Netflix Premieres Sonic Prime Season 3's First Episode on YouTube, Available Now

I am going to watch this later, but i have a strong feeling I will like this a lot. I am excited for this and the next season!

I'm gonna wait for it all to release, so I can binge.

Torn between "I really want to watch this right now" and "my vertigo does not want me to watch this right now."

Sadly, I think the vertigo is winning.

This episode was fine. Action is as smooth as ever and so far Nine is pulling being a Big Bad pretty well, he gets the the evil posing down.

I am worried about how this can even fill 7 more episodes, because if Chaos Council was dead, then this could easily be finished in 2-3 episodes. I'm guessing Sonic will go through old Shatter Spaces yet again and I'm not too excited about this prospect.

Lastly, I have one major complaint, and it's a very very odd one.

Shadow is far too reasonable.

Well if anything, I'm sure some Sonadow shippers will be happy, much to Sontails fans dismay :P

1 hour ago, Knight Terror said:

I'm gonna wait for it all to release, so I can binge.

100% with you on that! Lol

While I may not like this show as much as other people, Shadow continues to be the best thing about it IMO.

Finally watched the episode.

How many seasons of this do they have planned out i wonder?

Given tbe INFINATE possibilities that could have been explored with the concept of a shatterverse it seems rather lazy we only see 4 diffeent ones before the the remerging or closeness to, remerging of the stone

Love the design of the Grim Metal Series!

42 minutes ago, castell-neath said:

How many seasons of this do they have planned out I wonder?

Given the INFINATE possibilities that could have been explored with the concept of a shatterverse it seems rather lazy we only see 4 diffeent ones before the the remerging or closeness to, remerging of the stone

Three. We're almost done.

1) There are only 4 shards
2) Infinite possibilities mean that we will never explore all of them, so four or a million is still less than 1% of infinity
3) Sadly the budget is very much not infinite, especially with 3D shows.

Well, now that was a cruel way to end things. Great episode, though! 

12 minutes ago, MetalSkulkBane said:

Three. We're almost done.

1) There are only 4 shards
2) Infinite possibilities mean that we will never explore all of them, so four or a million is still less than 1% of infinity
3) Sadly the budget is very much not infinite, especially with 3D shows.

Ah. Only 3?? Ok. I never knew this.

This may also answer a question posed in the Jakks Toys thread About them potentially moving on from Prime and juat producing recolours of existing designs.

Fantastic episode! I am ready to see the final batch on the 11th, but not ready for the wait... OTL

I haven't watched it yet but I have to wonder how this 'season' will make the show make more sense as canon

I might have to watch the episode again. I looked away foolishly during a key moment and suddenly...

11 hours ago, Danj86 said:

I might have to watch the episode again. I looked away foolishly during a key moment and suddenly...

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Shadow it throwing Sonic out of the Dimension and the fight. I missed why he chose to do that?! Crap!! Still....putting yourself in mortal danger to allow another to escape? That's something Maria did for Shadow. Neat reference or dumb luck? You decide.

 

I think it's just a loosely similar scene.

And he did it because Nine needs Prism Energy that Sonic still has in him.

I watched the episode yesterday, and- OMG! I was hanging onto every single scene as it all played out! Shadow being- different is really interesting! I can't wait to see how the rest of season three plays out!

Oof. Sonic having to watch his friends die and his world explode was pretty brutal. I mean wow, they are really kicking the dude while he was down.

And Nine really is full on Eggman at this point. Using his intellect to build his utopia no matter the cost. He's basically making Eggmanland. 

20 hours ago, castell-neath said:

Ah. Only 3?? Ok. I never knew this.

This may also answer a question posed in the Jakks Toys thread About them potentially moving on from Prime and juat producing recolours of existing designs.

This final season is also supposed to somehow explain how Prime is canon to the main Sonic series. I'm hoping its via actual multiverse travel with the main Sonic coming in for a assist, since a lot of Prime's problems disappear if Prime!Sonic simply isn't actually the Sonic Prime.

22 minutes ago, The Swordsman said:

a lot of Prime's problems disappear if Prime!Sonic simply isn't actually the Sonic Prime.

...You know, I heard recently people saying Tarkovsky Clone Wars is bad because "Jedi aren't supposed to be this strong"

Minor continuity issues really shouldn't be a decisive factor in whether the spin-off is good or not.

