Where does Nickelodeon fail where IDW succeed?

[neatoman]

So with the season 3 finale hitting so close to IDW ending their "planned" story arc with issue 50, I figured this might be a good time bring something up, where does Nickelodeon fail where IDW succeed?

Now you may not agree with that statement and you think Nickelodeon is doing just fine, this is just how I feel personally. In general I have felt that IDW is doing a much better job than Nickelodeon for quite some time now. But now when both reached a sort of partial conclusion, I can't help but feel that IDW isn't just doing a better job, Nickelodeon is laughable compared to them.

The season 3 finale felt kind of empty despite how hard it tried, I watched splinter die in a long death scene followed by the destruction of the planet and I was in complete apathy. Seriously, I didn't care at all while I watching it, maybe it was because I already knew they were going to erase those events with time travel but I don't think it would have worked regardless of my foreknowledge.

I'm not going to spoil what happened in issue 50 in case people here haven't read it but when I read it I cared, I really cared about what was happening and I'm actually interested in what's going to happen from now on. Hell, there's even a similar scenario to something in the finale and it works so much better, I was genuinely moved on an emotional level.

I think a lot of it has to do with that I think IDW has a far more interesting story to follow. Both Tom and Ciro claim to follow some kind of a plan but if that's the case I'm not seeing it with the Nick cartoon. Where as IDW's story is full of mystery, deception, character growth, shocking moments, themes and plot twists, Nickelodeon just seems to vaguely follow a plot while throwing stuff at the wall and not really paying any attention to wheter or not it sticks.

Any other opinions?