How Sonic Prime Failed Sonic Fans 

Sonic was NOT in his prime

I heard someone describe the show like this: "it's like if the writers of Sonic Boom were told to make a story with the tone of Sonic X. It just doesn't work."

I heard that Ian Flynn actually gave the creators intructions to make the series make sense and connect it with the canon timeline but they straight up ignored them, like, tf man💀

The reason Shadow kept getting shafted was because the writers knew he was too competent. If he was allowed to go on the journey with Sonic, the show would've been much shorter.

ngl the best thing about prime was the animation, especially the fight choreography

Remember, in a different universe, Sonic Prime would've been a crossover between every Sonic continuity. giving a final send-off and a definitive conclusion to all of them before being put back in the vault because Sega of Japan hate everything that isn't from the games. Snivley (Satam) could've been the mastermind who started it, we could've fixed the shattered Mobius from the Archie Comics because iirc, the comics were cancelled before they finished the Unleashed adaptation, Sonic (Underground), Sonia, and Manic could've defeated their robotnik and reunited with their mother, TELL ME THAT SHOULDN'T'VE BEEN WHAT PRIME WAS! I DARE YOU!

Sonic prime was so disappointing..they ignored. EVERYTHING we wanted...

It baffles me that Knuckles is the greedy pirate captain and Rouge is the stern and strong tribe leader, when it should be flipped

even ian flynn didn't want it to be canon.

I actually really like prime I think it’s all around fun. Only thing I don’t like is it being canon for some reason.

Sonic was to dumb in that show and apparently green hill is the only place that exists ever

There is good news to be heard. RU-vidrs Mark Parkinson and CJ Puppet are remaking the entirety of Sonic Prime S3 into a much better story.

If we have fans out here straight up recreating bad games and creating completely original games, could we get a project where the fans fully remake the final season of Prime? Please lets get this done

I dipped in the middle of season 3,I couldn’t stand how Sonic was characterized.

It was just a generic brand show made for 5 year olds and only them, only thing it’s got going for it is how it looks way better than most cg cartoons I just pretend like it’s not canon since they ignored all of Ian Flynn’s notes and revisions

If they didn't bother to align with the continuity of the games, the games have no reason to align with the continuity of the show

I think the main problems is that it was claimed canon, they only had one season to work with, Sonic had to be the main character and they wanted Nine to be the big bad villain that everyone works together to fight during the last arc. Which is why a couple of the episodes had more or less the same plot. They needed to keep Nine as an antagonist but with the way he’s written, His villain arc should only last about an episode or two. Which it would have had Sonic decided to deal with Nine on his own. in order to make Nine the way he is. Sonic had to be deliberately written badly.

I feel like you perfectly described how every season felt. First and Final were important and the rest were just filler to TRY to add some story and “lore.” I ABSOLUTELY HATE the fact that they threw shadow in a hole to get rid of him. They had so much potential in season two just to throw it all away in season three

I just wish we could have seen more Shadow

Heavy on what you said about shadow. WHY DON'T THEY USE HIM. Good video socks

I honestly do like Sonic Prime, I liked(MOST of) the plot, and honestly it was a nice show for me. Just don’t like how it’s canon, or how exactly it works as canon

We were also straight up missing an episode from season 3 since the final one ended on a cliffhanger. With the kinda lazy explanation of “season 1 episode 1 is twice as long so we’re just gonna act like this was intended the whole time”

I remember a video saying that it's coincidencial that every first episode was the highest rated ones. And who was in those episodes? Shadow. Not to mention, Netflix promotes the first episodes of each season. This makes it believeable Shadow was a marketing tool.

The show fell off so bad i don't even consider it cannon in my headcannon

I’m really disappointed they didn’t bring in the rest of the characters and have different takes on them

And for anybody who wants to defend prime Sonic by dissing movie Sonic, movie Sonic is deliberately an alternate version meant to be an impressionable younger teenager who is still growing into his own for the sake of getting more mileage out of the character’s growth for more entries while prime Sonic is a flanderized OOC version of an established character within an established canon all so the production team could get their kicks out of making a cheap silly fun time haha cartoon show without caring too much about details.

3:54 Becuase out of the 23 episodes HE'S ONLY IN 8 OF THEM!!!

