Bevendre

I watched reruns of the original 80s Thundercats growing up and loved it despite the stupidity.

I watched the 2011 reboot and adored the story and animation, even if it did have problems.  I was mortified when it was canceled for no apparent reason as Cartoon Network shifted in the direction it’s been going since.

And now….

Cartoon Network, kindly fuck off.

Before getting to the headcanons sent, I just saw the Powerpuff Girls reboot.  Personally, I would have preferred it if the series didn’t come back if this was the best they could come up with.

There was not a SINGLE character who was written in character as they were in the original series.  The girls would fight before, but over personal things and sibling arguments.  Here it was over the most pointless petty things that eliminated virtually all sense of difference or individuality between the three of them.  Through most of the special they are effectively interchangeable, something that should not happen to these characters.

The new designs didn’t bother me in still frames, but in motion they’re horrible.  Character motion does not flow by any sense of the word, unless you’re talking to a person in the middle of an epileptic seizure from watching it.  It is not animation, in many cases, so much as it is a flipbook of the character with several missing frames between every pose.  The lighting and color used in the special does not help the animation by any means, instead only aggravating it.  In the original show, the lighting was almost always a neutral light allowing the animation to stand out and the characters to cover the story telling.  In the special the lighting is heavily present, and at times overbearing.  This accentuates the choppy animation and distracts from whatever character is remotely present in these poorly crafted shadows of the originals.

Between the writing, and the animation, this is the first thing I have ever watched that has made me physically nauseous.  Other travesties have upset me and insulted their source material more, but never have I had such a physical reaction to a show.  May this ‘reboot’ never become anything more than the one time special it is.