Talk:Wanted: Bebop & Rocksteady/@comment-34811886-20180513020306/@comment-995426-20190316230733

There will never be an easy resolution to this. Mirage and its prevailing legacy, style and substance are still going to be what they are. The same is true for the 1987 series. The difference is that 1987 series fans have had the privilege of being so much more numerous because it always had a wider media reach. If I took as much offense at 1987 series fan opinions as I've seen people take of mine just for expressing them, it would be too miserable being a TMNT fan at all. But I'm still here. I'm used to my interests as a TMNT fan being culturally unrecognized or considered obscure. I'm used to everything TMNT being readily compared first and foremost with the 1987 series. I'm used to people wondering why I expect such depth and substance from a "kid's franchise." But just because someone can be used to something doesn't mean they are happy that it still happens. It needs to be well understood that the 2012 series' unsubtle 1987 series nostalgia pandering was just as jarring and derailing to some audiences as Turtles Forever's 1987 series lampooning was to others. To court one was to alienate the other, and vice versa. Now imagine if every case of the 2012 series' 1987 series pandering instead had the effect of Turtles Forever's 1987 series lampooning, every single time. Turtles Forever may have angered some viewers, but they could still watch it. But when the 2012 series did what it did as many times as it did, it became unwatchable.