The plots are predictable and pedestrian, many of them instilling in its young audience of the day a moral, which is all well and good but nevertheless comes across as forced. ThunderCats is fun in a nostalgic sort of way but it isn't really very good in terms of storytelling. Trouble with Time / The Tower Of Traps / The Garden Of Delights / Mandora The Evil Chaser / The Ghost Warrior / The Doomgaze The episodes included in this two disc set, which represents only part of the first season of the series, are laid out in the following order:Įxodus / The Unholy Alliance / Berbils / The Slaves Of Castle Plun-Darr / Pumm-Ra / The Terror Of Hammerhead Complicating matters further is Mumm-Ra, a mummy/evil wizard who lives on Third Earth and who allies himself with the Mutants because he too would like to get the Eye Of Thundera so that he can control the entire planet. Unfortunately for all involved, the Mutants of Plun-Darr have figured out where their ship landed and while it's taken them some time, they're fully prepared to land on Third Earth and wreak havoc to get the Eye.

While the other ThunderCats had their aging stopped while in suspended animation, Lion-O's was simply slowed down to a crawl so while he has an adult body, he has, in effect, an child's mind though he does have a noble heart and a sense of 'good' that endears him and his fellow ThunderCats to the natives of the planet. Jaga passes away but the others awake safely on Third Earth where Panthro, Cheetara, WilyKit and WilyKat, and Snarf accompany Lion-O, the 'Lord Of The ThunderCats' where they construct a base they call The Cat's Lair. A ThunderCat named Jaga pilots the ship to the planet while the others sleep in suspended animation. The Eye Of Thundera drives the attackers off but not before the ship is damaged in the battle and has to land on a planet called Third Earth. When their planet dies, a few of its citizens leave the planet and seek to make a new life for themselves but their space fleet is attacked en route to a new world by the Mutants of Plun-Darr who are out to capture a mystical Thunderan weapon known as The Eye Of Thundera, a jewel that is mounted in the handle of a sword.

The Rankin/Bass animated series, ThunderCats, debuted in 1985 and told the story of a group of half-cat/half human looking creatures called the ThunderCats from the planet Thundera.

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