Sick Of All These Useless Mutants/Characters

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Originally Posted by Creativemind

Some would say that rebooting the Ninja Turtles to begin with is pandering to nostalgia. When did nostalgia become a negative thing anyway? You could always just stop watching if you don't like what they are doing. That's what I did with the 2k3 series.

& those people would be reaching...

Pandering to nostalgia is usually a matter of appeasing crybabies who can't accept change. Mind you, I use the word "pandering", because it suggests people are demanding certain things. Giving people a dose of nostalgia once in a while, is fine. You tickle a persons sentimental sensibilities, they have their warm & fuzzies, life goes on. You put in a nod here, an homage there, great, you have respected the roots & acknowledged the fans. But when you start to put these things/themes/whatever into almost every single episode, it's like "Hey guys! Look! Here's another one of those things you vaguely remember from you childhood, please don't stop watching!" which is ridiculous. I'm not saying the Nick series does that on a whole (though season 3 has very much felt that way to me), but there's no denying there's been a fair share of Fred Wolf overkill in all 3 new iterations, & that's a trend I wish would cease immediately.

Nostalgia is always a negative thing when it comes to how it affects the mechanics of a popular series, such as TMNT. It stifles creativity, innovation, new ideas, etc. Take Bebop & Rocksteady, for example. We're getting them because a bunch of casual fans on social networking sites bitched & moaned that they wouldn't give the new show the time of day because it didn't have B&R in it. These are people too closed-minded to give a chance to one of their supposed favorite properties because it wasn't EXACTLY the same as it ever was. Why should those people EVER have their opinions taken into consideration (for any other reason besides the higher ups capitalizing on their viewership)? Let's say you're an artist. You're passing out flyers for an exhibit you'll be doing soon. Some guy walks up to you yelling (which is what I assume caps lock translates to in reality) "I WOULDNT GO TO THIS GAY BULLSH*T SHOW OF YOURS IF YOU PAID ME. IT LOOKS REALLY STUPID, WOW. WHY DOES THE GUY IN THAT PORTRAIT HAVE GAP TEETH? WTF. DOESN'T EVEN HAVE CRAYON DRAWINGS, MAKE SOME F*CKING CRAYON DRAWINGS. YOU ARE COMPLETELY RUINING MY ABILITY TO ENJOY ALL ART, OLD & NEW." would you spend the following weeks creating portraits in colored wax to please that jerk, or would you instead only humor those who have shown you support? That jerk who loves Crayola, he's the Bebop & Rocksteady fans, & they went ahead & drew him a picture. But he's not the one who waits on baited breath for a new episode, buying the toys, hash-tagging on twitter, oh no. He's off somewhere banging his head against a concrete wall to a new Taylor Swift record, probably.

I have no reason to stop watching the show, it's a great show. I would at times prefer they do things a different way, but that doesn't mean I don't like what they do most of the time. Why did you give up on the 4kids series? Did the lack of pizza & incompetence bother you?