Day 2 : 80's Cartoon For @nepeta-week-love week of Nepeta prompts. Nepeta, Barbarian Queen of the Thieves, was an 1981 Product First™ Animation. It failed in the face of baffling creative decisions, audience backlash, and repeated interference from executives - being cancelled before completing it's first season. Critic's of the time called the show "indecipherable - rife with confused themes and rampant contradictions that even children will notice". The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows would later refer to the series as "story strictly as delivery vehicle for Ultraviolence," and accused it of having a toy line which "Really Sucked." Survivors of the troubled production dispute claims around the toy line to this day. Parents of young viewers had also found the titular character's Lusus, Aquinas, unsettling. "Unwholesome" was a frequent complaint of Mothers, though no specific appearance of the character could be identified as offensive. Of the 16 Production episodes known to exist, Aquinas only appears in 3 after a successful letter campaign. The first appearance of Alternian Trolls in media, later popularized in the 2009 Webcomic Homestuck, Troll Culture is 100% consistent with their later iteration. This contributed to viewer confusion as Troll customs were presented as entirely normal within the show, and never explained. The show was only cancelled after coining the term "Fuckass" in an accidental live broadcast.
