Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A reboot of an 80s classic, and it was awesome!

SPOILER REVIEW

Finally, finally, finally! I'm finally done with this 155 episode series! It took me 3 or 4 months of casually watching on Wednesday afternoons, (because that's when I have the most time off). But around the season 4 finale, I decided to just binge the rest of the series just to get it over with and get it off my watchlist. It was good and enjoyable for the majority of the series, but after the season 3 finale, it was clear that 4Kids wasn't gonna let their merchandising cash cow go that easily and started milk the series all it's worth and unfortunately that had an effect on the quality of the series overall and lead to some pretty lackluster seasons. The fact that you can just skip seasons 4-7 and you're still all caught up for Turtles Forever is just the most hilarious thing to me.

I guess a good place to start is with the characters, which is probably one of my favorite parts about the show. Leonardo was pretty bland, it's just what you come to expect from this character. I guess they did try to give him an internal conflict in season 4 where he couldn't save his brothers in the season 3 finale and becomes more aggressive and brooding, but he just becomes a worse Raph and his morals are completely out of whack to an insane degree. Like he even at one point cuts open Splinter's head just because "I learned everything", but fortunately he goes back to his bland self during the middle chunk of the season. Donatello was just so boring. It had no personality outside of "the tech wiz" and that's probably the reason why he was the least utilized out of all the turtles. I mean he had also had an internal conflict in season 7 where he blames himself for him and his brothers losing Splinter in cyberspace and starts obsessing over collecting all the bits while distancing his brothers away from him. So basically, its just Leo's arc in season 4 again, but actually relevant to the plot. It wasn't that bad, but he went back to his boring self in the middle of season 7. Raphael was honestly the highlight of all the turtles in this show. I think this type of show really works well with his explosive personality and can lead to fun situations. Raph and Casey have great and natural chemistry together which is something that the other TMNT shows haven't really replicated because of how different his personality and character treats are in those shows