ADD Kyuubi Naruto said:
Hashasheen said:
ADD Kyuubi Naruto said:
The worst part of this episode is that the loss of a man's arms, BOTH of them, was treated as nothing, literally laughed at and promptly forgotten to give way for tween lurb triangle drama. I find how they treated the subject disturbing, creepy, horrible, mean spirited and incredibly insensitive
True, that was incredibly distasteful of them. ^_^
Our heroes everybody
No, our heroes were the broadly drawn characters of the original series where good always triumphed, Lion-O would give even the likes of Mumm-Ra a chance if the situation called for it, and you didn't need to force adolescent Twilight-demographic targeted "romance" on us instead of advancing the plot.
Doing a reboot like this to make things "edgier" rankles because we remember what the characters were like. Sure, there were kind of hokey and preached good versus evil a little too much, but who says that's a bad idea where kids are concerned? It wasn't the maiming of heroes, using land mines, etc. we saw in the last episode. It was innocent fun that didn't try to take itself too seriously and we LIKED that.
If Panthro had lost even ONE arm in the old version everyone would have been horrified and we would have seen like a three episode arc where he gets a replacement or something happens to restore him because it would be such a far divergence from the tone of the rest of the series. They certainly wouldn't have made jokes about it and had a party right after it happened.
I mean, let's face it, this Tygra seems like twice as much of an ass because we remember the old Tygra being an honest good guy. And it really stands out because he's a much greater divergence than most of the others. Old School Lion-O would screw up just like the modern one does, he'd just learn his lesson quicker, beat the villain, and move on where the new one seems greener than the original.
Really the ones that show improvement from the originals are the Thunderkittens. They at least have a reason to act the way they do being orphaned street kids. Remember that the originals were all the royal court and nobles. That made the pranking and mischief the original Wilykit and Wilykat got into harder to accept because they SHOULD have been raised to know better. The new kittens act better without that supposed supervision.
