# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/21 "2018-05-19T21:03:05Z")
I see a real potential to be more entertaining than the original. That doesn’t mean it won’t be gawdawful. It could easily be both. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/22 "2018-05-19T21:42:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Wasn’t the last Thundercats reboot just a couple of years ago? > [@DSeid](#): > > “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. I thought this was a zombie too! I actually liked the first reboot pretty good. I have a coworker who SWEARS by Teen Titans GO! and says how it’s so funny and, yeah, it’s not what Teen Titans original was, but it’s a new series with just the same characters. I imagine this will be the same. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/23 "2018-05-19T22:41:06Z")
Yeah, but I _liked_ the 2011 anime-inspired reboot. OK, the animation wasn’t reverent to the '80’s cartoon. But it was an interesting plotline, the cats dominate the planet, they’re not Nazi stormtroopering over the mutants, and the mutants are barbarians forever squabbling with themselves, but the cat’s hegemony still deprived the mutants of some resources. That’s a gray area of good vs evil that could have carried the series for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/24 "2018-05-20T00:24:24Z")
I wonder if the last reboot had continued if it was planned thundara was going to blow up like the original I always thought it was just an excuse for lion-o to be immature as he was a kid who grew up in a stasis pod and came out 25 years old … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/25 "2018-05-20T00:27:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > 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. lol I wonder what theyed do with silverhawks … ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/26 "2018-05-20T01:12:05Z")
oh shit, that’s _real_? I thought it was a joke. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/27 "2018-05-20T20:20:41Z")
looking at the poster it looks like this is going to look and sound like the amazing adventures of gumball cartoon ---
**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 20, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/28 "2018-05-20T21:14:53Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > … it’s a new series with just the same characters … This really needs to be emphasized. Don’t think of these shows as reboots, or even animation version of doing a cover. These are new shows in the style of shows that have been successful for them with their current target audience. I’m guessing that in this era of super realistic CGI the intentionally crude animation is part of the appeal to that audience. Using an old franchise for characters and basic setting is just a hook to get a little attention. Nothing more. There is \*no \*audience for what was the old Thundercats (which was basically a series of half hour commercials to sell Thundercat action figures and other toys) and moral grey areas that viewers have to think about in a mature way is fine but not what the target audience wants to watch. Those of us who want that have Steven Universe! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/29 "2018-05-21T16:33:03Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It’s Thundercats meets Adventure Time It’s more ripping off _Steven Universe_’s style than _Adventure Time_’s. I don’t expect the depth of either, though. Topknot Producer Guy made me \*extremely \*punchy one minute in, and I’m a pacifist! I am willing to give it a shot, though. Hell, _Teen Titans Go!_ gave us the truly awesome “Night Begins to Shine!” episode, in all its _Heavy Metal_-meets-_Transformers_ airbrushed glory. ---
**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 21, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/30 "2018-05-21T16:55:51Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > This really needs to be emphasized. Don’t think of these shows as reboots, or even animation version of doing a cover. These are new shows in the style of shows that have been successful for them with their current target audience. I’m guessing that in this era of super realistic CGI the intentionally crude animation is part of the appeal to that audience. Using an old franchise for characters and basic setting is just a hook to get a little attention. Nothing more. Yes, that’s exactly what I see this as. Just a modern cartoon using the Thundercats very loosely as a framework and a callback to nostalgia or just an existing franchise, perhaps, but nothing more. I guess I’m one of the only few people who don’t mind the animation style here. What’s so objectionable about it? I mean, sure, I grew up with classic cartoons like Warner Borthers and Disneys films, but I also enjoy the more stylized approaches like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Cow and Chicken, Dr. Katz, etc., and this seems certainly in between those two extremes to me. ---
**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 22, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427/31 "2018-05-22T01:48:29Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > It’s more ripping off _Steven Universe_’s style than _Adventure Time_’s. … Both those have fantastic and creative animation. I highly doubt Thunder Cats will be at that level. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundercats-are-coming-back-and-its-gawdawful/814427.md?page=1)