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If he was serious about TMNT being a "sequel" to the original trilogy then he did a terrible f*cking job of it.
The evidence is weighted heavily on the side of, "It's its own thing with some callbacks", FAR more than "It's A Legit Sequel". You can "say" whatever you want, but you also have to follow through.
Kevin Smith can say over and over again, "MOTU: R is a sequel to Filmation!" But only a f*cking idiot would watch MOTU: R and actually still believe that. He was the "writer and director" of that show, and the fact is, what he said simply isn't true. MOTU: R contradicts Filmation MOTU at nearly every turn; he said what he said for marketing purposes, nothing more. It Gets Buzz.
Munroe and TMNT, same exact thing. Exactly the same thing. Marketing buzzwords that some people took way too seriously. He can say it until he's blue, he's still wrong.
What's the connective tissue? A single two-second shot at the very end of the movie. NOTHING else.
Reed Richards can't stretch far enough to make the "It's a sequel!" argument convincing.
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