ThunderCats Roar review: The WORST, most GARBAGE cartoon of 2020 arrives!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Since its announcement in 2018, ThunderCats Roar, the latest reboot of the 80’s franchise, has been hailed as absolute trash. The kids’ TV world has been ravenously eager to tear into the latest reboot from Cartoon Network. Now, thanks to their app, the time has come. And it seems our expectations have been met beyond our wildest dreams. I offer a comprehensive review of the series, and a detailed deconstruction and analysis (and admittedly a little rant commentary) about how #ThunderCatsRoar (and, in turn, #CartoonNetwork) got this show so wrong, and how this show has lived up to being the first great disaster of 2020 and the new decade.
Alternate title: ThunderCats Roar is Garbage and Here’s Why
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All I can say is, the next TTG has arrived. THIS IS WHY CARTOON NETWORK IS DYING. THIS.
@@JonesDylan874 Indeed! If you're ever asked why you don't really like Cartoon Network, you can just point to this.
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Benzie Johnson 1st of all, Teen Titans Go has somewhat evolved to being somewhat harmless and surprising with their movie. But this?
Thundercats Roar?
It MUST be cancelled as soon as possible, it’s incompetent, and a disservice to fans of the original.
At least Teen Titans Go is somewhat separate from it’s original source material.
Sorry if I am repeating myself. But seriously, F@(K. THIS. SHOW.
I can't look at the fugly art without fighting nausea. They look like animated turds. 💩
No I dont think it deserved the hate it got
It deserves far more. I could draw better than that in the fourth grade and I generally hate my own art.
Samurai Jack is a good example of a balance between action and humor. The art style is also appealing. Why couldn't they use a style similar to SJ? Oh yeah, I forgot. These weirdos are incompetent.
dont talk about it any good old action adventure show is at risk of being rebooted into this trash ben 10 powerpuff girls and thundercats have already died all orginated from the shite pie that is teen titans go
I thought they had fired Genndy Tartakovsky, the guy that animated samurai Jack, after the samurai Jack ending and the sym-bionic titan unsuccessful attempt to sell enough toys.
they seem to be trying to ape OK KO's style somewhat, but OK KO was funnier and had more distinct character designs.
That would take talent, and these people have none.
@@A117-b7g About the low toy sales, well...they didn't even make toys before the show got canned
They don’t even really resemble cats besides their names. They look like misshapen gremlins.
haha ikr
still pisses me off they made this crap and didn't continue 2011 version, really sucks
@Michael Damasco Gremlist?
@Jason Lee Trater Nah it's the feckin Californians doing this crap, seriously CalArts as a style needs to die horribly.
BUT THEY GIVE THEM THE LITTLE :3 CAT FACES THATS GOOD ENOUGH RIGHT!
@@evanstocker8106 This type of style usually used to enhance the animation so they would be more fluid. SHOULD be more fluid. But seeing This.... I say that they're using this artstyle just to be cheap and be lazy bastards because the animation is choppy and bad, maybe only have 3 frames tops per movement, Shoddy inbetweens like they didn't even try. I said let them burn.
The creator of Roar hates the original show, this is his Revenge because his older brother forced him to watch the original show with them.
After seeing what a total soy boy the dude looks like, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this explanation was actually true..!
@@PeteTheGrouch Just watch his trailer for the show, you can see the resentment in his eyes when he talks about it.
I'am a Redguard! Seems like that's how the She-ra reboot creator feels except she focuses on shipping the characters and representation instead of story and the only good episodes are the ones with the previous She-ra
@@lucapeyrefitte6899 Have you ever played Devil May Cry or it's reboot DMC?
@MrNahual2099 That is possible.
2010: Adventure Time and Regular show kick off the animation renaissance.
2020: This.
Teen Titans Go ruined the legacy that Adventure Time and Regular Show would have brought to the table if TTG never exiested...I legit belive that the people who like TTG are either functionally retarded, braindead vegitables who can't so much as pick up the remote, or much too young to even speak a coherient sentance.
@@redzgaming6880 Or you know.. children who enjoy silly & vibrant cartoons?
RedZ gaming 68 do you really believe this or have you been hurt?🧐🤨😞😒😏🤪🤩
Receptable ...kid enjoy Happy Tree Friend more than Teen Titan Go
@MrNahual2099 Dang! No wonder I gave up the show from the 3rd season. At least Regular Show ended pretty well.
It was my 14 yr old daughter who came to me and said look what they did to the Thundercats. They look like they're made out of balloons.
Vanger48912 that's how I felt with Powerpuff girls 2016 reboot
To be fair, that sounds funnier than the show itself. It would have been pretty funny if the original Lion-o came, flipped these balloon clones the middle finger and then used said clawed finger to pop them all.
Lmao
@@lucapeyrefitte6899 tbf, aestheticaly is not that different, being mostly an improved design for modern times. The problem is everything else in the show.
Lol
The children deserve better reboots.
Honestly, the children deserve new original concepts, that they can then harbor nostalgia for in a few decades' time, rather than getting our, our parents', or our grandparents' hand-me-downs.
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@@benzj yea, it would be betterto just make something new
Children deserve new series that does not treat them like their stupid.
DuckTales, Danger Mouse, Thundercats, Harvey Girls Forever, Legend of the Three Caballeros, how’s that?
@@ThatRandomEncounterGuy I never heard of Harvey Girls Forever or Legend of the Three Caballeros but the other three are good.
to quote from someone:
*this is what happened when you have generation that soak this up, praise it, dont demand better, and dont expect better quality.*
-Laiser
YES
People who unconditionally defend everything about a show without acknowledging any faults are the reason quality is rolling steadily downhill. People need to stop getting so personally attached to the point that any criticism makes them feel like they themselves are being targeted. Rabid fans need to stop Branding every critique as “hate” and “toxic negativity.”
@@kittenbursworthy9613 I get what your saying, but let's face it, how could anybody with even 25% of a brain not hate this version of Thunder Cats?
Pokemon Sword and Shield Fandom? Is that you?
^
@@XellosNi Except it's more that people can like SwSh and understand it's faults, not that people are blindly defending it. This will probably turn into a big thread that has nothing to do with the original topic.
No one asked for this.
Asylum117 Cartoon Network did. So they could show they’re using the property to retain the rights.
Interesting thought, that I didn't really fully think of before -- is this really just a rights-maintenance play, rather than a reboot ploy?
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@@TrenchMan93 Warber Brothers owns the IP outright. Thundercats was originally created and owned by Rankin Bass. Which was owned by Lorimar. Which WB borged up. The only outside claim that might be there would be from Tobin Wolf, the original writer/creator. But he's dead. And the 2011 series puts it way outside any copyright expirations/return to creator clauses for decades.
