Forum:Sonic the Hedgehog: Goodbye 4Kids!, hello Organization XIII?: Difference between revisions

'''For those of you here that also like the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, news has probably already caught on to you that the entire 4Kids! Sonic voice acting team (except for Mike Pollok A.K.A., Dr. Eggman) has been kicked out by SEGA, their five-year contracts apparently expiring. Now, with almost no auditions, SEGA has already replaced the team with an almost random/unrelated group of actors (most with expirence and fame) in their hopes to keep the characters the way we have always known them, except for Sonic, ironicly, since they want Roger Smith (Sonic's new voice after <noinclude>the almighty</noinclude> Jason Grifith) to portray Sonic's voice as being more "mature" (another ironic statement since mature doesn't neccessaraly describe Sonic's nature). Anyway, the main point is that two of the franchis's main characters, the old and new heroe/anti-heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog and Silver the Hedgehog (oddly no relation between them or Sonic) have not only had their voices rebooted by someone outside of 4Kids!, but by two people WE should be familiar with. Does Saix and Axel ring a bell? That's right, straight from Kingdom Hearts II and 358/2 Days are Kirk Thornton (voice of Saix/Isa) voicing Shadow and Quinton Flynn (voice of Axel/Lea) voicing Silver! Can you believe it!?'''

This had me shocked, confused, and a little questioning because though for one thing probably almost everyone on this site would have picked Thornton for Shadow if it was up to them, though when I heard him in Sonic Free Riders he sounded a BIT too much like Saix which then brought me back to how ghost-like he sounded in Sonic Adventure 2. As for Silver though, as usual he doesn't seem to get too much of a significant role in new instalments but what little speaking roles he had in either Free Riders or Colors (DS version) seemed to put my heart at ease a little bit when I was a bit unsure if Flynn should be voiceing Silver (when for reasons already stated, I believe that Rick Gomez should if anybody) and not Sonic rather than Smith. In any case though, it seems that now you could probably say that we have KH people on the inside now, their tallents possibly attracting more fans of the KH series into the Sonic series too if their portrayals manage to pay off. So there. I know that this is still a wall of text (I'm even tempted to make a Sark refference right about now, ''"Going somewhere?"'') but I've tried getting to the main points.}}