Hey, guys. Excited for the second season of Sonic Boom? I bet you are, and I don’t blame you. The first episode focuses on a tigrine actor named Tommy Thunder. I did not – repeat, not – like this episode when I watched it. The villagers in this episode forgot about Sonic (again!) and treated him like dirt (again!) after he worked so hard to protect the village from harm. Hopefully, I will find a way to fix this episode later on. For those of you who haven't watched it yet, I suggest you do before reading what I am about to say. This review contains spoilers, so please watch the episode first before reading this. Are you ready for this? Then, let's begin.
The episode starts off with everyone queuing up to see the action hero, Tommy Thunder. Everyone (except Sonic) is excited to talk to him in person, Knuckles compliments his strength and abilities, Amy compliments his eyes and Tails and Sticks compliment the (ridiculously named) movies he stars in. Tommy shows up and gives a walrus kid an autographed photo of himself (of Tommy, not the kid), while telling him that he could be a hero someday.
With that out of the way, Team Sonic step in to greet the actor, and he tells Tails that he could be a hero someday. Even though he is a hero, according to Sonic (which from him meant almost nothing to Tails). A news reporter steps in to give off a report about the actor, when suddenly a cop tells the villagers to escape from Eggman’s attack on the village, but only if he escapes first.
Was that even supposed to be funny? Was anyone supposed to laugh at someone (a COP, especially) putting themselves first, in a dangerous situation? That’s like the captain telling the evacuees to get off the sinking ship, but only if the captain goes first (talk about being selfish!).
Eggman is attacking a baker for giving him a dozen (of pastries or something), instead of a baker’s dozen. Either the baker is really stupid, or he had made a baker’s dozen but had a box that only could fit a dozen in, or he didn’t have enough ingredients to make a baker’s dozen. I know that Eggman is supposed to be evil, but why would you even threaten, or try, to hurt or kill someone for giving you the wrong quantity of something?
Sonic and friends interfere with Eggman’s attack, deal with him as they usually would and are hailed as heroes (this is the ONLY time they are hailed as heroes). This gives Tommy an idea of how to become a hero. He does this by inviting Sonic’s friends (late at night) to Meh Burger (which for some weird reason has a VIP room), to know more about Sonic. The next day, Amy – who I think is in love with the tigrine actor – tells Sonic to give him another chance, to which he reluctantly agrees.
The azure hedgehog becomes annoyed at Tommy’s actions: following him around while filling his ears with questions and copying his attire (the scarf and sports tape). Tails, at his workshop, detects an attack somewhere in the village. Only to find the Weasel Bandits robbing TVs. Seriously, why can’t the cops handle this? Well, maybe it’s because… I don’t know. Sonic and friends deal with the TV stealing weasels, with Knuckles having to deal with carrying the piled up TVs and Sonic ties up the Weasel Bandits. Only for Tommy (who thinks he’s in a movie for some reason), to ask Sonic to untie the thugs so that the actor can get the job done.
The Weasel Bandits (who should have escaped at the time) allow Tommy to do so, and Sonic unties them to give Tommy a chance to deal with the bandits. When the news reporter and the villagers hail Tommy as a hero, he takes all the credit! This understandably infuriates Sonic, to the point where he wants nothing more to do with him. Tommy then talks about his ‘heroic actions’ on the late night Comedy Chimp show and claims that he can take on Eggman.
And when Eggman shows up to attack Tommy, he cowers in fear and begs Sonic to help him (the tiger even admits his real name, which I don’t really care about, to be honest). Sonic does his usual thing, saving the day. Then the news reporter shows up to ask Sonic about Tommy’s heroic prowess while the villagers are hailing Tommy as a hero, upsetting the blue hedgehog.
Sonic (instead of saying ‘no comment’ and walking away, like he should have done) decides to give ALL of his well-deserved credit to Tommy, pleasing the actor as he discusses his (ridiculously named) upcoming space movie. The next day, Amy congratulates Sonic for sharing the credit with Tommy, and she is sure that he will be rewarded for his maturity. And the episode ends with Team Sonic learning that Meh Burger doesn’t (and didn’t) have a VIP room.
Now, I am going to have to disagree with what Amy said to Sonic. She says that Sonic maturely shared his credit with Tommy, but to me, Sonic foolishly gave away all his credit to someone who didn’t deserve it. I would like to think that Amy is still in love with the actor. Also, I have to wonder if the villagers would still love Tommy Thunder (as much as they do now) if he chose to sacrifice them in order to save himself, only for Sonic to step in for him to save their lives and get zero thanks and zero respect for doing so.
I have an idea on how this episode could have worked: everyone except Sonic likes Tommy Thunder because he's a hero (from their P.O.V.) and Sonic straight up tells him that he's just an actor and not a hero (never has been and never will be). Team Sonic is upset with him and this goes on for quite some time. Sometime later, Tommy (with Sonic’s words ringing his ears) decides to do something that involves taking down Eggman's robots, to prove to Sonic that he IS a hero.
Sonic, seeing this, intervenes and takes Tommy to safety and scolds him for his actions, wanting to know why he would do something like that, to which Tommy responds, ‘To prove you wrong’. Sonic realises his mistake, apologises and assures him that he, in fact, IS a hero (with the things he does to inspire people) before running off to take care of Eggman.
Everything goes well until Sonic is captured and (not graphically) tortured. Tommy compares the real thing to what he does behind the scenes, and to save Sonic’s life, he gets into his action hero character and deals with Eggman. Sonic, angry at first (for endangering himself), is grateful that Tommy saved his life and the episode ends with BOTH people being declared as heroes.
Believe it or not, this idea would have made the episode somewhat easier to watch. That's it for the episode review. If you like the episode, I'm OK with that. And I would totally understand if you don't.
Thanks for reading, and take care.
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