Asylum117 no one asked for a lot of things we hate, but still get it anyways.
No one ,ever does.
Seeing this, I actually believe that the creators themselves personally hated this series and intentionally aquired the rights to thundercats so they can butcher it and piss on its legacy.
No they just thought making it like teen titans go was a good idea with cheaper animation style flanderised personalities and lack of consistent plot
100%
How else could it be this bad. You could t make it this bad on accident
I'd have to agree... Liono talking about his blunt plastic sword in one episode lol... wtf!
When people complain about "CalArts Style" this is most likely what they're talking about. Washed out colors, soft edges, horrendous character designs, each episode looks like it was storyboarded by 20 different people. Its basically a checklist now. When you have characters literally do a :3 face then its time to stop.
@@librasuperstar3779 Perhaps that was the original definition of CalArts, but just as time moves on and things evolve, the definition of CalArts has now been applied to this terrible style of current cartoons.
BeazleyZtudios even still there’s no use in classifying these shows under one style. It’s very close minded and overall inaccurate
To be honest it always reminded me of Bryan Lee O'Malley's style when he created Scott Pilgrim.
@@librasuperstar3779 That's fine, but what should we call it.
AkameGaKillfan777 we shouldn’t really call it anything. Steven universe, gravity falls, star vs, gumball, Clarence, thundercats roar, every show classified as “cal arts style” all have a unique style that can’t and shouldn’t be classified into one single style. I guess we could classify parts of styles like the infamous “bean smile”
Above all else I absolutely hate the art style.
It really does feel like someone watched an episode of OKKO and saw that people liked it and assumed they understood what made it great.
Look how long Teen Titans Go lasted. I hate to say it, but this is probably here for the long haul.
Pretty much every cartoon on CN has this animation style and I hate it.
For some reason, almost every object has an outline on it. Probably to try and add some "texture" to it, but it really just makes it look more dirty other than anything..
ICallsEmLikeISeesEm you’re right, we should call it “?”
thundercats 2011 tried to build on the foundation of the original this one basically tried so desperately be a new foundation that destroyed everything
agree
The version from 2011 being cancelled while on climatic was a huge mistake.
@@grambo4436 agree, I still till this day watch my 2011 Blue ray 26 episode version.
NO! Just NO! Roar is crap. It is meant to be crap by people who think crap is good. I have not cringed so hard since Street fighter: the animated series. The one know for "The Bison YES!" meme. Both shows are THAT painful.
@@DocWolph no one is saying roar is good i just saying that tries so hard to be "better" than the other 2 that it crashed burn them resurrected as Frankenstein monster hit by 2 trucks than killed the cremated and buried the legacy on the cemetery of concept arts were ideas go to die
Cartoon Network: you know what it could work to grab kids attention?
Me: make a different Animation Cartoon , with likable characters , a interesting story and smart jokes?
Cartoon Network: MORE STUPIDITY!!
Me: of course...
A lot of good shows died for this. That's just sad.
At least Infinity Train Season 2 is happening
Agenda for stupid kids
In the(paraphrased)words of Devil May Cry's Vergil: "Foolishness, Cartoon Network... foolishness!"
@@theogking8309
It's not just sad it's tragic.
The same can be said about CN as a whole these days.
This looks like O.K. K.O at costume party. No offense to Let's be Heroes though, that show was awesome. This is just wrong.
I didn't really like OK KO when I tried it, but even I can admit that it's better-done than this.
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I liked Ok KO but this Thundercats ROAR looks terrible. At first i though this was something related to OK KO when i saw the commercial but then they said Thundercats and i was pissed.
The There Man Show honestly-I thought that this was set IN the OK KO:Let's be heroes universe AS a children's series that KO could/would've had watched when he was little and/or sick from school/the bodega.. No joke,I did honestly!
I wish they would bring back O.K. K.O. and dump this piece of crap show
Classic 80’s cartoon: *exists*
Media companies today: *Lets take that, and ruin it*
Mumm-rah's name never shocked you. His weakness was he couldn't stand to look at his own face.
Also he wasn't gigantic. I mean, he got BIG when he achieved his ever living form, but it was more like Palpatine turning into Adonis.
Also, they knew not to overuse Mumm-rah as a bad guy, he mostly dispatched and helped the mutants. He didn't even fight Lion-O, or even reveal his exist ance to the thundercats until several episodes in. It was to avoid giving him Skeletor syndrome where his being an evil bad guy gets downplayed by his constant direct failures. One thing was if Mumm-Rah got DIRECTLY involved with the Thundercats, you knew he was going to wreck their shit.
Sounds like you've got more experience with the ThunderCats franchise than I do, and it seems they're already screwing things up! This is very interesting context to hear; thanks for providing it.
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@@benzj I was a fan of the original, and gained appreciation after the 2011 reboot.
When I heard Roar announced I thought it seriously was a joke.
Other things that were left out: Lion-O is actually a literal kid in a mans body (his suspended animation chamber failed and while he slept, his body still aged. He's actually the same age as Wily Kit and Kat.) but they don't at least have THAT as an explanation as to his stupidity (when in the original, he was more immature) Snarf was originally Lion-O's babysitter in a way, but is now apparently a McGuffin robot that's just going to be used randomly to conveniently get the characters out of any problem the writers don't want to think of another way around, and the sword of Omens was... KIIINDA a symbol of manhood given that it grew from a small dagger to a genuine longsword, as well as it was a symbol of wisdom since it had the "third eye". It was also sort of sentient and refused to be used to attack anything that wasn't evil.
@@benzj Also, it was indeed a great video. It's nice to hear some context from someone who went into this with new eyes.
Heck, I remember the 2011 series, I believe replaced his hatred of his own reflection with a vampire like weakness to the sun. Where it would weaken and burn him.
@@battybuddy I feel like the sword of omens was a thickly veiled dick joke in the new series.
I'm genuinely shocked they were still brave enough to air this after the first look at it a few years back received nothing but immense backlash. Surprise! We still hate it.
CuteSkeleton93 They don't care. It's free advertising when people bash it. That's why TTG did so well
@@URFTBOUND4LIFE Well that, and the fact TTG tends to fill up most of a program block, like 90% of it, and you're forced to watch through episode after episode just to get the shows you want to watch. The main reason the show has done good so far is just because of the bloated air time it was given. Hell, it gets marathons pretty regularly for fuck sake. But even TTG is bearable compared to just these two episodes of TCR, and that's saying so damn much.
Drake Shadron You got that right. TTG is overexposed. I remember overhearing my neighbor's kids complaining about how it's overplayed.
