First time watching the series. Aware me on how the turtles are portrayed?
 

I know it's stupid to watch or not watch a show simply because I don't like how they portray the turtles. But it is what it is...

I'm used to seeing

Leo Lead the way and is the best Ninja Turtle
Raph being the best fighter
Donnie being the smartest. Although not second in command, he's clearly influencing Leo's decisions more than any other turtle
Mickey Goofball..

First of all, Welcome to the drome
Second, It's MIKEY
Amd Third, the portrayals are mostly faithful to the respectful characters.

I only see minor tweeks to the characters overall personalities in the new show. They are still very much the same. They are just younger. I doubt very much that many people want the same thing over and over again. (But to each his own.)

yeah since i read somewhere on one of the forums it said season 2 will have the turtles mature same with the other characters like april but nothing drastic which i'm really interested in.

They're portrayed as teenagers for the first time ever.

I'd say they all act the way they are supposed to XD

but they feel more like teens in this version (which is a plus)

They're great, just friggin' watch it. Assuming you're not a nostalgia-blind casual, you'll enjoy it.

Or some animation snob.

or a jerk :tcool:

I really like this version, sure it has it's flaws, but it is a great shows. I like characters though the animation style took some getting used too.

The Turtles act like teenagers this time around, and it's awesome. They still have the same personalities they've always had, but they act younger.

Leo's still a leader, but still makes mistakes and struggles
Donnie is the same genius, just a little more high-strung
Raphs still aggressive, pretty similar to past raphs
mikeys still the goofball, but is portrayed a little dumbed down, but has his moments

Why is anybody so afraid of change?

depends on the change I suppose :)
some change is legitimately bad....
while others is good

but change is scary :D cause you don't know what's going to come from it.
so, more often than not we judge the change negatively before it can happen.

But the thing is when you been with the ninja turtles so long then you should be desperate to have something different. A real change can sometimes improve a series IMO.

yea :)

especially if you didn't care for something in a previous version.......if it gets improved in a new version that's awesome!

What things have improve with each version and should be kept within the TMNT universe? My would be teen april.

I think teen April is also an improvement
(though I didn't have a problem with young adult April)

different designs for the turtles is another plus.
and I also think their attitudes improved :)

theres a bunch of improvements in the 2012 version XD
so I guess the change was good.

Change is good, as long is it is still "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Giving Mikey an ice cream addiction is a nice quick. Making Raph a 25 year old super model secret agent is taking away the whole point of the turtles.

I think teen April is an improvement along with actual teenage acting turtles, Splinter as a less old warrior who kicks butt, and Karai's personality.

This might be stupid to ask but did this actually happen?

i think that in future incarnations, theyll keep certain things from this series. Teen april yes, since its now been done successfully. i also think that the variations in design of each turtle will be kept. not neccesarily mikeys freckles or raphs cracked shell, but now donnie can be pictured as tall and mikey as the runt.

other things i could see being kept are younger splinter, karais rebellious attitude, and maybe even the turtles new weapon versions (kursarigama and naginata)

I think the feet should stay with three toes through out more shows. I'd like them to have them more like the wave 1 turtles figures instead of in the show.

I'm in episode 13 right now and the show's pretty decent.

The only negative so far I've seen is making Donnie and Mikey total Wimps compared to Raph and Leo. Change is good, i just wish they could have made mikey and Donnie a little bit better as fighters..You know like acutally have a chance to beat Leo and Raph..

I know Raph's and Leo has always been 1 and 2 in terms of Fighting..But I don't remeber the turtles having that huge gaps in skills like it is now.

well in a later episode---- oh wait spoilers XD

just keep watching.

haha just keep watching, youll be happy

yup the series pretty good so far..Will keep watching.

Really hoping one of Mikey, Donnie or raph can beat a decent Boss.

Leo gets all the important fights Shredder, Karai etc.

Hmm something I would like to see is another universe with Uni Headbands instead of the multi colored ones we've grown accostumed to over the years. Doesn't have to be red, but another universe that does this besides just the Mirage would be nice.

Im sure its a change we would get over quickly, and like the 3 toes it doesn't detract from anything. I keep drawing to White for some reason as the Heaband color. What color would you choose?

Red or Black are probably the only two uniheadband color that would work.

The only thing that really bugs me about this new show is Mikey. He is just TOO stupid for his own good most of the time. It's one thing to have him be the joker or the nonchalant surfer guy but in this show he's straight up dumb most of the time. It's a bit too much. :tcry:

I'm sure he'll wise up next season :)

though...I noticed different writers portray him differently...some make him smarter...others make him dumb.

Noticed that as well. Hopefully we can keep it to a healthy balance of dumb moments in season 2. Part 2 of Rise of the Turtles was just Mikey is dumb after Mikey. I can only count two times were that wasn't the case.

:) he's normal in most of the episodes (he's just being a goofball most of the time)

he just doesn't pay attention.

but sometimes he's portrayed as too dumb.....

I don't believe Mikey is dumb in any way. He's not the sharpest, but he's alright. He's just, well, a goofball . . . and has A.D.D. Other than that, I don't see how Mike was really stupid in "New Friend, Old Enemy." He might have been fooled by Bradford in the end, but notice that Mike doesn't tell him where he lives and who his sensei is.:twink: Sometimes, he just plays dumb, but he has a hard time paying attention. That doesn't make him stupid, but just a bit, what's that word? Challenged?

I don't believe Mikey is dumb either :)

the only time I felt he was dumb was in Operation Breakout with the whole Donnie Puppet thing "wow! its like Donnie is throwing his voice to himself!"

but other than that...people mistake Mikey's silliness with stupidity sometimes.

like naming your toes isn't stupid...it's just really random and silly :lol:

also Mikey forgetting Leo's plan isn't stupid...he just doesn't pay attention!! (I do it all the time with my sister)

I should probably be more specific on what I mean when Mikey is dumb. I do recongnize when he is being silly like the Olympics joke from TCRI. Or when he made the vommiting joke in Booyakasha showdown. His actual dumb moments come from the Van as a decoy in Rise of the Turtles part 2 as an example, where he truly didn't get it.

that was Mikey being completely clueless to the situation and not registering what was going on. (which was probably caused by not paying attention to Leo's plan)

XD and yea I can say that was a dumb moment, because it happens to me all the time.......

That's something I didn't think much about until now. It seems weird watching say, Secret of the Ooze, and hearing Raphael call Keno "kid", when they're technically supposed to be around the same age.

Nope, and it never should.

I used to think that Mikey was dumb in this series. Then I watched "The Gauntlet". My opinion has changed about him since.