![]() I don’t remember what I was doing that day, but odds are I may have watched ThunderCats as part of the festivities. ![]() The final episode aired on September 29, 1989, my 9th birthday. ThunderCats debuted in 1985 and ran for four years and 130 episodes, plus a TV movie. It’s fun to imagine these guys and the ThunderCats in a shared universe. I’m about to rewatch the pilot episode and while I’m going to get into it shortly first I’ll provide a little background on the show. It showed up on Amazon a couple of years ago, and after I failed to turn my watching experience into a decent stand up bit I remembered it recently and figured that maybe I could turn it into a decent article. The first entry in this series is ThunderCats. I don’t want to tip my hand this early but ThunderCats was the inspiration for the column (and having to capitalize that C every time I write it is not improving my feelings towards the show). With this in mind, today on 80s Baby we will be launching a new column: “Is This Rewatchable?” While this could be applied to anything covered here, in the column we will take an occasional deep dive into something that I (or a guest writer) cared about as a child, to see if it can stand on its own. ![]() For this reason, rewatching shows and replaying games that we once loved can be a huge letdown when it turns out that the object of affection is very much of its time, or even worse, was never any good to begin with. ![]() A lot of things that we love are meaningful to us because they’re linked to a certain time, place, and memory. That’s the entire reason this website exists. So much of what we remember fondly is colored by nostalgia. ![]()
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