These kids are like 9 or 10 years old and they said they prefer the old Teen Titans.
They also liked the 2011 ThunderCats so I can only imagine how they must feel about Roar.
I never saw the original series but I did see the reboot. And I still feel sorry for the original fans.
It hurts how this fails at comedy. You want a good show that's similar but actually good? "Dave the barbarian" its also silly, with a stupid hero, but funny.
@@URFTBOUND4LIFE Kids are smarter than we give them credit for. TTG and TCR were made by adults who clearly think kids are stupid and will cling to anything that's colorful, noisy and constantly moving without taking a second to breathe, believing they lack the cognition to think "Hey, this might be bad". Even when you leave out the fact that these are attached to beloved series from the past and look at them as their own shows, they're still awful and if I had kids there's no way in Hell they'd be watching either shows.
The original 80's Lion-O was a child when Thundera blew up and the Thundercats had to go into suspended animation to make the trip to Third Earth, except something happened and his capsule caused him to age, so when they got to Third Earth Lion-O was basically still a child in a grown up's body. This is probably why they have made Lion-O such a goof ball here. Because he was sort of childish in the original, but it was more multi faceted than it is here. Roar has just sort of taken the goofball nature and made it the primary focus because it allows for comedy. I think they are trying to over correct for the 2011 reboot which took a much more serious tone, and was more serialized in nature by giving us a sort of nostalgia fueled easy to digest format, but this just isn't what any of the fans really wanted.
This context is really enlightening. I could certainly see where this show could be considered an "overcorrection" for the 2011 reboot. From your description at least, there's certainly a way to pull this off, but like you've said, they've gone too far in attempting to create comedy.
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a while back i actually took a look at the 2011 reboot and tbh imo i was pretty good, some bits were kinda generic for the time but overall it did have compelling stories and pretty good action. If i had to say what about it failed itd have to be the marketing, when i saw the marketing i thought it looked WAY worse than it actually was. This is probably where the whole over-correction came from, they misunderstood where they made a mistake and thought it was the gritty tone over the bad marketing so they changed the tone and now we all have to wait out this steaming pile to die before we can get anything good. Honestly i hope theres petitions to bring the 2011 show back cause that series got reamed when it came to how it was treated.
@@bisine PETITIONS WILL NOT WORK. Why do you idiots still believe that whiny signatures on a piece of paper will ever change anything? Name one time a petition did anything?
The capsule didn't fail, they all aged about 6 years. Out of the 100 that they were in space. In order to keep themselves alive, they could not fully stop the body's metabolic process. Lion-O just happened to go through puberty during that time. This had the side effect of not allowing his mental state to mature along with his now-adult body.
@@bisine oof yeah
I really hate the art style of this show. Not that it re-uses the "Cal-arts style", but rather it's just..... lack of a better word, horrendous. The character designs are WAAY too simple, the facial expressions make me cringe, the outlines and colors are dirty as hell, and it's just...... What the hell is this??? This isn't anything..
Snarf is the only likeable aspect of this show. That's a travesty.
WOW
Dam
The worst character in the original, is the best one in the 2020 Reboot. That is just...wow. Honestly, Mao Mao and Infinity Train are far superior to that trash heap.
FuriousTalons the fact that Snarf of all characters is the best one in the reboot says a lot
@@kokotiger1313 That is just, sad.
Everyone but Tygra looks like a sentient balloon animal while Tygra looks like a rejected Gravity Falls character.
Screaming Meat And Panthro looks like Boom Boom from Super Mario
Tygr-o looks like a "mid-aged pervert baldy" rejected Gravitty Falls Character
Honestly thunder cats roar is way way way worse than teen titans go at least teen titans go started out okay but thunder cats roar started off horrible
While I can't fully speak for Teen Titans Go, network darling that it is, ThunderCats Roar is certainly one of the worse starts for a show that I've seen. I can only imagine what would happen if this show gained traction in the network's schedule...
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@@benzj I agree
Teen Titans Go was and still is obnoxious but they had just right amount of self awareness. They never did something worth hating it for real. I mean they did piss off audience but more in a sense of ironically pissing off. Eventually the creators played on this and put you in the situation that you can actually _enjoy hating_ the show.
ThunderCats Roar for now seems just repulsive. No good jokes no good anything.
@@poochyenajones1362 yeah, at least the charachters of ttg understood that they were shit compared to their original series.
i agree teen titans go is better cause they better talent its still hot trash that did the same thing this show did to the orginal had a whole episode dump on the orginal and had a whole episode about the poddy dance dont let the like 3 good episodes convince its not hot insulting trash
Ted "Tobin" Wolf: *Look at how they massacred my boy.*
He's probably drinking a fifth of scotch.
@@gravekeepersven82 Dead men don't drink....I assume.
Mitch Fletcher you’d be surprised
@@emeraldsky2823 Perhaps.
That man must be spinning in his grave.
Unless he was cremated I guess.
The art style could literally inflict cancer upon those who watch this show.
It's like being exposed to high levels of radiation.
It's extremely toxic that's for sure.
@Dalek Supreme
It a *lazy* art style definitely.
After watching SU I'm vaccinated to this kind of crap.
@@uneterostardust8233 I get what you mean, but even SU had better animation and artstyle overall, and some of it's moments were just beautiful. I've watched the show, but even I need to take my pills after seeing "quality" of Roar's animation
It could inflict Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, Depression, and HIV/AIDS
some people seriously defend this show.
the only reason i can imagine why, is to spite some particular people who hate it and not because they actually enjoy it.
No, i actually enjoy the show, pretty good animation it had on some episodes to be honest. I don't get why people are mad at this whilr it's actually WAY BETTER then TTG.... I loved this show and i hope it gets another season✨
Yeah it's not as bad as you say. It's supposed to be a kid's show and I mean the animation is actually pretty cool. It's laid back and that's alright. If you're so upset can't you just watch the original or something with a more serious tone? It ain't the end of the world dude
@@bruh......2005 no that show cancelled I heard
@@blubber6963 there's nothing wrong with wanting a decent reboot and yes it is bad as they say it is
Fun fact: Ristar on Sega Genesis had a better plot introduction in the under 90 second TEXTLESS intro it had. (Edit 4 weeks later: okay, it had one or two lines of text, but it got an entire story arc across in under a minute. The point is that Thundercats roar is incompetent and garbage)
Haha. CN is trash.
@Cold Snap aye that it did. Darn good game.
Such an underrated classic.
Rare to see a Ristar reference these days, but it's appreciated
Ristar was awesome
Rocket knight adventure had better cutscenes with no text than this
I'll be shocked if this show even lasts a year.
