Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2024)

Tatoruzu

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released as a Paramount+ exclusive. All 12 episodes. It's unclear yet if it will ever see a release on Nickelodeon.

As for my thoughts on the series, I've been tweeting about my low expectations in the lead up to the series, and it's pretty much what I thought it would be: not good.

It seems extremely low budget, and the choppy animation makes it very hard to watch.

MNTC summed up my thoughts pretty well in his review of the first episode:

Mr_Toitle

Would it kill you to not support more TMNT slop?

Tatoruzu

Mr_Toitle

I pirated it lol

Shpadoinkle_Day

Tatoruzu Nice, man. Does this mean we'll get a full season smack down? :v

Tatoruzu

Shpadoinkle_Day I don't think I'll be watching the whole thing at this point

CodeXAhex

I really don't want a sequel to mutant mayhem i can wait for the next reboot lol.

helljumper

So it sounds exactly like what I thought this show was at first glance. A half-assed product that exists solely to be pure filler for the MM sequel. I saw someone say the art style looks like fanart a while back and I can't unsee it now lmao

Gort

im just not a big fan of gen alpha comedy turtles. i like the show well enough for what it is but the more i watch the more it seems that what it is, is not for me. i think this is something that works in small doses but if i watch too much of it i just start yearning for a more dramatic take on the turtles. it is better than mutant mayhem tho

Tatoruzu

Gort Yeah, there's no way I could watch this whole show in one sitting

Gort

Tatoruzu i finished the first story today. it was 6 episodes long and really feels like it could have been four or even 3 episodes if they tweaked the pacing a bit. im not saying its toei animation tier but it definitely felt like it dragged. im not sure i want to continue past this point. this iteration of the turtles seem to be selfish and cowardly which isnt something im enjoying a lot either. as is its carried entirely by its art syle and action sequences

CodeXAhex

yeah, they should just drop the new season and start over. It's sad that this series will end up as the new rise, with even less of a fan base to support this slop

Tatoruzu

CodeXAhex The fact that it even received a 6.9 score is shocking to me.

Tatoruzu

The voice of reason

helljumper

So I decided to pirate it, and honestly most of you guys have already summed up my thoughts. The one thing I'll praise it for though is thankfully they dialed back the Gen Alpha-isms and "how do you do fellow kids?" humor. Otherwise, my thoughts on it are roughly the same as what most of you have said

Biggest complaint though was by far how the Turtles were written. They all come off as weak and emasculated. Leo is a cowardly pushover who needs to be given a pep talk (and even bitchslapped) by April to show a shred of confidence, and Donnie is now firmly boxed into the stereotype of the four-eyed, nerdy loser. Nothing about these Turtles felt heroic or inspiring at all.

Tatoruzu

helljumper

they dialed back the Gen Alpha-isms and "how do you do fellow kids?" humor

That's a good point!

I guess it's one small win.

helljumper

Tatoruzu Yeah, it's the least they could've done at that point. Hopefully it stays that way in the 2026 sequel, but the cynic in me doubts it.

Gort

something that really is alarming is both stories have framing devices that seem to be backdoors for future writers to be like "well that didnt actually happen" which would be really really dumb to expand your new movie continuity only to be like "nah didnt happen"