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Thank you for this excellent effortpost. Schwarzwald posted:The first episode was very promising. This was my experience of the 2011 Thundercats series. The pilot gave the impression of a show made by fans of the original toy commercial series who had just finished binging Avatar, and while it wasn't perfect is was still pretty promising. Then the subsequent episodes just kind of fell flat. I think I only watched maybe three or four of them before I gave up on it. I'll have to check out Thundercats Roar at some point. It gives me the impression of something made by fans of the original who just finished binging Adventure Time instead, which is less my thing, but what I've seen of it looks pretty fun. The_Doctor posted:
Oh man, I still have a ViewMaster with a disc in it that has a story featuring this guy. 
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Apr 7, 2020 01:26
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flashy_mcflash posted:That's cool! I never saw the 2011 reboot. It's it worth my time?
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Apr 7, 2020 01:40
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The_Doctor posted:
There's a ton of the original characters who've shown up already. The Berbils, the Molemen, the Warrior Maidens, Snowman, Mandora, the Wolos, Dr. Dometome, the unicorns,... I didn't ever see the original Thundercats so I just looked it up to be like "is this all poo poo from the original Thundercats?  " What a weird show
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Apr 7, 2020 01:45
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Pick posted:There's a ton of the original characters who've shown up already. The Berbils, the Molemen, the Warrior Maidens, Snowman, Mandora, the Wolos, Dr. Dometome, the unicorns,... I didn't ever see the original Thundercats so I just looked it up to be like "is this all poo poo from the original Thundercats? That's what I love about it. I extremely did watch the original when I was a kid and this is the only show that seems willing to fully embrace the inherent weirdness of the original property. Well I guess She Ra did a bit, but not like this.
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Apr 7, 2020 01:48
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Pick posted:I didn't ever see the original Thundercats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU5GfORvH8 Thundercats seemed like it was swinging for that Sword and Sorcery but also Technology thing that was present in MotU, but even more nonsensical.
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Apr 7, 2020 01:50
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I just had a video titled "Thundercats Roar Already Cancelled - Get Woke Go Broke" show up in my Youtube recs, and yeesh. People getting properly mad about a kids show. 
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Apr 7, 2020 01:51
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flashy_mcflash posted:That's what I love about it. I extremely did watch the original when I was a kid and this is the only show that seems willing to fully embrace the inherent weirdness of the original property. Well I guess She Ra did a bit, but not like this. My favorite part is the little commemoration every time a Thundercat makes a new friend  (spoilers for Thundercats Roar):   
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Apr 7, 2020 01:52
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Anyway, it's basically an animated KC Green comic. so good.
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Apr 7, 2020 02:03
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The_Doctor posted:I just had a video titled "Thundercats Roar Already Cancelled - Get Woke Go Broke" show up in my Youtube recs, and yeesh. People getting properly mad about a kids show. It's even not cancelled, I just looked it up. I guess whoever made that video couldn't be bothered to google the Wikipedia article. Anyway, I've been sleeping on Thundercats Roar because I never watched the original Thundercats, but thanks to this thread I just watched the first two episodes and I'm glad I did. Always nice to have a new fun goofy series to watch.
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Apr 7, 2020 02:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E11XJ83tzjw Still the coolest piece of music from an 80s cartoon
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Apr 7, 2020 02:10
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FilthyImp posted:Thundercats seemed like it was swinging for that Sword and Sorcery but also Technology thing that was present in MotU, but even more nonsensical. I'm sensible enough to understand that the show I loved as a kid was basically junk made to sell toys, but this is the bit that stayed with me and still has an effect on the silly pop culture I like. Like, the Thundercats are aliens from another world that blew up Krypton-style and escaped on a spaceship, and the protagonist is a child who aged up because his cold sleep thingie failed en route to their new home, and now he uses a magic sword to fight an evil mummy-lich. Sure, why not?
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Apr 7, 2020 02:37
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I would love to see them give the same treatment to Bravestarr. Now that was a mindfuck even compared to some of these other insane shows . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMo4k7iG7s Cowboys! Robots! Ghosts! Completely butchered Indigenous mythology!
