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Bob Haney Reviewed by: Purrsia  Slithe ushers "his high evilness", Mumm-Ra, into Castle Plundarr in the dead of night to check out the Mutants' latest gimmick, the Warbot. Jackalman explains that there was no time to build it on Plundarr, but now it was completed and ready to turn the ThunderCats to stone -- as demonstrated on poor frog dog. Back at the Lair, Tygra, Panthro and Lion-O are checking out the Time Capsule that they recovered a few eps back from that cave man. It's a hologram projector, containing the history of Thundera. Lion-O is very curious to learn about the home planet he barely knew... so later, after he's bored, alone and on watch, he tinkers with the capsule. While the menacing image of the Warbot comes up on the Lair's scanners, Lion-O is blinded by the capsule's hologram and zapped back through time and space. Jaga appears and explains to Lion-O that he traveled back to the day before Thundera exploded. Lion-O also briefly fights this giant scorpion/crab hybrid thingie...somebody, take that Silky Fruit gift basket off the writing staff's table, already. Damn. On Third Earth, Panthro is up and about. Claims he couldn't sleep and that his "cat sense" told him something was wrong...yeah, Lion-O's slacking off. What else is new! Before he has time to cuss a blue streak about Lion-O being nowhere in sight, he catches the warbot on the scanners. Panthro hits the Lair alarm and gets ready to rumble. The Tcats throw their best defenses at the warbot, but he has an answer for everything and is undeterred. It's not looking good for the 'cats. In the time warp, Lion-O has made his way to the main city and has a bit of trouble getting past the guards at the perimeter. The guards think he's a nut job but let him in anyway...figuring he'd perish with the planet. They only let him in because they recognized the Sword of Omens as the blade carried by "Wise Jaga". Lion-O meets up with his old pet saber tooth, Kano. They show up at Claudus' place, just as Slithe and Vultureman threaten him. Lion-O bursts in in time to rescue his blind father. Thus changing the history of events and causing the universe to fold in on itself. Nice job farking with the space/time continium, asshat. Oh wait. Nevermind...we're in the ThunderCats universe where annoying things like physics and time paradoxes mean nothing. Back to our story. Lion-O first tries to tell Claudus he is his son. [Claudus: (thinking) Note to self...leave the city outpost guards to die with the planet for letting this cracked pot in here. Dammit]. At any rate, he doesn't believe Lion-O could possibly be Lion-O. Then Lion-O tries to screw up the natural order of things further by getting Claudus to leave with him. Claudus explains that he must stay and help guide the flagship to safety, as the ship's gyro-stabilizers were damaged in the tremors. He comforts Lion-O somewhat by revealing he has an escape plan via a gravity capsule. Before Lion-O leaves, Claudus gives him what the Mutants were after...plans for a Plundarrian war machine copied by one of Claudus' spies. As the planet is in its death throes, Lion-O wanders around, witnessing himself and the other Tcats board the flagship and flee ala Exodus. Back at the Lair, the cats are taking a beating at the hands of this warbot. It rips off the head of the Lair and works its way inside. Tygra is annoyed that Lion-O abandoned his post. Well that judgemental ass. He of all felines should know that when one is eatin' silky fruit and gets the munchies, a midnight trip to Robear Roberto's taco stand is not out of the question. Anyway, Panthro orders the abandonment of the Lair, but he, Cheetara, Tygra and Snarf are all turned to stone as they flee. By the way, I have no idea what happened to the Thunderkittens...they were there in the previous scenes but are nowhere to be seen for the rest of the ep...odd. Lion-O returns to find his stoned friends...damn them for bogarting the silky fruit. He snaps them out of it with the Sword, of course. He proceeds to attack the warbot, zapping it with the sword after demanding the eye grant him "power beyond power"....eh, okay. He drives back the nut n' bolt bohemoth, and rushes out to face it on open ground. It looks as if he's going to let the Warbot trounce him, but as its huge foot comes down, Lion-O's upturned sword pierces a little circle on the botton of said foot. This miraculously causes the Warbot to destruct...an achilles heel of sorts. Slithe is baffled, Mumm-Ra is ticked...and the ThunderCats are left with a huge mess to clean up. Get to work, Snarf. "By the black obelisks, what is it?" -- Mumm-Ra, upon setting sunken eyes on the Warbot. "It's like a nightmare version of that reptilian rascal, Slithe." WilyKat, upon seeing the Warbot. In Exodus, Jaga claimed the eye rested in the Sword's hilt, and was known only to him. Even Tygra behaved as though he thought the Eye was only a myth. But then here we have two lowly city guards on Thundera, recognizing the Sword and the Eye. I beg of you, get that damn basket of fruit away from those people...gah, this is only going to get worse :-p leppardra: There's another reason why I love "Return to Thundera". Lion-O is rendered in such a way that he's at his handsomest. Muscular yet sleek, which is how I like him to look. In other stories he's so muscle-bound he looks like he can barely move, and that's a shame. leppardra: But there's a story glitch. WilyKat and WilyKit are with the other Cats in the main control room when the Warbot first attacks the Lair. When the creature attacks again and again, the Kittens have vanished and are not seen for the rest of the story. Why they disappeared is not explained. Purrsia: Indeed there is a kitten glitch. As I pointed out in the review: "By the way, I have no idea what happened to the Thunderkittens...they were there in the previous scenes but are nowhere to be seen for the rest of the ep...odd." ;) Caswin: Wow. That ruled on so many levels. (But I have to ask... what is up with that spike on the Warbot?) Zagdil: This is another episode that makes me wonder what the feline races are anyway...
- the guards looked like lions or pumas. But every Thunderian look much more like a cat than the noble Thundercats themselves. Even Pummra aka MummRa looks more like a cat than them...
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