User:Gilgameshkun

I'm Gilgamesh, also known as Dermot Mac Flannchaidh. I was born in 1980, and I have read or watched TMNT in some form since the late 1980s.

Mirage
One of my primary TMNT interests. I read some of volume 1 as a teenager, then the rest of volume 1, most of volume 2 and virtually all of volume 4 when I was older. I really want to see the story completed and have some real closure to the various storylines.

Palladium
As a teenager I was a huge fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness and a few of the other books I was fortunate enough to get ahold of. Unfortunately, I never had a real opportunity to play these RPGs, as I could never find anyone else to play them with.

1987
I certainly watched this when I was a preteen, like many of the younger Generation X-ers have. But my interest in it dropped precipitously after I entered adolescence and discovered the Mirage version.

Archie
Never read it much when I was young. Read some of it as an adult, and I do appreciate how it matured along with its audience in a way the 1987 version never did. But I was never much of a fan.

Konami
Played most of the games that appeared on NES, Megadrive/Genesis, Super NES and Game Boy Classic. Some were fun in their time, but the one I still love to this day is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters for Megadrive/Genesis. Why such an admittedly mediocre game? Sure, its gameplay is unbalanced, and its story is painfully facile. Then there's the awesome soundtrack by Miki Higashino. Many of those in-game tunes are still the characters' theme songs in my mind. It may be the only reason I still remember characters like Sisyphus.

I largely have never played the later video games.

Films
Watched the first, second and third films when I was young, and the 2007 film as an adult. Honestly, I could take them or leave them. Haven't seen the 2014 film at all, and I'm not in a big rush to see it either.

Image
I finally got around to reading these comics, and I can't say I'm a fan. It reads and feels like an enormous Mirage guest era arc, lacking much of the charm and likability of volume 2 and volume 4. It's not so much the way the characters were changed (Raph disfiguring his face, Donatello becoming a cyborg, Leonardo losing a hand)&mdash;I could actually live with these when done well, and issue 25 had a way of wrapping up those plot points and miraculously healing their bodies.

But what felt like too much, laid on too thick, was how extensively the comic crossed over with Savage Dragon. I can understand an incidental crossover without a lot of mutual baggage, like Cerebus the Aardvark. But having Savage Dragon&apos;s Chicago coexisting on such a plot-critical level with Image TMNT's New York City created what, to me, was an enormous plot hole for Image TMNT in general: If "freaks" in Chicago live and work openly in the public and are integrated in its public sector, why can't mutants so much as be spotted by strangers in New York? Civilized mutants living in New York could be judged as possible visitors or immigrants from Chicago. This all was a bit too much of a strain to suspension of disbelief.

These enormous plot holes considered, I'd rather pretend Image TMNT never happened. And apparently, Peter Laird agreed. XD

2003
Never watched it when it was on the air. But since it's gone off the air, I've heard good things about it, especially if one is a fan of the Mirage version. I still haven't gotten around to watching it, and it's possible I may never&mdash;seven seasons is a lot to just watch casually.

MNT Gaiden
A newer passion of mine, as evidenced by my edit history on this wiki. I still wish it had, though.

IDW
Interesting reincarnation. (In more ways than one, if you're familiar with the plot.) This version certainly has potential, but I'm still not certain yet if I can say I really like it. I think it needs more time and plot development for me to make up my mind.

2012
This one's different. Though primarily marketed to the TV-Y7 crowd on Nickelodeon, it has something that none of the other incarnations seemed to have before&mdash;its teenage turtles actually behaving like teenagers. With Splinter as the disciplinary dad, this series has a certain witty, clever sitcom element that makes it watchable and rewatchable even to adults in ways the 1987 version could not claim.

But all in all, it kinda makes me wish it were on TeenNick instead, and weren't afraid to tackle some of the more realistic character issues you would see more frankly addressed in shows like Degrassi&mdash;with teenage-appropriate maturity for teenage issues. After all, the show keeps driving home that most of the main characters are angsty volatile teenagers. Those of us who are or were once teenagers ourselves, know very well that these characters are likely thinking and feeling and experiencing all sorts of things that a TV-Y7 show can only imply while walking on eggshells. But so many of these issues can be portrayed in a teenage-appropriate manner without actively seeking refuge in vulgarity just to artificially shore up a TV-14 or TV-MA rating.

My animated GIFs
I try to make them Tumblr-ready so they're easier to share.

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