Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4746086-20131112182225/@comment-995426-20160603214627

Kung fu frogz: Batman also had a major tone shift in the early 1990s, and tried very hard to move away from the style and substance of the Adam West series, and successfully matured into the gritty franchise of the dark knight. TMNT keeps trying at various times to return to its serious roots and extend them to television and films, but there's always something that ends up derailing those attempts. That being, the 1987 TV series has a lot of adult fans who are nostalgic for their childhoods, but in practice, the more a version of TMNT tries to be like the 1987 TV series, the worse it turns out. Because, ultimately, the 1987 TV series was never really that good; it had maybe one or two halfway-decent first episodes, then it plunged into cheaply-written toyetic hell. The 1987 TV series was more of a bizarro version of TMNT, and Mirage and Turtles Forever have been right to mock and ridicule it.