Are we ever going to get a TV show that isn't mainly a toy commercial?

[neatoman]

So up until recently I was a bit annoyed by the Nickelodeon cartoon, in that I was pretty satisfied with the first season but found the general structure of the series as a whole to be bizarre and the writing quality seemed to get worse with time. Of course I did eventually have to accept a simple fact, entertainment value is a lesser priority than toy sales and marketing of the franchise in general. That's why the show is so awkwardly structured.

Let's face it, Nickelodeon was probably never interested in a show that would bring ratings, it's more likely the initial idea was to make kids interested enough in the TMNT to boost the sales of tickets for the 2014 movie and sell toys, I'm pretty sure the toy commercial aspect is the only reason Nickelodeon bothered to renew the show for at least 5 seasons. I know that the other TMNT shows were mainly toy commercials as well but I'm a little more forgiving there since, well, MWS never produced anything else that was successful and 4Kids pretty much only ever did anime dubs, it just seems less acceptable when a much larger production company does this sort of thing.

I'm not really sad that the Nickelodeon cartoon is nothing more than a toy commercial since that's what TMNT shows have always been and I do get more interesting TMNT material from IDW, it's just that Nickelodeon had the potential to be far better than 4Kids or Fred Wolf at making a TMNT show but then they decided to just make the same type of marketing tool again. It's just a bit dissappointing, I still enjoy the show to some extent but I had to accept it's not really intended to be anything other than a shallow marketing tool.

So obviously TMNT shows are always going to have toylines but I wonder if we're ever going to have one where the marketing aspect doesn't override the story?