Turtles Forever: a direct insult to the old 1987 cartoon?

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by Konchadunga

6) Finally, and I get that this is meta, but what was Ch'rel's plan supposed to be? Since the only way for him to understand that one universe inspires another is by knowing it's all fiction, and he hoped to erase it all by killing the Turtles, what was stopping Eastman and Laird from just stopping him from doing it? Was he aware of them? Could he come out and kill them? Were they aware that someone was alive in their graphic novel and it was trying to rewrite itself?

Again, I know this is meta and you might argue I shouldn't be thinking about it, but I retort that the writers of the movie shouldn't have gone there for that very reason. Their whole cosmology is just dumb, and in my opinion, they didn't achieve Rule of Funny or Rule of Cool nearly enough to make that forgivable; in practice they just came off as annoying and cocky.
Edit: Now to clarify, my old post about everything wrong with the movie:

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I thought I was the only one who saw that and was bothered by it

Plus I'll also add that trying to be meta can easily go off into Twilight Zone territory if you aren't careful. It can become creepy (as it did for me) because it ended up implying that what the all Turtles thought was 'reality' really was only a cartoon, and their whole lives were a fabrication from some writer's imagination.

It is hard to convey exactly what I feel, but I would say honestly that this subplot should not have been added. Later I can give an idea of what I think is good meta, but I definitely know that how they did this here simply came off as too wrong.