Femmegasm

I totally love the current TMNT show, and dare I say it I even like it better than the original 80s cartoon show (and I can already hear people yelling “HERESY!”). For starters it’s way closer to the source material than the original show was, and furthermore the writing is like 50 times better. It has a nice dark atmosphere, a great art style, good voice acting (though the original cartoon had this too), great animation (WAY better than the original cartoon had), and villains that actually feel threatening rather than silly. The show does have a good amount of humor and satire much like the original comics did, and besides what’s a kid’s show without some comic relief here and there. But it takes itself far more serious than the original series did, which I think is good. Like I said, it makes it a lot closer to the comic Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman created.

Now this isn’t me saying I dislike the original cartoon. I like it, but for completely good reason. I like the current show because I feel it’s a great show and great conversion of the original comic book idea to a cartoon. I like the original show, because it’s campy as all hell, and filled with a lot of WTF stuff that one can only wonder what crack they were taking to even come up with the ideas. I mean, Dimension X, Krang, The Nutrinos, Bebop, Rocksteady, the Technodrome, Baxtor Stockman being some weird insane white Rick Moranis that got turned into a fly, April being a news reporter, and various other seemly random (and weird) stuff was made for the show, and outside the turtles, Splinter, and Shredder, it practically has nothing to do with the original source material. It almost feels like it’s parodying the source material, and that’s what makes it entertaining to me. That and Rob Paulsen playing (a very different) Raphael. Rob Paulsen is always great. So to me it’s just a very completely show and hard to compare the two, to be totally honest.

Now to the main point of the comic is the current season of the current TMNT series entitled TMNT: Back to the Sewers. In this season the characters have been slightly redesigned to look more like their CG movie counterparts. In short, they went from have blank white eyes like in the comics, to having visible Irises. A detail I have mixed feelings on. It doesn’t effect the show in any big way as the writing and animation is still great and entertaining. It just looks weird to me. I prefer the white eyes, but that’s an effect I’ve always liked when it came to superhero stuff. You can blame Batman and especially Bruce Timm for that. But overall I think it creates a more serious and menacing look, which I like. Now… they kinda’ look silly… and lovable… like the old show… oh well, I can deal with it, though.

Hmmm… I between this and Soul Calibur I seem to have some weird eye obsession. O_o;

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