Hachiman hailing from the Planet of the Red Sun is just plain out there. 
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Hachiman couldn’t just be a warrior from another part of Third Earth, that would be too simple ;), he had to be from another planet, time and dimension.
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If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t Krypton (Superman’s home planet) also a planet of the red sun? 
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Yes, it was. In fact, the original ThunderCats bears some similarities to the Superman franchise.
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Bravestarr also had a red sun, well three suns, but one of them was red.
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Bengali fixing it was cool, I thought. “Only a Thunderian blacksmith could reforge it.” Gave Bengali a cool hook.
When Charr could do it, that was lame.
Of course it’s not just the reforging, it’s also the sword getting shattered so often in the first place. In “All That Glitters,” it’s a magical “curse” that shatters the sword, implying it could never be shattered by brute force. Then TugMug breaks it with brute force. But again, I kind of liked that, because it helped sell the idea that the Lunataks were badder than any previous villains.
But the two times it broke and the got Charr to fix it … no. No good. It started to seem like the sword was a brittle piece of crap. (Which I suppose could be blamed on Charr’s lousy workmanship when he fixed it … )
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Agreed. Bengali fixing the sword because he was a Thunderian blacksmith does at least have some kind of credibility. Charr . . . I’d prefer to forget he ever existed. Both of his two appearances are in very iffy episodes indeed. Part II of Return To Thundera is completely redundant (as it part IV), and The Heritage - I’ve already said this, how come something from Mumm-Ra’s past just seems to turn up on Thundera out of the blue?
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I know, right? There’s no way a Third Earth object would randomly end up on New Thundera.
It just got to my mind: Charr and Charr-Nin. Is there something in the word “Charr”?
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I guess I misspelled it the first time around as I believe it is Char (with only 1 ‘r’), which would make more sense with the connection between something being charred/burnt and his dealing with fire. But that is interesting with them both being so closely named.
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Possibly the biggest WTF moment in the whole show - I’ve just discovered that there is actually one season 4 episode that I can truthfully describe as “good”! That is “Shadowmaster”.
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That was a very good episode for me.
I watched ‘Shadowmaster’ last night. It is a pretty good episode. However there is a slight continuity problem. At the end of ‘Return To Thundera’, the spirit form of Claudis appears to Lion-O. Yet in ‘Shadowmaster’ he wasn’t dead as he was captured before the destruction of Thundera. So how did the spirit for appear earlier in the series?
Also, when the title ‘Return To Thundera’ was used for episode 20, why did they re-use the title for the five episodes ‘Return To Thundera Parts 1-5’
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Good observation! I haven’t seen either of the episodes in a while but here is my two cents:
- From the creators’ point of view, I don’t think they planned on featuring Claudus in future episodes and so just killed him in “Return to Thundera”, hence the appearance of his spirit to Lion-O.
- From the story’s point of view, remember that when Lion-O met Claudus in “Return to Thundera” he had traveled back in time. Which means that when he sees Claudus’ spirit at the end of the episode, many many years had passed (the time it took for their Flagship to make the trip from Thundera to Third Earth and some more). So it is possible that when the Shadowmaster captured Claudus, he was alive but during his imprisonment all those years, he died but his spirit still remained the Shadowmaster’s prisoner. That would make the Shadow Realm a sort of area like the Astral Prison where both spirits and living beings can co-exist. This theory of mine is further supported by the fact that after Lion-O frees Claudus, he goes off to join Jaga, indicating that he was already dead and it was his spirit that Lion-O freed.
That fact bugs me till date! :mad: Couldn’t Peter Lawrence have come up with a different title?
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I personally find the whole concept of New Thundera completely wrong. It should never have been done. And it probably wouldn’t have if Leonard Starr had still been in charge of the writing.
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In “Together We Stand,” Tygra and Lion-O are seemingly hypnotized by Alluro, but then they just break free of his mind control, which is explained at the end of the episode by the use of earplugs. But we never see them put on any earplugs. 
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I agree 100%. I can understand them leaving Third Earth to go home to Thundera. But I can’t understand why they never tried to contact the other survivors and bring them to Third Earth.
I refuse to believe all the ships left at the same time and were destroyed in the convoy in Exodus. I’d like to think they were told the planet they were going to and other ships had already left and taken off from different areas of the planet.
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Me too!
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I agree. A stupid, illogical twist, IMO.
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Liam and me were chatting earlier and I mentioned it was odd that there wasn’t some refugees on the Flagship. It seems really odd that the largest and most armed ship in the fleet/convoy is only carrying 8 characters.
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