Poll of the Day > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2003). Was it a bad show?

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I don't think I watched much of it. Was thinking of a somewhat different one when I opened this topic. It was probably okay-ish though.

I liked what I saw of the reboot from a few years ago. Haven't bothered with the latest reboot.

Dikitain posted...

The 2003 show was really good, it just came out at the wrong time. The nostalgia train didn't really get rolling until several years later, and it didn't have the merchandise backing it like the 87 show.

It had merch and multiple games.
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I liked that version, it was more mature and dark then the original and I thought it was pretty cool minus the alien invasion arc which I thought was dumb.

Though I admit I kinda stopped caring once Shredder was no longer the main antagonist.
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I understand what they were trying to do, but at the same time, they were trying too hard to be different from the original cartoon. Look how cool we are. Look how lame the old show was. "Turtles Forever" was extremely obnoxious about this.

And turning Shredder into an alien was really stupid. And personally, I always liked the "Splinter IS Hamato Yoshi" from the old cartoon. It gave Shredder and Splinter an awesome Kenobi/Vader dynamic.

I'm actually watching both shows now. I'm in season 5 of '87 and season 2 of '03. Got a long way to go for both!

As for 2012, I haven't seen it yet.
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"I love being... I love being a turtle."

I loved this one as a kid but I haven't seen it since I was a kid. I do remember it being pretty good but I remember very little about it.
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Great show

never liked the 80s one though
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I got to meet Peter Laird before he became famous when he was running a comic shop in the basement of a store on Main Street in Northampton, MA. He had the talent of Frank Frazetta in the way he drew. Spent a lot of my free time talking comics and art with him over a couple of years. Later after he moved to Vermont, I got to know Kevin Eastman when they had moved in together and were selling comics and their art out of a house they co-owned. Very fun times in my youth.

My preference is the 1987 and the 2012 versions, the 2003 series wasn't terrible, but the latest one is just downright trash.
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It was awesome. By far the best cartoon adaptation.

The last two seasons were pretty meh though.
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peanutt121 posted...

I got to meet Peter Laird before he became famous when he was running a comic shop in the basement of a store on Main Street in Northampton, MA. He had the talent of Frank Frazetta in the way he drew. Spent a lot of my free time talking comics and art with him over a couple of years. Later after he moved to Vermont, I got to know Kevin Eastman when they had moved in together and were selling comics and their art out of a house they co-owned. Very fun times in my youth.

My preference is the 1987 and the 2012 versions, the 2003 series wasn't terrible, but the latest one is just downright trash.

That's awesome dude, I'm a big fan of the original Mirage comics. I loved the 2003 series, it had real tension by sticking to the comics but being just original enough I couldn't call the twists, and the animation was gorgeous for a Saturday morning cartoon
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Oops_All_Berrys posted...

peanutt121 posted...

I got to meet Peter Laird before he became famous when he was running a comic shop in the basement of a store on Main Street in Northampton, MA. He had the talent of Frank Frazetta in the way he drew. Spent a lot of my free time talking comics and art with him over a couple of years. Later after he moved to Vermont, I got to know Kevin Eastman when they had moved in together and were selling comics and their art out of a house they co-owned. Very fun times in my youth.

My preference is the 1987 and the 2012 versions, the 2003 series wasn't terrible, but the latest one is just downright trash.

That's awesome dude, I'm a big fan of the original Mirage comics. I loved the 2003 series, it had real tension by sticking to the comics but being just original enough I couldn't call the twists, and the animation was gorgeous for a Saturday morning cartoon

If you haven't read it yet, the new IDW comic is actually really good. It is a retelling of the original run but with more of a focus and expanded on story line (and they changed just enough that it doesn't feel like a rehash). I know Kevin Eastman was involved with it early on and even draws some of the variant covers. They just started their version of the "City at War" story (which has a similar premise to the original Mirage one, but is also its own thing).
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WarGreymon77 posted...

I understand what they were trying to do, but at the same time, they were trying too hard to be different from the original cartoon. Look how cool we are. Look how lame the old show was. "Turtles Forever" was extremely obnoxious about this.

And turning Shredder into an alien was really stupid. And personally, I always liked the "Splinter IS Hamato Yoshi" from the old cartoon. It gave Shredder and Splinter an awesome Kenobi/Vader dynamic.

I felt it was an interesting plot twist.
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Oops_All_Berrys posted...

That's awesome dude, I'm a big fan of the original Mirage comics. I loved the 2003 series, it had real tension by sticking to the comics but being just original enough I couldn't call the twists, and the animation was gorgeous for a Saturday morning carto

I think I still have most of that Mirage series in my storage locker, but it's way in the back behind a lot of heavy furniture lol.
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I didn't really watch it, cause I was you know, like 23 when it came out, but I checked out a little out of curiosity when I was bored one day and it seemed decent enough. The original cartoon was my jam as a kid, but I haven't watched a singe episode of it since probably the 90s. I prefer keeping it as a fond memory from my childhood and not watching it when I'm pushing 40 and tainting the memory of it. As a random side note, I did check out the movies on Netflix and I really don't get the hate. I mean the 2nd one had Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang and the Technodrome in it... it was closer to the cartoon series than any other movies.

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

I didn't really watch it, cause I was you know, like 23 when it came out, but I checked out a little out of curiosity when I was bored one day and it seemed decent enough. The original cartoon was my jam as a kid, but I haven't watched a singe episode of it since probably the 90s. I prefer keeping it as a fond memory from my childhood and not watching it when I'm pushing 40 and tainting the memory of it. As a random side note, I did check out the movies on Netflix and I really don't get the hate. I mean the 2nd one had Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang and the Technodrome in it... it was closer to the cartoon series than any other movies.

Out of the Shadows was better than the first Michael Bay movie, but didn't make any money for some reason.
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The theme song was the worst. Otherwise top shelf.

tbh, Bebop and Rocksteady instantly caught my interest with Out of the Shadows since they were notably absent from the original films. Still need to watch it one of these days.
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Awesome show!
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