Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-174.126.39.102-20130623181457/@comment-995426-20160112021859

There's something you need to understand about me as a TMNT fan. I have a strong dislike for the 1987 TV series and its legacy. I don't dislike the Archie comics or the early Konami games that share some of the same roots, but the TV show, its appeal, its overall style and substance&mdash;just no. I watched it casually now and then when I was young, but it was never that good, and I dropped it like a rock as soon as I discovered Mirage and Palladium media in the early 1990s.

You say 2K12 and the newer movie are pleasing to the show's demographics. But I don't really have much respect for TMNT that aims for the lowest common denominator of 7-year-old toy consumers or now-adult 1987 TV series fans. The more any TMNT work tries to become more like the 1987 TV series (or puts Playmates in the driver's seat, for that matter), the more asinine it becomes. The more a fan prefers the 1987 TV series style over other styles of TMNT, the worse taste in TMNT they have. This is a strongly-rooted decades-old sentiment, in that I not only have a distaste for the writing and character style, but I have no affection for the demographic that prefers that style or wants more of it all the time. We're oil and water.



I don't like 24/7 clown versions of Mikey. I like versions of Mikey that have lots of fun moments, but still have lots of depth and complexity beneath the surface. He doesn't always make the wisest decisions and often rushes head-first into situations, but he never forgets how to be sober, serious, loving and loyal in addition to fun-loving. Good examples of this kind of Mikey are in Mirage (especially later Mirage), Image, IDW and MNT Gaiden. (I haven't watched enough 2K3 to make an assessment.)

Earlier 2K12 Mikey showed lots of promise in this regard, but as season 3 rolled on, all of that went out the window. He became more of a caricature and less of a well-rounded character. Mikey didn't get better&mdash;he got much, much worse. And that made me sad.