Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987–1996: 25th Anniversary of Season 10

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Originally Posted by Leo656

If they'd kept FW the same as it had been up through Season 7 for Season 8, there's probably no Season 9.

Considering that RSS feels like a different series, anyway, I'd be OK with that.

Originally Posted by Leo656

What they did - keep the show like 70-75% the same but tack a shiny new coat of paint on it - was the easiest and least-disruptive thing for everyone. They squeezed three more Seasons out of a dying franchise and kept the toys on shelves a little bit longer too. There was really no other logical option; there was no "second wind" for the brand at that time, there was no big comeback in the works where they'd compete with MMPR, the entire point was just to try and keep it going a little longer before the wheels inevitably fell off. And they did that.

I disagree - they pretty much got rid of everything that made FW show memorable and itself. Yes, its time has gone by the beginning of the 90s, like time of all others cartoons from the 80s, but butchering into something darker and even less coherent than most of the early episodes didn't help anyone.

I don't think a lot of people liked whatever seasons 9-10 did and its characters. And I doubt they've helped to sell a lot of toys.
Yes, show was around for three more years, but was it? It was unrecognizable, with only 8 episodes per season, no memorable characters or stories, arcs that were constantly introduced and aborted for no reason and rather boring new artstyle.

It was more of a life support than full-fleshed existence at this point an d it was fairly pointless, considering that majority of the people barely acknowledge RSS.