anyone else loving how realistic this Donnie interacts with technology?
 

Anyone else loving how realistic the nickelodeon Donnie interacts with technology, as if he's just a guy in a basement with internet access?

yet another massive thumbs up for this version of the turtles. cred to ciro neril?

examples:

- being massively confused by alien computer interface

- making low-tech stuff like ninja claws and flash powder eggs

- metalhead looking kind of hacked together

- laptop made from exposed, scrap parts

- NOT making ultratech bulls*t like hovercrafts and time machines (ala 4kids)

The fact he made Metalhead at all kind of negates your point.

at least they showed that he had to take a kraang bot first, and that it breaks when a crap little antenna snaps off.

also, all the other low-tech examples remain.

Sorry but, when does 2k3 Donnie built a time machine?

EDIT: Fast Forward, I'm sorry. Continue.

DOUBLE EDIT: Checked, and it was Cody who built the Time Window and Donnie helped to repair it with future technology.

I'm sorry.
But I laughed pretty hard.
It shouldn't be funny. It's the way you corrected it.

The Tpod is very low tech indeed

^I love :tlove: also the T-phone!!!!!! :tgrin:

In 1987, the Turtle Comm was quite futuristic; nowadays, its a pretty typical invention for the time. I also like how Don doesn't break everything he makes like in the OT, and in New Friend, Old Enemy, seemed to understand well how to use the Facebook spoof.

So nowadays we have portable devices with little screens that show who we're talking to? Did the latest i-phone include a mini-skype I didn't heard about?

Haha! :lol:

Yea, I like the Idea of him notknowing everything. Makes him a bit more relateable!

we could have, if screen phones got popular. :lol:

Yeah, this pretty much invalidates this whole thread.

I preferred the way the original film did it, where Donnie was more of a grease monkey mechanic.

He never made a time machine. And the HoverShell was built with help from a stolen Utrom vehicle. Actually, Donny's tech for the most part was pretty down to earth.

yep. i've used skype on a cell phone. full face to face n everything.

...where have you been?

i dunno...people tend to take all the stuff bruce wayne/batman and lucius fox did in the dark knight (and arguably the whole dark knight trilogy) as fairly realistic, when it's actually totally not.

its in the execution for me. yes, he built a robot he could control with an nes, but the way it was written relative to the reality/fantasy context of the nick tmnt universe, it WAS pretty realistic.

he's a teenager who created his own i-pod and i-phone, not, as others have mentioned, a million crazy futuristic totally impossible inventions.

plus, he uses pretty "realistic" techno-babble.

does anyone find it weird though that he knows how to make all this crap and knows all this tech jargon but didn't know what a pizza was?
oh and i don't think realistic would be the best word to describe his handle on tech. the ninja claws and egg shell smoke bombs... yes. but i find it hard to think that donnie (who has been underground with no previous exposure to alien tech, reading only the few books he has in the lair and maybe some shows on tv) is able to create a working android from a damaged kraang exosuit. reverse engineering would be nearly impossible. and the tpod too. how did he know how to hack into a satellite for songs. the dude has been sheltered for nearly his whole life.

I also like the IDW Donnie who seems similar when he creates machines.

Donnie is always god-tier when it comes to "doing machines" but I think they are at least taking a fake and fictional realistic approach to it all as well as showcasing the limited amount of technology he actually has at his bay.