The best part of this show was Shadow. Other than that everything of this show was bad.

I will never love the jungle or Pirate characters and if they're going to ignore me and make childish characters in the way at least do a good job of making me care about them like give them a back story or something to make me care about them but no we don't know anything about them none of them have any backstory or character traits at all WHY SHOULD WE CARE IF THEY DIE OR NOT!?!? Also every universe is so basic they could have gone more creative with that but no every universe is so uninteresting and there's no other Sonic level or other different type of world every single world is a different version of Green Hill.

The animation and action is great, but it became soo annoying that they gave more appearances to the shatter space versions of the characters who aren't as interesting as the real versions of them instead of having the episode plots be serious enough for Shadow to need to be with Sonic more in the story plots instead of having the Ultimate Lifeform be sidelined. Why have the second most popular character in the whole franchise who lots of people would want to see and finally wasn't being shown as an unlikable edgeloard jerk only be in some episodes and also only get a small amount of screentime in those episodes?! What happened at the end of the final episode looks more like a cliffhanger than a true finale to the show because they showed that a battle was about to start, and gave no explanation of where Shadow had ended up at after he cleverly used Chaos Control to warp himself and the connected Paradox Prism shards away so that Eggman couldn't get those gems! PS, Was it just me, or did anyone else think that the Chaos Counsole member who was called Mr. Dr, Eggman looked as if he was wearing an Ace Ventura Pet Detective cosplay wig all the time? Lol.😂 Him dressing up a bit like a character who was in the past played as by the comedian actor who was cast in as the 2020s movie counterpart of the real Eggman a.k.a. Robotnik can be hilarious for sure.

I think the premise of the show could've been more interesting if every universe that sonic explores into strictly had one alternate version of the cast per world. That would've given the show the opportunity to give more time to flesh them out without having to juggle with every single character varient and preventing it from feeling cluttered. This is kinda what show try to do with having the one primary character for each of sonics friends but we never got one for rouge and two of the of those worlds were bland plot relevent worlds instead of getting more interesting themes

it’s a shame that they wasted such stellar and alive animation.

I can't lie sonic prime being canon don't makes much sense to me like sonics personality is to childish and he's way to weak and when sonic was fighting chaos sonic and he never mentioned that he already met a robot version of himself

The problem is that they don’t go too deep with the multiverse concept. Like, the Eggman world is overused and obvious, the plant one is just there, the pirate one doesn’t make sense, since it’d make sense for Rouge to be the greedy pirate and not Knuckles, and as for Big and Tails, they get shafted. They don’t have alternate worlds that would fit who they are, no swamp or science world. Just the Grim, Colorless Hill, and the Void. As for threats, they’re just kinda boring. The Chaos Council feels like if the Deadly Six lost a member, and were all Eggman, Chaos Sonic was an interesting idea until Grim Sonic came in, and made him meaningless, and they had an opportunity to give us Evil Tails with Tails Nine, and then dropped the ball. Also, the rules aren’t explained. Like, why does Eggman only exist in one world, how did Tails make robot devices in the pirate world, what was the Grim, how does the Prism Crystal or whatever work, who made it, how did Eggman hear about it, what happened to Orbot and Cubot, what happened to other Sonic characters and villains, why is Big in every world despite not being near the explosion, why is Omega missing. So many questions, and yet none of them are answered. Also, why did the advertising make it seem like this show would be a time traveling show where Sonic had to stop a bad future made by Eggman, where Amy is a cyborg, Tails has nine tails, Rouge is a general, and Knuckles is whatever the muscle in a army is called. For the first season, at least.

I agree the show’s writting can be pretty bad. Sonic Prime shouldn’t be canon and Prime!Sonic should be his own thing. But I do really like him a lot. He’s not always well written but when he is, he’s so sweet, wholesome, energetic and acts/sounds like an actual teenager. Not to mention his model and animation are some of my favorites in terms of 3D animation. He’s just too kind and caring for you to hate him while at the same time you hate the fact that he’s canon to the games when he shouldn’t be. Deven is also my favorite VA for him. His range is ridiculously good. Shadow too. I loved him throughout all the craziness he had to be put through in this crazy show.

