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how far in the future is the thundercats supposed to be?

posted 17 years ago by vcrannyc-1
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being they hinted many times that it's definetly well in the future with things like Gold being useless junk(the inflamer episode where cheetara saves some of the gold.. (funny yet hammerhand and bersrkers want to be paid in gold) Also when mandora uses "soap" on the Living Ooze" It was some kind of ancient formula, then you had the season two episode of exile isle where lion-o throws some stuff at chilla and she's like I'm melting... He says it's ancient and was called "rock salt".

So I wonder how far in the future it's supposed to be, and beside the warrior maidens(how do they procreate, lmao) what happened to all the human beings.. It's so far in the future yet it seems pre historic..

[–] eddypatrick187 17 years ago

Is it in the future though? It could just be in another solar system.........then again they do call it '3rd Earth'

[–] vcrannyc-1 17 years ago

well I always said third earth meant third planet from the sun.. Just the obvious comments of "rock salt and soap" being used by the ANCIENTS.. Also you see egyptian pyramids and a sphinx when the mutants meet mumm-ra in episode 2 "unholy alliance".. You can aslo tell by the solar system after the covoy/flag ship was attacked in episode 1.. They were headed for another planet and solar system, and panthro shows the third planet from the sun and says it has 96% atmospheric compatibility for air to breath... Also the idea gold diamons jewels existed shows it was earth even if the time period was in question..

THE ROCK SALT WAS IN EXILE ISLE TO FIGHT CHILLA AND THE SOAP WAS USED TO FIGHT THE OOZE BY MANDORA THE POLICE LADY..As said both ancient technologies.. I believe mandora was the only one )or the police force) allowed to use soap)

Who knows mumm-ra has been around 5,000 years, for all we know he could be the devil since where ever evil is mumm-ra exists..

[–] LiamABC 17 years ago

My guess is that this show is way in the future, after mankind eventually blows itself up in a nuclear war, and the survivors have to start from scratch again. It would take quite some while to recover from that.

Also, remember Mumm-Ra's chronology has been somewhat liquid at times - he claims to have lived for one thousand and then five thousand in the same episode, ("Pumm-Ra") - and then in "Dimension Doom", explains about fighting Wizz-Ra who was fated to only come onto the planet once every 7000 years. It's the sort of thing that the writers always get wrong. It's what comes of not doing a specific backstory to everything first of all.

[–] ja_kitty_71 16 years ago

I think ThunderCats is setted in the year 2285 - 300 years in the future from the show's air date (and also my birth year) - 1985; 'cause you know: Third Earth and 300 years huh?
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[–] Louisifer 14 years ago

I think it takes place in a post-post apocalyptic Earth where all our technology has been receeded back into nature. I heard this would not take very long if it were to happen too, which it probably will.

I'm guessing Second Earth is post-apocalyptic Earth?

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[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 14 years ago

I always thought it was third evolution of Earth. Like if our world was destroyed and we went back to the stone-age then evolved then back to stone-age again that would be third earth.

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[–] I_Guard_Tanelorn 11 years ago

Huh. I always thought this show was set in the way way past.

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[–] col_rutherford 10 years ago

It was implied that Third Earth was our planet sometime in the future, but I don't think it was ever confirmed. In the episode "The Unholy Alliance", Mumm-Ra told the Mutants "I have known of the Eye of Thundera's power for a thousand years! From a time when this was still First Earth!".

In the episode "Sideswipe", Snarfer mentioned that he picked up some "Mexican takeout" from a Berbil taco stand, so it seems they had some knowledge of our civilization.

EDIT: Since my original post, I watched some more episodes from the later seasons. In "Return of the ThunderCubs", Ssslythe made a reference to Sherlock Holmes. In "The Last Day", North and South America were visible on a globe of Third Earth. In "Ma-Mutt's Confusion", Mumm-Ra used a weapon called the Babylonian barbarian boiler that was once used by his ancient ancestors and he made a reference to Baked Alaska.

[–] Man-In-Black08 9 years ago

I think the writers always intended for Third Earth to be at least a metaphor for our Earth, using symbolisms and parallels, but as the show went on, they just went for a full blown "this is our Earth" motif.

It is entirely possible however that it was always meant to be our Earth from the get go as Excalibur was on Third Earth, signifying that where the ThunderCats built the Cat's Lair was perhaps a newly conjoined landmass of northern Europe and Northern Africa (such as to include the British Isles and Egypt).