# Thundercats are coming back-and it's gawdawful. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427 "2018-05-18T21:14:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/1 "2018-05-18T21:14:10Z")
[Check out this remake…but have a lined trashcan ready to hurl into.](http://ew.com/tv/2018/05/18/cartoon-network-thundercats-new-animated-series/) Has there ever been an online petition created to _stop_ a series? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/2 "2018-05-18T21:15:47Z")
It’s like a Thundercats episode of the Simpsons… horrible. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/3 "2018-05-18T21:28:46Z")
Wow, the comments are just brutal. For me, meh. I never really liked the Thundercats, so I’m willing to give this a shot. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/4 "2018-05-18T21:33:16Z")
It’s Thundercats meets Adventure Time, and people are \*angry \*about it? I’ll never understand the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/5 "2018-05-18T21:35:27Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Check out this remake…but have a lined trashcan ready to hurl into.](http://ew.com/tv/2018/05/18/cartoon-network-thundercats-new-animated-series/) > Has there ever been an online petition created to _stop_ a series? Can we go back in time and create an online petition to stop the original series? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/6 "2018-05-18T21:36:41Z")
Wasn’t the last Thundercats reboot just a couple of years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/7 "2018-05-18T21:43:24Z")
Thundercats was always garbage, just like every other 1980’s cartoon. So what if we loved them when we were kids? Kids are idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/8 "2018-05-18T22:08:17Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Thundercats was always garbage, just like every other 1980’s cartoon. So what if we loved them when we were kids? Kids are idiots. If you ran for office, I’d vote for you. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/9 "2018-05-18T22:27:43Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Thundercats was always garbage, just like every other 1980’s cartoon. So what if we loved them when we were kids? Kids are idiots. I’ll hear no criticism of _Thundarr the Barbarian_ :mad:. It even had a faux-Chewbacca! You can’t get more high concept than that! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/10 "2018-05-18T23:05:16Z")
Also, _Real Ghostbusters_ holds up surprisingly well. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/11 "2018-05-19T00:11:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Wasn’t the last Thundercats reboot just a couple of years ago? This. I assumed at first that this would be a zombie thread from a few years ago. Cartoon Network already did a ThunderCats reboot in 2011, with anime influences. It was cancelled after just one season, despite a big ad campaign and a lot of fanfare. This one looks quite different, but I wonder why they expect it to do any better. I very much fear that anthropomorphic cats fighting a living mummy just may be a concept whose time has passed. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/12 "2018-05-19T00:25:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Wasn’t the last Thundercats reboot just a couple of years ago? There was and what’s frustrating is it was extremely well done and was canceled too soon. And now we get…this. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/13 "2018-05-19T00:36:16Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It’s Thundercats meets Adventure Time, and people are \*angry \*about it? I know that folks love Adventure Time. I’ve read the New Yorker article rhapsodizing about its dystopic vision; my brother adores it; I completely get that it’s a seriously interesting show. I couldn’t take more than ten minutes. Every second felt like artificially-strawberry-flavored cockroaches were crawling across my skin by the hundreds. Thundercats? I watched a bit when I was twelve, but never more than that. I watched a few seconds of this preview, and I can’t stop giggling. It looks SO AWFUL, and I just can’t care, because I keep giggling. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/14 "2018-05-19T00:41:00Z")
“This” is pretty similar to what they did with the Teen Titan reboot ([Teen Titans Go!](https://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/teen-titans-go/)), using it as goofy fodder … I don’t watch but they must be satisfied with its ratings performance that they are doing it again with Thundercats. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/15 "2018-05-19T02:02:54Z")
Thing is, most fans of the Teen Titans (original show or comics) seem to hate Teen Titans Go. So, while I can see doing it, why bother with using an preexisting franchise? Is the hatred from fans part of the marketing? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/16 "2018-05-19T03:33:05Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Is the hatred from fans part of the marketing? Maybe Emperor Palpatine got into TV programming…actually, that would explain quite a lot. Hell, and technically speaking, you’d be getting hatred from the fans of two different series’ for the price of one. Maybe three, if you count fans of the [leaked pitch/test footage of a cancelled CGI version from circa 2008](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobdjJft8hk). Which, honestly, didn’t look that bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/17 "2018-05-19T03:48:36Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Also, _Real Ghostbusters_ holds up surprisingly well. Are you talking 'bout Larry, Forrest and Tracy? Fuck, I loved that shit! ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/18 "2018-05-19T03:57:25Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Thing is, most fans of the Teen Titans (original show or comics) seem to hate Teen Titans Go. So, while I can see doing it, why bother with using an preexisting franchise? Is the hatred from fans part of the marketing? Maybe! The original fans are at least not the target audience. For Thundercats maybe the target audience’s parents watched it and yeah annoying them is likely part of the appeal! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/19 "2018-05-19T06:45:51Z")
I was always pretty meh on Thundercats, but holy shit, that artwork is BAD. I’m offended just on that principle alone. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/20 "2018-05-19T07:37:18Z")
Of all the action-figure cartoons of the 80s, _Thundercats_ was one of the dumbest. It has no redeeming qualities, either in writing, acting, or animation. But when you’re 9, you love whatever’s on Saturday morning. Adapting a show like it for modern audiences can’t be easy, and sometimes the only way to confront weird shows like that is to be approach it completely from a new angle. I sympathise with the creators. I can understand the other side, though; if this was one of my beloved shows, like _Gummi Bears_ or _Animaniacs_, and they completely upended it with weirdness, I’d be annoyed too. But needs must. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427.md?page=2)