Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Thread

[Drtooth]

It's probably just my character interpretation.

Personally, I find Irma to be..eh... more promiscuous than she lets on. Someone who says she wants romance, but then falls in with the wrong people for a quick one. And that's discounting when she becomes a robosexual. TWICE! There's...something none too wholesome about that analogy. Sure, you can chalk some of this up to being a parody of Rhoda (I'm sure if Irma had a spinoff, she'd all the sudden be successful and then have a previously unmentioned sister that's a huge loser), but a lot of it comes off as Irma wanting some and then complaining how she makes terrible choices. Heck, she wants to get it on with the Turtles some of the time. And mutant animalism aside, they're minors!

Seriously... I've watched a LOT of cartoons as an adult, and nothing really corrupted my image of any character. Except her. Yowza! Why isn't Robot Chicken having a field day with that?

 

[CensoredAlso]

Personally, I find Irma to be..eh... more promiscuous than she lets on.

Lol, I agree. Well at least she's no more promiscuous than a similar character would be in an '80s TV drama. That's why I liked the Channel 6 characters, they had real adult problems (told in a comedic way).

 

[Bridget]

I swear, I literally believed I was the only one with this secret obsession. I hooked myself when I went to visit my cousins in Boston years ago, and ever since...

My favorite: Michaelangelo forever!

 

[Drtooth]

I just picked up IDW's Bebop and Rocksteady spotlight issue. I always did like the characters (yet didn't miss them in 2K3), but I honestly feel the writers just liked writing for dumb guys instead of keeping their initial appearances as kinda stupid, but a genuine threat. Lots of wasted potential in making them bumbling comic relief and not threatening. Thankfully, IDW saw this, took the best of them being idiots and the best of them being threatening and put it together.

First off, they've been given a backstory besides "two thugs the Shredder pulled off the streets." Now, they're the goofballs that got kicked out of every gang in NYC who volunteered for the Foot Clan and to be mutants. Their goofy bungling is actually dangerous. Bebop tries a "there's something on your shirt" gag and snaps a guy's neck underestimating his super strength. So far, so good. They've just been integrated into the regular comic last page of last issue (which was released simultaneously) . Can't wait to see next month's regular issue for how they'll be fitted into the story.

 

[mr3urious]

Casey just made his first appearance in the Nickelodeon series, and he's a teenager just like April, giving us a potential love triangle. He's also a high school hockey player, complete with missing teeth.

And Pulverizer/Timothy has made his full debut as Mutagen Man.

 

[Drtooth]

The seem to have replaced the Star Trek Filmation parody with a Go-Lion/Voltron/Mazinger Z thing. Cool.

 

[mr3urious]

I've also noticed that the crate of VHS tapes in the beginning has a couple of orange-colored ones, like what Nickelodeon used to put out of its shows. That's a cool little shout-out.

 

[Drtooth]

I noticed a funny coincidence between the IDW comics and the cartoon series. I guess I have to put spoilers, so highlight...

In the Nickelodeon cartoon, Karai is the hatefully brainwashed daughter of Hamato Yoshi who is loyal to Shredder... and at the same time, Shredder hatefully brainwashed Leonardo in the IDW comics to be loyal to Shredder and reject his true father in Hamato Yoshi.

It's weird how that worked out. And I'm sure both the comics and cartoon know nothing of each other.

 

[beaker]

LOVE that new IDW TMNT issue leading to and then actually featuring Bebop and Rocksteady. Im sad they didnt come back to 2K3 or nick tmnt.

Truth be told I just cannot get into the look at all of the new ninja turtles series. So if it has some smart stuff in it, I guess im missing it

Also, theres suppose to be a live action TMNT film next year...yet not a single picture has been released of what the turtles will look like. let alone a teaser poster, teaser trailer or official picture. Weird

 

[Drtooth]

I have to admit. The one thing I do not like about Nick's ownership of the Turtles? There's no 2k3 references anywhere. They haven't made plans to release any of the 2k3 series on DVD (other than the bare bones release of the telefilm, not even the extended 4Kids website version), and all the non-Nick Turtle merchandise is the 1980's series. Which isn't bad, exactly, but it would be nice to give a nod to the series in between the oldest and newest one.

But I really am disappointed that there haven't bothered releasing any of the 2K3 series. I really had hoped Nick would allow Shout to release it. Most of the series except for Back to the Sewers was released on DVD, but mostly single disks. Half of season 4, both seasons of Fast Forward, and the first 2 seasons have been released (in half sets, and Season 2 part 2 is apparently impossible to find). 4Kids stopped releasing DVD's well before the Nick sale (no thanks to a tiff with Funimation, the distributors), and with the entire line long out of print, it's impossible to get any of the series now.

Unlike the original 80's cartoon (now completely released), Nick actually has the rights to 2k3 (Fred Wolf and Lionsgate still own the show rights and home entertainment rights respectively). Oh, and the live action series is only available due to Saban. Forgot to throw that in there.