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I wasn't much a fan of the rebooted series, I thought the inclusion of the new character took too much focus. Almost felt to me more like a fan fiction ending w

I wasn't much a fan of the rebooted series, I thought the inclusion of the new character took too much focus. Almost felt to me more like a fan fiction ending with someone's OC

k__ 1y ago
I watched the whole series because of some clips from the new season. The new stuff felt more mature to me and the old stuff more like a kids show. Overall I liked both, but I get it, the new stuff felt a bit off.
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- Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  I suspect this is because the target audience is the original audience, which is now 12 years older; probably the same for all the other reboots.
- AdmiralAsshat 1y ago
  It's worth noting that the original four seasons were on Cartoon Network prime time, while the revival season explicitly aired on Adult Swim. So yes, the target audience was older (or, more likely, the target audience was the group of kids who watched the original series that aged into adults while the show was off the air). You always got the sense from the original that SJ was held back by the censors (Jack has cartoon Wolverine syndrome--he's got a legendary cutting edge, but is only allowed to use it on doors and robots). But I agree, after four seasons of borderline pacifist Jack, suddenly flipping to "Oh, I guess Jack kills people now" hand-waived away by a flashback of his father using lethal force when necessary, was a bit jarring and tonally inconsistent.
  - BearOso 1y ago
    You refer to it as Wolverine syndrome, but I also remember it with TMNT and Leonardo. With the cartoon version, they made all the foot clan robots to get around it. It's also quite the shock to read the original comics and find out the turtles love beer, and Leonardo stabs and kills the shredder (permanently) in something like the first issue.
lelandfe 1y ago
12 years on you can get the original creator back to storyboard everything, hire back the old VO team, and still have people complaining the show is too different :P
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- CursedSilicon 1y ago
  Most of the old VO team Makoto Iwamatsu (Aku) died in 2006 :(
usefulcat 1y ago
I liked the fifth season because they needed to do something different with the story. I feel like they had hit the point of diminishing returns by end of the previous four seasons.
- thatguy0900 1y ago
  I think they could have honestly done the same thing but no new character, have jack retrace his steps to see old characters and that he actually had been making a difference the whole time before finding a time portal and beating aku.

I wasn't much a fan of the rebooted series, I thought the inclusion of the new character took too much focus. Almost felt to me more like a fan fiction ending with someone's OC

k__ 1y ago

I watched the whole series because of some clips from the new season. The new stuff felt more mature to me and the old stuff more like a kids show. Overall I liked both, but I get it, the new stuff felt a bit off.

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Cthulhu_ 1y ago
I suspect this is because the target audience is the original audience, which is now 12 years older; probably the same for all the other reboots.
AdmiralAsshat 1y ago
It's worth noting that the original four seasons were on Cartoon Network prime time, while the revival season explicitly aired on Adult Swim. So yes, the target audience was older (or, more likely, the target audience was the group of kids who watched the original series that aged into adults while the show was off the air). You always got the sense from the original that SJ was held back by the censors (Jack has cartoon Wolverine syndrome--he's got a legendary cutting edge, but is only allowed to use it on doors and robots). But I agree, after four seasons of borderline pacifist Jack, suddenly flipping to "Oh, I guess Jack kills people now" hand-waived away by a flashback of his father using lethal force when necessary, was a bit jarring and tonally inconsistent.
- BearOso 1y ago
  You refer to it as Wolverine syndrome, but I also remember it with TMNT and Leonardo. With the cartoon version, they made all the foot clan robots to get around it. It's also quite the shock to read the original comics and find out the turtles love beer, and Leonardo stabs and kills the shredder (permanently) in something like the first issue.

lelandfe 1y ago

12 years on you can get the original creator back to storyboard everything, hire back the old VO team, and still have people complaining the show is too different :P

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CursedSilicon 1y ago
Most of the old VO team Makoto Iwamatsu (Aku) died in 2006 :(

usefulcat 1y ago

I liked the fifth season because they needed to do something different with the story. I feel like they had hit the point of diminishing returns by end of the previous four seasons.

thatguy0900 1y ago
I think they could have honestly done the same thing but no new character, have jack retrace his steps to see old characters and that he actually had been making a difference the whole time before finding a time portal and beating aku.