This videos a taddd late..but! Happy to get this out💙! What are yalls thoughts on sonic Prime? #roadto1k almost over!

I want my boy shadow to be in more shows and not be sidelined so what he’s powerful JUST GET HIM MORE INVOLVED also shadow in sonic prime was my absolute favorite character sonic on the other hand he’s my favorite character too it’s just he’s so childish and reckless but that still didn’t make me hate the show it’s still my favorite

Instead of a multiverse, they should have just focused on the one alternate universe with New Yolk City, where Eggman won. Also, watching this right after playing Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart...the similarities are uncanny. And Ratchet and Clank did it better.

If we never brought Shadow back (between Sonic Heroes-present) in the first place, none of this would have ever happened.

This is why i feel i think that it should be a different continuity from the games, and i hope Sonic Prime doesn’t get namedrop in future games or i gotta do something.

I mentally checked out once I could see that (the true) Eggman wasn't going to be involved in the story after ep 1. The little screen time he had was great, so it was a huge letdown.

2:00 ok I heard so many sonic tubers use this music so what is the name of this music

Sonic shows where at its prime in sonic x

Still haven't watched it since it dropped

It was generic kids show slop, I literally fell asleep half way through season 2 and didn’t bother with the rest.

They should bring back sonic boom because of Disappointment called sonic Prime

Look how .they. massacred My Girl(rouge)

I feel like Sonic Prime is a worse viewing experience when you watch it as three 8 episode seasons instead of One Singular 24 episode season. But even if you were to consider all of Sonic Prime as one single 24 episode season it's still a mostly subpar show with a few good moments sprinkled in every couple episodes or so.

It was such a stupid idea to make the show canon and for Sega to apparently make the comics canon too they're trying to make every single piece of Sonic media canon and it's not working and obviously it's not working cuz it's such a stupid idea.

Remember when it premiered on roblox ☠️

WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE THIS FUCKIN SHOW?! Okay, I get it! It's flawed. Sonic's character is kinda annoying. WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCK WAS THE GODDAMN POINT OF THE VOID???!!! But I loved it despite these flaws. Nothing is perfect and what worked, worked for me and my family! I dunno, maybe it's because I'm a die-hard Tails fan and seeing him finally become a villain after ALL that foreshadowing sense GODDAMN COLORS it was a big relief to me. His character MADE that show! Also seeing Shadow NOT be an edgy punching bag or a stupid angsty bully was also a relief too. The animation was fantastic, the character interactions were mostly good, the musical score was great, I GENUINLY liked the Chaos Council despite it's cringe, and despite it being rushed it told a pretty good rollercoaster of a story. Sure we could wish for more, but why not appreciate what we have. And why are we even complaining we need more in the first place? We are literally mostly writers or artists as fans; if we want more we could just MAKE more.

Sonic Prime could've been about Sonic meeting other versions of himself (the animated counterparts, comic counterparts) after shattering the crystal and all them working together to get the universe back to normal while fighting all the other incarnations of Eggman over the years as well.

They didn't learn from the Anime, uh?

Sonic prime had the worse characterization

Maybe they shouldn’t make any more of the animated series and more of the RU-vid animated shorts to promote the games and IDW comics instead.

Sonic prime Had alot of Great ideas on Paper But in terms of Execution i Think it Felt Mishandled

The biggest sin of any TV show is rendering itself pointless. The ending retroactively makes the whole series worthless, as there's zero investment to be had knowing everything will be undone. A whole year's worth of time and investment for nothing. Shame to have such a great cast wasted. And with what we know now about the writers ignoring the lore management team despite this show being _declared_ canon, only makes it worse. And yes, I specified _declared_ because, like IDW before it, this was never meant to be canon, it was just declared so after the fact; contradictions and inconsistencies be damned. And because of that, I will tolerate no Knuckles hate. That show beats Prime by default, on the grounds that it has an actual story with a beginning, middle and end that they commit to. I am confident at calling Sonic Prime the WORST Sonic series of all time.

Oh my god! I thought I was alone when it came to hating it!

I didn’t like how they did Sonic but I like the first two seasons 🙃

Sonic was too selfish and annoying. It’s always him.

Sonic fans are too negative.

Tye Chaos Council is a lazy excuse for villains.

