The Eyes of Sarnath (spoilery)

GordonUniverse · 09-26-2007, 05:25 PM

I just read Adventures #47, "The Eyes of Sarnath" from Archie, and it was a home run.

What's so great about it is that it takes a throwaway plot device from "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles," and fleshes it out and gives it a backstory, which ends up adding to the mythology of the Turtles Universe (Archie, anyway) and provides deeper context to what was before just a shallow "you must find the sacred blah blah" death bed scene.

Granted, the backstory in 47 isn't the most original science fiction idea to come down the pike, but it nevertheless manages to breathe so much life into the scenes from "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles" and it just made my day.

It's these sorts of unexpected and presumably unplanned new spins on old stories that I really love, and would really love to see more of in the Tales series... and essentially what they've given us with the Tale series.

I think it's great that Laird and Lawson purposely throw things into the present world TMNT just to see who can come up with a story for it, but at the same time, its so much more gratifying when a writer picks up on something that wasn't really planned on being expanded upon and ends up obsessing over some minor detail and a story blossoms out of that. I can just imagine Chris Allen and Dean Clarrain pouring over past issues and asking "what the shell is up with this 'Eye of Sarnath' nonsense?" and then laughing about it, but then over the course of a few weeks they can't stop thinking about it and then they've got a solid backstory idea and...

well, I'm ramblin'. I guess my point is I just love continuity... and fresh ideas and new angles.

Also, I like pancakes.

09-26-2007, 05:25 PM	#1
GordonUniverse Thug Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Karlsruhe Posts: 94	The Eyes of Sarnath (spoilery) I just read Adventures #47, "The Eyes of Sarnath" from Archie, and it was a home run. What's so great about it is that it takes a throwaway plot device from "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles," and fleshes it out and gives it a backstory, which ends up adding to the mythology of the Turtles Universe (Archie, anyway) and provides deeper context to what was before just a shallow "you must find the sacred blah blah" death bed scene. Granted, the backstory in 47 isn't the most original science fiction idea to come down the pike, but it nevertheless manages to breathe so much life into the scenes from "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles" and it just made my day. It's these sorts of unexpected and presumably unplanned new spins on old stories that I really love, and would really love to see more of in the Tales series... and essentially what they've given us with the Tale series. I think it's great that Laird and Lawson purposely throw things into the present world TMNT just to see who can come up with a story for it, but at the same time, its so much more gratifying when a writer picks up on something that wasn't really planned on being expanded upon and ends up obsessing over some minor detail and a story blossoms out of that. I can just imagine Chris Allen and Dean Clarrain pouring over past issues and asking "what the shell is up with this 'Eye of Sarnath' nonsense?" and then laughing about it, but then over the course of a few weeks they can't stop thinking about it and then they've got a solid backstory idea and... well, I'm ramblin'. I guess my point is I just love continuity... and fresh ideas and new angles. Also, I like pancakes.