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Mr_Karate_II posted...

The designs suck

It's true. Some moreso than others.

It's just not the only thing there is to care about. Here are a few things I really enjoyed about it:

1. It's got great humor. Michelangelo naming all the villains (and other stuff) is always a good chuckle. Ice cream kitty's little meow whenever they open the freezer is a hoot. The Kraang's pattern of speech gets silly a few times. Donatello gets beaten by a monkey. Casey is as numbskull as they come. Mikey defeating Dogpound with a water balloon.

2. It has a good blend of focusing on the team vs each individual character. There are Leonardo episodes, and Donatello episodes, and Raphael episodes, and Michelangelo episodes. They're regularly challenged to stretch beyond their comfort zones by a challenge that requires them to operate in exactly the opposite way of their tendencies. For example, Donatello's frequent struggle is to think less, or Michelangelo's struggle is to be more discerning about people.

3. Lots of characters have satisfying development arcs, including villains. Several change not just as people but in terms of the gimmick over the course of the series, and still spend a satisfying amount of time in each stage. Classic example is Baxter Stockman, but it also applies to Bradford, Fishface, Bebop, Rocksteady, and Karai. The turtles even get their mystic personas too.

4. They went all out with Donny's machines. Nuff said. It just rules.

5. Has lots of nods to classic bits of Turtles history. The theme song being a variant of 87 was awesome. Season 3 being a reprise of act 2 of 90 was awesome. The villain they sent to an alternate universe (and the nature of that universe) was awesome.

6. They got a lot of the relationships spot on. Mikey and Raph. Mikey and Donny. Raph and Casey. Leo and Karai.

7. One of the most imposing Shredders ever. To the point that Super Shredder actually felt like a downgrade.

8. They did a great job of making every season from 3 onward feel totally different. Like, they legit go to space not just for an episode, but for half of a season.

I just found there was a lot to love in it.