Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151024145123/@comment-995426-20151103193050

Yoshimickster wrote: Not for nothing man but...that's all on you. YOU decided to put the time into this show, the creators didn't ask you to. If only it were that simple. When my friends ditched this show, they didn't do so easily or prettily either. They were filled with anger and disgust at how the show derailed itself. I didn't start watching this show expecting this. I started watching this show because it appealed to me really strongly, and really deeply. And they wrote it to attract people's interest. The show's plot had more subtleties, and kept writing plot coupons that could only be awesome when cashed. And then they increasingly stopped cashing them.

When you make a show, you don't blame the fans for watching the show when they start panning it. It's like a restaurant that blames patrons for not liking the food they serve. If those same patrons all originally liked the restaurant, then a loss of 20-25% of them is nothing to sneeze at. McDonald's has the ability to replace lost customers with new ones through lots of advertising and really cheap food&mdash;that doesn't make it a good restaurant. Subway manages to remain a decent restaurant even under the fast food formula. Likewise, TMNT 2K12 never pretend it wasn't mass-marketed entertainment, but it used to be a lot better than it is now. And I as a viewer and fan, have every right to feel my devotion to it betrayed. I implore again, please take a break from this, you need it. However, on that, you may be right. I just haven't figured out a way to stop caring when I see the updates on the Wiki Activity page. I still need to edit Turtlepedia articles for certain other non-2K12 works. I'm the primary editor for Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden articles, a series which has consistently not disappointed.