Official TMNT 2 Discussion

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Papenbrook

Leo, I understand your frustration.

In my opinion, the TMNT franchise isn't living out to its full potential. The Fred Wolf cartoon set the standard for the series. However, the show was mostly comedic in nature, only shifting its tone for the last few seasons. As a result, there are so many adaptations, but only a handful of are taken seriously .

The TMNT franchise can be so much more than that. It doesn't have to have OT influences. It doesn't have to be played for laughs. It doesn't have to have unnecessary fanservice. It just has to be good. But it has to take itself seriously.

I agree with you so hard it makes my teeth grind. "Wasted potential" and "missed opportunities", would be how I sum up the state of TMNT nowadays.

I want more stories about the outcasts trying to fit into society in some small way, just because they have to survive in it, even if nobody wants them to. I want more characters who are heroic in nature because they're generally good and decent, despite the people they defend and co-exist with mostly treating them like monsters. I want to see more of what happens to the trained child assassins who have to find a new direction in life once their one and only life objective of "Kill Shredder" has been accomplished. I'm even interested in seeing the supporting cast, the "normal" human characters, juggling their real lives to make room for these "freaks" they can't let anyone else know about.

I want more of those things and less pizza jokes and slapstick and fart jokes. And I don't think I'm asking for the moon and the stars. Maybe those kinds of TMNT stories are "boring" to most fans but they're really interesting to me, damn it.