Fred Wolf Cartoon: Seasons 1-7 vs Seasons 8-10 (Red Sky)

The-Shredder · 07-08-2014, 12:40 AM

The only DVD I own of the Fred Wolf cartoon is the first one that came out in 2004. I've watched almost the entire series beforehand on a foreign T.V. channel, so I got a real kick out of watching the show in English (my native language) for the first time.

The thing is, I don't know if it's worth the investment to purchase the entire series on DVD. My memories of watching the show consisted of being bewildered at some of the plots ("Turtles at the Earth's Core" with the friendly looking dinosaurs), the caricature like designs and the annoying nature of the humans (Howie Hardy and Vernon Fenwick anyone?), and the overall kiddie design of the Turtles that resulted over time.

However, I did enjoy a couple episodes like "April's Fool" from the earlier seasons and a couple of episodes from the last seasons like "Mobster from Dimension X," which is one of my favorite episodes. Although this show was my first introduction to TMNT, when I discovered that 4Kids was making a show in 2003, I was instantly hooked and it became my favorite incarnation (I'm not a comic book person at all so I couldn't really get into the Mirage series). Thus, I simultaneously watched both shows, eventually getting to the "Red Sky" seasons, which I thought were "cooler" than the previous seasons with the more serious angle it was going for, even if the plot's weren't as fleshed out as the ones in the 4Kids series (good riddance Channel 6 and its joke of a news staff

. Why they're even in the new movie is beyond me).

So, what do you all think? Is the entire show really worth owning on DVD or only a few select seasons?

07-08-2014, 12:40 AM	#1
The-Shredder Hench Mutant Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 458	Fred Wolf Cartoon: Seasons 1-7 vs Seasons 8-10 (Red Sky) The only DVD I own of the Fred Wolf cartoon is the first one that came out in 2004. I've watched almost the entire series beforehand on a foreign T.V. channel, so I got a real kick out of watching the show in English (my native language) for the first time. The thing is, I don't know if it's worth the investment to purchase the entire series on DVD. My memories of watching the show consisted of being bewildered at some of the plots ("Turtles at the Earth's Core" with the friendly looking dinosaurs), the caricature like designs and the annoying nature of the humans (Howie Hardy and Vernon Fenwick anyone?), and the overall kiddie design of the Turtles that resulted over time. However, I did enjoy a couple episodes like "April's Fool" from the earlier seasons and a couple of episodes from the last seasons like "Mobster from Dimension X," which is one of my favorite episodes. Although this show was my first introduction to TMNT, when I discovered that 4Kids was making a show in 2003, I was instantly hooked and it became my favorite incarnation (I'm not a comic book person at all so I couldn't really get into the Mirage series). Thus, I simultaneously watched both shows, eventually getting to the "Red Sky" seasons, which I thought were "cooler" than the previous seasons with the more serious angle it was going for, even if the plot's weren't as fleshed out as the ones in the 4Kids series (good riddance Channel 6 and its joke of a news staff . Why they're even in the new movie is beyond me). So, what do you all think? Is the entire show really worth owning on DVD or only a few select seasons?