Red Sky or first 7 seasons?
 

Which do you like better?

I like the Red Sky ones better, I think it's because the villains are more serious and threatening.

I thought 1993 was the best season out of all of them simply because the show maintained its comedic roots but also became a lot more action oriented and less goofy.

Yeah, I was gonna say that the tone varies wildly in the 1st 7 seasons. Seasons 1 and 2 are solid, it gets goofy seasons 3-6 and season 7 (which has some of my favorite episodes in the series, period) was a great mix of the solid action and great comedy. I'd have to say season 1,2,7 :D

Why in the world are you comparing 7 seasons against 3?

As much as I liked the final seasons, they were only 24 episodes....compared against 160 older episodes, of course there are more better episodes out of 160 compared to 24.

This is ridiculous.

I assumed this was your thread...

Glass houses, rocks, they don't like eachother... How does the old saying go?

As I've said before, I wish that the whole series had been done in the red sky style. I just find those episodes more enjoyable than the ones in seasons 1-7.

season seven.

First seven. Especially 1-3 and 6-7.

Overall? Red Sky. If I had to pick though it'd be Season 1, 7, and Red Sky. Some goodies peppered in there in the other seasons but most of it isn't that great and the lack of continuity is sad. Red Sky brought that back and that's why I liked it more.

Season 6 is basically the same quality as Season 7.

Most of the stinkers came from Season 4.

Some episodes were good, others were really really bad. Super Irma, Adventures in Turtle-sitting, Polly Wanna Pizza, and Mr. Nice Guy come to mind. I hate anything with the baby turtles in it though, a really dumb concept.

4 has so many bad ones because of how massive it was. I technically count those awful European Vacation episodes in with that bunch as they were meant to be part of that season originally. Don't want them tainting the good name of season 7

Super Irma was one of my favorites, written by David Wise too. I love Mr. Nice guy as well.

this right here. But I would add season eight as well. This season was solid and gets a bad reputation and I think it's undeserved.

8 is part of the "Red Sky" seasons.

...I know. I'm just saying I like it. :-?

Sorry, Sage. I should have known you'd know better than that.

Ive only seen a few red sky episodes and I haven't seen/ or dont remember...
So for now I am going red sky

The red sky seasons for me, since the show became more of an action series.

I was bored by Red Sky; it became just like any other action series. In the previous seasons, OT took on your typical action series in a satirical way and it was well written and genuinely amusing, while also having the necessary action sequences.

Red Sky Love all the way.
I do like the the 2 seasons right before it as well though.

I still need to watch the OT fully and I am very anxious to see these seasons

Why, why do polls that I can't vote in keep being posted?! I love the whole damn series, I refuse to choose! :D

Chooooossssseeeee!!!!!!!!! U have the power! But! do u have the will???????

I picked the first 7 seasons.

i love the whole series as well, amazing amazing.

I think pretty much everyone does:D

Like I said I appreciate the attitude and tone shift in the Red Sky seasons

OMG I just realized. OT Raphael is Chandler Bing and 4Kids Mikey is Joey Tribbiani!

Seasons 1-4 were my favorites, season 5-7 was kinda hard to watch, and I haven't watched enough of the Red Sky series to really judge.

Couldn't stand season 5. The bad guy in Raph vs. the Volcano was something dropped out of the writer's butt hole, and that other one with the mob leader who was like a dog (McMutt or something? His hideout was a giant freaking fire hydrant for christ's sake). Ugh. what were they thinking?

There were a few good episodes in seasons 6 and 7, but a lot of them I didn't care for.

I'm more towards the first 7 seasons. I love the animation and tone of the Red Sky seasons, but I missed the humor from the previous seasons. It did have moments, but not as much fun as before.

I had recently watched the Red Sky episodes for the first time, and quite honestly, it definately has that "desparation" feeling to it. But the fact that we had the turtles "morphing" into other turtles was quite absurd and just isn't what TMNT is all about. I honestly remember the decline in quality growing up and felt it was a Power Rangers ripoff. Good thing it only lasted 24 episodes. But having the sky "Red" for an unexplained reason really memorized me into feeling that Earth had been sucked into Dimension X, when in fact it didn't. In fact, Red Sky was even further removed from the comics than the OT was! It should have been renamed Teenage Morphin' Power Turtles!

I can't help but wonder if some people are letting nostalgia blind them when it comes to this topic. I watched the original cartoon when I was about 9 years old until I was about 11 years old. When I started to get a little older, I found that the original cartoon just wasn't as entertaining to me anymore. At around the age of 15, I discovered the "red sky" episodes. And I was schocked at how much I loved what the show had become. To this day, I can still watch the really old episodes, but to me they just don't compare in quality to the final twenty four episodes.

How was it even remotely a Power Rangers rip off? The turtles fought a giant monster every week? The main bad guy never did anything but pace around, yell at people, and occasionally throw monsters at the turtles? There was an annoying fat guy and skinny dude who had the worlds most annoying theme music running around attempting to be comic relief? The turtles went to high school attempting to teach kids lessons in one scene and then in the next kicking around stunt men in Japanese stock footage, obviously shot in a completely different location?

As for the morphing it wouldn't be the first time. I prefer giant Gamera looking mutant monster to toddler turtle.

Finally having seen all of the series, I'd have to go with the first seven seasons and that's mainly due to the fact that there are more eps that I like compared to the 24 Red Sky eps. I only saw one Red Sky ep originally and didn't see the rest until early this year. Back then I was lost since I had no idea that the dynamic had changed. I do remember beingg interested in it though.

Red Sky eps were pretty cool. I didn't even mind the break from the usual villains, but I was a little put off by the mutation stuff. I felt it went on for far too long.

Main thing I did miss was the humor. I wish it could've balanced it better.