BIIG POST!
I'd have to disagree about the whole "meant to be" thing with Sonic/Sally. Sally comes off to me as more of what Lana Lang was to Clark in Superman/Smallville. A love interest for Clark in his teen years who was unfortunately doomed not to be paired him as far as a long term relationship was concerned. The ultimate aspirations of Sonic and Sally(provided in character) seems too contradicting for them to be anything on the lines of husband and wife... Which is why I and a lot of anti Sonic/Sally fans don't see the point in being shoved Sonic/Sally when they think it could never logically work.
Elias may be here, but as far as I'm concerned Sally is still heir, and it doesn't seem as if its really in Elias' character to take up ruling as a long term career when he's clearly expressed in the comic that he'd like a more normal life for not only himself, but his children. I simply see Elias being king as protecting Sally from being forced into a destructive relationship and tyrannical king. Maybe that'll promote Sally to want to wait for Sonic to succumb to her ways? But knowing Sonic, he probably won't for as long as there's a problem in the world, he'll always have a reason to be on the fastlane, and not at Sally's side. Do I think that Sonic and Sally should just be ditched? No. I feel that with controversial an issue love is in the comic, fans should be allowed to the freedom of choice, and its the present; we'll never see Sonic marry any girl anyway... however the freedom of choice is also one of the reasons I don't really approve of the idea of Mina/Ash.
Mina not only loses the triangle, angering her fans, but then Archie pairs her off with some guy the fans got no development with as if to say "okay Mina fans we want you to just ditch the idea of Mina getting together and just force you to like and stomach SonSal". Ash also seems to want a commitment and relationship that Mina is still too young for and because she doesn't want to deal with the pain of wronging Ash and being alone, goes along with him. A lot of Mina's fans don't even seem to like Ash/Mina but are forced to go along with it all in the name of the conservative shippers being happy. Not to say that they are the only ones, but the bigheadedness I've seen with some SonSal fans don't help either.
Mina's a character that got her heart broken, yes, but are characters like Sally, and Amy exempt from this either? Its obvious looking at Amy's anger of seeing Sonic with other girls that she's probably had her heart broken many times, and Sally's not only had to deal with Mina, but the task of ruling alone since Sonic pretty much betrayed her trust when he chose the fastlane over her. And now add Fiona to the mix. I think its great that Mina would feel insecure about her relationship with Sonic and the other girls because it could keep them away from actually becoming officially Sonic's girlfriend while they still develop with him. While I disagree with the notion Sonic "set" on Sally (as I felt many instances in the comic have pointed otherwise including #123's cover: "Torn between two hotties"), whose to say that Mina should never come back to feeling for Sonic as all the other girls have the opportunity to do, when almost every girl whose ever had feelings for him have gone through the same thing she has? She was fairly popular too.
Okay! Question time!
1) Is it the status quo to have Shadow continuously working for Robotnik?
2) What about Sonic the Fighters arcade character Honey the Cat? Any plans of using her? ever heard of her?
3) Any plans of using Tiara Boobowski?
4) Do you see Scourge and Rouge continuing to work together in the near future? Would you call the parnters in crime of sorts?
5) Any chance of seeing characters other than Sonic but still under the liscence of SEGA? Characters like in NIGHTS or Samba de Amigo?
6) Would you consider the "Grape pods" seen at the end of the "Return to Angel Island" story arc. a brain-washing machine? Will it be something continuously used and implied like the roboticizer once was?