At least one new episode has aired outside of the US, it introduces 2 new Generals for Mumm-Ra
! Attacus (Updated Monkian) and Kaynar (Updated Jackalman)
At least one new episode has aired outside of the US, it introduces 2 new Generals for Mumm-Ra
! Attacus (Updated Monkian) and Kaynar (Updated Jackalman)
At least one new episode has aired outside of the US, it introduces 2 new Generals for Mumm-Ra
! Attacus (Updated Monkian) and Kaynar (Updated Jackalman)
! so the mutant trio of old is back together again. I can't wait to see what their updated forms look like
Set your alarms guy, we've got confirmation from Toonzone.net that Episode 14 "New Alliances" will air on Saturday March 24th @ 9:30am.
We've got a summary under the spoiler, and a video preview of it to boot:
! The Thundercats go on the offensive taking down Mumm-Ra’s lizard army piece by piece. Lion-O appeals to the soldiers to turn against their overlord, but Mumm-Ra won’t see his army crushed so easily. He tasks Slithe with recruiting two new and vicious Generals — Addicus and Kaynar — to retaliate against the cats. Meanwhile, the Robear Berbils make Panthro a new set of robotic arms and soop up the Thundertank.
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Set your alarms guy, we've got confirmation from Toonzone.net that Episode 14 "New Alliances" will air on Saturday March 24th @ 9:30am.
We've got a summary under the spoiler, and a video preview of it to boot:
! The Thundercats go on the offensive taking down Mumm-Ra’s lizard army piece by piece. Lion-O appeals to the soldiers to turn against their overlord, but Mumm-Ra won’t see his army crushed so easily. He tasks Slithe with recruiting two new and vicious Generals — Addicus and Kaynar — to retaliate against the cats. Meanwhile, the Robear Berbils make Panthro a new set of robotic arms and soop up the Thundertank.
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not bad. can't wait to see the episode
Saturday timeslot for these shows sucks. I much preferred Friday.
Oh well, at least its coming back on.
ha ha ha. you'll have to catch it on youtube like me. it's ok. I'll share my links with you
Cheetara's Tuxedo Mask now!? LOL.
Cheetara's speed sound effect popping up when she is supposedly moving fast but doesn't appear to be moving much faster than anyone else is quite annoying.
New episode spoiler:
! This episode wasn't too bad, but Lion-O was being dumb yet again. I just can't feel sympathetic for him and his love woes or whatever, but he basically said Tygra didn't matter…And Cheetara giving up, I hope she knew help was there otherwise how would they have gotten out of that? I'm not too sure what to think about Tygra and his lizard suffering indifference.
! Panthro's new go go Gadget arms are neat in design, odd in functionality lol.
! I did like the new generals though, Kanar, Canar, Cainar? However you spell it is amusingly insane to me. I did find it sorta funny that Mum-ra said these two did things that he even found bad. I'm curious yet horrified about what that could possibly be.
Set your alarms guy, we've got confirmation from Toonzone.net that Episode 14 "New Alliances" will air on **Saturday March 24th @ 9:30am.**We've got a summary under the spoiler, and a video preview of it to boot:
! _The Thundercats go on the offensive taking down Mumm-Ra’s lizard army piece by piece. Lion-O appeals to the soldiers to turn against their overlord, but Mumm-Ra won’t see his army crushed so easily. He tasks Slithe with recruiting two new and vicious Generals — Addicus and Kaynar — to retaliate against the cats. Meanwhile, the Robear Berbils make Panthro a new set of robotic arms and soop up the Thundertank._
Hell yes, this show's coming back. I liked the Friday night timeslot better, and….I just realized I missed the ep. Curse my lateness.
Cheetara's speed sound effect popping up when she is supposedly moving fast but doesn't appear to be moving much faster than anyone else is quite annoying.
! This episode wasn't too bad, but Lion-O was being dumb yet again. I just can't feel sympathetic for him and his love woes or whatever, but he basically said Tygra didn't matter…And Cheetara giving up, I hope she knew help was there otherwise how would they have gotten out of that? I'm not too sure what to think about Tygra and his lizard suffering indifference.
