Does anyone here still enjoy the 80s series?
 

I ask because it seems that every time a thread involving the 80s series opens, there's always those guys who come in and say how much it sucked and that people need to take of their nostalgia goggles and see the show for the trash it truly is. I know there's a difference in opinions and a forum would be boring if everyone just agreed with everything but they keep doing this.

Every. Single. Time.

But enough of that rant. I just want to know is there anyone else on this forum who still at least likes this show?

I don't really care if the show doesn't have overdrawn overarching plots, character development, or focuses on humor. And I know that the other shows are "superior" in storytelling and action, but sometimes I just want to watch a fun show. That's it.

yes. yes sir i like it.

I enjoy my memories of it, which is why I choose not to rewatch it.

I bought the entire collection DVD set and like watching them. Reminds me of my childhood. I watched a few of the seasons with my kids but they do like the new TMNT cartoon better. Cant say I blame them since this is their time for turtles and cartoons look so high def. I will always like the originals and the new cartoon too.

This forum is filled with people who like the cartoon, that much has always been obvious. Its just always the people who dislike it that tend to be the loudest.

This is rather bizarre. Usually for shows/movies I haven't watched in ages I would want to rewatch them to see if my memories of them still hold up, or if I still like it.

Yeah, the hate is just a vocal minority. & even many of us who nitpick or resent it still like/love it, just not necessarily the effect it has had on the franchise.

To be fair I actually see dislike for all 3 cartoons almost equally. There are plenty of bashers of the Nick cartoon, and I always see people say they "couldn't get into" the 2k3 series.

Weird, because I love all 3 for different reasons.

I still like the original series, just watched the two Lotus Blossom episodes, earlier. :D

I loved the Fred Wolf cartoon as a kid very much - it was definitely my favourite show.

Now, with my re-found Turtle-fandom, my connection to it failed... yet. But I'm still trying.

But even I don't make it, you will never see me as a hater of it, that's a promise. :tcool:

Never grew up but heard about it after being introduced to the 2k12 series via a friend who grew up with it.

Watched it and loved it all the way through even though i was expecting it to be lame. The first episode I ever watched was Splinter Vanishes

My favourite version of turtles is a tie between the Fred Wolf cartoon and the current Nickelodeon series.

I still like the OT. Ironically, today I was decked out in OT gear. OT hoodie, t-shirt, and wallet. Unfortunately, I haven't any OT skirts. :-P

Pretty much this.

However, I do not enjoy it as much as I did back when I was a kid/teenager. I'm sure that having re-watched it several times in the past doesn't help either, but it's not the best TMNT version around.

I think a lot of Mirage fans are also a bit tired of all the latest nostalgia pandering of this series. Plus, Michael Bay's films seem like a pretty bad parody of the FW series. Back in the 2k3 series days, you didn't see FW related stuff everywhere, and the show didn't really have many throw backs to it, all thanks to Peter Laird, who wasn't big on the FW series, calling the shots. So I'd wager that there was stronger nostalgia for the FW series back then and also hope that the franchise would have moved past it eventually. But no. Almost 30 years later, the FW series still seems to be considered the standard by the general audience, and that upsets Turtles who are into many versions of the franchise, especially the Mirage ones, and understandably so.

So yeah, I like the FW series and many of its characters as much as the next guy, but I don't think it deserves all the attention it does nowadays after all these years. Let the franchise move on and get something to replace it as the standard.

I still do like the OT. It is interesting to note that I find the series even more enjoyable as an adult than I did as a child.

I lost interest in the show in my teenage years, forgot about the cartoon some years later ...and went back to watching it again.

One of the best during season 4.

I enjoyed the 80s series and still do, the 2k3 series may have been my first exposure to TMNT but it wasn't long after that I found out about the old toon and started watching it.

Sadly in those days it was almost impossible to find episodes of the old series...

I recall wanting to rewatch more than just my old videotapes back in late-2003 and early-2004, also having problems to find more episodes using the Internet. Today it's just search the Internet and it's there within the very next moment.

Yeah, but to be honest I kind of enjoyed doing all that scrounging and searching on the deep web. It helped make me the tech guy I am today

You said you were 14.

Another turtles all times lover here! Of course you can count me between people that love 80 OT :tgrin:

The ones who dislike them would be those who prefer the mirage comic, the 2k3 series was close to that, but they still dislike it for how it handled the shredder.

There's a vocal minority that like the comics more then the shows.