Yeah, but the show had already been cancelled and there would be no guarantee that Sega would have approved of the project even without Penders mucking things up. This was also around the time Sega started tightening things up as far as the Sonic canon was concerned, using more and more characters that the company had created rather than falling back on ancillary DIC characters. Again, this is giving Penders too much credit. There’s enough dumb bullshit he’s actually done than trying to pin “killing a third season that likely would never have happened anyway” on him.