(also, I'm betting 100 to 1 that it ain't gonna happen)

2 hours ago, The Swordsman said:

This final season is also supposed to somehow explain how Prime is canon to the main Sonic series. I'm hoping its via actual multiverse travel with the main Sonic coming in for a assist, since a lot of Prime's problems disappear if Prime!Sonic simply isn't actually the Sonic Prime.

It would be interesting if at the end they decide to checkout the Starfall Islands....

I feel like Shadow should've taken out the Robot counterfeits he seems a bit weak for an ultimate lifeform, Emerald or no Emerald. If that was the Sonic X version of Shadow, Nine would already be dead lol. I do like him nice though but idk I feel like he isn't himself here, like where is his cocky attitude (I'm the coolest)? Like instead of saying, "I'll be fine!" He could've said something like, "they're alone with me!" Instead, he just got jumped on and got sent to the Shadow realm where he'll probably meet the Real Eggman in the dark void area.

29 minutes ago, juiceDpunk983 said:

If that was the Sonic X version of Shadow, Nine would already be dead lol.

But then what would we get for the last eight episodes?

Still, it's kind of interesting that the Big Bad of Season Three is literally Villain Tails. Who has access to incredible reality-altering power. That is NOT a scenario I could have ever expected outside of a crack fanfiction ten years ago. And I love it.

Also this popped up in my subscriptions and I think it fits perfectly (spoiler alert):

4 hours ago, MetalSkulkBane said:

...You know, I heard recently people saying Tarkovsky Clone Wars is bad because "Jedi aren't supposed to be this strong"

Minor continuity issues really shouldn't be a decisive factor in whether the spin-off is good or not.

(also, I'm betting 100 to 1 that it ain't gonna happen)

Thats just the thing though, in the lead up to Prime, a lot of people bit onto the hard sell that this was canon. That we'd be getting something 1 to 1 with the games verse.

and all things weighted, this version of Sonic, as a character,  just isn't that. Its not even close. This isn't the same Hedgehog that we saw running through any of the games. It'd be one thing to judge Prime as a spinoff, and weigh him on his own merits as an individual take on the character - but that kind of logic doesn't apply here because that's not the bill of goods we were sold. We were told to expect canon, and as it stands an alternate take on the character under that promise is unacceptable.

1 hour ago, juiceDpunk983 said:

I feel like Shadow should've taken out the Robot counterfeits he seems a bit weak for an ultimate lifeform, Emerald or no Emerald. If that was the Sonic X version of Shadow, Nine would already be dead lol. I do like him nice though but idk I feel like he isn't himself here, like where is his cocky attitude (I'm the coolest)? Like instead of saying, "I'll be fine!" He could've said something like, "they're alone with me!" Instead, he just got jumped on and got sent to the Shadow realm where he'll probably meet the Real Eggman in the dark void area.

I feel quite the opposite. Although Sonic was clearly the target of most of the focused abuse from the Grim team - he also took said abuse on the chin. He was getting bounced around like a pinball while Shadow fared much better holding his own. Shadow had to save Sonic multiple times over the course of the episode. Even if you go back and watch the running sequence in Ghost hill, there were several moments where Shadow had to reach back and push Sonic forward to keep him ahead of the pace. Saving him from the rouge asteroid. Keeping him from getting pancaked by Grim Amy's hammer and yeeting him into orbit at the end - the entire episode read like "Shadow > Sonic".

That's not a display of weakness. He outshines the main character by a fairly large margin.

There is no shame in getting dropped by what is essentially a small army of Metal Sonic's (especially considering how OP Chaos Sonic was). He's the ultimate life form, not a god. He lived up to the rep and then some. Without him, Nine would have captured Sonic and we'd be staring at a game over screen.

I know some are kinda mixed on Shadow in this first episode of the season. But honestly, I really like what they did with Shadow in Prime as a whole. And being more fleshed out as being some of the best parts of the show!

Sure, he was furious at the start of Season 2. But I can see why, lowkey because of his promise to Maria, tho the show doesn't hint towards that. It is something that occured to me when watching this episode. Only now he's shifted his anger to Nine, and going slightly easier on Sonic (after all, Shadow did lose the ones he cared about too, so he knows what Sonic's goin' through) while focusing on trying to make things right.

Either way, can't wait to see the remaining 7-episodes! Lowkey hoping Shadow's 4th Chaos Emerald shows up somewhere along the way, gotta at least get a Chaos Spear & Chaos Control moment in here somewhere.