Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20150930020647/@comment-995426-20151013192356

Well, it seems to be official&mdash;Nick TMNT is now grade A free-range horse crap that none of my good friends who are TMNT fans want anything to do with anymore. I mean, it had a great first two seasons, but every new press release and every new episode seems to make the show even worse than it had already gotten. As it is, none of us are looking forward to season 4, and fully expect it to be terrible. I mean, there are rare good moments in the series, but they're too rare and too fleeting. Trying to remain a fan of this show is like being in an abusive relationship with someone who knows how to charm you just enough to make you smile for five seconds, but then neglects you and disrespects you the rest of the time.

I'd heard that this problem isn't unique to TMNT though. Nickelodeon as a network has been in recent decline, with all their shows getting worse. They want people's money (and get plenty of it), but they don't respect their own shows, and they don't respect their audience as anything but a cash cow to peddle increasingly crappy merchandise onto. Some of their competitors, Discovery Family and Disney XD, are still managing to create merchandise-tied shows that are actually well-made with compelling stories, characters, writing, etc. Nickelodeon has not just become boring&mdash;they no longer seem to care at all.

So, my friends who are TMNT fans are still TMNT fans, but now they're mostly into the comics, which are still pretty good. The Nick TMNT show has become such a piece of crap that none of them even want to discuss it anymore&mdash;it's just so bad now. It didn't have to be this way.