6 Years of Nick Turtles

[Autbot_Benz]

TMNT
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On this day 6 YEARS AGO, the 2012 #TMNT premiered on @Nickelodeon.

9/29/2012

This show also gave us the best version of splinter to date in my opinion the Hoon Lee one.

[CyberCubed]

Show ended too soon, it should have had at least 7 seasons. I bet they would have taken the show in a new direction had it gone on past season 5.

I hope the series is revisited with a movie or special at some point, and from the sounds of things maybe it'll happen.

[ABrown]

And as I've stated several times over the last six years, that date is incorrect:

"This episode originally aired as a "Series Preview" on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 8:00pm (ET) on Nickelodeon. The episode premiered in its official time slot, Saturdays at 11:00am (ET), the following morning along with the second episode "Rise of the Turtles, Part 2"." - http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Rise_of_the_Turtles,_Part_1

I remember watching the premiere on a Friday night (which was the 9/28/12).

[neatoman]

Show ended too soon, it should have had at least 7 seasons.

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[CyberCubed]

It's a shame the show only has 124 episodes, when 2k3 has 156 episodes and a movie, and the original cartoon has 193 episodes.

TMNT is a show where having the more episodes, the better.

[ABrown]

It's a shame the show only has 124 episodes, when 2k3 has 156 episodes and a movie, and the original cartoon has 193 episodes.

TMNT is a show where having the more episodes, the better.

Quit whining. TMNT fans have it great compared to some other franchises. Look at what He-Man or Thundercats fans have. You want to talk about shows that could have gone more episodes. The 2002 He-Man went for 2 seasons/39 episodes. And the 2011 Thundercats had one 26 episode season.

[CyberCubed]

If it was up to me, every TMNT cartoon would last 200 episodes at the bare minimum. If we're pushing it maybe even 250 episodes.

TMNT isn't like other cartoons, that's why TMNT always have the longest lasting action cartoons in existence. I'm not sure if Rise will last a long time, but at least the first 3 cartoons did.

[neatoman]

Oh come on. All three completed TMNT cartoon have more episodes than any of the nine Spider-Man cartoons, four Fantastic Four cartoons, three Hulk cartoons, four X-Men cartoons, six (seven? eight?) Batman cartoons or four Superman cartoons.

For something that started out as an indy comic, that's really impressive.

[Autbot_Benz]

just put the 2012 series on blu ray that's all I want.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Part one of the first episode aired on Friday 28 September 2012, part 2 the upcoming day

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/listings/

[The Great Saiyaman]

Two years ago, I was involved in an accident which destroyed my shoulder and because I had to stop working because of that I spend a lot of time watching TV which is how I discovered the Nick version of TMNT.

It was the second season they were repeating and I was blown away by the story lines and how dark it sometimes got. I had the same feeling with watching it as I had when I discovered "Avatar, the last airbender"

The only thing I didn't like is that it was dubbed over in Dutch and that a lot of voice acting was pretty lousy and after I discovered the original English spoken version I also found a lot of translation errors.

So I decided to buy the box set of the first season and go from there. Always watching the episodes in English because that was the language in which it was recorded.

What I love about the series in full, are all of the Easter eggs, I have been collecting the IDW reissues of the Mirage comics and I saw a lot of that coming back in the series.

I have since started a fan comic called "Karai versus Karai" in which the 2012 Karai faces her IDW series Counterpart. Which was inspired by the whole premise of the "Transdimensional Turtles" story line. I had a field day displaying all versions of Karai in one story.

I'm going to miss this series, it was a lot of fun.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

It's a shame the show only has 124 episodes, when 2k3 has 156 episodes and a movie, and the original cartoon has 193 episodes.

TMNT is a show where having the more episodes, the better.

But it seems we're getting less and less episodes for each cartoon (no matter what fans in general think about that).

[neatoman]

But it seems we're getting less and less episodes for each cartoon (no matter what fans in general think about that).

Yeah... And? Does that really matter? Going from 193 to 156 to 124 still means more episodes on average than most other franchises, even if we are getting fewer episodes per show.

Remember how I mention Spider-Man? The avarage episode count for a Spider-Man cartoon is 40, 73 if we only pick the 3 longest. For TMNT it's 157.

[Aaronardo]

Quality over quantity, folks. This show's story ended on a pretty satisfying note. If you ask me it could've stood to be even shorter.

[newfan]

I wasn't quite done with this show, while I wouldn't want it dragged out forever I would have liked a little more. Still, glad we got 5 seasons, they could have decided to end when the main story was done so there's that.

[neatoman]

This show's story ended on a pretty satisfying note.

What do you count as the ending? The Turtles being vrusty old men who hang out at an oasis in the middle of a radioactive wasteland, or Fred Wolf's Bebop doing a humping dance?

