Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160509012936/@comment-995426-20160817012803

Nah, no one asked you to hate the show. I just miss the show I loved. This show may be continually turning a profit, but I can't say it's doing well. I used to enjoy it, and it's been turning into all the kinds of TMNT I find the most mindnumbing and soulless. Now the show is stuck in a 1987 series fan's raw nostalgia feedback loop&mdash;except it's not my nostalgia, since I can't stand that series.

Viacom as a company does not respect it, and it indeed looks like they've been using the TMNT franchise to commit corporate tax fraud. There genuinely have been good creative minds involved in this show earlier on, but now it's just on zombie autopilot locked in an algorithm of maximum profit at minimum cost and effort (recycling Fred Wolf's formula and contracting with the likes of Michael Bay), and they do the franchise a grave injustice by doing this.

Maybe Peter Laird should have sold the franchise to Hasbro instead. They tend to treat their franchises and their varied fans with more respect.