While my opinion of this series of Thundercats has been on the passable side from day three of the series, I've never thrown my hands up and been flabbergasted with the stupidity of the writers before(sure, I've had bad moments that are akin to ST:VOY scripts, but never this).
(OKAY SERIOUS SPOILERS FROM THIS MOMENT ON)
From the moment go with the Pumyra character add-on, I've said 'she's gonna turn evil', seriously I felt that was why the writers put here there, a little bait and switch with the replacement of the sorry 'love triangle' idiocy they forced down viewers throats two-thirds of the series only to 'pull the rug out from under you' to show "she's been evil all along, ha-Ha!" I can see the writer(s) nodding to themselves and saying 'yup, we've done a gud jobe there' with it, Please tell me this wasn't a shock for people, the writing was seriously obvious and sloppy, she was almost PMS'ing one minute and happy and contented the next, and the way it was explained why she was evil was even more convoluted than the force-job they did on the TygraxCheetara relationship. "I tried to fight the bad guys and failed, was trapped under a whole wall and saw my new king walking out of the city that had been levelled completely-AND I HATE HIM FOR ABANDONING ME!!! GRR.
Okay writers, hows this for an alternate. Pumyra was a young lieutenant working for Claudus, saw him killed and was captured. While held prisoner she saw Jaga being tortured by Mumm-Ra and was left behind after Lion-O and Tygra escaped. Held prisoner by Mumm-Ra and constantly being tortured and manipulated by him, she was eventually 'broken' by him and turned to his side. Y'know, instead of an easy 'oh, she's angry and bitter. Hate's Lion-O for not being what she wants' story.
(OKAY SERIOUS SPOILERS FROM THIS MOMENT ON)
From the moment go with the Pumyra character add-on, I've said 'she's gonna turn evil', seriously I felt that was why the writers put here there, a little bait and switch with the replacement of the sorry 'love triangle' idiocy they forced down viewers throats two-thirds of the series only to 'pull the rug out from under you' to show "she's been evil all along, ha-Ha!" I can see the writer(s) nodding to themselves and saying 'yup, we've done a gud jobe there' with it, Please tell me this wasn't a shock for people, the writing was seriously obvious and sloppy, she was almost PMS'ing one minute and happy and contented the next, and the way it was explained why she was evil was even more convoluted than the force-job they did on the TygraxCheetara relationship. "I tried to fight the bad guys and failed, was trapped under a whole wall and saw my new king walking out of the city that had been levelled completely-AND I HATE HIM FOR ABANDONING ME!!! GRR.
Okay writers, hows this for an alternate. Pumyra was a young lieutenant working for Claudus, saw him killed and was captured. While held prisoner she saw Jaga being tortured by Mumm-Ra and was left behind after Lion-O and Tygra escaped. Held prisoner by Mumm-Ra and constantly being tortured and manipulated by him, she was eventually 'broken' by him and turned to his side. Y'know, instead of an easy 'oh, she's angry and bitter. Hate's Lion-O for not being what she wants' story.