! Panthro's new go go Gadget arms are neat in design, odd in functionality lol.
! I did like the new generals though, Kanar, Canar, Cainar? However you spell it is amusingly insane to me. I did find it sorta funny that Mum-ra said these two did things that he even found bad. I'm curious yet horrified about what that could possibly be.
how did you find that funny?
! Atticus just killed a village of bird people because he was hungry and Kanar took out 11 prisoners which got him solitary confinment and (i think) kill the guards escorting him. am i the only who thinks Kanar is the psychotic of the two? plus did anyone catch that they are races are called Monkian and Jackalman? which is ironic since that was there original names.
how did you find that funny?
! Atticus just killed a village of bird people because he was hungry and Kanar took out 11 prisoners which got him solitary confinment and (i think) kill the guards escorting him. am i the only who thinks Kanar is the psychotic of the two? plus did anyone catch that they are races are called Monkian and Jackalman? which is ironic since that was there original names.
! Mum-ra of all people being appalled at something? I just found it funny. Mum-ra who's been basically enslaving and causing mass genocide across the Universe? I just wasn't aware he had a limit of things he would do, and that these two would apparently do the things Mum-ra wouldn't lol. It's messed up but I found it sorta funny.
Evil has standards.
! Yes! It's back on! Though the new timeslot sucks. Panthro's new arms is badass, the upgraded thundertank is badass, I hope Lion-O gets over the TygraxCheetara pairing, since he's making stupid mistakes because of it. And Kanar literally scares the hell out of me.
! chettarah is playing with two brothers emotions and thats the worst place to be inbetween. not coolon her part. i mean you giving dude alll these hints that you like him but go after his brother who you barley paid attention to until the whole sprit stone thing. berbils were funny with panthros little arms.
@RobbyBevard:
Saturday timeslot for these shows sucks. I much preferred Friday.
Oh well, at least its coming back on.
I know it sucks.
a little slow here, but i did find the episode online. not the best quality but it will do.
@RPG:
! chettarah is playing with two brothers emotions and thats the worst place to be inbetween. not coolon her part. i mean you giving dude alll these hints that you like him but go after his brother who you barley paid attention to until the whole sprit stone thing. berbils were funny with panthros little arms.
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Just like real life. :sad:
Just thought people should know that Thunder Cat's wasn't included in returning shows in yesterday's upfront for Cartoon Network's 2012-2013 year. With this, plus no news of upcoming toys this show is as good as canned.
Well, at least we get the 26 episodes. Hopefully the story will reach a proper stopping point.
@LUFFY#1:
Just thought people should know that Thunder Cat's wasn't included in returning shows in yesterday's upfront for Cartoon Network's 2012-2013 year. With this, plus no news of upcoming toys this show is as good as canned.
As always thank you Cartoon Network for your consistent programming.
@LUFFY#1:
Just thought people should know that Thunder Cat's wasn't included in returning shows in yesterday's upfront for Cartoon Network's 2012-2013 year. With this, plus no news of upcoming toys this show is as good as canned.
shut yo mouth >:C
Aww lame. I blame Lion-O for being a brat through too many episodes.:ninja:
Is episode 14 out yet? I can't find it.
Is episode 14 out yet? I can't find it.
a little slow here, but i did find the episode online. not the best quality but it will do.
look up smudger. look wayyyyyyy up, said the friendly giant.
@LUFFY#1:
Just thought people should know that Thunder Cat's wasn't included in returning shows in yesterday's upfront for Cartoon Network's 2012-2013 year. With this, plus no news of upcoming toys this show is as good as canned.
This show would've faired better on Nickelodeon, Nicktoons or Disney.
Still it's somehow suprising that the show with a completely unlikeable cast (save for Panthro, he's awesome; kit and kat are tolerable) and a main character that gets NTR'd by his brother isn't popular with the kiddies? Go figure.
It's sad when literally every single side character has been more enjoyable than the entire main cast (save for Panthro, he's awesome; kit and kat are tolerable).
Just my opinion though.
The new CN has no business running shows with actual continuity since they can't keep a consistent schedule on ANYTHING.
