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After all the controversies, Thundercats Roar is finally out and its actually good?
- Thread starter Rocha
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Uhh not sure about this one. The reboot made every character unlikable outside of the kittens and was written by a Tigra-Stan, whose sole purpose was to hand Lionel L's. In fact, I'm glad this goofy-ass version exists to stick it to that dude knowing his shit will fade into oblivion and potentially be outviewed by a gag comedy.
I HATE this animation style. Looks like trash.
The art style is enough to make me not want to watch it 30 seconds in.
The art style is enough to make me not want to watch it 30 seconds in.
Aside from the superb animation and a couple of early episodes here and there, tcats 2011 was garbage. Just a really badly written show.
Huh. Never heard this take before. I've only ever encountered love for the reboot. Lion-o is infinitely cooler in the reboot than he ever was on the original show. Remember, he looked like a badass, but had the mind of a child less mature than Kit and Kat. He was the viewer's avatar. The other Thundercats were the real draw.
I watched it and no, it's bad and not because it's a reboot, the art, animation, storyboarding and writing are bad, the self-deprecating humor towards the original is bad and there is not a single drop of genuinity or creativeness. There are waaaay better western shows out there.
I absolutely adored thunder cats as a kid but I was an 80's child and grew up on the likes of Battle of the Planets.
I'm no modern cartoon expert and haven't watched this yet but I know my daughter loves the she-ra reboot, and also adores the multiverse Spider-Man cartoons. It will be interesting to see what she thinks if this.
Why does it look like the characters are cribbed directly from something like Steven Universe or The Amazing World of Gumball? Is CN just creatively bankrupt regarding animation styles?
I liked the pilot episodes that came out. It's kind of disorienting because it immediately is trying to set up the status quo of the show and setting up the world and the characters and it's just trying to do too much. And that's a pretty major detriment for a pilot episode. But the humor was enjoyable and I liked the art style. It's very a much a goofy and comedic focused cartoon and that's not a bad thing. I would like to see more now that the setting is established to see what they do with it because I think there's quite of bit of potential and there are clearly talented people working on it.
I very much disagree with this. Seasons 1 & 2 of Thundercats was a pretty strong kids cartoon, especially the episodes written by Leonard Starr, Jules Bass & Peter Lawrence. Additionally, the character designs were great (I still absolutely love the Lunatak designs), the music was absolutely fantastic, and the world itself was very well conceived. Sure you'd have episodes that sucked but that's par for the course. I could quite happily go back now and watch episodes like Pumm-Ra, Mask of Gorgon, or the Mumm-Ra Lives five parter.
Seasons 3 & 4 which were made after head writer Leonard Starr had left the show were absolute trash though, with very few decent episodes.
It isnt good unlike other shows of its kind like teen titans go and ok k.o. It has a bad art style and the writing isn't great either.
Decided to give the two episodes a watch with my kid siblings. We were all bored until we got to that Mumm-Ra joke. I actually laughed tbh (they played out that gag for so long, it looped around into being actually funny). They seemed more into the show after that but I kinda just zoned out. I know nothing about Thundercats so I had no clue what was going on tbh
Dunno if I'll check out the other episodes by myself, but my sibs totally can't wait to see more. That was pretty surprising tbh
Dunno if I'll check out the other episodes by myself, but my sibs totally can't wait to see more. That was pretty surprising tbh
So Thundercats was on this morning on cartoon network for its "premiere". I've never watched adventure time but I recognized the art style that everyone has mentioned. The amorphous Blob style of the characters is different for me and definitely lends to the show being ridiculous.
I went in with a narrow mind but it's silly and not that bad. I don't watch a lot of cartoons since we don't have kids but I enjoyed it.
I went in with a narrow mind but it's silly and not that bad. I don't watch a lot of cartoons since we don't have kids but I enjoyed it.
Love it and I'm a HUGE TCats fan. I've been championing the idea of this since announcement.
My 10 and 5 year old are glued right now. Love hearing the original music.
My only want: "Realistic"/more proportionately accurate action figures in this style.
My 10 and 5 year old are glued right now. Love hearing the original music.
My only want: "Realistic"/more proportionately accurate action figures in this style.
now, that's a name I haven't heard of in a long long time.
The last reboot had them so probably?
I'm still waiting for it to grab me. Right now, from what I watched, it's not similar (at all) enough to the old series/characters to make me like it for nostalgia's sake, and my kids couldn't care less about it with no knowledge of the IP at all compared to other shows that are on. Like I basically force them to watch.
My wife is surprised I like it but I love the ribbing of the original show's/genre's tropes and themes.
When the 2011 series came out and I was buying all the toys, I'd enact scenes on the floor with my wife and son watching and depict Lion-O as this stoic, yet bumbling idiot leader who'd only accidentally save the day and would be ignorant to what he did wrong. This new show plays to that and I fucking love it.
It's fine to not like it. I just hate how hateful the fan base overreacts and the alt-right adjectives used to describe it and the death threats and such. I love the idea of TC being current again. Yes, I wish a serious approach would be taken for a Netflix series, but this is fun too. Doesn't ruin or replace anything. Just reminds everyone.
