George Hampton & Mike Moore
Reviewed by: Purrsia
Snarf and Lion-O are hanging out by the wreckage of their wrecked space craft, the one they'd crashed landed in when first arriving on Third Earth. Lion-O is dreaming of the day when they will all return for good to Thundera and Snarf is rooting through the wreckage. He ends up finding what at first appears to be just a telescope. But when he looked through it on one setting, Lion-O glowed. Clicked to another setting, and the wreckage glowed instead of Snarf or Lion-O. The ThunderTank never glows. Lion-O figures out that the scope somehow can detect things that came from Thundera, but to be sure of what they've found, he and Snarf head off in the Tank to the Tower of Omens to ask Lynx-O about it.
However, Mumm-Ra has been spying on them and knows exactly what it is they'd found. An old legendary piece of Thunderian history called the Thunderscope, which has some kind of power Mumm-Ra doesn't want Lion-O to discover. So he's off to intercept them. He lays a trap for them by pretending to be Lynx-O lying in the road. When they stop, he attacks. Mumm-Ra uses the Sword of Plundarr and Ma-Mutt to gain the Thunderscope, and when Lion-O tries to stop him with the Sword, the Plundarrian Sword's magic actually fries the Eye right out of the Sword. This has Lion-O hurting, but he hasn't given up. He still tries to fight for the Thunderscope. But Mumm-Ra lays quite a smackdown on him, and Lion-O is left for dead, the insignia on his belt now as absent as the one on the Sword of Omens. Declaring victory, Mumm-Ra leaves and hopes to use the Thunderscope to find the rest of the Treasure and thereby learn all the Thundercats secrets.
Snarf is left with an unresponsive leader and fears the worse until Jaga appears. The old man literally breathes life back into the Eye, and in doing so, Lion-O is also revived. Lion-O also reveals he had the foresight to remove the lens from the Thunderscope, so they still head off to the Tower to consult with Lynx-O first.
Lynx-O reveals that the ancients made the scope during the great migration period which lead to the settlement of Thundera. Its function was to allow them to find lost Thunderians and their belongings. Mumm-Ra soon figures out a piece is missing, so he rounds up a few Lunataks and attacks at the Tower before Lion-O can even seek him out. They do succeed in getting the missing lens, but Lion-O and Snarf follow Mumm-Ra back to the Pyramid to fight for the scope.
The only lame thing about this episode is the contrived resolution. When the battle for the scope heats up, Lion-O calls forth the Eye and the Eye itself shoots beams that defeat Mumm-Ra and gain them back the scope. It ends with Cheetara, Pumyra and Panthro coming back from a New Thundera mission with only a "snarf ball" to show for their efforts. They lament it will take forever to find all the treasure when Lion-O presents them with the Thunderscope in the hopes their job becomes easier. Lynx-O also notes that the Scope can decode the book of omens. And make your breath smell fresh. Oh wait. That was something else ;)
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Captures from The Thunderscope
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