Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4746086-20131112182225/@comment-995426-20160605182545

Hm, I see. Yes, I do rather like the family element. One thing I really liked about the earlier seasons of the 2012 TV series was that they actually acted like teenagers and they bantered well as a family. Since season 3, it's like they have no soul or substance to them anymore, like the dialogue is all so one-dimensional and wooden, and the characters themselves are more like caricatures now. My joke is, "Splinter was murdered, but everyone else died on screen." Anyway, back to the film.

You're right that I don't necessarily care for Bebop and Rocksteady from the 1987 TV series. But I'm very fond of and  from Archie TMNT. In that version, they actually went from being antagonists to peace-loving environmentalist allies...and then they moved to an Edenworld planet to live out their lives alone together completely naked. They're B&R if they were the friendliest gay couple you'll ever meet. :)

I also think the IDW versions of and  are rather interesting. They have personalities much like other versions, but they are far more violent and far more dangerous rather than the harmless villains they were in the 1987 TV series. This much was clear in the now-famous comic where Rocksteady attacked and mortally wounded.

As for the film itself, at least one friend who's seen it thinks Bebop and Rocksteady are really gay in it. Now I'm actually a little curious how true that is. I'll have to ask more opinions to see how tolerable this movie actually is. I don't expect to enjoy it, but I'd at least like to know it won't be torture to sit through like everyone told me the 2014 film was.