Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151024145123/@comment-995426-20151101232904

I liked plenty of things. ...they're just gone now.

It also occurs to me that every long-running TMNT series has come to this point where some of its fanbase start loathing it. Even for 1987 series fans, it seems the lightning rod was the European vacation season. (And then there's the Mirage fans who never warmed to that series in the first place.) For 2003 series fans, it was Fast Forward. For 2012 series fans, the dividing line is somewhere in the 3rd season, though some of my friends became disgusted with the frat-house-ish North Hampton arc, and some of them became disgusted with what the show came after Battle for New York.

I think it might be better for everyone around if we acknowledge and accept that this was likely going to happen, and that the fandom of this show was going to split along increasingly volatile fault lines. I know there are still going to be people who love this show's new episodes. Likewise, there are still going to be people for whom this once beloved series has become one of the things they most despise. And yet we all still have to work together on this wiki.

You know, I didn't want to become too cynical, but there came a point when I inescapably realized there was simply no more enjoyment in this show. Does that mean I'm no longer a TMNT fan? Hardly. I loves tons of TMNT stuff. But just like other times popular TMNT works have hit what was seen as a really, really bad spell, you can't expect people not to feel cynical about things like this. Nothing about this series will be simple again&mdash;not in the fandom, not on comment forums, not on this wiki.