Talk:Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/@comment-26423071-20170502163032

I disagree with Gilgamesh.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an inherently ridiculous concept. It's about giant mutated turtles whose mentor is a giant mutated rat and who figt other mutants as well as alien dinoaurs and mad scientists.

It's was never meant to be taken 100% seriously. The supposed "seriousness" of the Mirage comics was the punchline of the joke, that such a ridiculous concept was played so dramatically,

If you make a TMNT work that is completely devioid of self-awareness or satire, then you don't understand what Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were trying to do.

This is why I like the 1987 show, it embraced it inherent silliness and nevr took itself too seriously.

And that's what made the Ninja Turtles popular to begin with.

Will be show be good? Maybe, maybe not. But "all serious all the time" just as wrong for TMNT as "all comedy all the time".