Anything that can trap a kid's attention for 23 minutes straight and is cheap to make will last as much as they want it
Tell that to teen titans go 🙄
Looks like its allready cancelled.
its already cancelled :D
LMFAO it's rumored that they canceled the show already.
If it's true than God is good!
Ever since Teen Titans Go started, western animation as a whole has been on a downward spiral, mostly because they've become overly cheap and overly repetitive, with no real variety and over-reliant on sugar-high characters with lots of obnoxious jokes and toilet humor because they think kids are idiots. Thundercats Roar reeks of desperation because the network executives refuse to allow creativity and only care about money and nothing else. Cartoon Network needs to turn around _immediately_ or else they will go bankrupt and will cease to exist.
The trend of shows like TTG and ThunderCats Roar is concerning; however, it's not representative of all current and recent modern animation. We've seen plenty of great cartoons in recent years, showcasing a diverse array of styles and stories... however, most of them haven't been on Cartoon Network. CN really needs to get its act together creatively. Even beyond the abject trash this is, their content has been mediocre at best, for the most part, as of late. (I explain such in other videos on my channel.)
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The problem is that CN is currently run by hacks who think television is a sinking ship. It's not just the shift to internet streaming guys. Maybe it's because 80% of your schedule is the sugar-filled, fat-ridden, nutritionless, substanceless junkfood that is TTG and its derivatives! It's okay to have a show like that. But if you underestimate your audience, they WILL leave.
@@vaimantobe3034 That's the problem, they think television is dying because "HERP-A-DERP STREAMING IS DA FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT!" and have basically decided to demand that people cut their cable subscription in favor of streaming services by showing the most mediocre programming imaginable as a means of discouraging people from watching their channel so that people can shift to streaming services.
They WANT to die, they don't see streaming services as a threat, they think that because of Netflix and it's original programming and it's convenience that they are already obsolete, and not everyone is willing to oblige to that mentality. Unfortunately they're extreme capitalists who only care about profit and nothing else.
I can't really afford Netflix, yet I'm tired of CN and Nick putting out crappy shows because it feels like they want to sell me a Netflix subscription by _discouraging_ me from watching their shows and telling me to watch Netflix's shows instead. That's not a good business strategy, sacrificing your quality for quantity because you WANT your competitor to win as they're of a newer technology.
@@benzj Not ALL current animation is bad, the problem is that CN is far too conservative with what content it wants on it's channel and plays things too safe, and Nickelodeon is very much the same. Disney not so much, they're the best of the three networks right now, despite the fact that many people have become frustrated with the company due to their mishandling of Star Wars and over-reliance on live-action remakes.
It's been happening since Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Steven Universe . Regardless how you feel about those 3 shows, they were the ones that encourage Cartoon Network to stick to this tired out, comedy animation garbage.
Rather than cats, they're more like weird looking goblins
Yea, exactly!
*Goblins have noses...*
Don’t compare the glorious goblin race to those misshapen creatures!
No they look like people wearing bad cosplay outfits
@@smolgobbo3826 Thunder Gremlins
Like how every show had the Adventure-Time style, now it’s the Steven Universe style. Not trying to hate, but I’ve never liked either style.
Tuna Scroll To be honest, that’s one of the things I despise the most about western animation nowadays. If they REALLY cared about the future of 2D animation and cartoons, they wouldn’t copy the successful shows from before; instead, they would at least TRY to come up with something different and allow risks! Ù-Ú Shame.
•{ Sapphony }•
Yeah, I agree. Although thinking about it more I believe Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, etc. from the 90’s-2000’s all shared very similar styles as well, so unfortunately it really comes down to preferences changing overtime.
But speaking of western animation being made, most of not all of our cartoons now are really being animated in Korea by talented artists who have to stick to the storyboards no matter how good or bad they may be.
Taking risks in this day and age is almost rare, and even if someone does it sadly very rarely yields good results, which is why people avoid it as to not lose money.
Copying the successful stuff will not make you successful....
IF YOU DON’T MAKE EFFORTS!!!
That art style is so irritating. I hate the way their faces look. I hate how soft and squishy the shapes are. I hate that constantly off model animation look that they think is "so funny ecks dee". Hate hate hate!
Ditto
How old are you? You shouldn't comeplan if your over 12!
The cal arts zoomer art style, almost all the cartoons at cartoon network have this lazy art style today
@@simbabear Ok boomer
@@johncycal7020 it's why I can't get into SU despite everyone saying it's good. The art style is too lazy for me to enjoy and off af, reminds me of this show's art style fosure
I guess it could pass off as a parody or a spin-off, but NEVER, EVER in a million years will I count this monstrosity of a "show" as a Thundercats reboot.
I'm just waiting for the next thundercats reboot to mock this one and i'm sure it will.
I don't think it is good enough as a parody, the humor just isn't very good and they took certain liberties that make it seem like a (terrible) re-imagination of the whole concept. I'm sure any random stranger on the net would be able to create a better parody than this.
You don't have to make everything a base of comedy to have comedy. You can be serious and have a truly relatable plot and include comedy with it.
I like how happy everyone is after their home world and 99.9% of their species was destroyed...
Yeah, the dissonance is jarring and is also never really properly rectified, given they're too busy making repetitive or unfunny jokes.
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As someone who studied animation, if I submitted a project that looked like this, I would have been failed instantly.
And somehow they can make a show from it
snarf was in the orginal show, though he could talk, he was basically a failed mascot sidekick in the vein of slimer, orko I guuess, c-3po and R2D2 and other, more fitting examples.
and people HATED him.
But at least HE HAD A BRAIN!
@@Ramsey276one which he used to constantly say SNARF SNARF
THAT'S NOT A CATCHPHRASE, THAT'S YOUR NAME! YOU'RE NOT A POKEMON!
Sara Fontanini that’s how he was in the remake????
OUCH...
@@Ramsey276one no. In the 2011 he was just a pet. Only animal sounds
@@Ramsey276one no. in the original while he DID speak like a normal ass person he would also, apparently, pepper his sentences with SNARF SNARF. Meaning he did talk, but ALSO did pokemon speak at the SAME TIME
I have not seen the remake so I have no idea what he was like there
I just saw the first episode.
It's throbbing trash.
Very much agreed.
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This is a direct insult to trash.
And throbbing.
I love “throbbing trash” i shall steal this lol
Lmaooo throbbing
Thunder cats "roar"
Teen titans "go"
This show is TOTALLY not trying to cash in on teen titans go’s success.
This is a terrible show. Honestly I don’t even think teen titans go is bad, it just way too overused. But this however is just absolute garbage. Nothing redeeming what so ever.
The titling is certainly suspicious, especially given how bad the show ended up being.
