Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-26761322-20180731182127/@comment-995426-20180802013248


 * I don't like the 1987 TV series at all. But if I had to say something good about it, it's that Rob Paulsen is a decent voice actor who occasionally appears to ad lib his lines in a clever way.
 * I have a respect for the 2003 TV series, though I haven't watched most of it. I didn't watch it when it was on (mostly because of extreme dislike for the previous animated series), though my respect for it came after it finished.  I like that the 2003 series tried to be more serious, and tried to be more Mirage-like, though you can still only do so much with TV-Y7 without bowdlerization.  I've also made some GIFs, mostly of Traximus as gifts for a friend who really likes him.
 * I really liked the first two seasons of the 2012 TV series. The characters were better developed, there was richer banter between them, more attention to detail, and characters said much more than their lines because of all the extra body language thrown in.  These earlier seasons especially also had more queer-coded characters, and it was fun hunting for those easter eggs.  All in all, someone obviously loved what they were doing and had fun making it.  I've made over 1000 GIFs from this series.
 * I have a particular fondness for TMNT: Don VS Raph. I don't think the idea or its setting necessarily had much longevity to turn into a serious series, but it was immensely fun through and through, and of course I made most of the Turtlepedia's GIFs for it.
 * In Rise so far, some of the animation scenes are particularly rich, some of which I've made some GIFs for.Character-wise, the only character that impresses me so far is Donatello, who gets some of the best lines and emotes the best.

Though I'm certainly familiar with Charlotte's Web and its story and characters, and I can see a similarity to Templeton, it seems clearer that Rise Splinter was most based on Danny DeVito, both in stature and personality, at least in the types of characters he's been type-cast into his whole acting career.