RIP David Wise
 

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Yes, that David Wise.

From his FB: "David Wise passed away peacefully at home last night after a tough battle with lung cancer and a very sudden decline. He spent his last day surrounded by family and friends. He requested to be cremated, so no funeral will be held but plans are being made for a gathering to honor him. Please feel free to express your condolences on this Facebook page. All are welcome here, just as all were welcome in David's life -- friend, family, peer, fan, all of you."

Yeesh.

I have opinions of this or that way on him, but he really did "create" a lot of what people most associate with the TMNT, for better or worse. Also, I had the pleasure of having him on the "Shellshocked" podcast 7 years ago:

http://www.thegreenlanterncorps.com/.../episode05.mp3

My condolences to him and his family. I will always be thankful for all the ninja turtles episodes he wrote.

Thank you very much David Wise for the contributions you made to my childhood and that of many other TMNT fans from my generation, I will always treasure the work you and the rest of the staff/crew/cast put into the fond memories from my younger years, enjoy heaven.

Wise and I probably didn't agree on much of anything ideologically, but I usually found his social media posts amusing and informative (he loved old Godzilla movies and other aspects of pop culture history), and I enjoy many of the episodes he wrote for TMNT, as they often had a consistent internal logic and appreciation for self-aware humor, not always present in some of the scripts from other writers. He will be missed.

damn. i'm rather sad that our last facebook was a tad...odd..

I paid him a compliment on one of the shows lines, he kind of fired back at me in a mean way. I decided to unfriend him then as I didn't want my thoughts colored on him wrong.

but no idea the man was ill.

created a big part of my child hood and make no mistake, tmnt would not have lasted this long lest he didnt contribute to it.

Without his contributions to my favourite cartoons, I would not be pursing a hobby as a writer or an editor today. I owe him a debt that can only be repaid through hard work and an equally healthy and bright imagination. Thankyou for blazing a trail David.

Sad day.
Very sad day.
RIP.

In a bigger context it is sometimes hard to live and understand that everyone who had shaped your early years will most likely die during your life time and you will be absolutely helpless to do anything about it.

For better or worse, most of us wouldn't be TMNT fans without his contributions.

RIP, good sir.

RIP Mr. Wise, and thank you. Life would be duller had your work not helped give the TMNT the place in the world that they have.

Oh, no. I did not know he was in bad health.:( He is the great innovator of the franchise. I am thankful for what he molded and I loved in my childhood to today.

My thoughts are with his family and friends.

I hope that he will be able to rest well.

Rest in Peace.

I will forever be grateful to David Wise for writing my favourite cartoon.

At least it's better than only having heroes who were all already passed on before you were even born.

R.I.P. I will forever thank him for writing for two of my favorites series from my childhood. His contributions will be long remembered.

Rest in Peace David Wise
 

I was just on Facebook and found out David Wise died. I sent my condolences, I wish I had got to speak to him more before he died.

My post: "I can't believe this has happened. David never saw eye to eye with me on things but I respected him as a writer and I'm not sure he ever figured out how much he meant to me. I mean he created one of my favourite TV shows of all time the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I wish he could have talked to me more in the last few years. This is a huge loss for cartoon animation writing. Rest in peace David and cowabunga, you'll always be part of my childhood." :cry:

There's already a thread here.
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=62379

What was the other one?

Transformers.

Ya know, I never actually saw that as a kid...

Man, I never knew he was sick or had health issues. Very sad.

What can I say? He introduced like a million people to the Ninja Turtles via the cartoon. Without him, the show probably would have turned out very different as the ground work he laid down for Season 1 stayed for the entire series.

Found the official twitter. Be sure to retweet it.
https://twitter.com/DavidWiseSF/stat...92303029399552

RIP David Wise. I never knew he was ill either. I enjoyed most episodes he wrote, though I’m only familiar with his work on the TMNT, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and Batman: TAS.

Well, not gonna lie, I did have a lot of problems with both the quality of his writing and his dubious claims. I'm not going into detail here, it would be too disrespectful considering he just died.

If I have to spin something positive about him, I guess he was efficient at producing content, his BTAS episodes were actually pretty good, one of his movie scripts got produced (which is not too shabby considering how many scripts go unproduced). And yes, his unique style of writing did make bad TV-shows somewhat more interesting than they would have been with more generic scripts.

Anyway, here's the movie he wrote, enjoy:

He was only 65 years old. I knew he wasn't that old yet. Real shame even in the modern year most people can't make it to 80. Nobody should be dying at only 65 in 2020.

Considering what he looked like only a few years ago and his particular type of cancer, I think it's safe to assume he wasn't living a very healthy life style. Which is why I wasn't surprised to find out he died before 70.

We lost a man who contributed so much to the original TMNT show. :tsad: He will be dearly missed. I will always be grateful to everything he did for the series.

Dead heroes don't die on your watch. :cry:

Well, that's a shame. Cancer is a very personal thing to struggle with, can't say I'm surprised that he chose to keep it quiet.

I never spoke with him on social media or anything. On occasion I saw him engage in conversation with other friends of mine about this or that, and... well... I quickly reasoned that regardless of which cartoons he worked on, nothing good would ever come from he and I engaging in conversation about any topic whatsoever. Without getting too deep into it, I really didn't care for how he came off in replying to certain people, and apparently that was pretty common. So I just never bothered.

Really rough way to go, though, at any rate. Tough break.

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Dude! I loved the first Beastmaster as a kid. It was, in some ways like the He-Man film we never got. Then the sequel came out and they put him on Earth and that was like ''whaaaa????". I don't know if I ever sat through that third one.

Yeah, but the living ones you at least get the privilege of sharing the world with them for a while.

I'm sad to hear of this news. He was an important writer of what was my favorite cartoon show growing up. He evolved things in TMNT lore to make it into the most recognized version of TMNT still to this day. Thanks for all of the memories. R.I.P. David Wise. :tcry:

That's unfortunate. RIP Mr. Wise, and thank you for your contributions to some of my favorite cartoons.

Same thing happened to me. I fell into the trap of continuously offending him, most of the time by accident or him misunderstanding.

Dude... :( Looked at his credits again and most of the TV shows he worked on were pretty damn good. He was heavily involved with the writing of a lot for quality TV shows, not just TMNT. I'm sorry man, the number of 'bad TV shows' didn't register with me. I partly owe him the imagination I have today. :)

Rest in peace David and Cowabunga, you'll always be part of my childhood. :cry:

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Interestingly enough, Mighty Ducks is the show that might actually be the closest to being his creation. It's amongst the ones with an episode count higher than 13, he wrote 17 of the 26 episodes, is credited as sole writer on 4 and directed 5 (all of which he wrote). It's also not really based on anything that came before, it shares the title with a movie but all it has in common with that is that it's about a hockey team and nothing else, if anything it strove towards being unrecognisable. That means 65% of the episodes had his involvement, 15% were entirely written by him and 19% ended up with both his writing and direction.

If we're going with shows that aren't based of anything I suppose you're right that The Mighty Ducks series is the closest he got to creating the world he wrote for.

65 is so young. And he worked on so much.

Rest in peace. Thanks for the memories.

Sad to hear he passed away when his work as become such a staple of so many of our childhoods. It's quite amazing when a writer can have that kind of talent to inspire and give joy that way.