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Post by Bobinator on Jul 7, 2011 19:48:59 GMT -5
Anybody remember the old Thundercats? It was an 80's cartoon, although it played a lot on Toonami, so a lot of you may remember it from there. It was your pretty standard 80's cartoon, lots of formulaic plots, and the main character was basically an 8-year old in a 20 year old's body. Also, Snarf. Fuck Snarf. So now they're rebooting it. And it's such an improvement. The animation's better, the plot... from what I can tell, anyway, seems a lot darker and more complicated compared to the original version, and Snarf doesn't talk. Want a 9 minute preview? I bet you do.Sadly, I'll have to probably torrent this when it comes out, because Youtube hates that kind of thing, and my TV isn't even connected to the satellite. (Edit: Fixing the broken link! - P) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2011 20:03:50 GMT -5
I can't say I agree. It all looks way too "21st century anime" for my tastes.
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Post by Ike on Jul 7, 2011 20:20:56 GMT -5
and the main character was basically an 8-year old in a 20 year old's body. If I remember correctly, isn't he literally an 8-year old in a 20 year old's body? |
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Post by kitten on Jul 7, 2011 23:43:39 GMT -5
This actually looks pretty great! I never enjoyed the old Thundercats, but this revival seems very interesting.
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Post by TheGunheart on Jul 8, 2011 1:02:21 GMT -5
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Post by kitten on Jul 8, 2011 1:47:01 GMT -5
Avatar: The Last Airbender was a bit too mundane for my tastes. Like... seriously? :< Please tell me you just stopped at the first season or something. |
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Post by TheGunheart on Jul 8, 2011 1:53:00 GMT -5
Saw the whole thing, actually. A great cartoon, to be sure, but not something I'd willingly watch again all the way through.
I guess mundane was putting it harshly. I just didn't really like the character designs all that much.
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Post by kitten on Jul 8, 2011 1:57:37 GMT -5
I've watched it 3 full times now, might be going on a 4th. Easily one of my favorite... "things" ever. I'm seriously fucking retarded for that cartoon  |
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Post by TheGunheart on Jul 8, 2011 2:01:06 GMT -5
Okay, I'll accept that. Sorry about the comment.
Anyway, I think my favorite thing, judging by the interviews, is just how much the guy in charge loves the original. I mean, in one part of the article, he mentions bringing back an apparently hated character(s) from the original simply for the challenge. I don't know, there's just something I find more interesting about that approach than simply cutting things out because you don't like them.
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Post by kitten on Jul 8, 2011 2:13:27 GMT -5
Nah, haha, don't sweat it, I understand if people don't think it was all that great (or even terrible), I just have a seriously fond affection for the series.
As for the Thundercats reboot (back on topic for me!), I don't really care if it is at all correlated to the original, because I thought it was an honestly pretty awful cartoon. Everything about it looked ugly and it was terribly "Saturday morning cartoon" in its method of handling things, like He-Man or other crappy cartoons from that era. They would sometimes deal with an overarching plot, but 99% of the episodes would dumb down to "villain does something, heroes react, everything is normal again at the end and the characters have developed nowhere outside of where they began."
It went absolutely nowhere and the characters were all boring. I have some sort of nearly palpable contempt for cartoons like that and He-Man, where the villain is some obnoxious jackass with a bunch of inept goons that harass the good guys just for the sake of doing it. Cartoons like G.I. Joe and Transformers would at least have genuine progression, but He-Man and Thundercats were just the same boring shit forever. I don't understand peoples' obsessions with them and their biggest fans are generally pretty off-putting and stupid people vapidly latched onto nostalgic sentiments like a fat piglet to its mother's teat.
This reboot seems to have an actual plot, the animation is superb for a daytime cartoon and the character designs, while still not quite resembling cats in the way I'd like them to, at least are no longer hideous. I'm seriously looking forward to this cartoon!
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Post by TheGunheart on Jul 8, 2011 2:31:20 GMT -5
The voice acting put me off before I ever even saw an episode, to be honest.
I've read quite a bit about it, though, and what I like is that they seem to have fixed pretty much everything I find offputting while at the same time keeping some of those weird, 80s show concepts and finding ways to fit them in, and making changes that just made perfect sense, like Thundara just being a kingdom of Third Earth, and having the Thundertank be the result of Panther-O adapting technology from outside the technophobic kingdom, as opposed to the decidedly fantasy-themed cats inexplicably having access to space ships.
Not to mention giving the villains names as opposed to stuff like "Jackal Man".
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Post by dooz on Jul 8, 2011 3:29:20 GMT -5
I thought the original Thundercats was bad. This is embarrassing comparatively.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2011 10:02:45 GMT -5
It went absolutely nowhere and the characters were all boring. I have some sort of nearly palpable contempt for cartoons like that and He-Man, where the villain is some obnoxious jackass with a bunch of inept goons that harass the good guys just for the sake of doing it. Cartoons like G.I. Joe and Transformers would at least have genuine progression, but He-Man and Thundercats were just the same boring shit forever. I don't understand peoples' obsessions with them and their biggest fans are generally pretty off-putting and stupid people vapidly latched onto nostalgic sentiments like a fat piglet to its mother's teat. He-Man had a few bright spots, like the one where he gave up his powers because he thought he killed someone by accident. But yeah, watching it on Netflix again it's like "holy shit, this is bad." I liked Silverhawks (by the same studio) better than Thundercats... partially because there were some really fucked up ethical/mental stability issues at work (astronauts/cops volunteering to mutilate their bodies and never be human again so they could fly in space), and a cool storyline later on where a time-traveller goes back in time to avert the deaths of the heroes, with varying results. That, and the villains were more interesting...Mon-Starr (and his transformation sequence) was pretty awesome. BTW, off topic: Bionic Six is awesome and is still a fun show. The villains were such troll dickweeds, it was great. |
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Post by Pitchfork on Jul 11, 2011 12:46:25 GMT -5
Mon-Starr (and his transformation sequence) was pretty awesome. Agreed! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2011 20:22:39 GMT -5
But yeah, watching it on Netflix again it's like "holy shit, this is bad." Oh it's go time now, bitch. |
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