Did the 2012 succeed more than the 2K3 cause it gave fans 'what they wanted?'

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Pterobat

Yyyyyep.

One board makes up a minority in internet fandom, and internet fandom in turn makes up a minority of total consumers of a media. Nerds might stick around with a property longer, but when you're discussing the initial release, it doesn't pay to put fans first.

Making the media appealing to a mainstream audience is the most important thing, and that is actually what the Nicktoons Turtles succeeds with. Not "giving fans what they want", but creating a thing that a lot of current kids can enjoy. When those two things coincide, that's great, but the main goal of the Nicktoons show is appealing to kids.

Also, 2k3 still hasn't been vindicated by history. It's only about a decade old, which isn't long enough for public nostalgia to kick in yet. The public nostalgia for the OT is just starting to come in, and when early 00s nostalgia comes around, then we'll see if 2k3 "failed" to withstand the test of time.

I never mentioned just this forum. I mean any other message board that mentions the turtles, or even casual fans of the series and/or old show. Just the other day someone told me (as if I didn't already know) that the new show is gonna be 'awesome' cause he heard Slash is in gonna be in the second season. We went deeper into discussion about Slash and the idea of an evil Turtle when I mentioned we had the Dark Turtles in Fast Forward. He was like '...wut?' Never heard of it.