[Icebot]

This anniversary reminds me more of the show’s premiere than any other one so far because September 28 was on a Friday this year, the 29th Saturday and 30th Sunday. Those days of the week helped make it feel like I was living those days all over again from 2012 since they were on those days of the week then.

[sdp]

I saw this yesterday and it made me feel so old, it's semi-recent stuff like this that makes me feel old, not so much the "DID YOU KNOW THE OT WAS RELEASED 30 YEARS AGO", that makes sense since it feels like a long ass time ago but this still feels recent and it hurts ;p

[TigerClaw]

This show ended too soon. Because this show was pushing boundaries on what they can show in a Kids Network. And Nickelodeon wanted TMNT to be more family friendly.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

What do you count as the ending? The Turtles being vrusty old men who hang out at an oasis in the middle of a radioactive wasteland, or Fred Wolf's Bebop doing a humping dance?

Its the former thats the true ending, no doubt about it.

[CyberCubed]

I saw this yesterday and it made me feel so old, it's semi-recent stuff like this that makes me feel old, not so much the "DID YOU KNOW THE OT WAS RELEASED 30 YEARS AGO", that makes sense since it feels like a long ass time ago but this still feels recent and it hurts ;p

The whole 2010's decade completely flew by. Can't believe we're a year away from 2020.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

The whole 2010's decade completely flew by. Can't believe we're a year away from 2020.

And Neon Night Riders. :)

[Shark_Blade]

Cheers to the best TMNT version ever.

[Metalwolf]

Its the former thats the true ending, no doubt about it.
Does it have to be? Didn't Nick kind of imply it was up to the viewer to decide?

[JH24]

Does it have to be? Didn't Nick kind of imply it was up to the viewer to decide?


I can't really remember if Nick implied it but I don't think you have to worry about what the real ending is. Just go with an ending you prefer.

Looking back, I remember being excited about the futuristic ending, but now I like to think this never happened (or in a different timeline) and that the turtles, April and Casey grew old together.

That part in the finale with Casey's skull still gets to me.

[asfaloth12]

It's hard to believe that it's been six years! This series has been such a fun ride. While I miss seeing new episodes, it's probably best that it ended before it went downhill.

I can't really remember if Nick implied it but I don't think you have to worry about what the real ending is. Just go with an ending you prefer.

Looking back, I remember being excited about the futuristic ending, but now I like to think this never happened (or in a different timeline) and that the turtles, April and Casey grew old together.

That part in the finale with Casey's skull still gets to me.

Exactly. It's a fantasy cartoon. We can all decide for ourselves what the "true" ending is.

As for what Nick said, here's one thread on the TMNT twitter, in response to a tweet from a user named Angel Rider: https://twitter.com/TMNT/status/912354814402744322

It was Brandon Auman who later said that it was up to audience interpretation. Here: https://twitter.com/auman_brandon/status/955529834192502784 and here https://twitter.com/auman_brandon/status/958767414342172672
Frankly, I would have interpreted "Mutant Apocalypse" as an AU either way, especially in light of the canon contradictions involving Renet. My personal headcanon: Raph wrote a self-insert Mad Max fanfic. I have no problem with "Wanted" being the "official" finale, but I still prefer either Owari or End Times as the ending.

[Metalwolf]

It's hard to believe that it's been six years! This series has been such a fun ride. While I miss seeing new episodes, it's probably best that it ended before it went downhill.



Exactly. It's a fantasy cartoon. We can all decide for ourselves what the "true" ending is.

As for what Nick said, here's one thread on the TMNT twitter, in response to a tweet from a user named Angel Rider: https://twitter.com/TMNT/status/912354814402744322

It was Brandon Auman who later said that it was up to audience interpretation. Here: https://twitter.com/auman_brandon/status/955529834192502784 and here https://twitter.com/auman_brandon/status/958767414342172672
Frankly, I would have interpreted "Mutant Apocalypse" as an AU either way, especially in light of the canon contradictions involving Renet. My personal headcanon: Raph wrote a self-insert Mad Max fanfic. I have no problem with "Wanted" being the "official" finale, but I still prefer either Owari or End Times as the ending.

That's the feeling I had too. People were saying it was 'canon' but it really clashes with Renet saying 'You guys are heroes!'

It makes sense too if it's head-canoned as a Raph self-insert fic. Raph is the only one that stays relatively 'normal.' Leo is mutated again and is a crazy or antagonistic 'bad guy' (until he comes around to his brothers) Donny is the epitome of becoming too into what you love, and Mikey is a skinny weakling that runs away and hides.

Having the Kraang 'win' is his pessimistic side coming through, no matter what, him and his brothers can't ultimately win. The world reflects this pessimism too, everywhere is a desert, his two human friends are dead, and any new mutants that he encounters seem to have this dour attitude. He's the only sane Turtle to 'see' reality, and even the place they can walk openly (devastated New York) is a miserable place, with the only sanctum being their underground lair, that's painted as other characters as being this one 'oasis' out in the desert. (And there seems to be no Foot either, judging by who owns Karai's motorcycle now.)

