Thread:Yoshimickster/@comment-995426-20151104041829/@comment-995426-20151204212709

No, you didn't say what I didn't already suspect. I've been dealing with a lot of anger, and when that blowup I had earlier this week felt like a game changer, and I'm not sure why. But since then, it's not that I lack confidence in myself, but I lack confidence that I still feel welcome, valued, respected and taken seriously.

My opinions about the show's course aren't really going to change. This phase of the show is like the new Fast Forward&mdash;the seasonal rot of all seasonal rots. I know a lot of other people are still enjoying the show, but...part of me keeps thinking, "Why?" This seems like the worst way to do TMNT media.

And then I realized that it's not that simple. People have drastically different ideas of what it means to do TMNT right. I like an action drama with comedy elements, but it seems the show has chosen to be an action comedy with (entirely optional) drama elements. It's the same replay of the Mirage TMNT vs. 1987 TV series appeal. And considering that, by and large, I love one and loathe the other, I was always going to be firmly on one side of the divide, and was always going to feel uncomfortable when something I watch veers far to the other side of the divide. I take my TMNT seriously because the TMNT media I love has more often than not taken itself seriously, but there are plenty of fans who think TMNT is the last thing someone ever should take seriously.

I really am not sure how to keep interacting with many other users on this wiki, realizing all this. I still know how to deal with The S, Trigger, and thus far you too. But the rest of the users now feel like a wild card I never knew was there before. I really don't know what to make of it all.