Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160227224555/@comment-995426-20160406093730

Yes, my friends who watched this episode, watched it to compare it to Turtles Forever, and they had similar criticisms. But they were also largely already expecting it to be bad anyway, and watched mainly out of a morbid fascination.

At this rate, I may never see this episode. And I say that with genuine sorrow, because I keep trying to hold out a ray of hope that this series will somehow get good again. I was a bigger fan of this show than any of my other fan friends, and they know how much it means to me. But each time they check back in on the show, they tell me how it's gotten even worse, with the most hyped-up episodes falling flattest of all, as if Nick's idea of the best TMNT ever is being tailored to drive us away as much as possible.

At this point, it's fair to say we feel a strong alienation from this series. The past several months, I've been feeling a lot like Mikey here:

...and I've been annoying the hell out of most everyone else on the wiki as a result, which I very much regret. This really hasn't been an easy time for me as a TMNT fan, especially since I'm still an active Turtlepedia editor and I maintain articles for other versions of TMNT besides this show. Seeing or hearing every day that this show steadfastly refuses to appeal to us again, has been pretty painful, even as other versions of TMNT most Turtlepedia users never discuss (IDW TMNT, MNT Gaiden, etc.) have actually been really good lately. I've tried before to start threads discussing IDW, etc., but they have usually been met with the deafening silence of crickets. Where are all the other TMNT fans and their desire to help document this stuff? I've been doing most of it by myself. :(