Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151111163045/@comment-26062541-20160309055057

Gilgameshkun wrote: And sorry for the harsh words, too. I mean, yeah, I have the opinions I do, and yeah, it can feel like torture. But I was speaking with conviction and frustration, and I wish I could say it without sounding so...tactless? I was never going to change my mind about the 1987 series or the grassroots interest that keeps it sticking around. It's not the TMNT I like, and I always felt like it hurts the TMNT I like. So...lots of fan baggage there that wasn't going to be easily resolved, but also isn't easy to express in a social setting. And that's fine, also I'd say it didn't ruin TMNT as a WHOLE...but will agree it did some damage to those nice folks at Palladium. TMNT ain't like Batman, which had DECADES of popular mature stories before it, TMNT was a fledgling series just starting out, and with a GENERALLY shorter dark history to its more public light-hearted silly cartoon. Its not so much the show, more or less that they advertised it and the toyline more than the more mature source material and RPG books. You ever remember seeing "Do you like the Ninja Turtles? WELL READ WHERE IT ALL BEGAN?" Commercial? Probably would've helped it sell like gang-busters, but hey it was the late 80s and those execs were still HIGH on their mutant rat supplied cocaine, mistakes were made.