New Thundercats cartoon

[RoJoHen]

No, it's been stated in interviews with the people in charge of the show that this is a reboot. They are on 3rd Earth now, and Thundera is the Cat Kingdom. As for the line about their ancestors from Claudus, I don't think that was intended as a reference to the original, it was just some exposition.

If I listed to everything the "people in charge" said, my TV viewing would be a lot more boring.

 

[DarthPipes]

I was a big fan of the original series (and the cartoons) and I loved this new version.

 

[B.J.]

I watched the original when I was 11, and I watched this with my oldest boy (11) and my daughter (7), and we loved it! The original was good (from an 11-year old's perspective), but it definitely had its cringeworthy moments. This new one I had no real problems with.

Thought it was a neat call-back when the blind guy who "smelled" the lizards coming looked a lot like Lynx-O. And he was in a tower, too!

The only other animal species we really see is the lizards, but they do infer that there are other animal civilizations out there. So do you think we'll eventually see Jackalman, Monkian, and Vultureman? (And maybe even Rataro?)

 

[Hound of UIster]

I think the rest of the mutants are probably suppose to be leaders in their own right like Slythe and Grune.

 

[Samurai8472]

Listen to the dialogue, this in particular:

Tigra's father says to Lion-O, "The book told that it was the Thundercats, our ancestors, who first defeated Mumm-Ra. It was the Thundercats who brought law and order to a world of warring animals."

When Claudaus said that he meant the species thundercats.

Mumm-ra's been plaguing the thundercats civilization for years.

There was no Panthro 1.0 a thousand years ago.

 

[Luminus]

No, it's been stated in interviews with the people in charge of the show that this is a reboot. They are on 3rd Earth now, and Thundera is the Cat Kingdom. As for the line about their ancestors from Claudus, I don't think that was intended as a reference to the original, it was just some exposition.

That means nothing. Here's something about Beast Wars from Wiki, you know, that prequel to the original Transformers series:

Forward and DiTillio knew next to nothing about the original series. Since they were given free rein to promote what was at the time a dying franchise, they instead chose a considerably earlier setting with no connection to the Transformers universe outside of a few recycled names. Larry DiTillio revealed in an interview that the decision to make Earth the planet in question was not finalized until the end of the first season. They gave the planet two satellites and decided that they would destroy one moon if the planet was indeed to be Earth. When he and Bob Forward discovered the alt.toys.transformers Usenet group and learned more about the original series, they began to work in classic Transformer elements, placing Beast Wars in the same universe.

The new movie, the "X-Men: First Class," is a reboot, but it's about the first team of X-Men from the movie X-Men universe. And I quote:

Describing his thought process toward the material, Vaughn said, "Unfinished business, that's what inspired me. I was totally excited about doing X3 and basically co-wrote the script with [Simon] Kinberg and Zak Penn. We did that in six days together, and then storyboarded the whole movie ... and then, like an idiot, thought that I didn't have enough time to make the film I wanted, so I had to leave. I sort of regretted that ever since, and when Fox rang me up and said, 'Do you want a chance to reboot X-Men and put your stamp all over it?' When they told me that, I thought they were joking at first, and then they told me it would happen in the '60s against the Cuban missile crisis as the backdrop, I thought, 'God, this sounds cool. Why not? Let's do it.'"

As I said before, the sky we see in the cartoon betrays any idea that these people are on Earth. Last time I checked, there's no Jupiter-sized planet in our night sky. Another quote from Producers Michael Jelenic and Ethan Spaulding:

This version of Thundercats will take place entirely on their home planet, Third Earth, with Thundera, the city, still intact. Eventually, Thundera will be destroyed, but instead of flying off-planet to space as in the original, the Thundercats will "journey into the wilds of the planet."

So someone screwed up, or there's more to the story here.

 

[RAMA]

Finally watched it...they turned sci-fi into Lord of the Rings...despite that, it wasn't half bad. Better than any recent remake of a childhood favorite anyway.

Someone should tell the writers technology is the same thing as castles, tools, swords, palaces and such. What numbskulls.

RAMA

 

[God Magnus]

I really enjoyed this. I found the use of the Thundercats as a "ruling class" very interesting. I don't remember the original series having any shades of grey, it seemed very black and white on who was good and bad. Here you had to admit, it's one thing to have enemies, it's another to use them for slave labor and chain them up to get mocked at a fair. Inversely, I found the lizard who "remembered" Lion-O's kindness interesting too. I hope this theme is explored further in the series.