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minecraft yourself teen titans go for starting this horrible trend of rebooting beloved action adventure cartoons into lazy 2 year old joke level laugh tracks destrroyed count so far ben 10 teen titans powerpuff girls thundercats. the only reason people dont hate teen titans go as much as they SHOULD is the people running it actually do have some talent and actually try at least once a season like the pyramid scheme episode and the 80s episode and the food war episode but for everyone one of those we get 5 poddy dance and mocking the orginal episodes
Wilma Perkins Minecraft??? Lmao wtf
@@d3-penguin954 its supposed to be a way to say end yourself without youtubes stupid bot shadow banning your comments
@@d3-penguin954 no my comment said i want teen titans go to off itself hence why i wrote mincraft yourself teen titans goi agree with you this is why i wish the shadow ban bot didnt exist it makes habing straight conversations alot harder
When I'm forced to watch Teen Titans Go with the kids I babysit, I actually chuckle a few times each episode. I watched this in dead silence, I couldn't believe what I was watching. People comparing this to 'OK KO' have never watched 'OK KO' or at least more than one episode - it's an insult. I'm curious to see how the kids will react when they watch this in Feb. I'm sure they'll laugh when Tygra gets hurt, but I don't see them enjoying anything else. (Also I didn't like Thundercats growing up, so I'm not some angry, old fangirl or anything lol)
I think Teen Titans Go can be enjoyed if you just watch it for what it is. A few episodes are hard to enjoy period, but generally you can watch it while high.
Some people have theorized that this is a revenge of the creator. He mentioned in the promo that his older brothers watched ThunderCats. Some theorized he hated ThunderCats and hated his brothers for making him watch it and he just wants to crap on their childhood and make what they love look “so stupid” to get back at them. I’m willing to go beyond that and guess that Tygra was probably his brother’s favorite character, hence the extra abuse.
To be fair theres really no other cartoon I can think of that I would even remotely compare this unpolished turd to. From what both shows look like roar is just a further devolution from what ttg started.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory I'd say TTG is kind of a "get high/turn off your brain and you can stand it" deal most of the time, and some episodes are actually genuinely GOOD. I'd still say your description is spot on, just I think with Roar, they may have had to be high to be able to WORK on it. Your kids might also need to be high.
CN: kids are soo stupid. They actually watch Teen Titans GO.....
Me: Yeah, because that's all that's on for 75% of the day that isn't Adult Swim....I'm shocked they haven't tried to play that during that time frame.
CN: Exactly! It--wait....we could play it on Adult Swim?! GENIUS! Think of all the money save !
This show is like Breadwinners, but worse. I didn't even think that was possible.
Good review, by the way.
The difference is that _Breadwinners_ was actually a good show. It was ridiculous and fun without being annoying and awful like this. They set things up in an engaging way on that show, while they basically skipped doing that here. (Admittedly, I liked _Breadwinners_, so this might be either representative of bias or just how bad this show really is...)
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Woofyhound two farting ducks.
@@matthewbennett1972 The fart humor wasn't *_that_* common there.
If you wanna see a show that is 90% made of fart/vomit jokes, it was that one about a bout and his talking Snake (whose name was Craig), though don't remember the name of this cartoon right now.
@@snakeboy2017 Sanjay and Craig is the name of the cartoon you're talking about, one of the most annoying shows
Even younger me, who did enjoy breadwinners, would have hated this.
The art style looks like someone hit Adventure Time with Steven Universe, but doesn't have the actual depth of either.
Honestly I feel bad for all the hate I gave to TTG, cause seeing this I realize how horrible that show could have been. Like at least the characters in TTG are still the same, just flanderized to the point of absurdity. Here, they're all just goofy idiots without a bit of their old personalities in tact. Not even snarf, like how do you make the most annoying character in the original series somehow MORE stupid?
And a robot...
_ThunderCats Roar_ has put so much into perspective. For all TTG's faults, at least it was theoretically possible to make an argument for positives in that show. _Roar_ is nigh-irredeemable.
When Snarf seems actually _tolerable_ compared to the other characters...
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They don't even look much like cats
What's next??
GI Joe: Shoot!
Flintstones Rock!
Swat Kats Meow!
They're already making a _Flintstones_ reboot, but otherwise, don't give executives or their streaming services any ideas...
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@@benzj Oh no... Not a Flintstones remake. I don't even wanna know what streaming services are cooking up.
@@Blackpapalink There is indeed one on the way, revealed last summer and set to be an adult animated series. No word on where it's going just yet, though.
Shhsh! Stop giving them ideas!
Benzie Johnson Too be fair, the Flintstones were a prime time cartoon aimed at adults.
It was just tamed enough for parents to let their kids watch too
I can’t believe tumblr and reddit made a show
17:21 - I have seen both series and this is what I can say about their characterizations back then.
1980 - Lion-O had the mentality of ignorant youth, but this wasn't really his fault as his statis pod from Exodus got damaged and his body grew up. Even Wily-Kit and Kat were as old as he was and did have some sense of maturity. Snarf was annoying but he had a heart of gold and even had an episode where he used his limited skills to save the Cats. The others were experienced fighters and Panthro was a mechanical genius.
However, as time goes on, Lion-O begins to overcome trials and eventually grows into a proper leader and his chivalrous attitude is not played with laughs. Mumm-Ra and the Mutants took villainy as serious as they could, especially the former.
2011 - The story, setting and characters got retconned royally, but the Cats were at their lowest. Tigra (who was adopted by the King and is revealed in Season 2 why) and Lion-O didn't get along very well and there was a small love triangle with Cheetara, Lion-O was an inexperienced leader who had to deal with the loss of his father and kingdom to a surprise attack from Mumm-Ra/Lizards and Panthro eventually loses his arms. Snarf was like this Snarf but without the gadgets and Wily Kit-Kat were brother and sister who ran away from home to find treasure so their family would never go hungry again after their father died.
The Mutants (who are now animals) also get quite the upgrade as they use advanced weaponry and the Jackal/Baboon become extremely dangerous generals under Mumm-Ra that best the Cats on several occasions. There were still themes and seriousness and you truly watch as each of the cats grow and become a better team. However, this show got cancelled due to bad toy sales and lack of interest.
Thank you for the additional context! It seems like things have changed a lot between the three series.
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id say, Thundercats as an action-comedy is an idea that can be done if done right, but whoever is behind this is just god awful at their jobs.
It certainly could be executed successfully (or in CN's case, even with mediocrity and basic competence); _Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ serves as a good bar here. However, it's just not going to happen with this creative team.
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a key feature of an action comedy is to have good action. I dont see any good action here.
@SoulReaper 85 Gotta admit it's way better than this crap.
