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i want to change my url (from tea-mn-tea)

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@ anyone who sees this: if you have an oc, tell me about them. i love ocs

i’m feeling nostalgic

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an oc idea that could work really well: mole mutant living in sewers. creates the myths of “mole people”

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i am dying of laughter - i don’t use any main tags for anything tmnt 2012 when i criticize it. and i’m still getting (???) angry fans replying to the posts because they’re mad at me (and all involved) for expressing our opinions

let me repeat that. i do not use the main tags.

like. how did you find this blog? why are you here? your takes and opinions are very obviously different than mine. just block me if it upsets you!

instead i get to read the replies (and laugh)

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mini vent

i NEED a break from seeing rise leo and rise donnie content because i can FEEL the resentment toward them already building up but it’s impossible to police how others use their tags so. hiatus i guess

i think i have some things in the queue but not much. i’m giving myself a week and then i’ll see how i feel.

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oh boy, rewatching Rise with 1-2 episodes a day is giving me a new perspective on the whole show (I'm talking mostly about character development, plot, pacing, etc.)

disclaimer: this is NOT meant to discourage anyone from watching the show, nor is it meant to attack anyone who enjoys the points i criticize. these are merely my opinions and i respect anyone who thinks differently from me. 

read more because i'm incapable of keeping my thoughts short:

first off, when i first started watching Rise, i was completely smitten by the show. the first few episodes that aired before the rest of the show started playing on tv, i watched religiously. it was my favorite tmnt iteration for a LONG time and i still hold it near and dear to my heart. 

but it was not perfect. nothing is, really. 

Donnie - i’ve reblogged and mentioned how i didn’t appreciate how the writers handled Donnie’s development in Rise. Again, if you’re a Donnie fan, i can still see why - he’s a fun character. To me it just got old watching him run in circles.

Mikey - i had so many thoughts on my boy so i put it in a separate post - TL;DR Mikey didn’t have much development himself, the episodes he supposedly does were problems that got introduced and solved in the same episode, and Mikey acts as more of a hype-man/therapist and feels more like a background character than a main character. I might be biased cuz he’s my favorite, idc. he deserves more spotlight.

Draxum - season 1, he’s great. It’s season 2 that fell short with me. Not all the post-redemption episodes bugged me, he still feels largely in-character in mystery meat and the finale. I think it was hidden city’s most wanted that really… seemed off to me. Maybe it was the fact he was a teddy bear, idk, but him using Mikey as leverage against Splinter irked me. Draxum and Lou/Splinter had hardly any interaction in goyles, goyles, goyles so their “rivalry” felt really forced. i could see Splinter hating Big Mama since their relationship (was implied to have) lasted WAY longer. Draxum kidnapped and experimented on Lou in the same day and they'd barely met. idk, it felt rushed.

Season Two - i don’t blame the writers for this, i blame nickelodeon for cutting the series short so we didn’t get to experience the series in its rightful glory. but even leading up to the finale, it feels like there’s so many gaps missing in how characters and their dynamics change.

unbalanced focus - related to some of the previous points, but there really does seem to be a lot more episodes revolving around Donnie and Leo more than Raph and Mikey. i get why Leo and Don are fan favorites since they get so much more screen time than the other two, but Raph and Mikey had so much potential that just got shrugged off. Especially Mikey (don't @ me, he deserves better)

yes, the show got cut short. It’s still easily one of my favorites (especially season 1) but there were so many episodes that felt like there was a gap (like characters developed off-screen). I know the writers were pressed for time but season 2 just didn’t quite hit the same. Some of the episodes are still amazing/my favorites, but there’s a couple that really bugged me.

but my biggest complaint is still directed at nickelodeon/viacom for pulling the plug before giving the show a chance. most of these points would probably have been addressed or fixed if we'd gotten the full season 2 the writers had planned for.

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OH GOD

I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO WATCH THE MOVIE BUT I SAW SPOILERS (not mad, i don't have the tags blocked, and it's hyping me up!!)

I CANT WAIT TO SEE IT

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So! With the Rise movie coming up, I just wanna give a heads up: I’ll be watching it as soon as it comes out but I’ll queue any reblogs to be a week later (so starting the 12th) this blog will NOT be spoiler free. I’ll try my best to keep it spoiler free for a week. I’ll be using #rottmnt movie spoilers as my spoiler tag if you’d like to block it.

Now, I don’t consider trailers and promos to be spoilers. If you want to go in completely blind, you may want to block #rottmnt movie for a while.