I think its more to do with the fact that they aired six episodes, then reran those episodes, ran only a couple new ones, then reran the first six again, then pulled it off the air for 4 months only to start airing on a different day entirely? All without ANY advertising?
No show can build an audience under those circumstances. Even I got bored of the pilot episode by the fourth time.
And being hot potato-ed with the rest of the friday action lineup (which got the same treatment) didn't help. None of their Friday shows have done well under the completely stupid scheduling. All they had for a while was "well I know there's 2 hours of action shows on Friday" and they don't even have that anymore.
Star Wars, the ONLY show on their block to get advertised every week, keep its timeslot, and not randomly hiatus, is the only one doing okay.
That's why I said Nicktoons would've or Disney would've did the show better justice.
They advertise their shows like clockwork. On weekends they MARATHON the episodes you miss in succession.
That's why I said Nicktoons would've or Disney would've did the show better justice.
Given Nickelodeon's equally questionable history with programming I wouldn't have seen that as a viable alternative. Nor Disney which probably would've toned down certain elements much like Nickelodeon.
Given Nickelodeon's equally questionable history with programming I wouldn't have seen that as a viable alternative. Nor Disney which probably would've toned down certain elements much like Nickelodeon.
Toned down what though? This has been a very mild retelling so far.
i don't understand why they do this. it just kills the shows. i'm sure the creators arn't happy about that, and your station paid good money to buy the rights to it, you think they'd want it to do good. it's a stupid waste. it's like subway advertising the chicken teriyaki and then saying it's not available, and then 2 weeks later it is, but only if you come between 6am and 9.
Toned down what though? This has been a very mild retelling so far.
Didn't watch all of the original series so don't know how dark & violent the new one is compared to the old one. But if we're on Disney or Nicktoons they'd probably tone down the violence or not make it as dark.
i don't understand why they do this. it just kills the shows. i'm sure the creators arn't happy about that, and your station paid good money to buy the rights to it, you think they'd want it to do good. it's a stupid waste. it's like subway advertising the chicken teriyaki and then saying it's not available, and then 2 weeks later it is, but only if you come between 6am and 9.
More like having Chicken Teriyaki getting used to it, taking it off the menu for 6-7 months, Then bringing it back making it available at certain hours while not advertising it and in limited qualities (next to no encores), Then as a consequence of that people have little to no interest in it. And then retroactively decide it's the fault of the consumer why they have little to no interest in the product (instead of acknowledging you fucked up instead) and then permanently pulling the item from the menu.
Didn't watch all of the original series so don't know how dark & violent the new one is compared to the old one. But if we're on Disney or Nicktoons they'd probably tone down the violence or not make it as dark.
Yeah, but there hasn't really been much in the way of uber violence really though in this new version. A lot of it is hurt looks, jumping around and people getting knocked over. Anything extremely violent happens off screen.
The old one wasn't very violent either. People get hit and yeah there was a ghost every now and then. Mum-ra was probably the creepiest part but the fights never seemed brutal to me. It was more just very strange. Part of that was the animation combined with the voice acting. They sounded very high sometimes lol.
As this version of Thundercats is, it's fairly fluffy under all those new designs. I think part of the problem is that Lion-O isn't really good at combat yet, Panthro only recently joined them really and a lot of the effects from Tigra and Cheetara are light streaks. Wily Kit and Kat don't really do anything. The enemies don't seem to stay down long enough to convey someone got hurt.
Original Thundercats Bloopers. There be some swearin'
Episode 15.
! Sometime because of the lack of visual damage shown in the show I feel like everyone in the universe is uber durable. Lion-O falling all the time from crazy heights, and not getting dirty at all, and Tygra getting punched in the face for like a minute doesn't bruise. And I'm not sure how I feel about these astral plane trials. Didn't we already have a couple episodes like this? I would very much like for Lion-O to come back from death with all these lessons learned and have them stick so that we don't have to watch him get mystical lessons again. Being unconscious so often I feel like he'll be the most brain damaged king ever.
Episode 15.
