User blog:Concernedalien11780/Hello, Turtles Fans!

Hello, Turtles fans, this is Concernedalien11780. I first became interested in the Ninja Turles when the 2003 show was being advertised all over the place when I was six. As I got older and learned how to operate a computer and use the Internet, I learned of their origins as a tounge-in-cheek parody of gritty Frank MIller comics, then as an iconic Saturday morning cartoon, then as cheesy 90s Muppet-ish movies. My favorite incarnation was the 2007 film because, while probably darker than people might want something called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to be, I think it had the proper balance between light and dark and had a just good enough plot to make it still enjoyable today. This is the main reason why it bothers me that Viacom and Nickelodeon bought out MIrage Studios and the Ninja Turtles, because neither a sequel nor a TV series continuation could come out for TMNT. It's not because of the 2012 Nick series or the reboot movies. While I love that the 2012 series has a symphonic rap remix of the 80s cartoon's theme song as its theme song, and I find plenty to like about it, there are plenty of other things that rub me the wrong way. April having psychic abilities, Donnie having a crush on April that's meant to be taken seriously and not the joke kind Mikey has had in many other Turtles media, occasional instances of Mikey being too immature in order to keep the very young audience entertained, replacing "Cowabunga!" with "Booyakasha!", the use of the word "hipster" when they meant to say "hippie" in "The Invasion," I could go on. And regarding the 2014 movie, I don't think it was a very good movie at all, which is exactly why I think it was a great Ninja Turtles movie. There's a difference between "good" and "entertaining," and many films with Michael Bay's involvement are proof of that. They're fun to watch not because they're actually good, but because you're laughing at how bad they are, you're really drunk, or both. I feel like most people just jumped on the bandwagon to say it is ruining Turtles because they were afraid that they would be regarded as unintelligent and get dogpiled on the Internet for saying otherwise. Um, majority opinions can't physically hurt you? Unintelligence comes from demanding a live-action film made to be exactly like an 80s-90s cartoon that hasn't aged well and acting like Michael Bay and Megan Fox will ruin the movie as a cover to hide the fact that you're jealous of the money Michael Bay makes and that you can't get a woman like Megan Fox to like you. OK, I know that's not everyone's reason for hating the 2014 movie and that's just what one of the cast or crew members or someone at Viacom would say to build the movie up and put down those trying to keep people from seeing it and giving money to them, but regardless of your "reason" for hating the 2014 movie, it's dead air that keeps the Ninja Turtles fandom from being the happy place it's supposed to be. That's why the 2007 movie is my favorite piece of Ninja Turtles media and why we need things like the 2014 movie- it's the bad things that help us appreciate the good things. While it's nice to see well-written Ninja Turtles things, it has no obligation to be well-written, and anyone that thinks it does have a responsibility to be and that Michael Bay does not deserve freedom of speech really needs to get their bo staffs out of their butts. Regardless of your Turtle preference, I hope to become friends with many of you, and I wish you all Cowabunga!