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Good Times
Netflix takes a classic sitcom, Good Times, and turns it into a vulgar, violent, sexually-charged TV-MA show.
Dr. Eggman is back at it again.
The round antagonist of Sonic the Hedgehog is looking to harness the energy of the Paradox Prism, a lovely multicolored gem that holds “untold power.” He’s finally found it, and it’s mere inches from his grasp.
Unfortunately for him, Sonic and his friends aren’t in the habit of letting villains obtain anything that can be described as having power—let alone power that hasn’t yet been told. It’s not long before Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Rouge arrive to save the day.
But if you were the main protagonist of a world-famous video game series stretching back more than 30 years, you might be a bit cocky, too. And so when Sonic rushes in to fight his hard-boiled nemesis, he doesn’t stop to consider just how dangerous smacking into the Paradox Prism may be.
As it turns out, the answer is “quite dangerous.” When Sonic comes to, he’s in a whole new universe—one where Dr. Eggman demolished the Green Hill Zone and constructed his own totalitarian cityscape on top of it. And when Sonic finds his friends, they’re alternate versions of them, with new names, gadgets and personalities. With each new revelation, Sonic realizes that getting back to his own reality is going to take a lot of work—and a lot of universe jumping, too.
Looks like Sonic will need to collect a few more gold rings to deal with this adventure.
Buckle up Marvel, you’re not the only significant franchise sailing the multiverse. To be fair, Sonic’s idea of the concept is called the “Shatterverse” (long story), but you get the idea.
There’s plenty of worlds for Sonic to explore in Sonic Prime, and they’ll each have him teaming up with (or fighting against) variations of his friends, all of whom have turned out drastically different based on their world’s circumstances. But if there’s one constant across the Shatterverse that we’ve seen so far, it’s that Dr. Eggman is one rotten egg, indeed.
That means that Sonic will go toe-to-toe against the villain’s robotic creations, and viewers can expect slapstick violence throughout each episode. Its TV-Y7 rating puts it in the same animated class as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ninjago and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The worst of its language concerns include “heck” and “doofus.”
Sonic Prime stands as a smash-‘em-up action series meant for younger audiences that generally remains free of any horrific content concerns. Unless you’re exhausted by constant exposure to the multiverse in media, the Blue Blur’s adventure likely won’t raise many issues.
While fighting his nemesis Dr. Eggman, Sonic accidentally runs into the “Paradox Prism,” sending him to an alternate universe.
Lots of slapstick violence occurs, including Sonic and friends exploding various robotic enemies and Sonic being hit by a bus. (He survives relatively unscathed.) We also meet an alternate version of Tails named “Nine” for his new number of tails, a likely reference to the Eastern tradition of the nine-tailed fox spirit.
Words like “heck,” “idiot,” “doofus” and “butt” are used.
Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”
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