ThunderCats Episode 21 "Birth of the Blades'" OFFICIAL TALKBACK THREAD!

Well Cheetara did have a flashbask which was pretty interesting, though it was also a Tygra flashback at the same time.

There is a difference between just stating your opinions and trying to make people upset on purpose. You’re nothing like TheVileOne.

Thanks man, that means alot! :smiley:

Yes, a large difference. I’m all for opinions but TheVileOne is out of control. You are not.

I have a strong feeling that we haven’t seen Cheetara’s full backstory yet, and something big is lurking there. It probably won’t happen until the last few episodes.

I also have the crazy sense that something is amiss in this episode. At the very beginning someone asks how the lizards found them so fast. Panthro says who cares, let’s worry about getting away.

But wait a minute - how did the lizards find them so fast? Now I understand that once the shell around the sword was broken, Mumm-Ra could “see” it. But they still got there in a real hurry. Not that much time seemed to pass between the retrieval of the SoP and the appearance of the army. It’s almost like they knew ahead of time the cats would be there.

A traitor in their midst? Food for thought.

…Dobo?

Actually, since Mumm-Ra is connected to the sword, he probably knew the cats were getting it out of the mine. The whole army has probably been following them for awhile, so when Mumm-Ra felt that the sword was in the possession of the cats, he probably had them move on in.

Other than what seemed a total missed opportunity for Lion-O to summon the sword to his hand, I LOVED this episode. It really seems like the writer’s are stepping up their game in the last few episodes.

Doesn’t Mumm-Ra still have his scrying pool? Just like in Journey to the Tower of Omens, he can just sit back in the Pyramid and watch them wherever they go.

Sure, but there has to be some sort of limitation on that Pool of Radiance he’s got going there. Otherwise the cats would be dealing with lizards every time they went to the litterbox.

Not if Mumm-Ra is just sitting back and waiting for them to find things for him. Think about when he pops up. Either when they find a stone or (in this case) his sword. Afterall he doesn’t have any way to search for the stones because the Cats have the Book of Omens.

They kind of established in “The Forest of Magi Oar” that it does, sort of, -ish.

The 2011 Sword of Omens does have a life force of its own somewhat.

I would rather say it is THE STONE. The Sword is the holder of the power after all. Which means that people need to switch focus from the Sword of Omens which is nothing compared to the Eye of Thundera/Warstone.

You have a valid point, and he did pop up nearly as fast in “Tower of Omens” (although we knew for a fact he was watching them beforehand).

I still think something is rotten in Denmark. It’s not just his sudden appearance, but other little clues throughout the series that I’ve been thinking about that may also support this theory. But I already sound crazy enough as it is, so I’ll speak no more of it.

I’d really like to hear them, actually. It could be interesting.

It involves bringing up characters whose attributes and motivations have already been heavily litigated in this forum, and I might be totally wrong, so I hesitate to say too much.

I will say this - on a global level, there is a strong New Age theme written into the series. There is a sense that things that happened in the past will happen again, and the characters involved will have a chance to right what was wronged (or wrong what was right).

As Shakespeare wrote, “How many ages hence/ Shall this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”

Anyway, I speculate the scene in “Legacy” where Leo and Panthera hijack the War Stone from Tygus will be repeated, but in reverse…by a different pair of conspirators. And that will set up one heck of a finale, where all the chickens we have seen throughout the series will finally come home to roost.

I’m confused with this whole situation. :confused:

Maybe I’m just biased because I don’t want it to happen, but I don’t think any of the cats would betray the others. Honestly it would kinda **** me off. Like it did when they did that to Wily Kat in those WS comics.

Yeah, I can’t see any betrayal, besides what the whole Tygra and Cheetara thing, which really wasn’t a betrayal at all.

Betrayal? Im sorry i’ve read two pages back and i still dont understand anything about these last posts.