Phelous on "Wanted: Bebop & Rocksteady"
Phelan Porteous, one of the more well-known TMNT reviewers, has now analyzed the 2012 series' "Wanted: Bebop & Rocksteady" special, plus the final two seasons. I agree with most of his conclusions, so I don't have very much to add. Thought his commentary was worth an entry.
I particularly want to copy/paste this YouTube comment, as it sums up how I feel about most modern writers' approach toward the 1987 series:
Yeah, this special got WAY too close to Turtles Forever territory with its tone and jokes. It's like, you don't need to point out how ludicrous something like the technodrome is, ESPECIALLY considering the premise of your franchise, and everything your iteration did with it up to this point. Just roll with it.
One thing that nobody working on these seems to get is for how self-aware the old toon characters could be, they still played the parts of the hero/villain and took things seriously (as the plot demanded), even before getting into the darker seasons. Heck, the first special knew to dial it back and had the 87 turtles pull their own without having to be lectured; here they are just dumb-asses again. Even when the focus is Bebop and Rocksteady, it still feels like "Yeah, these is how its SUPPOSED to be, you loser ass 87 show".
I for one would've liked to see a scenario in which the old B & R corrupting the new B & R, who get dumber and lazier the more they hang with their original counterparts. Then ,bearing witness to their uselessness, Shredder goes "fuck it, I WILL kick ass myself".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oclZOrCbs4&lc=Ugx5d5FtBPfESEM2n7h4AaABAg
Yeah. This may be the last Public entry for the time being, because I have a new batch of major offline issues to sort out. Just have to roll with it, at least for now.
Click to viewI particularly want to copy/paste this YouTube comment, as it sums up how I feel about most modern writers' approach toward the 1987 series:
Yeah, this special got WAY too close to Turtles Forever territory with its tone and jokes. It's like, you don't need to point out how ludicrous something like the technodrome is, ESPECIALLY considering the premise of your franchise, and everything your iteration did with it up to this point. Just roll with it.
One thing that nobody working on these seems to get is for how self-aware the old toon characters could be, they still played the parts of the hero/villain and took things seriously (as the plot demanded), even before getting into the darker seasons. Heck, the first special knew to dial it back and had the 87 turtles pull their own without having to be lectured; here they are just dumb-asses again. Even when the focus is Bebop and Rocksteady, it still feels like "Yeah, these is how its SUPPOSED to be, you loser ass 87 show".
I for one would've liked to see a scenario in which the old B & R corrupting the new B & R, who get dumber and lazier the more they hang with their original counterparts. Then ,bearing witness to their uselessness, Shredder goes "fuck it, I WILL kick ass myself".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oclZOrCbs4&lc=Ugx5d5FtBPfESEM2n7h4AaABAg
Yeah. This may be the last Public entry for the time being, because I have a new batch of major offline issues to sort out. Just have to roll with it, at least for now.