Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26489974-20160315055507/@comment-11362412-20171012225925

Okay. I get it. I really do. You are viewing this show in a much different light that I am because of how it was introduced to you. For me, 2012 was my first TMNT. I started watching it after Slash and Destroy, and immediately binged the rest. I had just come off of Ben 10. That show I think was on hiatus at the time and had bean my favorite show of all time. The show was cool to me because it gave me more of the same stuff as Ben 10 Omniverse. A middle of the road (tonality wise, not quality wise) sci-fi/action-superhero/comedy. Then I did research into the past history of the franchise. And saw all kinds of cool characters that I was excited to see be done in a new interesting way. It was like getting into a show about the comic book, and then going on the Internet and finding out all of the stuff that happened in the comic and getting excited about the potential of seeing that in the show. And it wasn’t just stuff from the 80s show that caught my eye. I remember specifically living ideas like the punk frogs and Super Shredder, as well as characters like Ch’rell or Hun. So when they finally started doing those characters it got me excited. Also, I understand the whole soft reboot concept, I just don’t see it in this series. I just binged the whole thing over the last couple days, so it’s fresh in my mind. I just don’t notice what your talking about. And honestly, watch the Super Shredder story arc and tell me that this story doesn’t have depth to it.

I think there is room for everyone here. The Mirage Comics created a legacy that should be honored. Each successive tv show has done the same. I think it’s wrong to judge Rise before we’ve even seen anything from it at all. Just because it’s different doesn’t automatically make it bad.

I kind of wish that they would do some sort of accompanying price to Rise in the form of some sort of live-action show, in the vein of the DC Comics shows on the CW, like Arrow and The Flash. Probably on another network, like CW, or some other channel Viacom owns like Spike. So that fans of the sillier legacy left by the 80s cartoons can be satisfied, as well as fans of the more serious mirage stories.