New Thundercats...

[Ranger REG]

It sounds like they're bastardizing Thundercats more than anime.

Either way, sounds like a bad combination, especially going with the WRONG style of anime art.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Hopefully it'll fare better than the remake of He-Man.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Their leader is Snarf (!) who is now a mystic with a "third" eye.

When they aren't fighting evil, the Thundercats play together as a rock band. That's not a typo, or a joke. They are rockin' cats in their present form.

These are the only things I find wrong and abhorrent.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Gurk. I think I may vomit.

If you're going to make a new Thundercats, then do it. If you're not, don't call it that. I'm one of those people who doesn't actually mind remakes, but I do mind when they've got almost nothing in common with the source material. And that includes feel and mood, not just specific details.

 

[Truth Seeker]

And to add, this is not even getting reported as News *at CM*...frellin' travesty this is.

 

[Ranger REG]

Hopefully it'll fare better than the remake of He-Man.

Sighs. We're letting down our children. *shakes head in disappointment*

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Sighs. We're letting down our children. *shakes head in disappointment*

I hear you. I wish I could afford to buy the He-Man DVDs.

 

[Klaus]

I also wish they'd make clear the difference between mere thunderians (natives of Thundera) and the ThunderCats (supposedly, the best and brightest sons and daughters of Thundera). I'd like to see Wilykit and Wylikat start out as mere thunderians and have to earn their place as Thundercats, much like Lion-O has to earn his place as king of the ThunderCats.

And I'd stop calling the villains "mutants" and just plain call them Plundarrians. "Mutants" and "X-Men" are too intertwined for me.

 

[Henry]

Appropos of this, how well did the Loonatics do in the ratings? Could explain this type of move if it did well.

RE: Teen Titans cartoon -- while it had some quite goofy elements, I actually found some parts of it interesting. The writers occasionally threw in some topical jokes that struck me hilarious (like the one villain who talked on online chatrooms, and the responses he would get).

 

[Klaus]

The thing about Loonatics is that there was absolutely no reason at all for using the Looney Tunes for that show. It could just as well be made with a group of new, non-anthropomorphic-animal heroes.