That Stupid Club

(This should be spoiler free.)

Hey, hey, look who decided to drop in.

Beyond that amus­ing cameo (let’s be hon­est, as bad as Sil­ver­hawks was, it had its own trippy charm, so a crossover show could be intrigu­ing), it’s really hard to say any­thing with­out spoil­ing the episode, so I shall empha­size that the show is going from strength to strength now with each week. Besides the excre­ment that was episode 3, and the rather cliche and trite Song the Peta­lars that fol­lowed, the show is doing a very cred­i­ble job ramp­ing up the plot threads and action with­out abrupt shifts once a cer­tain new mem­ber of the cast joined our furry crew. The ani­ma­tion is a cut above the usual stan­dards of shows aimed at the US domes­tic mar­ket, and it cer­tainly is bet­ter than what Avatar deliv­ered in its first sea­son. Stu­dio 4°C is han­dling the ani­ma­tion, fol­low­ing up from their work with Trans­form­ers Ani­mated, but with a vis­i­bly larger avail­able bud­get, so every­thing looks opti­mistic and my early wor­ries have pretty much evap­o­rated. It’s still a children’s show, which means the vio­lence has been toned down from the pre­miere (regret­tably, because who doesn’t want an alter­na­tive Eng­lish Guin Saga?), but I worked around that with Avatar and I’ll work around it with Thundercats.

On a curi­ous note, some fans will note the sim­i­lar­i­ties Legacy has with a cer­tain episode in Avatar’s third sea­son, involv­ing both a grey­beard and a flash­back as well. There are sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ences, but it’s still pretty strik­ing. Ah well, there’s only so many ways you can spin a mon­o­myth, after all.