 1, Designated Heroes is also another example of Amy being nice and not being rude without a reason. She gave Sonic a good reason to look after Tommy when she could've just told him that he was being stuck up and jealous.

I agree on what you said about Tails too. That was a great analogy. I do feel that this wasn't really a great premiere like Season 1 was, but it does a good job at showing the personalities characters. I just wish they went into more depth as this seems like an episode that would play later on in the series. For example, Eggman's "Why do all my social interactions end like this?" Is pretty funny, but most wouldn't get that since this is only the first episode of the Season and we haven't really gotten that much of a glimpse of Eggman yet. Hopefully this Season won't have as many out of place moments for characters like Season 1 did. Amy being the primary contender of that.

[Ellipsis-Ultima]

Wait the space episode is next? Is there a source to this? Zap2it?

EDIT: Nevermind-

https://mobile.twitter.com/BillFreiberger/status/794364700528025600

 

 

[SonicWind]

Folks, I have good news and bad news.

The good news is, we know when the next episode-- which, as mentioned, is "Spacemageddonocalypse"-- is airing.

The bad news? It's a month away, on December 3rd.

Ah, CN... how do you manage to get me to love and hate you at the same time?

[Menace2Society]

Oh, god. Cartoon Network must really hate this show to air the next episode a month later. This show is definitely not gonna last long if it keeps getting treated this way. They really should move this show to Netflix.

[FriendBot]

DECEMBER ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

ONE EPISODE AND ALREADY A MONTH HIATUS?!

WHAT IS THIS TOMFOOLERY?!

eh, well. Can't do anything about it, I guess. :/

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Keep in mind that the last episode aired last saturday, so it's actually closer to a five week hiatus.

Just fuck off CN.

[Dejimon11]

I know we're beating a dead horse at this point but what's the point of them keeping a show that they've treated like garbage since day one? I would understand if it wasn't doing well ratings wise but the first season has proven that it does really well ratings wise. Pokemon is also suffering the same problem too since there was a time during the Gen 4 and 5 days where they would promote the show all the time now it's been treated like crap and has Boom's original timeslot.