A commencer par moi qui suis un dingue de la série ! J'ecoutes les chansons VF/VO, je connais les épisodes par coeur et j'ai même le comic archie avec le crossover Archie/SU =3

Sans arler de mes multiples rèves de revoir un jour Manic et Sonia =3

Faut pas croire, cette série a eu ses Fans =3 même si ils etaient moins nombreux que ceux de SatAm

Perso, je trouve la série acceptable, sans plus. Les chansons sont dispensables.
Mais les model sheets que j'ai sont des plus intéressantes (je dois en avoir environ 400)

Sonic Underground was a sad, sad story. With the opportunity looming large for the third season of SatAm, DIC made a creative decision to trash that continuity and strike out in a new direction. The reason: because they could add songs with the whole Sonic, Sonia and Manic thing and collect extra residuals from ASCAP/BMI (the group that pays song royalties - DIC makes deals with songwriters to split or sign over the rights to their compositions - exactly the same way that they force the writers and story editors to sign over all rights to their stories.)

All residual payments for cartoons go to DIC - even the royalties set aside for creative people in Europe (based on blank videotape and audio cassette sales). There have been legal battles about that (through the Writer's Guild), but the only reputable animation producer in America (to my knowledge) to hand those monies over to the writers - was Warner Brothers. I've actually received royalty checks from the European release of episodes that Pat Allee and I wrote for "Tiny Toons."

Here's how Sonic Underground happened. After SatAm was canned because of a change in leadership at ABC and low ratings caused by multiple pre-emptions caused by sporting events and finally - being placed up against the red-hot "Power Rangers," (now there's some genius programming strategy) - a new version of Sonic was created: Sonic Underground.

Did they ask me or Pat or Len Janson to develop the series? No. In fact, I never heard of the series before a DIC story editor called and asked me and Pat to come to a cattle call for Sonic Underground. I refused (we don't do cattle calls - which, for those of you unfamiliar with the term - is where they bring in about 20 writers to learn about a series and pitch written premises (for free) in hopes of snagging an episode or two). The story editor got us there by guaranteeing us at least a few episodes. So, off we went to a conference room at DIC.

We got there and yep, twenty writers. They showed an episode of SatAm (first season) to "illustrate the background" of the characters. It wasn't one of mine or Pat's - it was one of the other episodes. After they described the marvelous new direction (Siblings, Music, Missing Mother, Stupid New Characters) they ended the meeting. We were taken into another room with the story editor who told us he wanted us to write the pilot episode. We did. Sega read the script, then the story editor was fired and we were hired. They also hired another team of story editors - who survived through about 8 episodes before they left. We also got a few fledgling writers shoved down our throat by the producer (results: I had to rewrite their damned unusable scripts from page one - they still got paid for the script - I got nada)

We tried our best to get some lore going, but DIC was racing through the series at 2 episodes a week - an insane pace and one calculated to maximize their profits. We managed to get a three-part origin story through, but with the limited time, we were unable to tie everything together. The only bright spot was that we assigned 6 scripts to Len Janson, who wrote some damn nice stuff.

So that's the saga of SU. As I rewatch some of the episodes, I'm surprised it's as good as it is. I'm fully aware it doesn't match up to SatAm and I would give my eye teeth to be hired to do the SatAm third season. But the only way for that to happen would be for some visionary exec at DIC to realize they're sitting on a gold mine.

Elle n'en a pas vraiment, elle s'achève avec "la réalité du virtuel" et on ignore comment ils arrivent à retrouver leur mère ni comment ils renversent Robotnik. On sait juste qu'ils le font parce que l'Oracle le dit dans l'épisode "on reprend au debut".

J'ai attendu une saison 2 mais en vain.

petite compensation: Un crossover archie se passe dans leur monde avec une histoire inédite et c'est à la suite de ça que Sonic nomme ses enfant Manik (avec un K, j'ai jamais compris pourquoi...) et Sonia dans un des futurs possible d'Archie.

Tu as lu celui qui se passe dans le Monde de Sonic Underground ?