Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151024145123/@comment-995426-20151102215731


 * sigh*

When I said manchildren, I didn't mean people who happened to like the 1987 TV series when they were little but have since grown out of it. I'm talking about the ones who are adults and still prefer its entire formula, format, tone, legacy, etc. I don't mind if new versions adapt specific elements from it. Even the IDW comics have taken the and actually turned them into a really, really good thing. But there are elements of the 1987 TV series that...really should have died with that series, including the ways it drastically simplified plot, character development and continuity. The 2012 TV series started out being different enough to really appreciate even at my age. But the more it becomes like the 1987 TV series over time, the more it actually suffers for it. I don't want more crossovers with the 1987 characters. I don't want characters to be increasingly written as plot expies of their 1987 counterparts who are awkwardly shoehorned into the same storylines. I don't want every 1987 character under the sun being adapted to the 2012 series if most of them are not going to be written with any more complexity or maturity than the previous versions. It's mindnumbing, and makes the show worse over time. So when I say the adult fans who still prefer the 1987 series legacy are manchildren, it's only because I want a series that gradually matures and ages with grace over time (like Mirage TMNT&mdash;or to name another Nick example&mdash;Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra), and not one that tries to appeal mainly to people who act like they're 7 years old forever (which I never said necessarily includes the other adult users commenting here). Characters grow up. Characters have serious life developments that last longer than one episode or even just a few months. Characters are still affected by serious things that happened to them two or more years prior. You should know well I'm far from the first person who has complained about these things.

I mean, good grief, these turtles turned 15 in the first episode, and they should be 18 by now, not an increasingly artificial version of 15 forever. Don't try to make them more believable teenagers only to keep them stunted at that level of maturity forever even as years go by in-story.