What was your favorite Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon?

Which Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon did you enjoyed the most: The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic Underground?

Sonic X is an anime and Sonic Boom hasn't premiered yet, but we could include Sonic X in this also.

For me personally, I enjoyed Sonic Satam the best so far because I loved the way that they developed each character and it really inspired the back story for Sonic the Hedgehog at that time.

Adventures. Pretty much the only one of the old-school shows to capture the spirit of the games at that time, if not the particulars. Just Sonic, Tails, and Robotnik trying to get them. Sat AM really got away from the spirit of the games and just used the bare bones to do something just not Sonic-y, and it lead to the clusterfuck that is the Archie comic book, and Underground was... Oh God.

edited 18th May '14 1:00:41 PM by maxwellelvis

Sat AM as well, for the same reason.

Sat AM is my favorite VG cartoon period.

Objectively, I'd say that the best of the cartoons was SATAM, though other than a few of the characters, it doesn't really have anything to do with the source material.

I found Satam to be a nice new take on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, even though it wasn't that close to the source material, since The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is much closer to the source material to the point where its theme song is very similar to the original Sonic the Hedgehog game.

SATAM.

Adventures. It was funnier and closer to the source material, even if I am always happy to hear the Paulsen/Cummings team-up. I don't know if I ever saw Sonic Underground but from what I've heard about it, it sounds even further from the source material than SATAM. Though Sonic X was the only one that was on at a regular time when I was old enough to care, so I watched that one the most.

They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Yes, this means I even like Underground.

I love adventures of sonic,don't particularly care about Underground or SATAM,and I don't really like X,for many reasons(not just because of Chris or Cosmo).

The original games didn't have a storyline that could support a series, so Adventures' arguable 'fidelity' to them (it often was too far out and wacky compared to the non remarkable in terms of humor early games) never was a point up in my book.

The Movie.

I enjoy the OVA/Movie the most as well, but no one's mentioned it, so... XD

The movie OVA was weird. I think that's what Sonic team wanted to do, but then Adventures fucked it all to Hell. Plus it was the first to use a human love intrest(?) before 06'. All-in-all, Adventures was a fun, sugary rush. It became stupider after a while due to going it's own way, but that pretty much WAS the whole game: A hedgehog running from a bad man. That's livin'.

I'm mostly with Twentington on this. They were all about the same worth in terms of a cartoon. I may side with both Adventures and the OVA however. The OVA seemed about the most well crafted of the bunch, while Adventures was about the only Sonic cartoon that didn't feel overly grandiose at any point. It was a silly cartoon and didn't try to play itself as being any higher, and I can appreciate that.

edited 18th May '14 6:28:15 PM by Psi001

I don't have to much of a preference for any of them. But I guess I will say Sonic X due to me not being to bothered by Chris or Cosmo. Hell I think they missed a opportunity there with Cosmo. They could of introduced in her in Canon as the third member of Team Rose in Sonic Heroes at the time to replace Big as he was not really that much of a interesting character in the first place. Maybe this would of changed the direction Shadow ended up going in his own game (Still don't know why they thought giving him guns was a okay idea).

Sonic X had potential, but something about the characterizations put me off at times. They're like the games only Flanderized to an even more broken extreme. Sonic is not so much a character as an embodiment of positive traits they can't even make basic story focus on, Amy's bratty temper has been exagerrated into a standard "abusive Tsundere" archetype, while Knuckles is basically a mixture of Meg Griffin and Wheeler, constantly bullied and told his opinions are wrong for contradicting the team by even the kindest of characters such as Cream). It's annoying because some of them started out loyal to their normal forms and even were granted some degree of Character Development.

Season Three felt kinda all over the place, it was sorta like the other cartoons did in suffering an 'identity crisis' and trying too hard to be 'dark' and emotional, only with ten times as extreme the Mood Whiplash.

edited 19th May '14 8:46:25 AM by Psi001

I have good memories of SatAM. :)

Adventures. I thought Sat AM was too dark and gruesome for Sonic (And, keep in mind, I was an N64 Kid and I didn't have a fun time with the PS 1, so I was introduced to Sonic with Adventures 2 on Gamecube), albeit as a child I only had 1 VHS of both Series (Which was also the same time I got Adventures 2). I just really liked Adventures more, and I still do. Sat AM has it's moments, but I still feel like it's too dark, too gruesome, too much is going on and not funny enough. Adventures, while really goofy, is fun and funny and straightforward.

So put me in the Adventures camp.

edited 19th May '14 10:47:40 AM by DingoWalley1

... gruesome?

. I think he means the allegory in which death was portrayed, which was, of course, the roboticization of civilians. However, other than that allegory, it was not gruesome at all; there's no on-screen blood or guts scliced, stabbed, splutted out, etc.

I see your point Psi, I honestly just never really understood peoples problems with Cosmo and Chris in that show. Chris to me when I was younger just seemed like a stand-in character for all the younger viewers. I always heard people whining about how emo Cosmo was. You know whos also emo by that logic? Shadow, oh but he has such a huge fanbase so I guess the hypocrisy is lost on these guys....

edited 19th May '14 4:01:38 PM by Bleddyn

I admit, while they don't win awards for good writing, they hardly make the show unbearable. As said the original characters have just as atrocious writing flaws and unlikable traits. Chris and Cosmo's biggest flaw to me is that they're kinda bland and drag on about their insecurities in place of real personality displays (which likely plays into the whole 'emo' accusation).

I admit Satam felt like it was trying too hard to be kinda grim and over emotional at times, but couldn't really add up to it (eg. using red shirts the cast clearly didn't give a crap about, or Chuck's ridiculously nonchalant elaboration of the living death process of robotocization). While it is a unique take, I do think some people really exaggerate the emotional value and depth the Satam/Archie universe has. Looking at both of them today, most of the cast are actually more one note than those of the comical medias. I have already uploaded a more detailed analysis of the show here:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_comments.php?id=7562

edited 19th May '14 6:20:01 PM by Psi001

Aren't Jim Cummings (Robotnik), and Rob Paulsen (Antoine) the only big V As of Sat Am's cast?

You're forgetting Jaleel White.

There were also Kath Soucie (Sally) and Christine Cavanaugh (Bunnie), before she retired.