Main > Everything Else

Thundercats

(1/9) > >>

Howard_Casto:
I was wondering if anyone else caught the Thundercats premiere this weekend. 

I did and overall I enjoyed it.  It's a "reboot" of the series, but as a whole they kept the good things about the show and nixed the nonsensical things. 


Changes:  (There shouldn't really be any spoilers). 

In the old Show the cats fled thundera in a space ship because it had been overrun by the mutant hoards (which were assumingly from another planet).  All of the cats (with the exception of the twins) were apparently in their late 20's to mid 30's except for Lion-O, who appeared to be around 12.  During the long journey the cats are put into hypersleep, but lion-o's chamber malfunctions and he wakes up as a grown man, who just happens to be the surviving air to the thundercats.  The planet they land on (and the pursuing mutants, crash landed on) turned out the be the homeworld of mum-rah, and in typical old-man fashion he attacks the cats weekly in a "get off my lawn you dang kids" fashion. 

Now in the new show the cats share thundera with a whole host of sentient animals.  Although the lizard men (and assumingly other races) appear on the show they are no longer mutants and just considered to be another animal race.  Now this is the only thing on the new show that truely bothers me, multiple species evolving to human-like status on the same planet?  Nah. 

Every other change, as a whole is a positive one.  The cats are now much younger, with cheetara and tigro in their very early 20's, lino-o maybe a hair younger than that and the twins as children.  The twins (wily kit and kat) have been recast btw, becoming impish street urchins instead of spoiled royal brats.  The change fits them well.  Mum-rah is now an almost forgotten ancient legend as well as the book of omens and it's secrets of "technology".  This means that mum-rah actually has a reason to attack the cats, which is good, except for the lack of tech.  That part has me a bit puzzled seeing as how one of the main draws of the original thundercats was seeing all the cool things panthro would build.  But we are only one episode in so we'll see. 

Also snarf, thankfully, has been reduced to a silent house-pet.  ;)

The art style is good, but it's very "anime" which I'm not a fan of.  Although the quality was crappy I think I preferred the style of the original show.  That being said, it does look very impressive with properly drawn characters and backgrounds.  None of this teen-titans/new transformers hack job crap. 

As a whole the show reminds me of the reboot of he-man from a few years back with everything at a much higher quality.  Unfortunately it has the same flaw as the he-man reboot did in that it takes itself just a bit too seriously. 

It's something to keep an eye on though so watch it. 

p.s.  The original voice of Lion-O does a guest spot as lion-o's dad in the new series, so check it out for that if for nothing else.

Thenasty:
I liked this cartoon along with He-Man n GI-Joe back in the days  ;D

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Thenasty on July 31, 2011, 09:52:49 pm ---I liked this cartoon along with He-Man n GI-Joe back in the days  ;D

--- End quote ---

I did too.  But for whatever reason I always liked the villians more.  Mum-rah and Cobra Commander were sort of my heros gowing up.  I liked skeletor too. 

That being said I have been known even to this day to hold my enchanted cardboard tube aloft and say  "By the power of GreySkull... I ...have.... the POWER!"  And runing around saying "HO!"  never gets old.... even as an adult. 

Bootay:
My 3 year old daughter does the same thing....but every day. LOL

I am a fan of all the old shows too so I turned my son and daughter on to them. My son is 13 so he is pretty much done with it now, but I was surprised when my daughter got into them all.

I haven't watched the new show yet...but I hate the anime wanna-be stuff that comes out now-a-days. And I am not usually a fan of the reboots. The He-Man one was decent and the TMNT one from 2003 was decent too because it was dark, which is what the original lacked...however the absence of Beebop and Rocksteady bothered me.

I still haven't tried the Voltron reboot either. I think I am less interested in reboots than I am the originals. But I will try them out for sure eventually. Maybe my daughter will like them if I don't.  :)

Vigo:
I was explaining to my wife the other day what the thundercats were, since she is from Taiwan. The funny thing is that I found out she grew up watching them, too. They are called Pi-li Mao. So now she has been going around  every day saying "Pi-li, Pi-li, Pi-li Mao, Ho!"

Unfortunately, she didn't have He-man over there....




--- Quote from: Bootay on August 01, 2011, 10:11:58 am ---I haven't watched the new show yet...but I hate the anime wanna-be stuff that comes out now-a-days. And I am not usually a fan of the reboots. The He-Man one was decent and the TMNT one from 2003 was decent too because it was dark, which is what the original lacked...however the absence of Beebop and Rocksteady bothered me.

--- End quote ---

+10,000

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

Go to full version