I legitimately thought that after the initial backlash of the show, that CN dropped the show entirely. Hope's, deleted.
As an outsider looking in, I truly wonder how anyone can have faith in Cartoon Network these days...
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On the plus side, the person who most likely approved this pile is on her way out.
@@legionaireb
Unfortunately CN itself is on extremely shaky ground these days.
There's a very good chance the current Warner merger (with AT&T ) will end with CN/AS being turned/absorbed into a streaming service.
Don't get me wrong I'm pretty sure the person you're talking about will be kicked out but at this point even if that were true it would just be leaving a crumbling building.
>Losing hope in a channel because of ONE show
Don't get me wrong, I watched a few episodes of this show and decided it wasn't for me, but there's still a bunch of other better shows on the channel people like you could turn your attention to, like Craig of the Creek, Mao Mao, Victor & Valentino, DC Super Hero Girls, etc.
There's still hope. You just have to look around more!
This makes Teen Titans Go look like a 5 star masterpiece
True.
There is always something worse.
Basically Thundercats Roar< Cats < Sonic movie (before they improved the design) < Teen titans go < Sonic movie (after they improved the design)
It makes Apple & Onion look like O.K. K.O.
lol teen titans go is way better than thundercats roar
It's a shame that this show does not even teach a valued moral at the end. If you can't follow the story line, there is nothing to learn from one actions or inactions. As an adult, and grandmother, I watched the first series. To see where the cartoon has failed, is an insult to us as a viewer. I would not want my grandchildren to watch this. I liked watching cartoons that have a moral at the end. You can talk about these, after the end of the program ends. Bringing you and your children a bit closer. Encouraging more times to watch with each other.
This is an insult to any pass cartoon. It almost encourages lack of a learn from one past mistakes, or others. Or worse they feel we are not smart enough to learn something. The only reason is the constant moving forward with a story, that is barely there.
This is not the only thing that has suffered, in the last 10 - 15 years. It's across the board, movies, TV programs. It's like all the creative writers have disappeared.
Retired, or passed away.
Can a change be made? The art style I do not like, but could over look if the story was there, if it could hold the attention of adults and young children. I do believe this was meant for children 5-7 years of age. Which limits how deep of a story line is. But if it was meant for preteens up to 15, well, it does fall far short.
Well, part of the problem isn't really a lack of creative staff, but rather the excessive abuse that they constantly go through. Most of the truly talented ones are blocked out of the industry before they even have a chance or (if they were fortunate enough to get a stable career at all) rejected once they become to competent for networks to easily control. Networks tend to have VERY tight grips on creators and WILL manipulate them to get what they want. They take content away from the original creators as a price for a potentially stable job. Deadlines are usually so tight that it can affect the physical health of employees, not to mention the quality of what they put out. Not to mention outsourced animation, which can prevent young (or highly experienced) animators from getting the jobs they deserve. There are many incredibly talented creative workers who are literally blocked from meeting the demands of quality media. The biggest change to be made is for us, the consumers, to stand up for the rights of these people.
This is what happens when executives try to sell toys instead of a quality show first
Mumm-Ra in 1984-1985 weakness was light and the sword of omen was made from Thundera, Mumm-Ra in 2011 weakness is the sword of omen that was made to beat him cuss they was slaves, in Thundercats roar Mumm-Ra weakness is himself >.> yeah this show is a great start.
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Im an 80s kid.....i used to the lets give this stuff a chance guy.....now i want to burn everything. This makes me so angry....I wouldnt have a problem if this wasnt thundercats...but it seems these days not only do they want to reboot stuff...they just want to SH** on what came before.
You wonder why adult cartoons and anime are killing it in the views and sales these days.
@@gravekeepersven82 Been watching anime since the 80s lol....its a no brainer.
@@ArvelleWhitaker I'm glad my dad introduced me to old school anime as a little kid and it was the nice and violent scifi. Because now you gotta go indie or anime to avoid the mass garbage pit that's become the comics and modern western industry.
yep started by teen titans go reboot a awesome orginal action adventure cartoon into lazly written lazyly drawn 2 year old comedy level joke track TRASH
@@wilmagregg3131 throw it all away
Why does Pathro look like a evolved form of Gumball or fusion of him & Darwin?
I can see where you'd get a vague resemblance -- perhaps it's the art style and character design that helps influence that sort of thing.
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Original ThunderCats- Gorgeous animation, characters designed by comic book artists, some animators went on to work for Studio Ghibli.
2011 ThunderCats- Much more Anime inspired but still Faithfully gorgeous, one of the absolute best looking hand drawn shows from television even to this day, gave me hope of an animation renaissance (which sadly hasn’t really happened beyond the early 2010’s)
This show- They hired the character designer for Pickle and Peanut to be the showrunner. Filled with mean spirited, disrespectful, “ironic” humor that only quality hating hipsters will enjoy.
Nah he looks like a grey Radicles
@@seastriker4437 i hate how they canceled Thundercats 2011. Its like they want to cancel all the good shows and replace with dumb shows.
The facial expressions ugh...
So the plot is there hole planet, history, and people are gone and then they just run around on another planet acting stupid?
There are several light years of distance between Thundercats Roar and The New Ducktales when it comes to technique and plot, considering both of them are reboots.
I just cringed at the two shows being mentioned in the same sentence. New Ducktales actually adds something to the series, and while you can certainly debate on whether or not its better then the original, it stands perfectly well on it's own.
This is almost the complete opposite of that.
As a fan of the original Thundercats, wow. This honestly makes me just wanna go watch those. They were way better, if cheesy. Why didn't we just get more of the anime reboot? That was pretty good!
Frustrating.
because toy sales didn't go well
no really, that was the 2011 thundercats and sym-bionic titan were canceleld. because of toy sales.
@@sarafontanini7051 gotta pay for production somewhere. This is also why so many unique anime only lasts 2 seasons at most, they don't make enough money to financially justify s3 or beyond
@@andrejg4136 it's still bullshit
"From the ingenious creators of Thundercats: Roar, comes a new show - Master's of the universe: power!"
Run
"Master's of the universe"
*50 shades 'nam flashbacks*
The only way I would accept a Masters of the Universe reeboot is if it was animated by David Production.
@@EmperorSigismundand yet, there is one--directed by a world reknown White knight--in the works
And coming soon, also from the creators of Thundercats: Roar- Gargoyles: Fly!
Gargoyles fans: Welp, time to start a war on tv studios.
Anyone realise how the sword disappeared in his hand? 15:26
Looks like some weird crossover from deviant art
Heat seeking animation waste.
