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Thundercats Ep 8 - The Duelist and The Drifter Discussion
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09-21-2011, 01:29 PM
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Steelheart
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I really liked this episode. As someone who does martial arts and loves swords, I thought it was cool the show actually took an episode to address a bit of the philosophy of swordsmanship and focus on Lion-O's growing abilities. I love the duel animation in this ep. and the sword and stone-ish reference. It was nice how they acknowledged that forging a good sword takes time too and can't be done in one afternoon and how Drifter knew it would break. I LOVE Drifter btw. He's my favorite supporting character so far. He reminds me of a cross between Usagi Yojimbo (as someone already said) with the whimical wisdom and personality of a Jim Henson character. Specifically, Richard Hunt's Mudwell from Fraggle Rock''s episode "Gone But Not Forgotten" comes to mind.
This episode is another "lesson" episode like eps 3 & 4. But where 3 was cliched and clunky. 4 was beautiful in it's execution and I feel this episode was similarly done. In fact, ep 8 may be my favorite to date. Though Tower of Omens was pretty cool too. I hope all the Cats get character focus eps like this and that we'll see Drifter again maybe. Was this character ever in the original show?
I do wonder about the "hand of evil" thing from the original show some have mentioned already. Maybe it means that a evil person can't access the magic of the sword of omens as opposed to just wielding it as an ordinary sword blade in this new version.
Love Avatar: TLA btw one of the best cartoons of the past decade.
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