Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-28497549-20170107035939/@comment-995426-20170108002820

No, I haven't. I've given up on the show getting better. And there are too many things from the early seasons I miss too much, and too many things from season 3 and early season 4 that make me cringe, even as a backstory for later episodes. And one thing I respected about this show was its good attention to character development and continuity, but now there are bits of continuity I would want to disappear or to have never happened.

When it comes down to it, I'm a TMNT comics fan. I crave levels of continuity that TV shows almost never deliver in the long term, and I prefer TMNT to be for adults rather than for kids (or for adults' inner children), and especially not as a transparent toy-marketing platform. Of course, the kind of TMNT I like also tends not to make much money for its creators, so it was ultimately never likely there would be a TMNT major budget TV show I would end up liking longer than two years anyway.

I also still resent that they initially wrote Raph as this amazing, deliciously gaydar-tripping character with so many of the best lines and best moments, and then he became so bland, boring and wooden in season 3, quietly dropping not only most of the entertaining zest from his personality, but some daring plot coupons from season 2 I was really looking forward to seeing expanded. He was my favorite version of Raphael ever, and then he became one of the most unremarkable, formulaic versions of Raphael ever.