They even used the OG music which I found highly offensive
Somewhere out there Ted Wolf is spinning in his grave as that Manbun bastard Victor Courtright butchered a classic 80's cartoon.
Strong words, but given his prior work, arguably accurate.
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TTG: finally..... a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary
Remember, the old saying “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”?
Well, you CAN judge this “book” by it’s cover!
Thundercats Roar makes The Loud House look like The Galaxy Rangers by comparison!
This makes me so glad that the Swat Kats did not come back with new episodes after all.
The only shows (at this moment) I would take a gamble on, are M.A.S.K. and The Fantastic Four. Both IP’s have room for improvement. But I’d say it would be better to wait till we get rid of all the loser millennials first (who can’t hold the straps of a Bruce Timm and Stan Lee if their life depends on it)!
On the bright side, we got Young Justice back, and it’s a continuation of the previous continuity!
I didn't like Thundercats as a kid but I saw it enough to know that Mum-Ra was a gigantic threat that the sparse times he would get directly involved things would generally go south very quickly for the heroes.
If it's anything like TTG, then the shows "plot" is pop culture references......truly, a golden age of writing creativity.
yes and shiteting on the orginal show CAUSE THATS FUNNY AND NOT INSULTING AT ALL APPRENTLY
Isn't making pop culture references a basic form of plot for comedy shows though? Even Animaniacs did that.
@@Trecherousbeast true, and that has been a running theme with Warner bros. Maybe because it was older pop culture references and the modern pop culture seems like garbage. And considering how the previous iteration of Teen Titans was, it seems rather out of place. Or worse, when it's in a show for "smart people" like Rick and Morty.
MWH12085 Old pop culture references is good and Modern is bad
totally doesn’t seem biased with your childhood
@@MWH12085 Rick and Morty isn't a show for "smart people" it's a comedy, so they make pop culture references. Pop culture references are not a Warner Brothers thing it's a comedy thing. There's no real way to make a "bad" pop culture reference, because just like referential humor in general, the joke is you understand what they're referencing, but in a cultural way.
This singlehandedly destroyed my childhood and all my hope for the human race and the future of cartoons.
I mean this is an insult to the original cartoon form the 90s and the 2011 version.
And the saddest thing is I'm 17 years old and to me the good times for cartoons was the 90s to 2014. I mean iven my six year old sister hates this.
I wouldn’t worry too much, this has been going on for 5 years, it’s finally hitting these studios in the wallet and I think they will change their toons mighty quickly (see what I did there) heck, the studio has absolutely no faith in this hence why they quietly released it on the app, with absolutely no fanfare. Rumor has it that it was cancelled before it even aired and they are just putting the finished episodes out just because.
Another rumor has it that they are talking about Real revivals of ThunderCats, possibly based on the success of the He Man series on Netflix. Personally, I would rather they pick up the 2011 series, not just because it was great and I want closure but it is a show that was so ahead of it’s time, not just because of the gorgeous anime aesthetic but because it is a perfect show for streaming.
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I really hope this show gets cancel, I got nothing against the good people that worked on this cartoon, but i really hope they cancel it and bring back the 2011 version that was absolutely awesome.
It was truly ahead of its time I agree.
Fenrir The ice wolf What good people? You mean the slave wage animators? Cause the people in charge seem like ironic hipster douchebags who don’t seem to care even a little about what they are doing.
@@seastriker4437
Yeah... I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm just trying to be nice and say good words and be a good person like the cartoons of old that truly mattered thought me to do.
Fenrir The ice wolf Ok, fair point. Maybe I should try that more often. I’m usually not so mean, I’m just really sick of this stuff. Reboots put into the hands of people with an agenda who have absolutely no respect or even flat out hatred for the source material put in charge of reboots. I think it’ll be easier as the year goes on and I kind of see the beginning of the end. It’s like a really bad itch where no matter how hard you scratch, it just doesn’t want to go away.
The reboot was literally disgusting, everything is so low budget. The characters design wise and personality wise changed, it's just horrible
When I was a kid I used to draw cartoons all the time but they were absolutely terrible looking which pretty much said to me I had no future in animation. The fact that we now have multiple shows where the art quality is even worse than what I used to come up with as 9 year old makes me wish I'd stuck with it.
BURN THE SHOW WITH HATE
Amen two that
I think it's better to burn it with indifference, that's the most effective way to kill a product. Don't give CN views for this.
Hate is what made Teen Titans Go a success in the first place.
just use ANYTHING TO KILL IT
"Hi I´m Lion-O and tell everything I do and see and Snarf is the embodiment of a plot device" and they are so lazy that use the original score to trigger nostalgia, and fail all the way to the dumpster fire that this stevia down high budget reference meme failed joke this is
Yes, why is Snarf a robot?
Because the people working on this are unoriginal lol so random morons that’s why.
Us: yes but why is Snark a robot!?
Thundercats Roar team: why are you still on that?
If you want to make a comedy don’t open with genocide. If you want the destruction of Thundara to be a thing that’s ok but it should have gotten its own episode down the line where the characters could have focused on it.
And when they did, they did it with literal genocide and not actual silly reason like that game where you need to roll a ball on everything...
There's so many reboots I owe an apology to.
Me: Mom I wanna watch thundercats
Mom: we already have thundercats at home
Thundercats at home:
About half of today's cartoon have this exact same Art Style
Gumball was the only one to do it well, because the show was animation porn to look at.
This is not, this is animation gore.
If you thought this show was good, you wouldn't care a bit about the art style.
Thundercats Roar is one of the worst modern cartoon since Super Drags.
I'm agree 1000%
@@joaolucasribeiroalvarenga3280 The Best Modern Cartoon on hulu is Solar Opposites.
They introduced our characters on holographic stat cards, I'm-
Speechless?
Gay?
When the 1985 version looked better than the 2020 version.
Yes, from 1985 to 2020 the visuals got downgraded.
Let that sink in.
The biggest offense of all in my opinion is that they claim that it's for children, but for all intents and purposes, that show is made by adults who have never grown emotionally when they were children because they are part of the generation that were told they never had any flaws and whatever they did was perfect. They're using this "show for children" as a "TAKE THAT" to the adults of the same generation who have matured and older still who look down on them for being such little worthless sacks of shit.
And even then, it's not even that makes me hate it, it's how they actually think children will like this, because they believe children are stupid little fucks who can't understand shit. Children are smart, way smarter than we give them credit for and even they can tell that this shit is stupid.
So basically you're saying that children are smart if they don't watch Thundercats Roar, but if they do, it means that they are stupid and can't understand a thing?
@@sandwichgod692 No, what I was triyng to say is that they think children wouldn't understand any messages of importance, this show has no message to convey. it's just horrible wacky humor for the sake of it, not because it's leading up to something.
