Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160227224555/@comment-995426-20160328114922

Zakor1138 wrote: Oh my God. Why bother commenting? I get it, you hate the show. That's fine, it's your opinion. But this is getting really old really fast. First of all, calm down. I'm allowed to comment, and I'm allowed to criticize. We're just not allowed to be uncivil. You're perfectly entitled not to like my criticism, but I'm still entitled to share it.

Anyway, I'm still a fan of many other TMNT works, and Nickelodeon's show still dominates media attention even as my primary focus has shifted to other concurrent TMNT works. I'm also the editor primarily responsible for a few other sections of this wiki, such as Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden and Amazing Adventures, and The S and I seem to be the only editors who contribute anything of substance to the IDW TMNT articles, and I sporadically contribute to Mirage TMNT, Archie TMNT and Image TMNT articles as well.

My interest in TMNT has weathered decades of both good and bad TMNT. It's not very respectful to imply that I'm simply not welcome here unless I like everything that's current. I like TMNT when it's good, and I want TMNT to become good again when it's bad. Right now, Nick TMNT has been very, very bad.

Turtles Forever was right to mock and lampoon the 1987 TV series&mdash;that series was bad. Mirage never had any real fondness for it, and people who are primarily fans of adult TMNT works have largely regarded that series with indifference, disdain or embarrassment. When another TMNT work tries to become more like the style and substance of the 1987 TV series, it usually gets worse. This is true for Fast Forward, and for the 2012 TV series since season 3, and for the second TMNT film in 1991, and so forth.

For me, when it comes to TMNT that tries to be a comic farce, I prefer something like Bakabakashii, which is never canonical to its main series anyway, and is thus free to openly make fun of itself without affecting the more serious storyline in any way. Mirage's occasional parody TMNT comics have usually not been canonical either&mdash;they're more something like this: