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I'm getting flashbacks to Max Gibson from Batman Beyond.
It's nice to see a 2D cartoon where the figures have a fluctuating line weight and humanoid features instead of the flat, noodle-like Scott Pilgrim/Adventure Time style look we've gotten for the last several years.
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01-03-2018, 06:59 AM | #103 |
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It almost sounds like Turtles having any romantic desires is almost offensive to you.
Not really sure why, considering that they are living beings, they are teenagers - and having romantic and sexual desires is completely normal to anyone, especially in the young age. Not to mention, as I said before, romance can enrich story by showing characters from the new angles. Or is some weird attempt to promote asexuality, because, "muh representation"? |
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I don't think people are saying it absolutely must happen in all versions of the turtles, just why can't it sometimes? ... and to be fair, I don't think there has been a great degree of it in TMNT over all, sure Nick did have a lot of crushes but only Raph had a relationship. Edit: Going back onto topic, agreed on the style of 2D, I feel better about the show for seeing this image also. Last edited by newfan; 01-03-2018 at 07:33 AM. |
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01-03-2018, 07:34 AM | #105 |
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Depending on the version, the Turtles were raised to be ninjas and have all sorts of adventures ranging from fighting ninjas clans to alien dinosaurs in outer space. They are very far removed from any human teenager. They don't go to school. They're not on social media 24/7. They're not going to parties, or worry about prom, have no allowance, or need for an actual job at Burger King or whatever. They might be teenagers in a sense but they are far removed from any sort of actual teenage life. Theirs is a life that often has no room or no need for romance.
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It may be A default setting for some, sure. But that's not an absolute. I have no problems exploring that difference. Especially given that there are a lot of people who never develop romantic attachments, and even some for whom such at attachments only begin to form far later in life than adolescence.
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My view with them sometimes having a crush is just that when they do meet someone (be it human or otherwise) chemistry can awaken. There is a divide on opinion here though, some don't like it, some do, some don't care. Last edited by newfan; 01-03-2018 at 08:07 AM. |
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And besides, there are people all over the world who don't do a good number of the things on that list and yet still find time for romantic love in one sense or another. After all, what are they fighting for if not love in some form? It's not like they have to fight for survival, when they in almost every Incarnation have specifically gone out in search of a fight. They could just stay home and not fight at all, but where's the fun in that?
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This is going to be a disaster. They're taking far too many liberties and deviating too far from the source material. It took six years, but what people feared from the beginning is finally happening.
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When it comes to human experiences, being romantic or aromantic isn't a choice. However, society's culture and environment tend to influence what is and isn't an acceptable set of (a)romantic expressions. In modern society, most people usually assume that you must be in a romantic relationship with someone, or at least have a crush on someone. They also tend to think that you must seek out desires of romantic/sexual pleasures. If you have never experienced any of those things, then society thinks that you're an anomaly. It's been really frustrating for me. Quote:
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Sure let's go with that.
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It's might irritate you (and me to certain extent), but our personal shortcomings are not an indication for the whole humanity. Some might not seek romantic / sexual experience, but this number is low, most people prefer to have romantic or sexual partners, because that's in human nature. We are social animals afterall. And we are talking about TMNT, who are teenagers. |
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How do you know that? Nobody has seen anything of the show yet.
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However, how modern media (pop culture) chooses to depict romantic desires doesn't actually mean that they have those romantic desires to convey their humanity. They can just naturally be indifferent to/ unconcerned with romance. On that note, neither you and I, or anyone else for that matter, know if the 2k18 version of the TMNT have any sexual/romantic desires or not. Therefore, you shouldn't assume that they do. Quote:
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Forced romance between people that just met ruins a lot of action movies. I lsugh at the ones where the people on the run from just about anyone somehow find time to stop and screw. But that's a topic for another thread.
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romance episodes are USUALLY the worst of any series. 95% of the time I skip over them.
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I'm more worried about the shows description about the Turtles having powers...but I guess we'll wait and see what they mean by that. |
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01-03-2018, 10:45 AM | #120 |
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Are the Turtles just basically normal human teenagers and should they be gauged as such?
Of course not, that's dumb. That's always been dumb. Every time I hear that (whether it's from creators or fans), this expectation of "I really want the Turtles to act like teenagers," it's just ill-thought out and dumb, dumb, dumb. Did the Turtles spend their adolescence lusting after a bunch of human ladies? No, not really. They were probably too busy training day in, day out to one day kill Oroku Saki. Again, these aren't normal human teenagers going to high school and taking Suzie to the prom or playing after school sports... that's a dumb expectation. None of the formative things growing up that happen to normal human teenagers would have ever happened to the TMNT. The closest example would be... I dunno, find like some monastic brothers who were home-schooled all of their adolescence and teenager years and not allowed to ever leave the house. Would the Turtles ever be attracted to females? Sure. There's plenty of examples of that. But surely they'd be attracted to human females? Not really. And despite the "Leonardo gets with Radical in the future" thing that slipped through the cracks when Laird was not at the helm and temporarily not doing approvals, there was always a very hard line from the TMNT creators about "The TMNT do NOT bang or lust after humans." Mikey saying, "Whatta babe!" to someone he sees on the TV is one thing, actively going after and pursuing romantic and/or sexual relationships with them is quite another.
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