Thundercats Roar

That...is what I asked for but not quite what I meant. AOSTH days of Archie comics are a case of Early-Installment Weirdness. Comic didn't developed from there, it completely changed its style.

So, Ludo or Ice King from early episodes are the same guys they are in the last episodes. The fact that they started as silly harmless villains is important. But for Sonic, Robotnik starting as over-the-top weirdo who literally hates music and drinks oil is something for the most part ignored. The only part of comic that feels like this is Scourge who used to be a joke villain back as Evil Sonic and now is trying really hard to prove he's a badass and his own individual entity.

Edited by Sunchet on Dec 27th 2019 at 12:13:06 PM

https://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/thundercats-roar/exodus-part-1-episode.html

https://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/thundercats-roar/exodus-part-2-episode.html

The series premiere of Thundercats Roar is on the Cartoon Network website. I find it surprising since the show doesn't have an official tv premiere date yet .

Its part of the move to streaming over TV,that and they were probably worried about ratings

If they wanted to boost their streaming offerings, they would have waited for HBO MAX.

This feels...weird. Exclusive streaming is apparently the new Friday Night Death Slot.

x2: Correct me, but there's no confirmation of the pilot being released early for that reason.

Networks have just gotten in the habit of releasing first episodes early online in the past few years, to build general interest in the show. Even Mao Mao got its first episode released a month before its July debut, with very little warning about it.

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Jan 10th 2020 at 8:32:32 AM

So, I took a peek at it and we'll, it feels like a parody skit. Big chunks could be scenes from Thundercats Abridged that someone animated, only they don't adapt actual episodes as far as I can tell.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NelisMarkus/status/1216315636617531392

The show premieres on tv next month.

It's weird seeing so many Anime V As in a western comedy like this that aren't part of the Disney Empire.

Took me awhile to even realize Lion-O was Max Mittleman

Disney hire anime voice actors?

Disney has had plenty of anime voice actors in their cartoons, such as Sean Schemmel and Todd Haberkorn in Sofia The First or Max Mittleman in Elena Of Avalor.

As for the tv premiere of Thundercats Roar, I think it'll air its premiere in a Friday night primetime slot before moving to Sunday afternoons.

Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, Liam O'Brien, etc. are common especially in Marvel cartoons.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Jan 12th 2020 at 5:05:18 AM

Man all that talent wasted on mediocre shows.

Shit like Assemble & the current Spider-Man cartoon.

They deserve to be voicing better quality shows but their still getting well paying work at least.

Season 2 of the current Spiderman got pretty good especially in the second half.

Nothing can save Assemble but imploding on itself.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Jan 12th 2020 at 5:10:38 AM

Well good for Spider-Man.

Oh shit I just remembered the Hulk & Guardians cartoons.......

Except most of those named stopped doing Japanese shows for the most part.

They don't see it as a bad thing. Don't assume how they feel or that they share your opinions about the shows they work on.

Hell, a lot of voice actors enjoyed working for 4kids despite what anime fans thought of them.

Edited by Cortez on Jan 12th 2020 at 11:34:45 AM

...... And?

I wasn't assuming their feelings or anything. I just believe that good actors deserve great shows even if they are perfectly satisfied with what they are working on.

It kinda sounds like you are. It might not be your intention but it sounds like you're saying you know better than they do about what jobs they should be taking.

And there are people who believe that the actors of the Star Wars sequel trilogy deserved better material.

It's not an uncommon thought process.

It just reminded me of how Erica Lindbeck said she had fun recording for this very show.

And regardless voice actors usually do multiple works anyway. It's not like they were doing the Marvel shows exclusively.

Edited by Cortez on Jan 13th 2020 at 3:10:54 PM

Okay, just saw it.

I didn't hate it. I didn't mind that Lion-O was a colossal idiot; while I never disliked him, I always found him the least interesting of the Thundercats, at least until the 2011 reboot.

My main problem with this is the problem I have with Teen Titans Go. First, I understand entirely that kids apparently love Teen Titans Go, which is why it's been so successful and been around for so long now. For me though, while I find it intermittently amusing, taken over a long stretch it starts to grate. Hard. My problem is, while I suspect people who've never seen or weren't fans of the original may find this show continually amusing, for my part I don't see it sustaining it's appeal over time. In my experience fans can stand, and even enjoy, parodies of the things of which they are fans, but not if the parody goes on for an extended period. Then it tends to feel less like "having fun with" and more like "making fun of."

TTGO has the Titans generally be aweful to each other, especially Robin who is just the worse. Which for all its faults Roar hasn't fallen into that because they were like that in GO from day one.

It's style of comedy can fall into that eventually, which is why I think people see it being more similar to GO beyond the superficial similarities. Like being a more gag series take of a previous show.

Nownifnwe start getting vomit everywhere and closeups of nipples I'm out.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Jan 13th 2020 at 9:28:38 AM

I thought it was fine. Most of the humor didn't land for me, though were a few great ones (like Panthro pushing the gigantic remains of their ship's cannon to fire at the mutants).

There's potential, and the show employing things like foreshadowing in the first episode makes me hopeful the writing won't crash and burn like Go's did.

They aren't crapping on snarf since he was The Scrappy in the original so here's hoping.

Snarf being a robot was off, but it did make me laugh the first time. This wasnt a terrible start. I'm not super into how the Thundercats themselves look, but all of the villains look fine in this style.

I'd prefer more Thundercats reboot, but that's never going to happen. This is fine.

Yeah, rethinking things a bit I suppose what we've got here isn't so much a parody, as none of the characters bear much more than the broadest similarity to the way they were originally portrayed, as just a comedic take on the same material. Hope Tygra doesn't keep getting the butt-monkey treatment.