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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

That's weird. You would think they would spend time developing the characters before doing a time jump, especially since the season is only five episodes. Don't they need to establish who everyone is first?

It's aimed at older fans who already know the general jist of the characters based on the 80s cartoon, the old mini-comics, some of the 2002 stuff etc. There's even a couple throwbacks to the british storybooks by Ladydbird that often came with a cassette tape to listen to the story while you read the book. lol. It's technically it's own thing but using the past characterisations as foundation to a more mature tone and portrayal. And aye, as mentioned it's a ten episode show. It was originally announced as a direct sequel to the 80s show but evolved during production into more of it's own take in tone and storyline but does follow up on a few things. Much of Teela and Evil-Lyn's converging plots follow up on a chat they had in the 80s episode The Witch and the Warrior. Anyways aye, first half was in July ending on a cliffhanger and second half was in November. My mate said there was some production issue which caused them to split the season in two like has happened with some other shows in the past couple of years due to covid and other things. Like the later episodes needed more time to get finished but Mattel had already released toys to stores and needed the show broadcast to help sell them and so aye first five were released in July. Watched the whole thing with my kid even though there are some parts that aren't 'kid-friendly' and we both loved it lol Also the soundtrack is by the chap who did the God of War PS4 soundtrack and so that's aces too.