User blog comment:Gilgameshkun/Watched 2K12 season 2 with a group of other people/@comment-28672978-20160613171602/@comment-995426-20160614175707

You see, pulp is ridiculously kitschy but doesn't really bother acknowledging it. It's just pulp. But TMNT had certain absurdities in its premise that the reader was meant to understand as absurd. The story itself was usually far more serious. Drama with intelligence and a touch of humor.

But there are other versions of TMNT that either didn't get the memo or threw it in the garbage, and went full-out pulp. Those are the kinds of TMNT I tend to loathe, especially if they function first and foremost to sell merchandise to the lowest common denominator.

The 2012 TV series initially seemed to be a balance of various interests, while retaining a more serious, character-driven, plot-oriented soul that even a Mirage or IDW reader could enjoy. But now, most of the people I know who prefer Mirage or IDW who used to enjoy the 2012 TV series, have now craplisted it as unwatchable.