! Sometime because of the lack of visual damage shown in the show I feel like everyone in the universe is uber durable. Lion-O falling all the time from crazy heights, and not getting dirty at all, and Tygra getting punched in the face for like a minute doesn't bruise. And I'm not sure how I feel about these astral plane trials. Didn't we already have a couple episodes like this? I would very much like for Lion-O to come back from death with all these lessons learned and have them stick so that we don't have to watch him get mystical lessons again. Being unconscious so often I feel like he'll be the most brain damaged king ever.
! I'd have to agree, Lion-O could use some lessons out of all this. And funny you should mention Tygra's beatdown…...guy took like 15 punches and nothing?
! I have the suspicion the final test will be some kind of duel with Tygra, though.
Well, at least it makes more sense than the Trials of Liono in the original series.
! I'd have to agree, Lion-O could use some lessons out of all this. And funny you should mention Tygra's beatdown…...guy took like 15 punches and nothing?
! I have the suspicion the final test will be some kind of duel with Tygra, though.
! I figured that would be the final trial too. I would love for the final trial to be Snarf though. The test would to be able to understand exactly what he says.
What was the original one?
What was the original one?
Lion-O wakes up one morning and the thundercats tell him "You have to beat all of us at our very best special ability." He then proceeds to outttrick Kit and Cat, beat Cheetarah in a footrace (flat out terrain footrace too. Not even a maze like here) be stronger than Panthro and… something with Tygra. He manages to outdo all of them one by one through pure contrivance. The mutants catch on tot the trial eventually and start interfering, and then at the end Lion-o Has to "defeat his most powerful enemy without using weapons" and he goes and has a one on one with Mumm-Ra.
Sort of the same idea here, except it was over five episodes, and it wasn't executed as smartly. The stakes were a lot more arbitrary and it was a biased test. If every lord of the thundercats has to do this, then... the teachers and greatest enemy he has are going to vary wildly. And sorry, no. No matter what BS you make up, he's not outdoing Cheetarah in a straight up footrace. No."Oh, I can only run fast for five minutes. You went slow and steady and so were able to beat me barely." Riiiiight.
That sounds…really weird lol. Yeah, no way should Lion-O be able to beat Cheetara in a speed trial without cheating. But with Thundercats back in the day it seemed like Lion-O was supposed to be the guy that could do everything. I would remember that he could be really close to being defeated, decide to use the sword of omens to call for assistance, but then the enemy would be pretty much nearly beaten by the time they showed up lol.
! I figured that would be the final trial too. I would love for the final trial to be Snarf though. The test would to be able to understand exactly what he says.
…You know no idea how funny that would be to me. XD
Great episode :D
My favorite parts are Lion-O doing trials and the fight scenes
http://www.animeflavor.com/index.php?q=node/26452
link for episode 15.
good night ya all.
My thoughts on Episode 15 Part 2:
! Not totally sure how to feel about this episode. On one hand. I was extremely surprised that Lion-O actually failed the last trial. On the other, I was kinda annoyed that they had to write it in that Tygra pretty much had to fail as leader. He was making a lot of calls that Lion-O used to that he would mention was a bad idea.
! Kit's devotion is cute but slightly depressing at the same time. True they really didn't have proof that he died. So yeah the markers was a good idea. But also not really trying to come up with a Plan B bugged me.
! And Mum-Ra….just standing there watching Lion-O slow dive for the sword...sigh. I don't know if that's just poor animation or what. Cause that looked like Mum-Ra had a massive brain fart.
! I'm not too surprised that Lion-O got to live after dawn. It was one of two outcomes I could figure they would go with. Either he gets to live cause he showed true heart, or he dies again and the others have to go through a trial to revive him.
! Yeah, the writers could've made Tygra succeed a little more as leader…..I know Lion-O's the rightful leader in this show, but I wouldn't mind if Tygra's command had its pros and cons like with Lion-O.
! I called it on the last trial being a duel with Tygra, but not the specific challenge at the beginning of the series. Hm.
! Yeah, the writers could've made Tygra succeed a little more as leader…..I know Lion-O's the rightful leader in this show, but I wouldn't mind if Tygra's command had its pros and cons like with Lion-O.
! I called it on the last trial being a duel with Tygra, but not the specific challenge at the beginning of the series. Hm.
