Fookin' Prawns!

Member 56

Level 24.48

Mar 2006

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Aug 27, 2006, 09:02 AM
Local time: Aug 27, 2006, 02:02 PM
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They should stop applying their crappy knock-off faux-anime style to various shows. It just doesn't work. The Japanese do it better, and a smart audience already knows that. I loved Thundercats as a child and even after viewing all the episodes again last year, the show still holds up. It's campy and corny in places, but it knows that. It's a formulaic show in terms of structure (they almost always laugh at something at the end, for example) that still manages to have great characters, battles and machines. I love the incidental music they use too. It reminds me a little of the truly high-quality cartoons of the time like The Mysterious Cities of Gold and Ulysses 31, which both had great design, music and flowing animation. It's a shame that with the advent of the Lunatacs, the general quality of the episodes and plots declined. Lion-o could do ANYTHING with his sword, and save the day within 30-seconds. It became repetitive and boring.
To remake it now with a modern "edgy" style would rip out the soul of the original version. Wolf had a vision for what the Thundercats should be, and I very much doubt that whatever WB comes up with will be in keeping with that vision.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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