Have you accepted the show probably won't continue after season 5?

[IronBoomer]

Honestly, after Ciro lost the opportunity to wrap up Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go (Disney axed that one on a massive cliffhanger), I can see the show ending after five, and you know what?
I'm okay with that.

G1 stretched on far longer than is should have with seasons 8-10, and I'd rather not peter out on forcing it out longer than it should have, but ending on a good note.

Nick's done limited run shows before (Avatar: The Last Airbender, for example) and those shows are better for it. Let this cartoon end, a few years pass and then we can catch up with the boys in their late 20s/early 30s having to be adults and dealing with a different world.

[TigerClaw]

I hope they wrap up the Mutagen Man with Season 5, For too long we been wondering what happened to him, hope by the end of Season 5, Donnie finds a way to change him back to a human.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

I hope they wrap up the Mutagen Man with Season 5, For too long we been wondering what happened to him, hope by the end of Season 5, Donnie finds a way to change him back to a human.

I hope there's at least a throwaway line mentioning him but that might be too much to ask for this show.

[Unworthy tinker]

Originally Posted by shredder orokusaki

That too bad. If it ends on season 5 it will be the least succesful tmnt show. Less episdoes than 1987 AND 2003 show?! I want to know what the reason that they want to end it so soon. Unless they are planning to make another new one in less than a year there is no reason to end it so soon.

I take it you got this from Cubed...

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

I hope there's at least a throwaway line mentioning him but that might be too much to ask for this show.

And what makes you think that?

[victory_angel]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

And what makes you think that?

They did mention Mutagen Man when they were trying to help April fight Za-Noran.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by victory_angel

They did mention Mutagen Man when they were trying to help April fight Za-Noran.

Which is exactly my point.

[Coola Yagami]

The show still has lots of plot amnesia. And it'll continue to do so as long as they follow a 'if the episode isn't centered around someone they'll just vanish inexplicably even though they should still be there' mentality. Like Shinigami in the recent episodes.

I do like that they at least had Rahzar see his own cartoon show and remember who he was. That's something.

[CyberCubed]

There is no plot amnesia.

[MrTMNT2012]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

There is no plot amnesia.

Are you Ciro Nieli or something?

[plastroncafe]

There is no plot amnesia.

[Coola Yagami]

Oh yeah, there's heaping helpings of it, like ignoring April's dad unless the plot called for it, just dropping and forgetting about finding the Mutagen bottles like 3 episodes in, them not even recognizing chrome dome as a Chris Bradford clone and so forth. They're not gonna cure Mutagen Man unless he gets his own episode in season 5.

[ToTheNines]

Newtralizer.

[Vegita-San]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Oh yeah, there's heaping helpings of it.

Loosing battle trying to convince people of this at this point. just going over the same facts over and over again .

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Oh yeah, there's heaping helpings of it, like ignoring April's dad unless the plot called for it, just dropping and forgetting about finding the Mutagen bottles like 3 episodes in, them not even recognizing chrome dome as a Chris Bradford clone and so forth. They're not gonna cure Mutagen Man unless he gets his own episode in season 5.

What on earth are you talking about? The Turtles would never be able to find hundreds of mutagen canisters scattered throughout NY. That was likely only done to explain the new mutants popping up all over the city, which they did with the Squirrelnoids, Sir Malachi, the fungus mutant, and several of the others.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Vegita-San

Loosing battle trying to convince people of this at this point. just going over the same facts over and over again .

Those are the most common examples and are too late to fix now. I haven't seen enough of the later seasons to see what screw ups they might have had.

[TheJ-manTurtleMan]

Just a thought, but it kind of makes a little bit of sense that they would end on this season. If we assume that each season is a year in the Turtles lives, they would be 20years old right? Technically not teenagers anymore. Perhaps the season will end with someone acknowledging that.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Those are the most common examples and are too late to fix now. I haven't seen enough of the later seasons to see what screw ups they might have had.

So you're saying you haven't watched the show since Season 2, and you're talking about what the writers are doing? What the?

[WebLurker]

Originally Posted by MrTMNT2012

I doubt his show will have the post-following as the 2003 series though. People were still talking about that series 3 years after it ended.

I think it's too early to tell what kind of legacy TMNT 2012 will have, but I have gathered that it's made more impact while running than TMNT 2003 did.

But, did the 2003 show have a substantial post-following, though? It hasn't really carried on the way things like Star Trek: TOS or Firefly did, and, while some things it did have carried on, it's not really had the same level of impact that the other shows have had, nor does there seem to be the same fanbase for it that the others have.

(I know that there is a following here who complain about the lack of DVD releases for 2003, but given what I know of the show's reception, I'm not sure there's the market for it that the fanbase believes exists).

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

There is no plot amnesia.

Umm, there has been some plot holes and dropped ideas along the lines. For example, the early seasons established that the Kraang needed April in order to mutate Earth, but changed why (the first explanation was that they needed her hooked up to a machine because the needed her mind, or something, then later, they needed her DNA to perfect the mutagen). Then, suddenly, by the end of season two, the Kraang managed to finish the mutagen without April or her DNA, with no explanation as to why the didn't need her.

Others on the thread have pointed out that Mutagen Man mostly vanished from the show after he was frozen. Now, a few offhand comments and scenes do establish that he's in the lab, but the plot idea that he could've helped with creating retromutagen was forgotten right after it was dropped.

The find the mutagen plot early in season two fizzled out with no clear resolution. Spider Bytez, Snakeweed, and Neutralizer were very underused. Karai's mutation (why retromutagen didn't work and how Stockman stabilized her) were not explained at all.

If you want a really silly example, in season one's "Parasitica," the Turtles get and keep a working centrifuge from a Kraang lab, but later, in "Mikey Gets Shellacne," the Turtles have never had a centrifuge and need to find one.

Look, TMNT 2012 is my favorite of all the franchise's incarnations, but it has had it's weak spots and stuff that was abandoned.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by WebLurker

But, did the 2003 show have a substantial post-following, though? It hasn't really carried on the way things like Star Trek: TOS or Firefly did, and, while some things it did have carried on, it's not really had the same level of impact that the other shows have had, nor does there seem to be the same fanbase for it that the others have.

(I know that there is a following here who complain about the lack of DVD releases for 2003, but given what I know of the show's reception, I'm not sure there's the market for it that the fanbase believes exists).
.

You mean the fact that people still watch and talk about it to this day? What kind of "fanbase" are you talking about when most hardcore TMNT fans liked and followed the show?