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"The servers are the 7 Chaos. Chaos is power... Power enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the Chaos."- Tikal Hello I'm Seth. I've been trying to figure out what makes the Chaos Emeralds tick ever since I got into the franchise. These mystic gems are mysterious and confusing due to the many lore inconsistencies of the franchise. In this form me and other sonic stadium members will uncover all there is to make the Chaos Emeralds make sense. To start things off I want to show some crazy things that will make a lot of things more clear so people can understand this as well as possible. 1] The super emeralds. Okay so I bet most people will not know this but... THE SUPER EMERALDS ARE NOT REAL!!! As much as I want them to be real they were never cannon. Christian Whitehead quotes "There stone relics, created in their absence when the Chaos Emeralds once again drifted off into the special stage dimension." Which means in doomsday in sonic 3 and knuckles it is not hyper sonic but rather a incomplete version of super sonic. Now we know hyper sonic flashes the color of the chaos emeralds in his "form". Basically its his super form turning on and off rapidly with the small light of his incomplete super form shining through the relics as they deactivate and reactive. The Chaos Emeralds are supposed to be in the altar in Hidden Palace Zone, but as we know. Sonic needs thom to defeat his enemies. Once he defeats them, the chaos Emeralds are gone, but they go into a Special Dimension where you can collect them later. What happens at the altar is that stone relics are created or formed due to the void left in the Chaos Emeralds' respective positions. I will have more soon but I want to see the fans show this forum some theories and lore about the emeralds. -Seth

Kek, pressed the Enter Button too early. But anyway. I guess this is going to be "that" topic. The "what would you have changed, included, or excluded, if you could go back in time and magically take charge of Big Red Button and form Sonic Boom in your image. Because Hindsight is 20/20. The only rule is you can't exclude major characters. So if you didn't like Lyric at all well too bad. You can't just get rid of him. I for one, wouldn't have used a time travel plot. I don't get time travel, it always creates plot holes. Anyone have any headcanons or "fixes" they would like to share? Also, do you think RoL relies too much on external sources of info, ie. the cartoons, and comics, to explain it's universe? There is like 5% world building maybe in the actual game but no cutscene ever tries to explain who these characters are and how they meet. I mean, if this was an original IP and not just Sonic in a broken Jak and Daxter game, then maybe this would have been fine. But since people who were interested in this game already know who Sonic and Company are, Buuuut they are in a totally different setting, it left me scratching my head. If they weren't going to bother with explaining things then why make this a spin off? Should have just made a run of the mill Sonic game where we know who is who and why they do what they do. To use Jak and Daxter as an example, In the first game, we learn about Eco but really that's all we learn. Eco is good. Dark Eco is bad. But it was an original IP and the characters are in their own original universe so the story we got did it's job well enough. Also the ending screams "There is more to come!" And so we got Jak 2 and 3 which gave us more world building and we eventually find out that it's a big time travel story. So I'm thinking, what if BRB had planned for more games, at least 1 more game, that would give more meat to Sonic Boom's world? It's ambitious to say the least, but at this rate who knows if that's gonna happen or not. Did RoL and SC sell better than, like, Sonic Chronicles? Chronicles ended on a cliff hanger and was obviously meant to have sequel but it sold so poorly that that is an impossibility now. But I wonder if the time travel in Boom is basically how it worked in Jak and Daxter. So if there was a sequel, there would have been a technologically advanced "past" and a lush, simplistic future. With the fall of the Ancients (What a generic name) also came with it a fall of civilization. Sonic games really really really like their islands don't they? If it's not in the water then it's floating in the air. Initially I was going to call the main setting of Boom South Island until a quick Google search revealed they live on Bygone Island. And then there is yet another island named Slowpoke Island. With the Citadel being this universes flying island.

For those unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, people like to come up with theories for why certain cartoons exist, or what they're really trying to represent. For example, did you ever stop to wonder, maybe the kids in Ed Edd 'n Eddy are all in purgatory? That the Rugrats are all a product of Angelica'a imagination? That every episode of the Pokemon anime beyond the first episode has been a coma dream? These theories are ridiculously fun to think about if they're well-thought out. The most recent theory I've discovered: all the Pixar movies are actually telling one big story arc: Other theories worth mentioning: -Dora the Explorer has Downs Syndrome -The Fairly Odd Parents represent anti-depressants -The Winnie the Pooh characters all represent mental disorders -The Spongebob SquarePants characters represent the seven deadly sins -The kids in Phineas and Ferb are in a mental institution -Donald Duck is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder Know any other theories? Got your own? Share them!

Have you ever play through a game or watch a show/movie and wonder if there a deeper meaning to it? I sure do. So this topic is where you can discuss intended and unintended metaphors in the media! It can range from games, TV shows, comic, books, anime, art, and manga. So anyway, I recently watch a Anime called Fooly Cooly (Also known as FLCL) If you just watch it normally, you probably view it as a "lol Japan is on crack again!" anime, but if you watch it a bit more seriously; the whole anime seem to be a big metaphor. So what the metaphor? The journey to maturity. I won't go deep into the topic since it does include topics about sex, but I do recommend that you watch the anime yourself (It just 6 episodes long) or read this article about the metaphor: http://www.flclw.com/analysis/ (As I mention before, it does include the topics about sex so avoid reading this if you feel uncomfortable about it. So that enough of me finding a deeper meaning in Anime that was just made for experimental purposes, what yours?