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Apr 7, 2020 02:44
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also according to the website of one of the overseas studios (SMIP), it's already got a season 2 (with said studio, which alternates with another studio, doing 13 eps on both, so 26 eps per season)
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Apr 7, 2020 02:53
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Medenmath posted:I'll have to check out Thundercats Roar at some point. It gives me the impression of something made by fans of the original who just finished binging Adventure Time instead, which is less my thing, but what I've seen of it looks pretty fun. Early OG Thundercats and early Adventure Time are drat similar shows as it is. They both have the same basic setting of magical fantasy post-apocalyptic Earth, feature weird monster peoples, and have plots that are basically Dungeons and Dragons modules. The biggest difference (aside from character designs) is that AT wasn't guaranteed good for child by a psychiatrist. Pick posted:There's a ton of the original characters who've shown up already. The Berbils, Aw gently caress yeah, the Robear Berbil's kick rear end.
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Apr 7, 2020 02:58
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Skeleton Warriors reboot when
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Apr 7, 2020 03:28
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The_Doctor posted:I just had a video titled "Thundercats Roar Already Cancelled - Get Woke Go Broke" show up in my Youtube recs, and yeesh. People getting properly mad about a kids show. This is almost the most preposterous part, because as much as I like Thundercats Roar, in no way does it seem "woke" at all. I didn't like She-Ra for other reasons, but I can at least see how a person might hold that perspective where it's concerned. I don't see where anything in Thundercats Roar is more or less "woke" than any cartoons I watched from approximately that era, like Transformers or TMNT. (Which frankly, were much preachier than cartoons now, which tbh I think is a point against modern cartoons but whatever. I think it's appropriate for media to be didactic but that's neither here nor there.) How #woke is it to have what clearly feels like a nod to the Piss Wizard?
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Apr 7, 2020 03:57
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Pick posted:This is almost the most preposterous part, because as much as I like Thundercats Roar, in no way does it seem "woke" at all. I didn't like She-Ra for other reasons, but I can at least see how a person might hold that perspective where it's concerned. I don't see where anything in Thundercats Roar is more or less "woke" than any cartoons I watched from approximately that era, like Transformers or TMNT. (Which frankly, were much preachier than cartoons now, which tbh I think is a point against modern cartoons but whatever. I think it's appropriate for media to be didactic but that's neither here nor there.) It's because Cheetara has short hair now. Which sounds insane, but that's literally the only thing the complaints seem to be based around:  It's dumb as Hell, but yeah, best I can figure that's what got awful people mad about it being "woke".
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Apr 7, 2020 04:16
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plus an inherent belief that anything with that artstyle is inherently woke soyboi cuck blah blah blah
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Apr 7, 2020 04:23
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lmao what Pictured: Cheetara with long, conventionally feminine hair: 
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Apr 7, 2020 04:27
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Medenmath posted:lmao what I know, like I said it's dumb as Hell and not at all based on any sort of rational argument.
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Apr 7, 2020 04:31
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i get, tired of men. sometimes.
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Apr 7, 2020 04:35
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:plus an inherent belief that anything with that artstyle is inherently woke soyboi cuck blah blah blah I blame John K for starting this. Edit: It says a lot that these people are also the sort of person who considers John K someone worth listening too. mycot fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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Apr 7, 2020 04:39
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mycot posted:I blame John K for starting this. funny thing is that he technically didn't: when he was complaining about "CalArts style" he was complaining about something with the actual CalArts style: The Iron Giant
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Apr 7, 2020 04:56
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reflecting on 2011 as "before feminism"
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Apr 7, 2020 05:04
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anyway, I am 100% convinced this is the piss wizard. this is exactly how he sounds. this is exactly what he sounds like. bless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvGvF3WsDI
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Apr 7, 2020 05:28
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flashy_mcflash posted:That's what I love about it. I extremely did watch the original when I was a kid and this is the only show that seems willing to fully embrace the inherent weirdness of the original property. Well I guess She Ra did a bit, but not like this. The new DuckTales probably also qualifies. They make some loving deep cuts.
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Apr 7, 2020 05:35
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I can't help but detect something slightly early-Homer-Simpson-y about Lion-O's delivery and I love that.
