![]() The elephants take the hits this week, with Groon referring to them as “senile pachyderms” and Panthro describing them as “slow dumb”. Roll up, roll up, for all the fun of the fair, if you think a fair featuring Liono, Tigra, Panthro, Cheetara, Wilycat, Wilykit, Snarf, Abern, Anett, Clawdus (in flashback), Mumm-Ra, Groon and Slythe would be fun. Chortle! The episode ends with a rather irritating bit in which Cheetara grabs Tigra and snogs his face off while Liono watches, realising that this is the betrayal of which Abern spoke. I always said he was pretty much ’armless anyway. ![]() The victory hasn’t come without some sacrifice: Panthro has lost both his arms. Mumm-Ra and Slythe, of course, escape to fight another day.īut it’s not all gin and tonics all round. Panthro throws Groon into the astral plane just as it collapses, so I suspect that’s the last we’ll be seeing of him. When they reach the real world again, they find that Groon and Slythe have launched an all-out assault on the elephant village, and have only been defeated by the other Thundercats, who have persuaded the elephants to participate in the battle. The astral plane then begins to collapse around the three of them, and they run for the exit, just managing to escape in time. In the course of this battle, Liono locates the Spirit Stone and somehow installs it in his claw shield, after which he whoops Mumm-Ra’s ass good. Mumm-Ra evidently thinks that’s a good idea too, since he now shows up and attacks our best-of-buddies brothers. Perhaps now you’ve decided not to be a complete dick, we can get on with the rest of this astral plane outing? Maybe you won’t betray Liono, but you certainly will waste a fuckload of time in fighting him and mucking about with pits. There’s then a bit of a high-action sequence ending with Tigra throwing Liono into an astral plane facsimile of the childhood pit, but he then rescues Liono and intones, “I would never betray you – not then, and not now.” Great, Tigra. The astral plane then creates a duplicate Sword of Omens for Tigra, and he instantly attacks Liono to try to claim the real sword for himself. They aren’t helped by the astral plane showing them memories of their childhoods, focussing on an incident in which Tigra threw Liono into a pit and then ran away. This proves to be correct: Liono and Tigra’s argument gets more and more bitter as the search continues. Mumm-Ra is floating around as well, yammering nonsense about how in the astral plane he has greater power and should be able to make our heroes turn on each other. They’re having no luck finding the stone, and have taken to bickering about which one of them will get to keep it when they find it. In the astral plane, Liono and Tigra are trolling around a dim, shadowy world littered with occasional ruins of Thundera. We get a helpful reminder of this setup, and then we’re off into the story. Right then, remember what happened at the end of last week’s episode, kiddoes? Liono and Tigra entered the astral plane in search of the Spirit Stone, and to make things super ominous, Liono is soon going to face a betrayal by his brother. In which Liono and Tigra work out their issues.
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