Hey... I think I've seen a few new Thundercats toys as well. All is not lost to Mumm-Ra after all...
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Good to hear Thundercats is already back. I was worried about it for awhile since 8:30 PM on Fridays doesn't seem to be a kid friendly timeslot.
Young Justice is surely a good cartoon and I think the Plastic Man clip proves this series to be one that will be a lot of fun. I will admit that I never really was into Thundercats but I have heard some good stuff about the new series.
Meh I still don't get how Young Justice has fans. So generic that I don't care about any of the characters... also "HELLO, MEGAN!" Give me back Brave and the Bold, dammit. I haven't even been all that impressed with the shorts either... DC just continues to make me a sour old lady more and more since all the start of this reboot business first popped up and everything connected to DC seemingly turned sour... and yes, even the movies... though I hold out hope that the 3rd Batman may be ok, maybe.
Whereas I found Brave and the Bold sort of dumbed-down (in a funny way), and prefer the more serious tone of Young Justice.
It's just personal taste I guess. It would be easy for me to say "it has fans cause it rocks and you're dumb," but I understand it's not your cup of tea. However, as someone in his late teens who has grumbled for years about there not actually being a show honest about the lives of teenagers, this fills that slot better than any other show, animated or not. It's fun, it's good, and it's honest. Hormone-driven angst machines!
Everything comes down to preferences I guess. Though I have yet to meet someone who likes M'gann's character in this, that may be universal. My dislike is mostly fueled by the following: We've had Timm's DCAU so I know this had the potential to be done way better, it is nothing like the Young Justice comics (wrong Robin and all), characterization... that angst machine is not remotely similar to Kon.... really a lot of the characters are only defined by their gimmicks and their romantic interaction... The characterization and dialogue in the extended pilot was better than I saw in any of the stretch of eps I watched. Dunno, I love Weisman and think he did pretty well with Spectacular Spider-man which dealt with teens... I just don't feel it with Young Justice at all. One of the main things I expect a story to do is make me give a crap about the characters and YJ rarely accomplishes it with me, aside from the occasional Supes-being-a-bad-genetic-dad stuff.
It's Klarion--BUM BUM BUM--the Witch Boy!
Can't believe there are 30 comments and no one has referenced that yet...
Definitely. Without the goofy sense of stage presence, they might as well be fighting Mordru.
Nope, it's based on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
We are getting shorts by Lauren Faust, Aardman, and Brianne Drouhard, though.
I know this has nothing to do with Rob and Topless Robot, but I'd just like to say how much it irritates me to have to sit through a 30 second commercial in order to watch a 45 second clip. The minimum duration for any video clip should be at least two minutes before they can stick a commercial in front of it.
I think I'll write my Congressperson.
I wouldn't be too worried about Thundercats, Rob. It's been doing well in its timeslot and as has been pointed out, they have their 52 episode deal. And they'll probably get another 52, too if it does well. CN almost NEVER announces their premiere dates...unless it's for a brand new show. (Hey, wait a minute. When's that new Green Lantern series supposed to start? Anyone? Anyone?)
Also like someone else said, the situation with the episodes airing in Ireland is hardly new to TV either. The UK was able to see new eps of Buffy and BSG before we could. Don't know how or why that happens, and it's annoying as hell, but it does.
Thundercats just doesn't seem to have any traction with kids. The toyline has been botched (a lot of the figures are on sale on BBTS now), and the show just seems to be a couple of years behind the curve. The pilot was incredible, but it's gotten sloppier as the season's gone on. I don't think you can kick off an animated series with such an overt arc-based plot.
Thundercats toys always seemed like a hard sell to me. You've got, what, six central protagonists...and only one consistently recurring villain (with three or four henchmen). At best they could have maybe done some troop building with lizard men...but, otherwise, they are doomed to just go the route of re-releasing the same characters with different color-schemes and gimmicks. Night-attack Lion-o, Battle-damage Cheetara, Cyber-armor Tygra, Catnipped Panthro...You run out of gimmicks quick, and most kids just want the basic versions anyway.
My daughter was Lion-o for halloween, and it was amazing how many people knew about Thundercats (granted it was the old one), if we can just convince all the people who watched it when they were young to check it out with their kids, but no one seems to know it even exists.Here she is btwhttp://i40.tinypic.com/30kyu8m...
I really love the new Thundercats, but the episode quality is still kind of hit or miss. That said, at least the misses aren't bad, just... Meh. When Young Justice or TF:Prime miss, they makes me want to punch through my TV monitor. And I LIKE TF:Prime.
Most if its misses are episodes about that little pest Miko.
The episode with the Young Gods was one of the worst episodes of a good TV show ever. I was so disappointed in Young Justice after that.
Am I the only one that thought Klarion's voice was just, was just terrible? I guess I'm the victim of "He doesn't sound like that when I read it!" Syndrome
I thought the same thing, Travis!
And what's with that Hitler-stache shadowing? Is that on purpose?
Elongated Man: Where you go when you require the combination of a second-rate Batman's detective skills and a second-rate Plastic Man who can't turn into any shapes.
(I kid, I kid, Ralph is awesome.)
What the fuck, Rob!?I've sent you an e-mail with the entire Plastic-Man 10-minute short ages ago, and you give us a clip?
Here it is right here on Youtube; - http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...
The whole thing is an awesome throwback to 90's cartoons, and it's totally awesome!I would e-mail it to Rob's attention again, but I doubt he'd see or read it...
If Cartoon Network kills off Thundercats, I will be sadder than the saddest person that's ever been sad.
Why is it that animators tend to make the flash and flash-like speedsters move the same speed as everyone else with just a blur behind them.
I was thinking the same damn thing. If they are so damn fast, why are they usually the first ones to go down. And the same could actually be said for Superman if he's supposed to be as fast as Flash.
Especially in this case, it really doesn't make sense that Klarion could react before Kid Flash could get to him. He could have had some magic barrier up ALREADY and accomplished the same thing. But it's the same situation with characters with super senses, writers often fail to take them into account.
Well, don't be TOO concerned about Thundercats. They announced last year they'd been renewed to do a full slate of 52 episodes, which was what they were hoping to get from the outset (they initially only got 26, I believe)
Yeah... That was a good show that really should have continued, and it's been in limbo.
I'd rather have Wolverine and the X-Men than that fan-service Thundercats show.
