I'm feeling the Magic and hearing the Roar... The Bastardization of the Thundercats has been cancelled. Manbun Soyboy can suck it!! It's no surprise why this thing got cancelled. Uhh, let's say that the art style wasn't appreciated for starters. Then we can follow this with a total disrespect of the source material.
Now don't get me wrong, a humorous side series of Thundercats CAN WORK. But in order for it to work, a Serious MAIN SERIES that follows the adventures of Lion-O and the Thundercats as they adapt to life on the new world of Third Earth is needed. In order to "appreciate the humor" in Thundercats Roar, the original series would need to be aired as well. Or at least still be fresh in the mind of the public. 30 years is not something recent... yes, I'm aware that in the late 90s to early 2000s Cartoon Network aired reruns, but that's not enough.
I attempted to watch Roar and I was appalled by it, since most of the humor was nonsensical and there was no reverence for the source. That is a big issue for me.
But Nefty, you ignore the source material in your It came from the Toy Chest pics.
The review name "It Came from the Toy Chest" says it all. They are toys, some are fully aware that they're toys. They are not the characters... also they are a Man-Child's PLAYTHINGS!! They are not an official show. That's the difference.
How could Thundercats roar been better? Now THAT IS THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION.
Like I said, as a companion series it may have fared better, but since this was "the only Thundercats series", it faired badly.
First, the art style. The problem was that it was the soft and round style of silly comedies and not an adventure show. Yes, you CAN have a heavily stylized show and still be an adventure show. Our heroes shouldn't look like balloon animals. Cats are supposed to be sleek, a combination of angles and curves making agile, yet powerful beasts. What I'm trying to say is, they should look Athletic, sleek yet powerful... even graceful. Which Roar's designs did not.
The writing... Honestly, the writing on roar felt like they used jokes rejected by TTG staff for being too dumb. Maybe they should've started like the Original Teen Titans with more serious stuff and easing people into the humor. Like the first 5 episodes being 65% serious and 35% humorous, the gradually shifting the tone to 35% serious and 65% humorous. By the second half of season 2 they'd be at 20-80 in the serious to funny ratio.
How pathetic do you have to be to drag the VA of the Original Lion-O to have him talk smack about his fans. Also, REALLY TASTLESS JOKE of having a dead Panthro in it, knowing that Earle Hyman, voice of Panthro had died in 2017!!
While there were folks that complained about the 2011 reboot; (I had a few nitpicks, but it was an overall good experience.) I never heard of people from the new show ACTIVELY ATTACKING THE FANBASE.
DON'T DO THIS KIND OF SHIT!
Attacking the Gen Xers and Older Millennials who grew up on this show for not liking the reboot is attacking the people with wallets and having extra money to spend on merchandise. Tumblrkin don't buy Merchandise... just ask Mattel and their Noelle Stevenson's Pop cultural appropriations of She-Ra merchandise that faded away super fast to the Clearance bin. You can poke fun at some of the older stuff, but it must come from a place of respect, or at least UNDERSTANDING of the material/circumstances.
It's not difficult, but then again common sense IS uncommon in this day and age.
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