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Apr 7, 2020 22:48
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flashy_mcflash posted:I would love to see them give the same treatment to Bravestarr. Now that was a mindfuck even compared to some of these other insane shows . My favorite thing about these relatively obscure 80s cartoons is when they have bizarrely detailed wikipedia pages. I appreciate knowing that Bravestarr's horse's "principle weapon" is the Sarah Jane, which is allegedly named after Sarah Jane Smith, the Doctor's companion. Space Cadet Omoly posted:It's because Cheetara has short hair now. Which sounds insane, but that's literally the only thing the complaints seem to be based around: 99% sure "woke" in their heads means "I have a harder time masturbating to this." The same thing happened with She-Ra. Calaveron posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E11XJ83tzjw Oh is this the part where we post our favorite 80s cartoon songs? My ringtone has flipped between the Magnet Man theme from MM3 and the opening of the theme from MASK for, like, a decade now.
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Apr 7, 2020 23:33
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Disney's Gummi Bears was an extremely catchy theme song that keeps popping into my head, I think it's second to Ducktales in earworm factor.
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Apr 8, 2020 01:11
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if you extend that to early 90's cartoons, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, despite being a really weird-rear end concept for a show(football team gets sucked back in time and become king arthur and the knights of the round table) it had a super rad theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUucZVnno0 unrelated to the song or anything, but watching that intro again I love that it also absolutely exemplifies the ninja turtles nonviolence thing of "give all these characters incredibly dangerous weaponry like swords and nunchuks but never allow them to use them on another living being onscreen". I.E. the guy with the double-headed mace who uses it to...extend and create a goofy snare to knock the guy off his buddy's back instead of just whacking the dude with it. like how the only characters the ninja turtles could actually hit with their swords and poo poo were the explicitly-shown-to-be-robot foot soldiers, otherwise they'd like, chop a tree branch off and drop it on someone instead of hitting them directly
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Apr 8, 2020 01:45
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flashy_mcflash posted:I would love to see them give the same treatment to Bravestarr. Now that was a mindfuck even compared to some of these other insane shows . I would pay good money for a new Bravestarr with actual Indigenous consultants. Also maybe less episodes where he time travels to meet sherlock holmes because maybe we don't need to get that weird with our cyberpunk horror magic space western
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Apr 8, 2020 15:24
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Barudak posted:I would pay good money for a new Bravestarr with actual Indigenous consultants. Also maybe less episodes where he time travels to meet sherlock holmes because maybe we don't need to get that weird with our cyberpunk horror magic space western Absolutely, it'd be a great opportunity for a show with an Indigenous protag that wasn't insanely racist. I maintain that the Bravestarr toys were some of the best 80's toys to exist. They were really detailed and huge.
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Apr 8, 2020 15:42
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These days it's less common to embed a pilot for one show inside of another show, so you'd probably get your wish w.r.t. Sherlock Holmes.
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Apr 9, 2020 00:55
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Batman Brave and the Bold had an episode time travelling to meet Sherlock Holmes, but then again there was also the opener when he was storming the beaches of Normandy apropos of nothing with GI Robot.
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Apr 9, 2020 05:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkn8n18yS7A
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Apr 9, 2020 05:58
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lol reminds me of the attempt to make a hip new future action version of The Phantom. You know, the 1930's newspaper comic strip that, according to wikipedia, is the first instance of a "superhero" wearing a skintight bodysuit which then became standard with superman etc so let's set it in a future city, the year 2040, and call it Phantom 2040. And for spice, let's let the guy who animated Aeon Flux animate it, because why not, everyone needs more gangly people who just got out of a taffy puller in their lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_EcQodt3jA&hd=1 (it was actually way better than expected and the associated video game is one of the best licensed games and metroidvanias on the SNES/genesis) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkqBaRqeE8&hd=1
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Apr 9, 2020 06:32
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Captain Invictus posted:lol To be fair, the whole deal with the Phantom is the generational thing, and there's a ton of Phantom stories that take place in the past with a previous Phantom, so why not in the future? The 90s was wild, anything could get greenlit and you never know what might be good. I get the feeling 2040 might have been a similar deal to Batman Beyond were the writers got a stupid pitch ('Batman in high school' for example) and made it work by adhering to the letter of the law.
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Apr 9, 2020 06:48
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Yeah, I get you, but that's a hell of a pitch to take an ancient newspaper comic like the phantom and try to turn it into a saturday morning children's cartoon franchise. but I guess there's been weirder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa5LM8NrREA&hd=1
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Captain Invictus posted:Yeah, I get you, but that's a hell of a pitch to take an ancient newspaper comic like the phantom and try to turn it into a saturday morning children's cartoon franchise. But Defenders of the Earth had the Phantom as a character too, and that finished only 7 years before Phantom 2040. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMKBQ3uu1Tc
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