My controversial theory: this is all about money. CN is hoping this is "good enough" to fill the space between ads. I bet they're paying talentless, desperate people slave wages to produce this crap. I mean, we've seen them take advantage of other creatives who collaborated with them...
until they realize the only thing keeping people around is Steven Universe, once Future ends, that's it for them
Um... Is this even a theory? Networks have been PROVEN to do that stuff all the time. Also, cheap outsourced animation is already a well-known process, not some secret conspiracy. The worst part of this is the fact that these animators may not actually BE as talent less as they appear. Many of these people are probably physically worn-down and deprived of basic needs due to a ridiculously extreme time schedule.
@@kidwolf0015 I saw a news story about some poor creative that had worked with CN for years. He was working insane hours, owned nothing and couldn't afford proper medical care. He dropped dead in his early 50s, I think - after providing them a lot to f content they made money off of. It made me glad I didn't purse animation as a career.
Snarf looks like the only character the art style works for.
Cartoon Network: lets reboot our old shows. Teen titans go and thunder cats roar. Fans: not happy. Disney: lets reboot duck tales. Fans: this is how you reboot a series
There are certainly better examples of reboots elsewhere, but it's tough to reboot a previous scripted series and make it successful. Personally I feel it's a better idea to reboot formats (Nickelodeon relaunching _All That_ is a good example), as it's easier to pull off and adapt to modern times.
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Honestly it sucks if you haven't seen the original, but it's even worse if you have. It's just insulting.
Freaking Will Friedle, Dee Bradley Baker, Matthew Mercer, Clancy Brown, Kevin Michael Richardson, Satomi Korogi, and Robin Atkin Downes were all in the 2011 reboot and all of them, as we all know, are extremely talented. The voice artists in ThunderCats Roar, among them being Max Mittelman and Erica Lindbeck, are extremely talented as well, but their talents are just being wasted with this spin-off of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes and a complete downgrade from the source material.
TTG: Suddenly I'm lookin' a whole lot better.
Benzie: who thought this was a good idea?
Cartoon Network: WE GOTTA GET MORE... MONEY
I would much rather have a continuation of the rebooted Thundercats
Ned Flanders: “Once upon a time a group of not cats led by an immature man child called, Lion O went straight to the firery pits of Hell for their lazy incompetence. The end.” /casually tosses a copy of a Thundercats Roar DVD into his fireplace/ Rod and Todd: “Yay!”
Quite a few modern cartoon makers out there seem to have forgotten a fundamental factor in animation. Just because it's animation, that doesn't mean it's exclusively for kids.
The biggest names in cartoon history have made material that both kids AND adults can love. Disney was the biggest example of this since the 30's. Then, in the 90's and early; animators made shows that both age groups still remember today.
Examples include but are not limited to Dexter's Lab, Cow & Chicken, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, the original Teen Titans, Scooby Doo and scores of other examples. With all this in mind, the question yet remains...what went wrong?
When did networks become so cheap, uninspired and lazy
The people who now run CN are at fault they let this happen because they dont care
I'm sensing real "every generation's shows after mine is garbage" vibes here, but the availability and accessibility of animation has never been greater. This is arguably one of the least stigmatic times for animation ever (and to a lesser extent kids' TV in general).
The bigger issue is networks' endless desire to reboot old franchises, rather than creating new concepts for this (and future) generations to enjoy. It's _that_ trend that is uninspired and lazy. "Every generation's shows before this one is _creating_ garbage", in a sense.
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There have always been duds. In the 80s alone there were so many toy cartoons that forgot to be a cartoon. But those weren't remembered. Now the bad shows are just given more spotlight due to social media, forums, and youtube. People wouldn't remember Pickle and Peanut as well as they do if it was made in the 90s due to this.
That said, the animation fan communities are better than ever too!
@@benzj It's not simply that, there are some really great shows on these days that I've come to love.
Examples include Summer Camp Island, Loud House, Apple & Onion, Victor and Valentino, We Bare Bears, Amphibia and more recently, Owl House.
The problem I'm trying to point out here is while these shows must exist along stuff like Thundercats Roar. Networks choose to put more attention on the new stuff and less on material that's "easier to do" by comparison.
Think of how many times the latter shows got ignored in favor of stuff like Titans Go filling the schedule all day. Why put so much more attention on the new stuff, instead of trying to finish what's currently running?
I can't recall the last time a new We Bare Bears premiered and that show's been greenlit for a new season
Teen Titans go: *stand next to* now we're safe
And here's hoping TTG will bring this piece of shit to its fuckin knees.
This art style wasn't worth the digital tablet it was created on.
How is this the same Network currently airing Infinity Train!
This show makes _Teen Titans Go!_ look like _Infinity Train_ .
"His face *BLEEDS* Tumblr art style"
Even Tumblr has better art than this, and that's saying something. Actually, even DeviantArt and FurAffinity has more artistic value than this...
I honestly don't love to hate it. I wish I never had to hate anything that had to do with ThunderCats. This is something I just wish never existed.
They should have called this *ThunderCats GO!!*
They may as well have killed the pretense.
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Also, the fun part is that the video says that you could easily make the escape from Thundera and arrival to Third Earth the entire first episode.
It basically sort of was in the original! Just for context:
We opened with the Thundercats in space, then the convoy gets attacked by the mutants (Blasted mutants, as Panthro would say) leaving only the command ship because the mutants know the Eye of Thundera is there.
The mutants board the ship, are repelled by the Thundercats, including a young Lion-O wielding the Sword of Omens, although it was more the sword guiding Lion-O.
But the battle damaged the ship's navigation system, so they won't be able to arrive to their original destination. So they settle for Third Earth. But the autopilot is damaged. So Jaga has the other Thundercats enter the suspension capsules while he pilots the ship. After all, being the oldest by a longshot, he wouldn't survive the trip even in suspension.
Jaga pilots the ship until he dies, leaving the ship on autopilot, hoping that he got it close enough that, even with the damage to the navigation system, it can get them to Third Earth.
Yadda yadda yadda, the Thundercats get to Third Earth and we have ourselves a show.
I remember watching the promo where we saw the making of the show and the creator talking about it he said "for every bit of humor there will be double the action"
I know it's only the first episode but I think he is wrong.
Basically every time you said "this could have been an episode", it was in the original series. This two-parter was effectively the entirety of season 1 of the original show.
HOLY CRAP WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?!?!
@@Ramsey276one I'm thinking it's because they felt they *had* to retell the base story before going on to their own thing. Which again, makes absolutely no sense because they've said this isn't for oldschool ThunderCats fans, it's (supposedly) for a new younger generation.