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I should really be candid.

I don't hate the 2012 TV series. I actually love the 2012 TV series. I just hate what it's become. I truly felt like the series had the potential to become the best version of TMNT, and that's saying a lot considering my background is as a Mirage TMNT fan and not as a 1987 TV series fan. So even though the current season is largely unwatchable, I still care about what happens, if mainly because of the enormous harm it's still doing to the story, the characters, and the TMNT brand and legacy. If I'd never cared about the show in the first place, I'd probably not be criticizing it as much as I do. I would love for the past year of episodes to have never happened, as if it was a doomed parallel universe, or even just someone's bad dream.

Most of my TMNT fan friends and I are in agreement about one thing: The 2012 TV series has become much worse in direct proportion to its attempts to emulate the style and substance of the 1987 TV series. So when it pays homage to the 1987 series again and again and again like it's the greatest thing ever? That's actually pretty horrifying.

And even my TMNT fan friends who now loathe the 2012 series still watched this episode, whether it was out of morbid curiosity, or to compare with Turtles Forever, or whatever.