Official TMNT 2 Trailer #2 Discussion

[sethmartin]

Originally Posted by Bry

Exactly. In one form or another, it's been a part of every children's cartoon made of the property yet, and each of them has managed to establish that foundation and move on with the story pretty quickly. Nobody's ever been confused by it and nobody's ever found it "too complicated". Not being able to make that work is laziness or incompetence. (Or both.)

The writers wanted to "reinvent" the franchise and found the original origin too complicated to work within their version. Instead of owning it, it's easier to blame the audience as being a bunch of idiots. If they had said: "We wanted a new origin that wasn't tied in with Japan and found the Hamato Yoshi thing to unrealistic to tie in to our generic science lab, evil business man plot" I would have at least respected their honesty. (Sure, I would have rolled my eyes at their lack of creativity) But to blame the audience as being too stupid to understand the storyline of the past is insulting. Especially, since most Ninja Turtles fans are either kids or adults who became fans as kids and understood it perfectly.

Almost an hour of exposition in the 2014 movie to accomplish what Splinter did in two quick flashbacks in the 1990 movie. Which storyline is too complicated?