Summary
Sonic Prime finishes on Netflix with a respectful seven-episode Season 3, but some audiences will wonder if the streaming giant will commission more stories.
Sonic Prime Season 3 concludes this saga of the famous Sonic the Hedgehog, and it goes without saying that this story will be sorely missed. Sonic Prime is not one for the history books, but it’s an enjoyable part of the canon that children and adults enjoy.
I was fully expecting Sonic Prime to reach the lengths of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, but alas, our hero bows out after three seasons. It can at least stay on the streaming service as a successful outing, even if it does feel like it ended prematurely.
If you’ve made it this far into the story, you’ll know that Sonic has quite a task on his hands that’s also quite emotional. His friend, Nine, has betrayed him, taking the Prism for themselves and deciding to form their own reality, which puts the entirety of Shatterspace at risk.
It’s an emotional angle: Sonic knows there’s good in Nine, but Nine feels bitter and betrayed; the only way Nine thinks they’ll feel safe is if they craft their own reality.
Sonic Prime Season 3 sees unlikely allies, as the Eggmen, friends, and Sonic band together to take down the powerful Nine, who continues to extract the Prism energy and push it to its limits. The subject of Green Hill remains in Sonic’s mind, as he wants to restore his reality as desperately as ever, but this series is not all about the blue hedgehog: it’s about everyone’s home. Even the Eggmen’s reality is at risk.
Like most family series, the trope of togetherness, friendship, and kindness is the underlying theme that drives the battles and conclusions. The series takes itself seriously on those themes, while the battles are good fun. You never really believe anyone is at violent risk, but there is a clear limit when you fit canon inside the family genre. Regardless, Sonic Prime Season 3 is a comfortable conclusion to an otherwise good series.
Should Netflix Do More Sonic Series?
It’s no secret that Netflix does not own many intellectual properties. That’s their business model. The streaming service either creates its own IP (Stranger Things) or finds hidden gaps in the market.
It feels like a good strategic move if Netflix continues to find more gaps in the Sonic market. Heck, it’s popular enough. If a family and kids series can get adults excited over a highly censored hedgehog, the same adults will surely come in droves for other spin-offs or related canon stories.
It’s also possible that this series will leave our memory quickly, like many hidden gaps in Netflix’s business strategy. That’ll be a shame.
If anything, Sonic Prime proved that Netflix should do more Sonic series or at least have the conversation with the right people.
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