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Gilgameshkun wrote: Yoshimickster: Heh, you're probably right in your assessment. Still...it would be really depressing to still have mostly-terribly-written new 2K12 episodes half a decade from now. A soulless franchise zombie increasingly shaping the future of TMNT mythology? That already happened once from 1987 to 1996. It was a disaster to young adult Mirage and Palladium fans, and the TMNT multiverse has still never quite recovered from the sheer damage it wreaked on TMNT's reputation and mythology.



(A scene from "Teen Turtle Techno Trio Plus One!", published by Mirage in 1989.)

I'd increasingly have nothing in common with 2K12's later fans. Even worse, I'd still like the TMNT stuff I follow, but other fans and I might increasingly consider each other a nuisance. I've seen that happen in other fandoms as fanbases intractably split along their fault lines. It's one of the reasons it's virtually impossible to get the various Star Fox fans to get along in one place without the different fan factions descending into a bloodbath. Damage? That show is the reason TMNT IS the mega giant franchise it is today. Sure it was more childish, but while the original series was grim its roots are deep in satire and was originally a joke(the concept art made on a napkin). Hell, Shredder's original name was gonna be "Cheese Grater Man"! Was it perfect, no, but they didn't stop Eastman and Laird from making their comics. Its like watching the Dragon ball show, and realizing there's a comic version that tells the story better! You can hate it, but it DIDN'T hurt the comics, it just brought some confusion.