[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

If it was a little more "knowing" of it's surroundings, incorporated more of the Channel Six crew, oddball characters, humor and warmth, yeah it would have been a more satisfying experiance, although I did like the bits where April was hugging Raph when the story was in it's infancy, all that good will seems to have been flushed down the toilet and the story's just gotten, frankly, sillier as it gets "darker". It comes off like something which only has a vauge appreciation of the old show.

Many 80s cartoon fans do this all the time with the simpler shows from their childhood and it can boarder on interesting to irritating. I used to be in love with "Of Mice and Mayhem" (a darker and edgier Rescue Rangers fan comic designed for fans of 24 and 'shippers), but as I got older I just grew out of that urge to have my favourite cartoons to have the same mentality as a grown up would have. I think the real challenge is to put yourself in the mindset of those working on the cartoons at the time and find out just what drove them to make an altogether innocent show despite being the age to be a cynic and to have desires to tell dark storytelling. Obviously it was network mandates and focus groups at the time that forced them to think a certain way, where as fanfic authors who don't have such a job in the industry don't neccersarily have to follow that.




I don't care. Cosmeticly it's still using the 80s 'toon as a template.

I'm not saying it's awful, it's just not for me.

TMNT thankfully has a lot of versions already from the start to play on, from the comedic 1987 show to the dark Mirage.