What version did worse?

[Yabuturtle]

Originally Posted by pferreira

I totally agree. I think in regards to the characterisation of the FW Turtles compared to the 4Kids Turtles it had to do with the production crew being involved with the latter series. Thy could write the 4Kids Turtles easily because they just came off the back of seven seasons of that show whereas FW Turtles are all from memory and their memory of the FW Turtles was probably that it was just a goofy show. They would have gone to Peter Laird for input on them and as he doesn't really like the Fred Wold cartoon that much...well you can see what they did there.

I agree. It's probably from memory. I'm not going to lie, some of the goofiest things have come from the FW cartoon, but there were serious moments in it, they did face actual danger. They didn't fight Care Bears villains, they fought world destroying vehicles, giant robots, ninjas, mutants and so forth. I know Peter Laird doesn't like the FW cartoon, but it doesn't mean he has to bash it either, to make the other series look better. Just depict them the way they were depicted, not make a mockery of them.

But others will say "lolz, take off your nostalgia goggles" I never had goggles to begin with. I see the show for what it is. It had goofy moments, silly stuff but good action, drama, and so forth. And they had actual personalities that were different, rather than all of the Turtles being cowardly idiots. I think the biggest insult is when 03 Raph saved them from being squashed by 03 Shredder and then, start crying out of fear and start hugging 03 Raph. Really? Depicting them in such a stupid manner is pathetic. It wouldn't be so bad if they actually depicted the goofy moments and things they'd do and did it accurately, not exaggerate it a hundred fold. But the 03 Turtles had annoying moments in the movie, too, like saying "What the shell" every five minutes.

It didn't really have the 87 Turtles do THAT much anyway except sort of fight and move the plot a little, but it was really about the 03 Turtles with the 87 Turtles being guest stars. It was really an 03 Turtle plot, the 03 Shredder was the main villain, 03 Turtles did most of the action and were the competent ones ect.