>>9993489I can confirm it's a decent show. Most people rejected it because of how different it was. Something can be good, but be different enough to become a "bridge too far" for a lot of people. The turtle designs were already radically different and it was a major change up to make Raph the leader, and Splinter's design was very different compared to previous interpretations. But that's burying the lead here, which is the controversy the show created over April O'Neil's race, because people have a very specific opinion on characters and doing a race swap on a major character is not going to go unnoticed. But what made it even bigger was all the websites doing bullshit stories and revisionist history trying to justify it(perhaps Nickelodeon paid to have articles written?) claiming that April was always intended to be black in the first place, which was untrue. They'd often show an out of context panel or two from her third appearance from when she got her new hairdo and claim that she was clearly black. Kevin Eastman commented on the matter in one of the collected editions of the comics saying that they initially drew her a bit ambiguous because they weren't sure if they wanted her to be white or asian. But Peter Laird has said that she was always intended to be white and is white in his opinion, and has inferred that Kevin Eastman is sort of a revisionist who talks out his ass and tells people what they want to hear(Peter's autistic about his creation and often acts like Kevin is betraying him). Also these websites would always say that April O'Neil was based on Eastman's former wife who the character was named after, which they always claim was a black woman or a half black woman, but when you google a picture of her she looks like a white woman. I think this controversy and the articles twisting facts helped poison the show for people.
