Sonic Underground On DVD

[ZariusTwo]

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Already released on DVD in the UK years ago, the final US Sonic series involving Jaleel White and Ben Hurst, Sonic Underground, will be released in the winter.

A stange amalgamation of established SatAm designs, locations, and new mythologies, Underground attempted to tell a story of Sonic and two siblings, Manic and Sonia, who must reunite with each other and then their mother to fulfill a prophecy of overthrowing Doctor Robotnik's forces and restoring peace and civility to the kingdom. Leading a secret resistance movement under the guise of a traveling rock band (something swiped from the UK Fleetway Sonic The Comic), the series sometimes focused on one or two songs sung per episode, and most of them were bad.

Riddled with rumoured backstage politics, bizzare decisions, grating voice acting (Gary Chalk cannot do any voice that is'nt militant or commanding, and he should'nt remotley try), and unoriginal characters, SU proved to be a commercial dissapointment, and did'nt complete it's 65-episode syndication run, ending with the 40th episode.

It's only real highlights were the opening pilot (featuring a fairly intense scene where Sonic beleives his foster parents to have been killed in a fire when they were taken to be Robotized), some of Sonia's suprisingly well-written aristocratic background and romantic affairs, and the "Floating Island" trilogy featuring the first US apperance of Knuckles and the voice of Sean Connery as Knuckle's elder.