How well/poorly has the 2012 show aged?

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Besides some overall pacing issues:

1. Northampton arc should of been 2-3 episodes shorter. Could have easily cut the mutant car episode, the giant chimera episode...and that awful Bigfoot ep which is what I consider to be the worst ep of the entire show.

2. Kirby getting constantly kidnapped/mutated got old, but at least they realized that and stopped doing it.

3. April's backstory really needed to be explained better, I feel like Ciro had a better idea in his mind then what he could portray in the show.

4. Tone down Don's more creepy crush on April especially the later gags

5. Some of the excessive mutant eps could feel too same-y, I also feel Snakeweed should of had a real conclusion being the first mutant we saw.


Lastly I'm worried how much the CG has aged. Which is why I'm waiting for a blu-ray boxset, I fear this show will not be pleasing to the eye as the years and decades go on. Even when it was airing you saw people complaining some eps look like a PS2 game.

1. Northampton length was fine. If anything, it should have been longer. I just wish it was more somber, introspective and actually built up the team getting ready to go back. Instead it was goofy horror pastiches. Even Vision Quest was too lighthearted and the reveal of Splinter being alive didn’t really carry any weight.

2. Yeah that was awful. But once they stopped doing it, they just stopped writing him in any episodes lol. We never get his take on the Mom-Thing episode or an explanations out of him. Why did he get named “Kirby” and then they didn’t ever do a Donatello #1 episode?

3. Agree big time. We need the Kraang Among Us movie.

4. Yeah, pretty bad.

5. Maybe. Like I said, seasons 2 and 3 could have been cut in half.

Originally Posted by sdp

The show also suffered a lot from villain decay, they set up this perosn to be the next big guy only for him to become useless as the next big guy comes, they did this over and over again.

Really? Other than the Triceratons rubbing The Kraang out and taking over, it was The Kraang and Shredder/Foot the entire time.

The problem with The Kraang was they were just so goofy and incompetent that it was hard to believe they were capable of being that deadly. Which is probably why they got quietly discarded.