Talk:The Big Blow-Out!/@comment-27929748-20171217034206/@comment-995426-20171225194855

Easol1:

The 1987 TV series is not a traditional TMNT. It is a traditional anti-TMNT. The 1987 series may have embedded itself in cultural awareness, but its soulless hyper-toyetic formula are the last things I want in any TMNT. It may be one thing to adapt and modify the occasional character or plot device to other continuities (Bebop, Rocksteady, Technodrome, etc.), but in general, other versions of TMNT suffer in direct proportion to the amount of 1987 series' formula they emulate.

I also admit that this subjective analysis is double-edged, like when I met that one user who had read the various comics but disliked them seemingly for the same reasons I liked them, and liked the 1987 series seemingly for the same reasons I disliked it. The fact that these various incarnations of TMNT share the same title is the reason we cover them all on the same wiki. But in some ways the competing stylistic formulas involved can still be like matter vs. anti-matter to each other&mdash;they tend not to combine well at all, powers that be have traditionally gone to great lengths to prevent them from combining (the Archie TMNT's existence as a buffer completely separating Mirage from 1987 was the primary purpose it kept publishing for as long as it did), and attempts to force them to combine tend to result in chronically troubled productions, like a schizophrenic mood-whiplash-prone 2012 series seemingly always at war with itself.