#i really did miss watching this show

[turtle--soup]

Finally got around to watching TMNT Next Mutation again! It's been forever 😭

Ramblings under the cut...

Episode 12

Love Mikey having this pirate radio station? That’s a very Mikey thing to do actually, I genuinely really like this as a concept.

Don't do drugs kids!

Yes! Bonesteel! I love this guy so much look at this goofball.

Oh he has a new girlfriend weapon

Are you... broadcasting this Mikey? Fight scenes don't really translate well to radio my dude...

So many shell necklaces in one shot! It sure is the 90s!

The Unknowables? Nice - somehow you managed to make your gang sound like an edgy TV drama from the 2010s.

''You hate Mikey's show" "I don't hate Michelangelo..." Awww! I know that saying you 'don't hate' your son isn't exactly cute but that line delivery and the fact that he doesn't like the show but wants to listen to it anyway because it's Mikey... 🥺

Venus and Raph not wanting to hang out with humans... valid. Same.

Splinter gets it too.

I see why the anti drug message of they're hosting a rave. Not like raves are exactly known for not being full of drugs really. So... raves are cool but drugs are not, got it? You can go to cool raves, but only if it's for charity and there are no drugs (or any kind of drinks or anything by the looks of things as well...)

I'm never going to get over how negative this Leo is. He always seems mad about having to help people? Who are you? What have you done with my blue boy?

That guy calling out the costumes... 😆

Ooh strobe effects.

Mikey has one of Those Hats.

"What's under that shell?" "Mace." Yeah you tell him Venus.

Bonesteel's fancy dress outfit is just so good though

Raph is finally having fun now he gets to fight lol. Wasn't that basically how it was in Secret of the Ooze too? He was miserable about being at a club but then he got to kick some ass and he was happy about that?

So many moral messages in this here episode. Don't hunt animals for sport guys! Protect endangered animals!

Episode 13

I loved that bit with Raph and Mikey just goofing around? Cute! Also it makes so much sense that Raph would think that having a cool car would be a key element to Batman being cooler than Superman lol. I love the chili pepper gum prank too, it's such a Mikey thing to do and then following it up by saying that he actually just really likes the taste of it as well? Love that!

Oh and it's plot relevant! Awesome, good job guys!

Queeease! Sarcastic little prick I missed him.

Honestly the more I watch of this show the more obvious it is that it's a live action cartoon. I get the feeling that some of the people who hate on this show are somehow not seeing that and expecting something more serious? Is it because it's live action??

Oh that's unsettling... Raph clone... is he a robot?? Like he's got to be a clone, that's what Quease was doing. But. He acts like a robot. And kind of makes robot noises?

Clean your teeth! Learn stuff! Moral messages! This show has value - don't worry parents and teachers of America!

The Green Menace...

"Make it so." Dragon Picard...

"Looks like the toaster escaped" Venus says the cutest things sometimes. 😊

"I think it's cute" - she's adorable.

Why with the burp sound effect?

Why is the eyeball making baby noises??

Yessss the sexy intros to the vehicles! Raph and roll! I missed you!

This clone thing has so much potential.

Why do they act like robots though?

"WhadidyaDOTOIM???" Quease's line delivery is just so good sometimes. 😘👌

Do they even know what clones are? I'm so confused... Like... they keep calling the clones "Robo [character name]". ????

Carbonised in liquid nitrogen? Is that a thing?

"You don't do science, you do evil" Aw, Donnie...

"Let's book..." wait. Leo...? Isn't there a bit in 2003 where the others figure out that Leo's been hijacked by Jammerhead because he would never say that? Lol...*

Episode 14

Batman and Robin poster oh noooo. That's two Batman mentions in the space of two episodes, and there was at least one before this...

Oh Wick i missed you. Please make friends with Mikey you're clearly a fan.

The 'we're fantastic never panic' line always gets me like... that's not a great lyric and also false

I love that Raph is getting cute little bonding scenes in these last couple of episodes. Mikey then Venus. Please continue this trend with all of them.

