#if i were a casual viewer of a movie series and didnt actively keep up with news for it and didnt know about any spinoff stuff

[sonknuxadow]

i think i do want amy and rouge to be in the next sonic movie, especially if its gonna be an sa2 adaptation, but i cant help but worry that if they try to introduce shadow AND rouge AND amy in the same movie then at least one of those characters (most likely amy. tbh.) isnt gonna get the amount of screentime and development that they deserve. especially considering in the game timeline amy was introduced much earlier and by sa2 was already an established character while rouge and shadow were the newcomers. and then theres also the human characters who are gonna be making the cast a lot bigger than it was in the game so more people to divide the screentime among. like what if amy is in sonic 3 and she gets like 5 minutes of screentime and her big moment with shadow is given to another character again

#though i guess the sa2 based story being amy's introduction #could also open an opportunity for her to play a bigger role in the plot than she did in the original ... hmm.... #ive seen some people suggest the idea of amy or rouge being introduced in the knuckles series but i dont think i want that either? #the knuckles series should act as something that adds to the experience but isnt necessary to understand the next movie #i know we're all extremely autistic about sonic here but try to think of it from the perspective of a casual viewer #if i were a casual viewer of a movie series and didnt actively keep up with news for it and didnt know about any spinoff stuff #and suddenly a new character who was introduced in secondary material shows up in the next movie #and the writing treats me as if im supposed to know who they are. i would find that confusing and annoying actually #also with the whole. big cast of characters making me worried that certain characters wont get as much screentime as they should thing #i know in sonic 2 their way of getting around this was like. putting the characters into groups and pairs #that they stick with for long portions of the movie instead of there being a bunch of solo scenes for each character #and the most plot relevant characters all kinda join up at the end and do stuff together #which i guess could probably work for sonic 3 . so maybe im worrying over nothing