It’s also worth noting that Wilycat and Wilykit are present with a little subplot of their own: they are street children, who make their living by trickery and thievery, and they have a grand plan to find the lost city of El Dorra and the associated treasure. There’s also a fair number of minor characters, but I’m not going to list them because I don’t think they’re enormously important. Thrilling.Īs is perhaps obvious from the above summary, we meet Liono, Cheetara, Tigra, Jaga, Clawdus, Snarf, Groon, and the two lizards. It just stops there, with a very silly cliffhanger about Snarf looking into a mirror and making faces at himself, then after he walks off, a shadowy bit of evil dances around a bit. Clawdus then shows up, and Liono insists that the lizard men must be released, arguing so fervently that Clawdus agrees.Īnd that’s kind of it. To his surprise, Tigra backs him up, and Cheetara reappears to assist as well. The party gets even worse when a bunch of thugs threaten to lynch the lizard men, and Liono is forced to intervene. This dislike is only intensified when the two of them compete in a game, which Liono loses in front of the entire city. They have been captured as slaves by Groon, and they protest to Liono at the unfairness of the Thundercats controlling all the best resources on Thundera, leaving the other species to a miserable, hard life.Īt the party, Tigra behaves like a smarmy cock, and Liono’s dislike for Tigra is made very plain. Groon seems to have been unsuccessful, but a great party is thrown in his honour anyway, at which Liono meets a pair of lizard men locked in the stocks. Accompanying Groon on this quest was General Panthro, but Groon brings back the news that Panthro was killed while on the quest. Some time later, a traveller approaches the city: General Groon, who was sent out by Clawdus to search for the legendary Book of Omens. The end result is that Liono is deemed unready, and Clawdus strolls off disappointedly. While experimenting with the Sword of Omens, Liono sees a flash of a pair of evil-looking eyes, shrouded in darkness, but for fear of looking silly, he doesn’t reveal this to Clawdus. Liono shows up for his appointment a little late, and my oh my, it’s an important appointment: an ancient rite, using the Eye of Thundera, to determine if he will one day be suitable material for the position of king. I’m not sure how this works, but maybe it will be explained. I suppose I ought to mention that in this series, Tigra would appear to be Liono’s brother – and apparently his older brother, even though Liono is the heir to the throne. I accept that these are different characters and aren’t necessarily the same as their 1980s counterparts, but the notion that anyone would want their son to be like the incompetent, drug-prone Tigra is a step too far. But anyway, Clawdus turns to Tigra and demands, “Why can’t he be more like you?” This made me snort. Sounds like someone’s been watching He-Man, not Thundercats. Unfortunately, Liono is late for an appointment, and back at the palace, his dad Clawdus is moaning to Jaga and Tigra about how irresponsible Liono is. Apparently, the city of Thundera exists in a world where technology is thought to be just an old children’s story – but Liono believes that outside the city walls, there may be something more advanced than there is within the town. On one such expedition, he meets Cheetara for the first time, and the two of them go to a junk shop where Liono buys an old piece of machinery. We begin on Thundera, where Liono is a young man filling his time by going down to the seedier quarters of town and picking fights with various yobbos. Given, being honest, that I thought the 1980s series was rubbish, perhaps I’ll find this remake more to my liking. I’ve no idea what to expect from this, other than that a friend of mine – who was a massive Thundercats fan in his youth – gave this series the considered opinion of “rubbish”. Okay, well, here we go, on the short-lived 2011 Thundercats reboot. In which we go right back to the beginning.
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