Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151111163045/@comment-995426-20160308022816

One episode just isn't long enough. I expect better of good TMNT. Good TMNT doesn't make interpersonal relationships seem fake.

And I understand that some people love the 1987 TV series. I know that many of the writers are actually younger than me, and were raised on it. But there were always people who have no affection for it. It was always a farce.

And when I say adult fans, I mean people who like TMNT first and foremost for the being an adult work. People who like it today because they liked the 1987 series when they were little (and not for much other reason), don't count as adult viewers&mdash;they count as childhood nostalgia viewers. And they have very little in common with adult viewers. It's like comparing people who like Batman for being the mature and edgy Dark Knight of the comic books or later cartoons since the 1990s, and people who like Batman because they like the campy 1960s TV show. It's two very different preferences of style. The difference being, Batman at least put away its childish, campy image and embraced its mature side as its main face, whereas TMNT's attempts to do the same keep getting derailed.