Next Mutation: How would you have done it?

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Guitar_Raph

My ideas.

1). Add Casey & April. Raph would meet Casey on one of his motorcycle rides.

2). Leo would be in love with Venus & build a relationship.

3). Mikey's Sewer Hour would be a hit pirate radio show, it would make the switch to a web show (ala ICarly).

4). At least one episode where they play as a band!

Why not a band in the final episode?

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Guitar_Raph

4). At least one episode where they play as a band!

Yeah... that would work if the show was made in the 1970's.

Basically, the same thing everyone else would have done... No 5th turtle... replace her with April. There, you got your positive female role model. End of story.

[Guitar_Raph]

On the series preview where they played as a band, Venus wasn't there. Guess she was a go-go dancer. The band had Raph & Leo on guitars, Mikey on drums & Don on bass.

[doomiscool]

If I was in charge and there had to be a female turtle, I would have made it so Shredder or someone mutated a person into a mutant turtle and then throughout the series have the TMNT trying to reverse it...(And probably succeeding at the end of the series)

I agree, April and Casey were needed. I also say Shred shoulda been the villain not some dragons, a monkey and vampires
Venus's magic was useless!!! She never did anything with it...Then in the episode they tried to justify her (Last ep) they failed miserably cause it was a clip-show

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by doomiscool

If I was in charge and there had to be a female turtle, I would have made it so Shredder or someone mutated a person into a mutant turtle and then throughout the series have the TMNT trying to reverse it...(And probably succeeding at the end of the series)

I agree, April and Casey were needed. I also say Shred shoulda been the villain not some dragons, a monkey and vampires
Venus's magic was useless!!! She never did anything with it...Then in the episode they tried to justify her (Last ep) they failed miserably cause it was a clip-show

Not reserve. Why not try to persuade her to switch side?

[doomiscool]

Originally Posted by J 1982

Not reserve. Why not try to persuade her to switch side?

That would probably work too

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by doomiscool

That would probably work too

Yes, and even if she becomes their friend, she doesn't need to appear regular in every story.

[dingodile555]

Originally Posted by doomiscool

I also say Shred shoulda been the villain not some dragons, a monkey and vampires

Well to be fair he did appear in some episodes so he wasn't completely left out.
The absence of April and Casey is what makes this series feel so weird to me. But still I love Next Mutation, I'm kind of embarassed because it's so cheesy but I guess that's just why I love it.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by dingodile555

Well to be fair he did appear in some episodes so he wasn't completely left out.
The absence of April and Casey is what makes this series feel so weird to me. But still I love Next Mutation, I'm kind of embarassed because it's so cheesy but I guess that's just why I love it.

Even Irma could have been in the show.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

-I think I would have kept their costume design similar to the movies.

-Shredder would have remained the main villain, or at least he would have made further appearances. Other live action villains would have been Rat King, Karai, and Baxter Stockman. Maybe Savanti Romero, too.

-No Venus DeMilo. I would have had April and Casey instead. Maybe have April's character written so that she's tired of being the damsel in distress so she gets the turtles to train her in martial arts.

Now, would NM April wear the yellow jumpsuit or not? I don't see how it'd look too goofy next to the turtle costumes they used.

[shuriken]

OK. I would have to change a lot of stuff.
Costumes would be very similar to the Movie ones, no stupid sound effects when they fight and change their voices to actually sound like teens.
First off it would happen about two years(chronologically) after the 3rd movie and have nothing to do with the old toon( it was great the way it was).
April and Casey would be returning characters as well as Leatherhead, Mondo Gecko who would be introduced later on in the show as mutants like them travelling the sewers. The main villain would be the Shredder who wasn't killed in the Secret of the ooze, the impact of the pillars just knocked him out and made him come back to his senses and unstupified him (you know he was no longer a raging mutant but the evil master mind he once was) with the added boost of being a roided up Shredder in all his spikey armored glory.
Apparently Tatsu would have saved more vials of the ooze and with this they make more mutants. Venus and Slash, Slash comes out deformed with a really f**ked up shell and Venus turns out to be a female turtle( no boobies just longer legs and less muscle mass). They would be trained by Shredder to defeat the Turtles, Venus having the tonfas and Slash having his signature f*cked up Katana. But they do not attack or make a move for the two years in order to both train these new bloods (Slash and Venus) and reform the Foot.
What would the TMNT doing with the two years in between? Fight the Purple Dragons for one; Leo and Raph are no longer constatly at each other's neck; Mike does have a radio show and Donnie starts an auction site where he sells refurbished goods and his inventions.
There would be more villains introduced like the Rat King, Bonesteel, Queeze,
and Dragon Lord( I know most people hate him but if done differently he could be really bitchin').
First set of Episodes would center around the Turtles finding out that the Foot is coming back together and uncover that the Shredder is still alive and well. Venus and Slash would then eventually face off against the Turtles, although Venus and Leo develop a liking to each but still remain enemies. Eventually Venus switches sides and joins the Turtles. Venus stays with the guys until they defeat Shredder and his cronies in a warehouse brawl.
Venus gradually gains their trust as she saves them from the likes of th Rat King in an episode and then becomes a part of the team.
Dragon Lord would have to be an ancient but very powerful being that is inadvertently freed by The Purple Dragons and decides to take them over as "thanks" and becomes their leader. Through his leadership the Purple Dragons, become a very powerful crime syndicate and start engrossing other gangs as well into their orginaziation and eventually begin to give the Foot a run for their money, but don't really take off until season 2.
Venus turns out to be a spy for the Foot and discloses the Turtle's location as well as April's and Casey's causing some big calamity at the end of the season with Leo being totally heart broken and getting all pissed at the world and such. Splinter gets badly injured in the assault and the 7 of them head off to Casey's farmhouse to gain back their composure. Then it gets cancelled.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Rat King would rock!