Sonic Boom: How Late Fees could have worked

Hey, guys. How’s Sonic Boom going for you? For those of you who have watched the Late Fees episode, how was it? Good? OK? Terrible? And for those of you who haven’t watched the Late Fees episode, but have heard of it, I bet you’re really excited about this. If you haven’t watched this episode yet, then I suggest you watch it on YouTube before reading what I am about to say.

When I watched this episode, I was not too happy. Sonic, who is supposed to be the fastest thing alive, takes a very long time to return a friend’s book to the library. He gets caught up with senior citizens, traps, food cravings and Eggman attacks. One of the scenes that really bothered me in this episode is that Sonic comes across the Old Monkey (that’s his name, I think), who takes a bit of a long time to walk past him. 

I’m going to make a movie reference out of this: A Bug’s Life. There is a scene where the ant colony is delivering food the Offering Stone, one of the ants notices a leaf falling to the ground and when it does, the army of ants panic. Mr. Soil, another ant, sees this and calms them down, by telling them that the only to get through this is to go around the leaf. The ants are hesitant to do this, so Mr. Soil shows them how it’s done, and that gets the ants back in line.

Now here’s the thing with Sonic (in this episode) that irritates me: according to the Sonic Boom wiki, Sonic is a quick thinker. So, if he is a quick thinker, why didn’t he think quickly enough to go around the monkey? I know that the episode is doing this for the sake of the purpose of the plot (just to show how patient he is), but that just contradicted what Sonic was supposed to be doing: thinking about how to solve this problem quickly!

But don’t worry, this episode has a happy ending. I decided to make this an Amy focused episode because I believe that it would make more sense for her, instead of Sonic, to struggle with the book return policy. Are you ready for this? Then let’s begin.

The episode starts off with Amy doing girl things because why not. She then remembers that she has to return a book to the library by 7pm, and has only 2 hours to do so. She goes to the table where she left her book, but the book is gone. Thinking that she has misplaced the book (I don't know why she did), she looks all over her house but to no avail. She then decides to look all over town, hoping to find the book.

Amy bumps into her friends, one by one, and asks them to help her find the book. They individually go around town asking the villagers where her book is, but nobody knows where the book is. When they return to tell Amy this, she becomes upset and panics and starting blaming them for taking the book, which they all deny. Amy heads over to Eggman's lair and demands that he returns her book, but he doesn't have it.

Amy goes insane (as she is running out of time), while her friends try to calm her down. But it is already too late, it is 7pm and her time is up. Amy sulks and sits on a bench to mope about paying the late fees. Someone shows up and calls out her name, it's Sonic the Hedgehog. He asks her what's wrong and she explains what happened. Sonic confesses that he took the book, which causes Amy to flip and accuse him of stealing the book and then losing it.

Sonic tells her that he took the book to return it to the library (as he read the due date and time), and gives her a receipt as proof. Amy is at first angry that Sonic took the book, but is happy with him for doing such a sweet thing for her. She also feels remorse for her actions towards her friends and Eggman. She then gently warns him that next time he should leave the return policy of her own books to her.

What do you guys think of this idea of a Late Fees episode? I know I shouldn’t be saying this, but I like this idea better.

Anyway, please let me know what you guys think in the comments (Google+). 

Thanks for reading, and take care.