Yep, they’re re-launching the ThunderCats franchise, but with a newly redesigned group of ThunderCats. They’re still the same old characters, but with new looks and stuff. And hopefully without Snarf. But they’ve got a problem: There’s only one girl, kind of like in the Smurfs.
This girl kitty is Cheetara, and as such, I’d guess she’s not a good one to be in a relationship with. With a name like that, she might just cheat on you! But then I suppose they could call her the “ThunderCats’ Ho”. (“ThunderCats, Ho!” is what Liono always used to shout to get them all ready for battle. But I think it’s also what they yell when they find out Cheetara is cheating on them.) But shouldn’t there be at least one other girl cat character, like Housecata or something? Maybe even Domesticshorthaira? Or perhaps there’s a frisky older female character, called: “Cougara”? (That would be really zeitgeisty!)
And shouldn’t Tigra either be a girl, or be named Tigro? (All the other characters follow the "O for boys, A for girls" name-ending-letter trend, so it's a bit odd to break from that tradition with the one character only.) I’ll bet they all make fun of his effeminate-sounding name when we’re not looking. They must do something to get in cat-fights and stuff, like other cats always do. I’m surprised they’re not all scratched up every episode, since they all live together, and real cats do that stuff all the time. Oh, but I guess they’re not real cats, now are they?
I guess they'll be fighting their arch-nemesis Mum-Ra again. (That's kinda like the Smurfs again, with a single bad guy always trying to destroy a group with only one girl in it.) I’d think Mum-Ra could distract them with wind-up mice and catch them one-by-one. Or else he could set up a flat-screen TV-set outside their windows, and put on bird footage; then, when they come outside to catch the bird, he’s got a trap waiting. At least when he’s fighting them, he could use a cat-toy to distract them and catch them off-guard. But since he’s not a cat-owner, he’s probably never thought of it. (Actually, maybe that's what his secret motivation is: He wants them as pets because he thinks they're cute.)
Anyway, this new cartoon of ThunderCats has that famous but stereotypical “Japanimation” look. Isn’t that taking away the originality of the characters? And speaking of stereotypes, I always did think it was mean to make that term from the old WWII pejorative for a Japansese person: “Jap”, and fuse it with the word “Animation” to create the term “Jap-animation”. Don’t they get mad about that? Maybe that’s why they make all of the characters and cartoons look the same: to get revenge for that insulting term!
Here’s the cat tale:
And here’s a website devoted to Japanimation stuff:
