ThunderCats Episode 20:[SIZE=3] Curse of Ratilla
[/SIZE]Airdate: May 5, 9.30am ET
''The Thundercats infiltrate a mine shaft filled with fellow cats who are being forced to search for the Sword of Plundarr by the evil Ratar-O!‘’
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I’m so excited for this episode, especially after how much I liked last week’s.
Oops, kind of jumped the gun a bit on the Rataro thread, so apologies if what I write here is a repeat.
I can’t wait for this episode! There is SO much potential! The origin/backstory of the sword of Plundarr, the introduction and possible backstory of Rataro, the reveal of what happened to a lot of the Thunderians who survived the fall of Thundera and the story dealing with how Liono will free them from slavery, there is SO much to go on I don’t know how they’ll fit it all in!
I do think as a result the next few episodes will be linked quite closely, not two or three parters exactly, but following a very close arc dealing with these different storylines. I mean, we already know that the Kittens get to resolve their B story from the pit.
I can’t WAIT to see Rataro either!!! I know that I’ve said a lot of this in the other thread, but I’m really looking forward to seeing how they’ve updated him! I think he’s going to be a lot meaner, with a lot more rat characteristics than his OS counterpart, I think the shiny brightly coloured armour will go, replaced by tattered rags and piece meal armour, mad max style, that looks like it has been dragged through the sewers. Maybe a Samurai style helmet with a lot of linked armour as a nod to the OS. I’m hoping they keep the Ghengis Khan style moustache too, and give him really intense beady black/red eyes!
I’m hoping they keep his rats eye daggers from the OS too, but to be honest I won’t be upset if they got rid of the pretty random powers they attributed to it in the OS, I mean what is the rats eye, another power stone or something?!?!?
I do wonder if they’ll make him a full on general or if they will keep him as some sort of dungeon master/slave master? Having him underground makes a lot of sense as he is a rat.
I also think there’s some great scope for having really decent looking individual grunts as well, a lot of rat soldiers the way they had varied lizards in Slithes army at the start. Perhaps just with ragged layers of cloth without any armour, or very little compared to Rataro who is obviously in charge.
I think they’ll be more like lackeys who watch over the slaves more than trained soldiers, like we were discussing in the other thread, the old classic slave masters with whips. But as in any rat colony, there will be a lot of them, and what Rataro’s men lack in soldiering, they make up for by being able to overwhelm the enemy. That is the way I see them anyway.
And as I said in the other thread, I just think it would be really cool to see the cats infiltrate mount plundarr, and after seeing their countrymen as slaves and trying to find a way to sneak in to rescue them, they come across a small group of Thunderians with a rat going hell for leather on them with his whip, telling them to work faster. Then I’d love to see his surprise at his whip being stopped, the scene cutting to an image of the whip straining against Tygras bolowhip tied around it, then Tygra appearing and saying something like 'get your stinking claws off those cats! Before breaking his jaw with a single punch and knocking him off a ledge! 
Okay, I know its a bit cheesy, but you know we’d all be cheering! Haha! God I can’t wait to see this!
I agree we you. Plus we get to see new cats and villain I hope the mutants are with the rat.
I hope we get a few new people.
I know I said it before but I’m a huge fan Vultureman should be in this. So the will leave the thunderkitten at dog city.
It looks like they will leave the twins at the city, especially since there seems like there will be another episode dedicated to them.
There be at mount plunndarr for two episodes with out the kids right.
From the synopses it looks like they might. I think “Birth of the Blades” will focus more on Mumm-Ra than anything. Maybe a flashback episode for him???
I’m assuming they’ll leave the kittens at the dog city too. Makes sense. And I think a flashback episode for Mumm Ra/origins of the sword of Plundarr episode would be great!
I also think/hope we may get a glimpse of vultureman in this episode too, he was closely linked with Rataro in the OS, so I think we might find him in a lab or workshop at mount plundarr, even if its just a cameo for now.
I would kinda be afraid to leave the kids in the Dog city. I mean sure the mountain will be dangerous, but what’s stopping Dobo from putting the twins in the arena?
They’ll distract him with a drugged slab of beef and make a run for it! Hey, it worked in the movies! 
haha! That may just work…
Because Dobo isn’t actually a bad guy, if the twins are caught thieving they’ll probably say they’re with Lion-O and co. He might toss them in a cell until the other cats get back and he figures out what to do with them, but he won’t stick them in the pit.
Here’s a thought noones really picking up on either, I wonder what the ‘curse’ is?
Yeah really? I’ve been curious about that. Maybe it’s something to do with the mine being cursed.
Or the sword? Since Ratilla was the original owner in the OS?
Remember nothing about story has anything to do in the NS.
Pretty much.
Not directly, but they do take ideas from the OS from time to time.