Leo is a such an idiot.

Little green lie...

"I've never told a lie in my life..." bro, come on.

You... eat them? You think listening to the radio is mutiny? So many things wrong with this dragon man.

Flush a stamped addressed envelope down the toilet lol

"Kiss my shell Leo NERDO." "Love to." ??? Guys??? Leo do you know how trash talking works???

"You don't count - you're family" - see??? They said it!!!! Mikey says this to Venus after she says that she and the other turtles and Splinter are Mikey's fans... so what about all that "we're not actually related so it's fine if we hit on the girl turtle" business? Make up your damn minds guys!

Aw Mikey...

How does this lie detector even work bro? You can just use a recording??

Why is Mikey acting like everyone is telling him he's wrong when they're all divided and most of them agree that there's a chance that Wick might be telling the truth?

Dragons can't spell. Or read.

"We do love your show, just Majesty wants to eat you" lol

Aw Donnie... smashing up his invention because he blames himself for getting Mikey into trouble... 😢

Tech bo...

We haven't had a suit up in a while either. I say 'suit up'. I mean they all grab their weapons.

Knock knock it's Leo

Oh that's definitely booby trapped come on bro

Yeah. It was booby trapped.

"At least I've cornered the bald green girl market" That's the spirit Mikey

"Tuddul. Book." wtf Leo. Also again with the book thing. I am going to find that clip from 2003...*

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I missed Next Mutation so much! I do genuinely love this stupid show - it is not a well made show by any means, but it's fun!

* it was "bag it" not book it. Ah well.

[dannydanoninoo]

So you mean to tell me that Disney writters decided it was very much okay to write

Heterosexual selfcest

Whatever the fuck this dependency shit was between an older authority figure and a subordinate

And now A FUCKING AI CARTTOON BEING IN LOVE WITH IT'S CREATOR

But they drew the line at a gay ship? One that has an AMAZING chemistry and a build up of friendship and trust where they would both die for each other?

LOKI WRITTERS WTF ARE YOU DOING DUDES?

[ineedmojoe]

when you take a step back, it really is funny because the creator of the show said, "so, i'm pretty much writing this couple's story as a romcom," and a contingent of people still decided to say, "they're clearly MISERABLE!"

[captn3]

fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw

og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more

[cementcornfield]

Joe and Jake goofin' around on the sideline 🥲

[sunflowerdigs]

Loki is in love with someone he can never be with and y'all are still asking why he's wearing depression loafers with his jammies for all eternity. He may be a full god and a hero now, but he's still Loki.

[pass3ra]

cressida's storyline was genuinely shameful tbhhh it's like they started rewriting it in the first half of the season then completely forgot about the changes they'd made to make it fit the book plot and it just ends up making everyone else look bad😐 every character in the second half got a "penelope did nothing wrong" lobotomy so we ended up with eloise completely ignoring cressida being sold off to an horrible man (when she made every effort to support her in the first half of the season) and for some reason resenting her for pretending to be lady whistledown? Then they somehow frame her ignoring colin's offensively bad pleas as it being her turning away from redemption when all she's trying to do is escape being trapped in the country with her likely abusive aunt... and it ends with her meeting her horrible fate and it still being framed as tragic only to immediately juxtapose it with the bridgerton family winning the idgaf war while gleefully seeing off francesca and her future dead husband. The bridgertons were the villains of the season frfr

[milolunde]

Weeeeeeeell, Timmy is kind of 10? There was that whole thing about his wish to stay a kid forever and then it was revealed that he kept everyone in town the same age for like 30 years so he's only kind of 10?

I dunno tho I've only seen videos talking about this

Yes BUT ☝️

The only reason he made that wish is because he is 10.

He likely wasn’t able to mature in that time, permanently 10 and just knowing he made the wish out of fear of losing Cosmo and Wanda (and Poof? I don’t remember when in the series this happens) the only positive adult present in his life forever, not even allowed to remember them. His life before Cosmo and Wanda was living in a neglectful home with an abusive babysitter which went unnoticed because the ones who should have been there to notice, his school teachers, were also abusive— and the only people who would’ve been able to realize the abusive staff, his parents, were neglecting him, it’s a cycle.

