Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160227224555/@comment-995426-20160405230709

I guess the complaint with something being "my TMNT" vs. "not my TMNT," is that I'm not quite as affected when a version of TMNT is bad to begin with. The 1987 series was annoying in the way it affected TMNT's reputation, but what happened on the show itself didn't affect me quite as much while it was happening because I had really no investment in the direction of its plot, etc. When it was never great to begin with, you were never a fan, and it can't disappoint you.

That's not the case with the 2012 series, which started out as something I really liked and could get into as a Mirage-style TMNT fan, but it turned into something really bad like the 1987 series at the expense of its previous depth, continuity, seriousness and attention to detail.

As I've told you personally before, in the past year, I've been under an extraordinary amount of stress as a TMNT fan. Every time I think the 2012 series I loved can't get any worse than it already has, it manages to find a way to exceed my worst expectations. How can a show that was once so fantastic, become so painfully awful? It's a fan's nightmare, and I'm living it.

I haven't seen the 2014 film. My brother saw it, and specifically warned me never to watch it because it's just so terrible. And he was the one who introduced me to TMNT comics in the first place. So I decided to take a pass on it.