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Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal
As great as the animation was, the writing was…mediocre. Sorry but it’s true, which is probably why it didn’t make it past season 1.
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I actually forgot that the content we got was season 1 parts 1 and 2....
But that aside, I think the writing was terrific. I always sort of attributed it's failure to a variety of other factors such as when the Cartoon Network chose to air it, and also related to the style of the show in conjunction with who they wanted their target audience to be rather than who it really was. Basically I think it was quality all the way through but it was a terrible mismatch of target audience and delivery on the goods.
And that doesn't even begin to tackle the licensing agreement where the show was basically counting on a level of toy sales that it never saw. Which is ashame too because the stuff Bandai released was pretty good. But they took a
mostly old-school "figure and vehicle" route as opposed to full on "Marvel Legends route" that was popular at the time. Bandai had what you would imagine was a good horizontal spread of scales and offerings, but I honestly think that lent to confusion regarding the toyline. Had they just committed vertically on the 4" scale and had more releases it might've done better by grabbing more dollars from the fans it had.
And after that of course, they did "Thundercats ROAR!" which was a maligned failure somewhat akin to TMNT going to "Rise".