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I've always wanted to know what the fanbase thought of this show. I know absolutely nothing about sonic whatsoever, never played any of the games or anything like that. But my nephew watched this all the time when I would babysit him and I grew very fond of the characters and adult wink nod humor. It has become one of my go to brainless shows for when i'm stressed out and i've seen it several times now, i like it a lot even though it can be childish at times.
Did fans appreciate the schtick or did they find it insulting? Also are there any inside jokes I would have missed?
I liked the show, dare I say it was definitely one of the more engaging Sonic cartoons along with AoStH and the later half of Sonic X to a fair degree in my opinion.
I think the show's biggest strength was it's characterization approach in where characters would be far more chill with each other and conflict isn't treated as serious business most of the time, which allowed for some interesting premises like Sonic and Eggman being teammates on a quiz show, Knuckles trying a brief stint as a lawyer and Tails being suckered into joining a gang of petty evildoers.
The only critiques I have with Boom is that while the animation is decent enough sometimes it can be stiff but they mostly worked that out with the 2nd season, Amy's 'girl-power'-boasting on rare occasion feels incredibly forced and embarassing, and that Shadow's rare appearance in the show has no real in-universe justification for it other than them really just going 'oh he's the 2nd-most popular character in the series' that it feels hamfisted in and just to check out a box.
Sticks was pretty much the biggest standout element from the show hence they included her in the Rio 2016 Olympics and Runners games as well as getting her own page in the Sonic Channel character gag comics from the series' 25th anniversary despite not even being part of the mainline games herself, so I presume there were plans to incorporate her as a canon foreigner into the series at some point but it fell through?
A real shame since her character was pretty entertaining and I'd loved to see her comment on how different her friends are in mainline series continuity, unless they'd re-introduce her proper.
If this standalone show entices you to dip into the series with some games, go for it, just don't expect the characters to be as chill as in Boom, ha.