Sonic Prime missed the mark. Simple as that. Why couldn't Sonic in prime just be consistent with the Sonic from the games?

I think prime was alright tho, but could have been better in many aspects.

Sonic is not a hero or neither a villain. He doesn't care.

The only thing I didnt like was when it became canon to the mainline games and it still baffles me.

In my opnion i think would be more interesing if sonic could actually have a multiverse of sonics imagine how cool it wouldve bee that have a sonic team vs the eggmans

show was fine people whining way too much

AOSTH still on top

Nice A New Sonic Discussion! However My Expectations For Sonic Prime Was Good But Then After The Series Was Cancelled I Had Gave My Final Score For Season 1 It Was Kinda Mid Honestly! Season 2 Was A Step-Up From Season 1 And Chaos Sonic Is A Gold Mine! Also Season 2 Had Sonic Become Prism Sonic And He Only Made His First And Last Appearance Like Bruh!!!!! And Season 3 It Was Trash! Nine Being A Weak Villain In This Season Also Shadow In This Series Was Great! Shadow Was More Serious Than Sonic Because Well Sonic Was Being Childish Also The Four Versions Of The Main Cast Was Great Expect For Sonic And Shadow Also Why Is It Canon Well Ian Flynn Said That It Takes Place Between Sonic Advance 3 And Sonic Rush I Think But Other Than That Sonic Prime Was A Alright And Lame Series At The Same Time! But Nice Discussion Dude Also I Can't Wait For Sonic Tales Season 4! Anyways Thanks Socks For This Awesome Video!

I never thought I’d actually find a reason as to why Sonic, Sonic, Sonic, and Sonic agreed to put this show at the depths of the list Until i found this random video right in front of me Lets see what all the hate is about

Fluent in what?

Nine is the worst sonic villain

The last season mess it up all they did was fight

Sonic Prime mainly failed because it promised to show a lot of different dimensions, but all we got is several empty and boring locations with Sonic characters designs. Now, I get that Sega is mostly responsible with not including other Sonic incarnations(a bunch of killjoys), but even without them involved just like with Spiderverse fans would've most likely expected Prime Sonic interacting with other worlds from other cartoons and comics. But nope, we got just a whole boring lot of nothing just like with Knuckles show. By the time of season 3 I was so bored I didn't give a damn that Nine will be the final boss, it was that much anticlimactic. I'm going to repeat this in every Prime discussion, whoever happens to read this, just check out Sonic Villians fan film and wait for it's final release, that's the real Sonic multiverse with passion, the crew behind this does their best to make it epic.

After Frontiers ushered us out of the Meta era (at least I like to think so) Prime felt… late to the party. I don’t really like any of the games in the Meta era (besides Generations) but had this come out at the same time as, say Lost World, it would’ve at least fit the tone the rest of series was going with even if it sucked. I like bits of Sonic Prime but overall, it’s pretty eh. Voice actors are a decent fit tho direction was hit or miss, the models are also pretty good. If they used em in the games, I wouldn’t be against it. Oh and it being canon to the games makes no sense whatsoever. 100% agree that that is stupid

I woodve included blaze & given her a blazing dimension.

People who hate Sonic’s character in the show have obviously never met a teenage boy before

I liked sonic prime season 1 and I loved season 2 but season 3… is so unbelievably rushed I can barely call anything good about it. It is disappointment on the highest regard and this series works much better in its own universe especially in terms of Sonic, there is no way the same Sonic form the canon would act the same like Sonic did in this show. I think people wouldn’t have mind it too much if it was its own thing. I like the first two seasons but season 3 is so disappointing and to the fans out there, please rewrite season 3 or the show as a whole. I like this show but even I agree it could’ve been done better and so fans please rewrite this show and make it fantastic like you guys did with forces and the bad Sonic games.

I was fine with the first two seasons, it was great for the first season and got bad in the second I thought there was gonna be more worlds! The last season was just the same thing over and over and over agian.

Honestly, it was alright in my opinion. Just a neutral opinion

I literally dgaf I love sonic prime🙏🙏

I cannot be the only one who thinks you sound like Cybershell

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This show was trash, i can't believe Boom death for this shit

sonic x and adventures of sonic and satam and sonic ova is better than this shit