The animation is really nice. I dug the anime influence (which the original had as well IIRC). All the little callbacks to the original series were nice including music cues and having Claudus yell the "Thundercats Hoooo!" line was pure win.

I think there's a definite shot for Panthro to still be the gearhead of the group. He's still missing and there's going to be a Thundertank. I think it'd be cool if he was out there somewhere learning about technology and roars (no pun intended) into battle with the ol' tank in an upcoming ep!

 

[JD]

^It is actually being animated by an anime studio, STUDIO4°C, who did segments in The Animatrix, Batman: Gotham Knight, and Halo Legends.

 

[Samurai8472]

I think there's a definite shot for Panthro to still be the gearhead of the group. He's still missing and there's going to be a Thundertank. I think it'd be cool if he was out there somewhere learning about technology and roars (no pun intended) into battle with the ol' tank in an upcoming ep!

Panthro is supposed to be the one who's seen the outside and knows more about technology.



Great start. Part "Lord of the Rings" Part Avatar: The last airbender

Ssome of the scenes looked like "Spirted Away" animation with the street level scenes.

After the lizard and thundercats war I hope dogs stand up next.

It seems a few thundaran's have gotten all high and mighty about the great thundercats race. A few knocks down a peg will teach them some humility.

Cameo's

-Lynx-O the blind thundercat

-Ro Bear Berbil

 

[Showdown]

Finally saw it. It was very good. I like the new designs and direction of the show.

Pros:
- Lion-O and Tygra are brothers and have a rivalry
- Cheetara looks great
- Characters are flawed.
- Snarf didn't talk

Cons: ... can't think of any right now.

Can't wait for all the main characters to meet up.

 

[RoJoHen]

Is Cartoon Network by chance going to re-air this before the next episode airs?

 

[Silvercrest]

"The book told that it was the Thundercats, our ancestors, who first defeated Mumm-Ra. It was the Thundercats who brought law and order to a world of warring animals."

This is a summary of the entire original series.

Is that what they were doing, bringing law and order to the world? Seriously, I only saw part of the show and I could never figure out what their agenda was. They just seemed to be fighting Mumm-Ra, getting into trouble, and occasionally bailing out the Berbils or someone. If they were trying to inspire justice, impose order, or organize civilization, it didn't look like it.

 

[JD]

If you mean in the old series, then probably not. That was in the new series past, which is not the old series.

 

[Silvercrest]

Well, Luminus cited it as a summary of the old series, regardless of where it came from.

If that's not accurate, maybe I was right. Can someone explain what the old Thundercats were actually doing on Third Earth? Aside from just "being refugees"?

 

[jep316]

Ok I have a theory it's mine not based on anything I read.

I think it's possible that 3rd Earth is a planet colonized by Humans eons ago and something(disease.war etc..)happen to them and the Humans died off and it's the remains of their Technology that is being found,and The Thundercats,Lizard people and the other animal People are descended from animals brought to 3rd Earth by the Humans.(sort of like what happen in the Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes movie.)

 

[Luminus]

"The book told that it was the Thundercats, our ancestors, who first defeated Mumm-Ra. It was the Thundercats who brought law and order to a world of warring animals."

This is a summary of the entire original series.

Is that what they were doing, bringing law and order to the world? Seriously, I only saw part of the show and I could never figure out what their agenda was. They just seemed to be fighting Mumm-Ra, getting into trouble, and occasionally bailing out the Berbils or someone. If they were trying to inspire justice, impose order, or organize civilization, it didn't look like it.

From wiki: This status holds strong for the first season of the show, and served as the basis for a vast array of stories that freely mixed elements of science fiction and fantasy into a traditional good-versus-evil tale that steadily introduced more and more recurring allies and villains into the world of the ThunderCats. Futuristic technology is just as central to the series as magic and myth, but even in the midst of all this action, the series never under-emphasizes the importance of moral values in solving problems. Each episode would normally include a short dénouement, featuring the characters recuperating after the events of the story and taking the time to single out a personal value or wholesome approach that helped save the day, or could have done so if they had not seen it.

 

[Silvercrest]

... okay, and?

 

[Luminus]

... okay, and?

Okay, and what? I need to explain more?

 

[Silvercrest]

I wasn't asking about the themes of the show. I was asking if the characters had an agenda besides just hanging out in their castle. Surely fighting Mumm-Ra wasn't their only reason to exist. So were they actually trying to organize a civilization, unify the planet, or what?