Season 3 should be considered
I recently bought the Sonic the Hedgehog DVD set where it contains the whole series. It was great to see this series, I loved every inch of it.
I have been a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog for quite some time. Since I was unable to watch it on TV during its regular runs, I had to resort to Archie comics story line of Sonic -which by the way was a great reading. If any of you have read the Sonic comics, you can find that they were similar to the Sonic the Hedgehog series. This is why reading this comics series would make me feel closer to the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
In the end of the Sonic the Hedgehog one can find that the series leaves you hanging, as if one can be expecting a third season. Unfortunately, this never occurred because ABC did cancel the series after season 2 due to new leadership in the company.
I think that this form of decision making was rash and unintelligent. The series did contain much more potential than any other Sonic series. Including the one that is currently running; Sonic X. Sonic the Hedgehog did proved in being different, and more realistic. It seem that the things that were happening in the series were real. In other words, the story was believable.
This series had a wide variety of characters and ultimate ideas that can serve as metaphors; such as preserving nature vs contamination, freedom against tyranny, winning and losing, etc. This series highlighted through their stories how important it is for a group of people to stand for what they believe in.
It was unfair to cancel this series for the following reasons:
-The series was not given a respectable time in ABC and most of the time would have gotten cancel without the viewers knowing. I remember being one of the people who would get up early in the morning, just to watch this show; I also remember being disappointed because it was canceled due to football games or any other related sport.
-Since the other leading shows in that time would not cancel their Saturday morning cartoons, they started getting better ratings. This is cause and effect. This means that it was better to see other cartoons that would not change times -even if they were not as good- instead of watching Sonic because most people would go through my same disappointments.
-When the show was given reruns, it became more popular because people were able to catch up with the series, and thus loved it. Even now, there must be a good amount of people buying this DVD set collection. This means that making another series would defenetly equal that people would buy and see these series. In my mind this is good business for the broadcasting company.
-This series can probably make two other seasons and be successful because people now know what were the first two seasons and are expecting the third one since the project was never completed.
I do trust the writer Ben Hurst with his ideas for the third season. This was a great project and would hate to see it go down without it being finished. Inverting in the continuation of this project, giving it a better time on air, without interruptions, would definetly attract a big public. The public for this show, will not only be children but young adults too, which means that there will be more viewers, thus giving it better ratings. This is a win to win situation because the public will watch the series, the ratings will go up and the creator will be able to fulfill his dream in finishing his project.
I am certain that most of the cast will return, because it seems that this show bonded the people together in its making.
Things that people would like to see would be: Rising of Tails, Sinevely assuming control, introduction to Knuckles and the new villain Ixis Naugus.
Hope that anyone takes this into consideration and I would really like to form a campaign for making season 3 possible.
Please let me know what other things can I do for achieving this goal.
Jose Juan Pomales Lopez-