If you showed a 2018 eight-year-old the original ThunderCats and the new ThunderCats Roar side-by-side, they’d watch the hell out of the new one and probably ignore the old one as a crappy-looking relic of a bygone age. It’s like shooting a house with a bow and arrow to stop it being on fire. That is, by any standard, a rubbish way to stop a flood. It contained Snarf, a character so annoying he made Scrappy-Doo look like Optimus Prime, and there was at least one episode where Lion-O tried to stop a flood by hitting a wave with his sword. Cat people in swimming costumes fighting Egyptian mummies with swords. The thing is, with ThunderCats… Looking back… Is that… It… was quite strange. There’s even a petition, with a mighty sixteen signatories, attempting to stop the cartoon being broadcast. Fully-grown, voting adults are apoplectic with rage that ThunderCats – a cartoon that, beyond going “Hur hur, wasn’t ThunderCats good, I liked the cheetah lady, hur hur”, nobody has thought about for decades – is a bit different now.
That’s not stopped people losing their minds with anger though. It’s quite a departure from the original, but looks like a lot of fun, with animation much more like modern shows like Steven Universe, while it’s also obviously being made with reverence to the original series. It’s a shame, because it looks pretty good, as long as you can get past the fact that its producer Victor Courtright has literally the worst hair of any man on the planet. It's not perfect by any means but it focused on trying to tell a good story instead of just selling toys.What’s better, old stuff or new stuff? It’s a question the internet is constantly struggling with, and it’s what leads to (a) endless revivals of beloved properties and (b) weird backlashes against said revivals.Ī newly-announced reboot of 1980s sci-fi space-fantasy feline-refugee cartoon ThunderCats has drawn ire for not resembling the ThunderCats of old. In a sense it took what made the reboot of the Masters of the Universe popular and removed a lot of the childish elements that had plagued it during it's original run.
A bigger focus on action, some deeper story elements and actual character development. There are elements of the late 2000's / early 2010's in the production. If there's one thing I seriously hated about the original was Snarf. The show is darker, a lot more adult and thank Jaga they changed Snarf into a pet and not a constant whine machine. This one however I liked and I was kinda bummed that it only got one season. Some were really well done and others were obvious cash grabs. But then something happened in the earlier part of this decade and these old favorites were revived and given new life. I managed to track down a couple copies of them and let me tell you they don't hold up like they used to. But they had some basic charm to them and let's face it, it wasn't like we had the most discerning taste back then. Seriously GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Silverhawks, He-Man, they were all 22 minute commercials for the toy line. A lot of cartoons we loved and watched in the 80's had one thing in common.
0 kommentar(er)
