I loved a lot of little details about this show when I was a kid. I loved Panthro and Tygra having actual professions, Panthro was an engineer and Tygra was an architect and all Thundercats seemed to have some training in metallurgy. Why? because when you are a child you dream to be alike the characters you like and being an engineer, an architect or some kind of "metals specialist" were actual, long run, achievable goals. This is something (BTW) that they share with another 80's Classic: MASK ; where every chapter they made a selection of experts with different expertise areas according to the profile of each mission.
Another plus point for the Thundercats is that they had a real origins chapter called "Exodus". Most shows (both animated and live action) don't take the time to give a full story that explains so exquisitely how the adventure started in the first place. Also, calling it "Exodus" like one of the most important books of the Bible and the Kabbalah (even when Kabbalists actually call it Shemot), gave a feeling of importance, a feeling that you were about to watch a really fine story.
Are there some things about the Thundercats I didn't like? Well, like many shows I hated that they repeated the same villain over and over. Differently to other fans, for me, the show is 90 percent about the heroes and only 10 or 20 percent about the villains (with some exceptions,of course), and a villain is even less appealing for me if he or she appears too much. Mumm-ra and Lion-0 had many "last battles" and if you ask me they are good in inverse order of appearance; being the actual last battle the less good and the first last battle the best.
All the original characters were great in my opinion: Lion-0, Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, Wilykit and Wilykat, and even Snarf were all good elements of their group. Talking about the three new Thundercats that we got to know later, I think only Linx-O was good enough to become a Thundercat right away, but Pumyra and Bengali weren't so bad either.
Talking about the story. like any other show, it liked some episodes better than another. I will try to make some specific reviews for some of them one of these days .
Thanks for reading.
IMDb Review by David del Real. Mexico City. Mexico. October 9th of 2017. Third Earth (lol!)
Another plus point for the Thundercats is that they had a real origins chapter called "Exodus". Most shows (both animated and live action) don't take the time to give a full story that explains so exquisitely how the adventure started in the first place. Also, calling it "Exodus" like one of the most important books of the Bible and the Kabbalah (even when Kabbalists actually call it Shemot), gave a feeling of importance, a feeling that you were about to watch a really fine story.
Are there some things about the Thundercats I didn't like? Well, like many shows I hated that they repeated the same villain over and over. Differently to other fans, for me, the show is 90 percent about the heroes and only 10 or 20 percent about the villains (with some exceptions,of course), and a villain is even less appealing for me if he or she appears too much. Mumm-ra and Lion-0 had many "last battles" and if you ask me they are good in inverse order of appearance; being the actual last battle the less good and the first last battle the best.
All the original characters were great in my opinion: Lion-0, Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, Wilykit and Wilykat, and even Snarf were all good elements of their group. Talking about the three new Thundercats that we got to know later, I think only Linx-O was good enough to become a Thundercat right away, but Pumyra and Bengali weren't so bad either.
Talking about the story. like any other show, it liked some episodes better than another. I will try to make some specific reviews for some of them one of these days .
Thanks for reading.
IMDb Review by David del Real. Mexico City. Mexico. October 9th of 2017. Third Earth (lol!)