As for my kids. They request Roar. I tried showing them the original (again) and they don't take to it. It's slow and corny. We adults use our childhood imagination to fill in what we want or expect from the series, but it isn't exactly exhilarating. That Silverhawks cameo was meant to poke fun at that fact lol.
On a side note, can someone make a hero/arena fighter of the He-Man/Thundercats comic please!
When the 2011 series came out and I was buying all the toys, I'd enact scenes on the floor with my wife and son watching and depict Lion-O as this stoic, yet bumbling idiot leader who'd only accidentally save the day and would be ignorant to what he did wrong. This new show plays to that and I fucking love it.
It's fine to not like it. I just hate how hateful the fan base overreacts and the alt-right adjectives used to describe it and the death threats and such. I love the idea of TC being current again. Yes, I wish a serious approach would be taken for a Netflix series, but this is fun too. Doesn't ruin or replace anything. Just reminds everyone.
As for my kids. They request Roar. I tried showing them the original (again) and they don't take to it. It's slow and corny. We adults use our childhood imagination to fill in what we want or expect from the series, but it isn't exactly exhilarating. That Silverhawks cameo was meant to poke fun at that fact lol.
On a side note, can someone make a hero/arena fighter of the He-Man/Thundercats comic please!
Old post so I apologize but Lion-O went through A LOT of unnecessary crap in the reboot. Like he lost two love interests and was just abused in any sense the reboot director could find. Meanwhile Tygra not only got the girl that Lion-O liked, but was always shown to be either justified in his jealousy towards Lion-O or the actual leader in the group.
And let's not even mention what they did to Pumyra.
I really wanted a continuation of the reboot, but the director himself I think confirmed that he hated Lion-O so I really wanted him out ASAP.
Oh man, I had no idea about the director. That's hilarious! And being irritated by his stance is also entirely fair. As a kid, I always wanted more Tigra, and wished Lion-o was less immature. I felt like the reboot was smart with the way it played with the source material, but I'd have washed and expected to see Lion-o mature naturally until he was the leader he was always hyped up to be in the original.
My big complaint was that I absolutely hated the art style and that hasn't changed. I doubt I'll ever get around to seeing it, given the number of cartoons I haven't seen that also dont have art styles that I can't stand.
That said, I could see the story ending up good, even better than the 2011 remake which looked better but was shoddy as hell from a storytelling perspective.
That said, I could see the story ending up good, even better than the 2011 remake which looked better but was shoddy as hell from a storytelling perspective.
I watched a few eps of it, it's just a simple comedy for kids. Only got a couple of laughs from me over the 4 eps I watched, but then I'm not the target audience. Dunno how it's doing with kids, I guess we'll find out if it gets a second season
When I was a substitute teacher teaching a class of Grade 3 kids, whenever the class does a great job with their assignments, at the end of the day I reward them with a small reward of their choice (a round or two of dodge-ball, playing board games, etc.) The kids agreed that they wanted to watch some cartoons and they wanted to watch Thundercats Roar, as that was the new hotness. After 6 minutes had passed with the first episode, they were bored out of their minds and begged me to swap to something else.
So that's troubling that the show you made for it's target audience think it's the pits.
Yo, this new Panthro Plagiarized episode is pretty nuts. Great action and Thanos-like shenanigans.
Love this show. People scoffing at the art or humor are missing out.
Love this show. People scoffing at the art or humor are missing out.
I watched a lot of the eps. The art sucks. The animation is superb. The humour is hit and miss and far more miss.
I do not feel people are missing out.
No, it just wasn't heavily publicised after the initial reaction
I feel I'm able to appreciate a new take that jabs at the show's tropes. Just as fans were excited for Garbage Pail kids or Simpsons versions of the characters or can laugh at a Robot Chicken segment, so too can I appreciate this take. I love the other incarnations and look forward to a more serious take. Nothing wrong with this version at all. I laugh with it and my kids so much.
I loved Transformers Animated & Teen Titans, I can quite happily sit and watch Teen Titans Go as well, I've no issue with lighter takes. Thundercats Roar is just not very good to me, and neither is the humour.
It's probably still better than tcats 2011, I'll give it that, but that's hardly high praise
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It started off decent but it quickly went off the rails. some posts in this thread explain it- the head hated Lion-O and wrote the show to make him suffer and fuck up as much as he can
it didn't help that it aired alongside Generator Rex, which was way better
Speaking of the 2011 series the full plan for the series can be found here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WhatCouldHaveBeen/ThunderCats2011
I personally really liked the show and was pretty irked that it got cancelled.
I personally really liked the show and was pretty irked that it got cancelled.
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I love this, lol.
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Holy shit that ending lol
It begs the question, what's the point? Designed by committee. Kids love the hilarious art style! So wacky!
Of course there has to be an opposing force to any criticism "It's not for you!". Well what exactly is it? It's thunder cats. it's clearly made for somebody who knows what thundercats is right? Otherwise wouldn't it just be something else?
Whatever it is, it looks pretty bad. So i can happily ignore it.
Of course there has to be an opposing force to any criticism "It's not for you!". Well what exactly is it? It's thunder cats. it's clearly made for somebody who knows what thundercats is right? Otherwise wouldn't it just be something else?
Whatever it is, it looks pretty bad. So i can happily ignore it.
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Eh it's stuff like this that really made not bother even talking about TTGO, it comes off as so insecure.