Shifting power levels

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by pferreira

No they didn't have personalities. Leonardo was a leader, Raphael was just angry, Donatello was gadget man and Michaelangelo was the young Turtle. Wise added to their personalities, fleshing them out and developed their identities, the comics adopted these new traits. Check that nostalgia you have, it's clouding your judgement.

Wise again is not a hack and if you did a bit of research you'd discover a lot of the scripts by most writers generally were paying homage to 1950s sci-fi movies. Silver age comic books? Yeah right. I'm assuming Wise also did care about the show, he was heavily involved throughout and is still bitter about how the network treated him. Does that sound like someone who doesn't care?

What the hell are you talking about? The personalities were established by the micros, that's basically the whole reason those exist, to flesh out the characters. The show just made them easier for small children grasp.

As for you still claiming Wise isn't a hack, you didn't adress any of my points about his recycling of plots or failures to write scripts that fit the meager 20 minute run time. Instead you pointed out that I got his inspiration wrong as it was 50's B-movies rather than silver age comics, which doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter if Wise pulled from 50's B-movies or Silver Age comics because they both tended to have plots that were already considred overused and worn out by 1987. I'm pretty sure most children at the time had already seen shrinking ray episodes in many shows before they even got to Turtles.

And it's worth pointing out that since most of the man's scripts were transcribed from the works of others and recycled for multiple uses, that shows he probably didn't care. Writing a third of the show doesn't mean much when you did it by cheating.

Sure, he might be butthurt over bad treatment, but when he runs around basically saying:

"Everything everyone loves about TMNT was all me! **** Eastman and Laird, **** Steve Murphy, **** Jim Lawson, **** Steve Barron, **** 4Kids Entertainment, **** Nickelodeon, **** IDW, **** the voice cast of the show I worked and **** my fellow writers! Despite just being one writer on a show with dozens, not being the original creator and the property having gone through multiple iterations that all deviate from my work in major ways, my version of it still matters the most and was never topped!"

That implies something far more despicable than a disgruntled ex-employee...