Why the hate for garbageman
 

I'm not a big fan of garbageman or something, but I don't get the hate so many fans seem to have for him. Granted he is pretty unrealistic establishing a garbage empire and then an underwater empire, but it's not like I felt the episodes he was in were terrible. They were still entertaining when I first watched 'em.

He was just a lame villain. Honestly, I saw him as the equivalent to that Batman: TAS guy who had the family of runaways in the sewer or whatever.

He's just that... scrappy?

He's lame, the story where he's the main villain is boring, and... well, he's lame.

For the tone of the series he seemed...off. Part of me wonders if he was a back-handed "homage" to the Fred Wolf series.

He probably would have been liked more if Nightmares Recycled wasn't cancelled. Wasn't that episode supposed to be about his origin with Hun?

They were suppose to do a origin episode, but I dont know the name of the ep.
There was a thread about Laird blog and production notes.
The ep seemed really graphic and in all honesty might have gotten shelved like insane to the membrane.

Yeah, all Redeemer just said is about Nightmare Recycled.

Really? Cause I saw his story being very similar to the Batman:TAS episode where a bunch of homeless people are kidnapped and forced to do hard labor for some fat slob.

Personally, I found the garbageman's episodes to be very boring. Fortunately there was only a couple of them. However, I think that the third one might've been kinda interesting since it would've involved Hun. How ironic that Hun was (at least to me) a very interesting character,and the garbageman (who was going to be revealed to be Hun's twin) was (again, at least to me) a very boring character.

He really was just straight up lame, man. Bad design, bad motives, just not good at all.

Really? Plot seemed more like it was ripped off from "The Forgotten" rather than "The Underdwellers".

I don't know about backhanded. I thought his first episode was an outstanding homage to the OT. It had a cheesy villain, the turtles interacting with humans, "surfing" on impossible objects, trenchcoats/fedoras, and what I'm pretty sure was the series' first full on "cowabunga".

Bad motives is right, for sure. I mean, yeah he's getting slave labor out of the homeless guys... but he's got to be paying those armed guards quite well. And for that matter, how much money could he possibly be making running a garbage dump? Aren't all garbage collection companies at least partially city or county operated?

He wasn't great, but I liked him okay. I'm not going to be clamoring for IDW or Nick to revisit him though...

He just was not an interesting character, who I probably wouldn't have minded as much had he not gotten a second episode that I was forced to sit through :tlol:

There were just so many other possibilities for story lines they could have done that it felt like a complete waste literally for them to have two with him.

I actually like that ep bc of Mikey. Mikey is jst awesome

The fact that the turtles themselves laugh at the absurdity of the character says enough to me. I don't care for the episode.

Monsters
 

He was at lest better than a lof of strange monsters in the 2003 show.

Agree, He was poor as character-villain (Is it meaning of :tconfuse: lame? :? :tanime: ) ...I dont hate the character tho.

He was awful. I hated him and thought the episodes he had were boring. Maybe "Nightmares Recycled" could've redeemed him in some way, but as for the two eps he was in, I didn't like them.

Simply put, Garbageman is just watching some garbage! I would have changed the script to make it more educationally friendly, such as destroying all of the recycled matter that upsets citizens, but I think that they came up with the name because of how similar it sounds to "Shredder". After trash goes through a shredder, it is garbage. And the Garbageman episodes simply seem like plot material that are Shredder's leftovers: in other words, garbage.

The first Garbageman episode was actually fairly decent.

The one in Season 2 was horrible and one of the worst episodes of the first 5 seasons.

Really? It's not even in my "top 5 worst" of season 2.