He’s also a Transformers enthusiast and avid pop culture scholar. Marcus Goh is a television scriptwriter who writes for “Crimewatch”, as well as popular shows like “Lion Mums”, “Code of Law”, “Incredible Tales”, and “Police & Thief”.
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TV guide for Singapore in May: Killing Eve, She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power S5, UniKitty!, I Know This Much Is True, Kkondae Intern and more ThunderCats Roar debuts 23 May and airs on Saturdays and Sundays, at 1pm on Cartoon Network (Starhub TV Ch 316, Singtel TV Ch 226). "I would say some of those characters will be in Season 1, and everyone in the show eventually if we get to make it long enough," laughed Halpern-Graser. So what's in store for the future of ThunderCats Roar? Will we see the Lunataks (the extremely powerful villains who appeared in later seasons of the original series), and the three other ThunderCats (Pumyra, Bengali, and Lynx-O)? And I really love the pace that it forces you to adopt, which lends itself to a zany sort of comedy, which is sort of what we're doing," said Halpern-Graser "But what I really love about 11 minutes, is that if you do 22 minutes, you'll need an A and B story, but with 11 minutes you can hit the ground running and focus entirely on one A story and just hit that as hard and fast as you can. "This short form has been a pretty consistent format for some time, just that they'd split a 22 minute show into two 11 minute segments." He cited the examples of Adventure Time on Cartoon Network, as well as Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies on Adult Swim, which have been using the 11-minute format for some time. "But this isn't something new to American comedy animation", explained Halpern-Graser. ThunderCats Roar follows the short form, 10-12 minute format of recent animated series, like Justice League Action and DC Super Hero Girls. Lion-O has fun with the Sword of Omens in ThunderCats Roar. And speeding it up basically turns that same story into the tone of our show." But we take the story that they did in 22 minutes, and we do it in 11. "We keep the plot pretty much the same, we just try to find the comedic element that was already there in the original. Halpern-Graser took the example of '80s episode, Mandora - The Evil Chaser, an episode where the ThunderCats have to help an outer space police officer catch criminals, and how it was translated into Thundercats Roar. But probably two thirds of our episodes are pulled from elements of the'80s show. "I wanted to focus more on the original lore of the '80s series," said Courtright, "so elements of the 2011 one doesn't really come into play.
This labour of love to the original features everything a ThunderCats fan could hope to see in a reboot, the Cat's Lair (their base), the ThunderTank (their main mode of transportation), Lion-O's Claw Shield, and even the special powers of the Sword of Omens (like Sight Beyond Sight). But fans of the original will definitely recognise the original ThunderCats theme during the show - like during the fight music and in the closing credits. Other changes include the opening theme, which doesn't make use of the original ThunderCats score. Lion-O can't stop using the Sword of Omens in ThunderCats Roar.