Even if, being aware of the wish, Timmy knew it had been 50 years of being 10, 50 years of experiencing life, his body and brain were still stuck at 10 years old, physically incapable of realizing the detriment of “I’ve trapped everyone in a time loop” beyond his personal detriment of “my godparents, my only family, are going to leave me and this is the only way to keep them.”

Timmy Turner was JUST 10 YEARS OLD!!!

[chialattea]

Another day, another Baby 5 sketch while watching stuff.

[gunsatthaphan]

“no one will come in here again, right?”

[mariocki]

RIP Kenneth Cope (14.4.1931 - 11.9.2024)

"Michael Pratt and I just gelled. We had never met previously but we got on so well. Michael wrote, and we had such a great relationship that we would just change lines, and we were both on the same wavelength. That was such a lucky, lucky thing."

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Understandably So no one mentions charles when talking about the Logan movie and again Understandably So This Aint Bout Him however i do confess that as someone who had never seen Logan until like. a month ago when i was binging all the movies and without knowing a single thing about it aside from laura i cant lie i was in fact jumpscared by him being there. especially for at least like 3/4s of the movie

[batfamfucker]

Appreciation post for 'girly girl' characters and/or shows that celebrate traditionally feminine things that girls and women are shamed for.

Characters on this list that love makeup, fashion, hair, etc. Characters that are still written as strong, intelligent, brave, etc. That told young girls that these interests are valid, they are not lesser interests. Being feminine and liking traditionally feminine things does not make them weak.

[zafiro-anyejo]

My brother dragged me to see Deadpool 3. Didn't like it very much. But some of the jokes were funny. Idk man. I'm so tired of multiverses and nothing really meaning anything and characters just getting sidelined/being told things and not shown. Have some heart ffs. Make me feel something. Ugh.

[grinchwrapsupreme]

there's this thing in theatre called "cue-to-cue" where you go through the play with minimal to no actual acting or lines, just the actors moving to the spots they will be in when certain lighting and sound effect happen, in order to line things up tech-wise, so watching it has the feel of watching the play with none of the content or meaning and the whole thing is supposed to be done very quickly. Certain parts of Netflix's The Witcher felt like watching a cue-to-cue in that it felt like the characters were just arriving at a place they were supposed to be in, muttering out parts of the scene, and then quickly moving to the next spot they're supposed to be in, like the writers of the show were cue-to-cuing the books, knowing where the characters were "supposed to be" without actually displaying why to a useful degree

the one that particularly stood out to me was the confrontation between Ciri and Cahir where, first of all, Ciri finding Geralt and Yennifer after leaving Jaskier was already very abrupt and lacking reaction, but then running into Cahir and him begging Ciri to kill him? That bit bothered me. Specifically because it all felt very quick and surface level, like the writers knew where the characters were supposed to be and what they were meant to be doing without really giving it space to be examined, so we get that tension between Ciri and Cahir as she holds the sword to his throat and then, just as abruptly, the people on horseback are approaching and Cahir just gets up and goes to fight them off without really any acknowledgment of his desire to be killed literal seconds ago beyond i guess the implication that he's willing to die here, and then he's face to face with these 5 horseback riders, brandishing his sword, and it's so obvious there's nothing he can really do to fight them off, there's literally 5 of them and they already look like they're just gonna brush right past, like Cahir is hitting invisible cues without the substance behind it

and I do think this feeling was worse in the third season than in the first two, but it did bother me enough that i sort of immediately lost interest in Cahir, because the quickness of that scene removed the intensity of it for me, and there were many scenes like it (Jaskier and Radovid's scenes for example) that gave the feeling that what should have been a whole play was reduced to a quick 15 minute run through where the cast are just moving from one spot to the next and it's okay because we'll do the whole thing at the dress rehearsal later

[priapussdick]

so i just finished unknown