Your honest opinion of the 1987 cartoon - Then and Now

[Spike Spiegel]

Those first five episodes have nostalgic value for me as they are what I remember renting from the library on VHS as a young child. They were my first exposure to the characters, even though I was in also in the prime age group for 2k3 when it was released.

When I tried watching the rest of the series recently, I could only get to the end of season 2 before realizing how convoluted and downright silly the plots were. I think "Turtles Forever" may have been more interesting if the OT characterizations were more like the ones in the first season. The parody of the OT in that movie only seemed to express how much that series ultimately declined in such a short time.

As for the Red Sky seasons, I suppose they are interesting, but, having grown up on 2k3 and getting into the comics shortly after that series ended, I felt I had already seen "darker, grittier" TMNT done much better. In a way, those seasons seem like a cop-out of sorts, caving into the influence of shows like Batman TAS instead of embracing what had made the franchise popular in the first place. Maybe this series should have gone gently into that good night after season six ended.