Is there a "toxicity" in this fandom?

[Zog The Magnificent]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

It's bad cause they were back to back. Spread em out. We didn't need a horror season.

This still doesn't feel like a very compelling argument. We didn't NOT need a horror season. If they're all together or spread out, what difference does it make? I fail to see why that makes them bad.

Originally Posted by Sumac

I didn't like the tone and humor of the 2k12 series in general. Without remotely interesting plot, weakness of the writing was magnified, which made me even less interested in keeping up with it.

Fair enough. Though we disagree to the quality of the writing (other than the wretched Bigfoot episode), I can understand not liking it simply because it just doesn't hit right, or you just don't like horror in general. Personally, horror is my favorite genre, so horror parodies are right up my ally, but I could understand how they might get tedious if it's something you're just not a fan of at all.

Originally Posted by Vegeta

The horror parodies were torturous for me as it isn’t what I want from a TMNT show, especially not for half a season. Love spooky stuff, not from a sanitized Nick show. I’m unusually sensitive to bad pacing I admit.

I'm not sure I agree with the idea that the Nick cartoon was "sanitized." That show could get downright DARK when it wanted too, and it took itself pretty seriously most of the time. I mean, until IDW, the only other version that killed off Splinter was the Mirage comics. And unlike pretty much every other version, the turtles ACTUALLY kill Shredder, in an homage to Mirage no less. Not to mention adapting Rat King's City at War plot, just to name another example. I would say the 2012 show was the most/second most serious version of the turltes as far as the cartoons go.

As far as just not liking horror, same as above. I can understand if that's just not your thing.

EDIT: And I completely forgot, the 2012 show is the only one that took a comparable amount of time at Northampton. The 2003 show just had a brief 2 parter, and IDW only had 4 issues. I actually didn't like it as much the first time I saw it, but after reading Mirage by the time I got around to watching it again, I realized what the point was and what they were going for, and was able to appreciate it a lot more.