Mithrandir

No clue at all if my auditions ranked among the prospects or the "not so hots", but if there's any help still needed on that front I'd be glad to chip in however's needed. 

Just wanted to drop a note here: I got to submit my VO audition today, and I can't say how exciting it was to get to say to myself "dude, you just did your damndest to sound like Jim Cummings", among other voices.

Feels good, man, feels good.

Thanks for the opportunity, to all involved.

SATam shoulda aired on Nickolodeon back then. Cause apparently SpongeBob's still thriving and coughin up new episodes after almost 14 years LOL. Thing is, SpongeBob has crude and slapstick humor, SATam didn't. So i guess that kinda stuff sells compared to good wholesome entertainment

I want that man's ass on a silver platter or I'm taking a dump in Bob Iger's sink.

LMAO

Wouldn't have worked back then. Remember what era we're dealing with: as of 1993-1995 or so, the money in children's animation was still almost exclusively to be found in producing a Saturday morning cartoon show (or afternoon, if certain companies were backing you) and hope to get it into syndication.

Back then, Nickelodeon wasn't producing many of it's own series; like most cable networks, it focused more on importing series that were already complete or were simply unfamiliar to American audiences. This is why a lot of early 90's Nickelodeon included shows that were brought over from England, or had had runs on regular networks earlier. Simply put, it was cheaper and smarter back then to run old shows on cable: it's why people who are 25-35 today grew up knowing a lot of the cartoons and shows their parents watched.

There were exceptions, of course, as around this time Nick began the Nicktoons lineup (originally just Doug, Rugrats, and Ren and Stimpy), but that was it. They produced a few of their own original live-action shows, but for animation, that was all.

Hence, SatAM, being a property associated with the most popular gaming series in the US at that point, was going to live or die on network TV, not cable, back in the early 90's.

Sadly, both SatAM and ReBoot suffered a similar fate on ABC back then: the Disney takeover led to the new suits in charge wanting to overhaul ABC's offerings and replace them all with Disney-backed properties, as a way of expanding Disney's TV presence. Neither show had a chance once the takeover happened.

Thankfully ReBoot still had a backer in the form of YTV in Canada, and eventually Cartoon Network in the US, but SatAM wasn't so lucky. The funny part is that it's a series that likely could've thrived in an environment like today's cable world, given the success (both ratings-wise and critically) of series such as the Avatar cartoons.

I'm all for taking the wait and see approach. I'm certainly no avid reader of the comics any more, but it sucks to read that a big part of my childhood might suddenly be wiped out due to legal posturing. It hurt enough when I first heard that the comics had removed the Brotherhood, but wiping out the Echidnas entirely? Harsh, and hopefully not what's on the near horizon.

It's rough because I, like many here, grew up with the comic series' vision of Knuckles as a character, and whatever one might think about Penders right now I credit him with making Knuckles and the Floating Island into three dimensional, multi-faceted aspects of the series. Sega's own "official" take on Knuckles holds essentially zero appeal to me, so I'd hate to see the comic lose all the trappings of what made Knuckles a very interesting, compelling character to me while growing up, including his relationship with Julie-Su.

It'd be nice if there could be a settlement involving allowing both sides usage of x-number of characters, but if not, well...that'd just suck, is all.

One other thing, though: I think people officially need to stop freaking out about the SatAM cast up and vanishing out of nowhere. From what I've read of the comics in recent times, it seems that Flynn has no intentions of letting them go; if he did, I highly doubt that Mecha Sally would be featured so much, and I also highly doubt he'd have included so many references to the show in a lot of his writings (e.g. Mecha Sally asking Sonic "Where were you when the brains were handed out?").

I could argue plenty about how I feel the comic's vision for those characters, and for the world they live in, is skewed and could be improved, but the characters themselves aren't likely to go anywhere barring a mandate coming down from Sega itself.

Exciting stuff! Hopefully it goes well.

I'm actually a voice artist myself, would love to contribute if things get off the ground and you want to find people to audition. Not counting my chickens here, but it'd be a dream to get to voice a character/characters from a show that helped define my cartoon-watching childhood.

So again, hope there's good news on the way.