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Originally Posted by Jester

I wouldn't mind a FW revival that took a slightly more serial approach but kept the sense of humor.

But would they be able too without having to recast Bebop, Shredder (well....yeah but not just because Avery's dead), and Splinter due to the modern VA rule of "VA mustn't be of an race other than their own"?

Sensitivity issues? Yes, that would be a concern. Though considering the youngest living member of the main cast is 63 years old, you can expect quite a few recasts regardless.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The original TMNT cartoon is basically written as The Simpsons, Spongebob or Pokemon of its day. It's basically a show that can theoretically go on forever, much like the shows I mentioned. It has no overall plot heading toward a conclusion so they can literally pick up where they left off and go from there. As for another reason, there's no real reason. The shows universe has a lot of potential the original cartoon never quite realized due to the limitations of 80's cartoon storytelling, and would be much different now.

Think of Playmates toys mixed with the videogames and a little of the Archie series, if the original cartoon is revived I imagine it'd be like a mix of those rather than being the episodic show it once was.

The Archie series is a good example of the inherent problem here, how much can you change before it's no longer reasonably close to the Fred Wolf cartoon? The Archie series may have started out adapting the first few episodes, but Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, the Technodrome and a few other things closely associated with the Fred Wolf cartoon were removed quite swiftly. Instead the comic shifted focus to characters who were rather minor in the show and were given drastically different origins, if they were even in the show at all. The Archie isn't so much an tie-in the Fred Wolf show as it is something completely different with the same starting point.

If we get something that basically starts off adapting the first season of Fred Wolf, is allowed to make changes from the start, is then allowed to do whatever, how long before it stops being like the Fred Wolf cartoon? Here, imagine the Fred Wolf cartoon as it is and then allow these changes into your mind one by one, when does it stop feeling like the Fred Wolf cartoon?:

1. It gets a serialised story.
2. Baxter Stockman never transforms into a fly.
3. Bebop and Rocksteady's roles are reduced.
4. Krang's role is reduced.
5. April stops working for Channel Six.
6. Splinter, Bebop and Rocksteady all started out as animals.
7. The Tang Shen love Triangle replaces the Fred Wolf backstory.
8. The Technodrome is permanently destroyed.
9. Krang's connection to the Utroms is made clear.
10. Original characters who were never in the show appear.
11. Characters from Mirage who never appeared in the show are given prominent roles.
12. Characters from other TMNT incarnations start showing up.
13. Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady are removed.
14. April stops working as a reporter entirely.
15. ... Baxter is black...

I could probably go on but I'm pretty sure most people would say it'd just become a different show with the same character designs somewhere in reading that list.