One question I'd like to know, since the live-action version of TMNT: Mutant Chaos was cancelled and this version will end with the movie, is: what do you expect from a future new version of TMNT, such as a new live-action film and possibly a new TMNT cartoon?
Like, would you prefer a more serious tone like 2003 and 2012, or a lighter, more comedic tone like the two most recent versions of TMNT? April returning to her more classic design like her most remembered version from '87, or continuing with her current design?
I think this is a very interesting topic to discuss.
See this is a tough question for me cause I genuinely don't know?
I've said this before, but TMNT zero is basically just my ideal version of tmnt (as best as I can make it by myself, anyway) all I'm doing here is re-writing the story in a way that I would like to see it play out.
That being said, I think one of TMNT's biggest strengths and the only reason it has lasted as long as it has in pop culture is BECAUSE of it's reinvention. If it was still the same way it had been in the 90's it would have died long ago. But instead, it's still popular with children and adults alike. Why? because it's willing to change and adapt and try new things. Same as MLP or transformers. The goal with these types of franchises is longevity, not legend. So my opinions about how the franchise "should" go are very different then they would be if I was discussing something like httyd or lion king.
That being said, what would I, personally, like to see from it?
Well I definitely prefer the serious tone. I know you categorized rise as "comedic" in this, and it is, but what I think it has that 2003 and anything before it doesn't is that it also takes itself very seriously in some key pivotal moments and it let's it's characters feel the emotions associated. 2003 should have let the boys hug and/or cry when they needed to I will die on that hill. I want more of that. Tottmnt had some excellent opportunities for really good, angsty plot points and they never took it with the weight it deserved.
I get it. "Teenage mutant ninja turtles" is a ridiculous concept, but we're all here aren't we? So humor us and take the threats seriously.
Visually I want cartoons, 100%. I have a lot of criticisms for Mutant Mayhem but the visual style will never be one of them because the unique spin they put on the visual style was PERFECT. I also think that Rise and tales are both some of the best tmnt cartoons visually. They have personality and the action scenes are so on point.
I've never liked tmnt in live action. Bayverse and the 90's films are both so visually offputting for me, I do not like them. I don't think it's impossible to make a live action turtle that looks good, but I do think the people who get the final say over most tmnt content have a pretty awful idea of what looks good in 3D. Like please sir, stop giving them lips and stop putting so much emphasis on the teeth, and stop making them beef-caked like they're on steroids, these are supposed to be teenagers.
I'm super biased tho. I will always always always prefer animation to live action.
As for April? No preference. He design doesn't mean bumpkis to me, she is beautiful as a white woman and she's gorgeous as a black woman, and TMNT is canonically a multiverse so we can have both at once and that entire debate is silly and awful.
Just so long as they don't objectify her and give her a good personality, I'll be happy.
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