@ Meta Mario:
! I don't have anything against Tygra not fully succeeding in this episode or Lion-O being seen as the rightful leader. But you don't have to make someone else look incompetent to get the point across. But yeah they could have tried a little better to build both up as leaders since it seems like any time Lion-O is gonna go missing Tygra becomes defacto leader. I wish at the very least they explained better that maybe Tygra was just depressed or angry. They sorta glossed over that. At the very least I would have thought Pantro would have offered up an idea, he was a General…But they just kept saying "What now my King?" As it seems we've all lost our independent thought.
! I think the whole idea behind Tygra failing was because he probably was trying to go the way of "What would Liono Do?"
! He was grieving silently over his brother and wanted to prove he could fill his shoes. He then tried to do as his brother would do because when Liono did it, it usually worked out. However, Liono has this extremely lucky streak when his plans are basically "make em up as I go." Tygra has no such luck, therefore he failed. He should have stuck to his own planning and left the whirlwind planning to his dead brother. But hey, cut the guy some slack, he tried.
Episode 16:
! Wow…this episode gave me a lot of the answers I wanted. I was surprised they showed Lion-O's mother actually in a dead state. Mr. Narrow face tiger has a really familiar voice...This episode was pretty dark too. This story kinda reminds me of Oedipus only without the incest. It was weird that Tygra just decided to stay...Um aren't you on a quest? Do you think Cheetara would stay? Also damn the action scene actually looked awesome. I'm slightly annoyed with shows using love always breaks curses thing, but it was still a bitter sweet ending I guess.
Mr. Narrow face tiger has a really familiar voice…
Ah, the great Jim Cummings lended his vocal talents for this ep…
! Great episode, and I enjoyed the whole backstory for Tygra, even if it was kinda dark. I mean, I can't say it's a good thing to have your biological father agree to sacifice you as an infant, then later shun you. Although I thought Tygra saying "I lost the two most important things, my mother and my kingdom" was powerful stuff.
! Though one thing puzzles me. Where the heck was the rest of the cast? I mean, don't get me wrong, Lion-O and Tygra carried this episode well by themselves and the others would screw up the flow of the episode, but…..the two of them were just randomly searching in a blizzard. Did I miss something?
Ah, the great Jim Cummings lended his vocal talents for this ep…
! Great episode, and I enjoyed the whole backstory for Tygra, even if it was kinda dark. I mean, I can't say it's a good thing to have your biological father agree to sacifice you as an infant, then later shun you. Although I thought Tygra saying "I lost the two most important things, my mother and my kingdom" was powerful stuff.
! Though one thing puzzles me. Where the heck was the rest of the cast? I mean, don't get me wrong, Lion-O and Tygra carried this episode well by themselves and the others would screw up the flow of the episode, but…..the two of them were just randomly searching in a blizzard. Did I miss something?
! Well they did state they were scouting ahead. I don't know if trekking miles is normal for scouting ahead lol. Oh and I so found it messed up that the Queen partially said prince then changed it when talking to toddler Tygra. And the back story confused me a little. Or maybe I needed to see the actual timeline. Cause we saw Tygra as a guard in his teens, in a previous episode.
! Well they did state they were scouting ahead. I don't know if trekking miles is normal for scouting ahead lol. Oh and I so found it messed up that the Queen partially said prince then changed it when talking to toddler Tygra. And the back story confused me a little. Or maybe I needed to see the actual timeline. Cause we saw Tygra as a guard in his teens, in a previous episode.
! Any more messed up than when Tygra picked up on it and his crown vanished? I felt bad for the little tyke.
! Any more messed up than when Tygra picked up on it and his crown vanished? I felt bad for the little tyke.
! Yeah that was sad. He looked so hurt. I still find it funny that apparently the key personality trait in a Tiger is their pride. I see no difference in how the other cats have behaved. Cats in general seem to be a prideful people as a whole. I would actually think that in a way backing Mum-ra and those other spirits for centuries is giving up on that pride. Serving something clearly evil instead of siding with the other tribes. Now I'm also wondering if we'll get a Cheetara finds her peoples too story. And what are Kit and Kat?