So yeah, I think if one thinks about it, it could even be an inadvertent deconstruction of Raph's mind, as written by Raph himself.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Last Monday was one year since the cartoon's final episode aired over Nickelodeon.

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/listings/

[The Great Saiyaman]

That's the feeling I had too. People were saying it was 'canon' but it really clashes with Renet saying 'You guys are heroes!'

It makes sense too if it's head-canoned as a Raph self-insert fic. Raph is the only one that stays relatively 'normal.' Leo is mutated again and is a crazy or antagonistic 'bad guy' (until he comes around to his brothers) Donny is the epitome of becoming too into what you love, and Mikey is a skinny weakling that runs away and hides.

Having the Kraang 'win' is his pessimistic side coming through, no matter what, him and his brothers can't ultimately win. The world reflects this pessimism too, everywhere is a desert, his two human friends are dead, and any new mutants that he encounters seem to have this dour attitude. He's the only sane Turtle to 'see' reality, and even the place they can walk openly (devastated New York) is a miserable place, with the only sanctum being their underground lair, that's painted as other characters as being this one 'oasis' out in the desert. (And there seems to be no Foot either, judging by who owns Karai's motorcycle now.)

So yeah, I think if one thinks about it, it could even be an inadvertent deconstruction of Raph's mind, as written by Raph himself.

I also was going "What the hell" when I saw the Mutant Apocalypse special.

But it still gave me some inspiration to make some artworks.

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I can't be the only who noticed that the animators of the show had an affinity for showing April's butt in close up multiple times during the series' run.

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/intermediary/f/128dbac3-9706-47e7-adfc-d33dcd996e8f/dcikg3s-4591a1db-3e0e-4404-becc-791ff41c5a11.jpg

[SaurusX]

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/intermediary/f/128dbac3-9706-47e7-adfc-d33dcd996e8f/dckb3ps-213226d7-001d-4cf6-97f7-208d25f6306c.jpg
I can't be the only who noticed that the animators of the show had an affinity for showing April's butt in close up multiple times during the series' run.

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/intermediary/f/128dbac3-9706-47e7-adfc-d33dcd996e8f/dcikg3s-4591a1db-3e0e-4404-becc-791ff41c5a11.jpg
The Japanese call that the dog's eye view. And you're right.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

The whole 2010's decade completely flew by. Can't believe we're a year away from 2020.

I think that happens easily when most entertainment we want is just a Youtube clip away.

[asfaloth12]

That's the feeling I had too. People were saying it was 'canon' but it really clashes with Renet saying 'You guys are heroes!'

It makes sense too if it's head-canoned as a Raph self-insert fic. Raph is the only one that stays relatively 'normal.' Leo is mutated again and is a crazy or antagonistic 'bad guy' (until he comes around to his brothers) Donny is the epitome of becoming too into what you love, and Mikey is a skinny weakling that runs away and hides.

Having the Kraang 'win' is his pessimistic side coming through, no matter what, him and his brothers can't ultimately win. The world reflects this pessimism too, everywhere is a desert, his two human friends are dead, and any new mutants that he encounters seem to have this dour attitude. He's the only sane Turtle to 'see' reality, and even the place they can walk openly (devastated New York) is a miserable place, with the only sanctum being their underground lair, that's painted as other characters as being this one 'oasis' out in the desert. (And there seems to be no Foot either, judging by who owns Karai's motorcycle now.)

So yeah, I think if one thinks about it, it could even be an inadvertent deconstruction of Raph's mind, as written by Raph himself.

Some fans insist on it being "canon" because that was what Ciro originally intended, or because of production order.
But, I agree with you on Renet. MA doesn't fit with the future she comes from.

As for the rest of your post...Well said!
One thing I thought about: Leo sacrifices himself....again..... which Raph has expressed frustration over in the past. This is a nightmare scenario for Raph, in which Leo does not seem to come out of it alive this time. Which brings us to Leo's double mutation. He has been hurt so many times and nearly killed. He even spent three months in a coma after in early season 3! It's as if Raph thought up a nearly indestructible form for his older brother. It would be a heck of a lot harder to hurt or kill this version of Leo.
Raph also doesn't remember Splinter in this story. When we lose a loved one, isn't that one of our greatest fears? That they will fade away in our memories? That we will start to forget what they looked like, the sound of their voice, etc?

Last Monday was one year since the cartoon's final episode aired over Nickelodeon.

It's hard to believe, isn't it? What a fun finale!

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

12 December 2018 was one year since the Final Chapters DVD was released in Region 1, completing the DVD release of the series.