SweetShark said:
Or like I posted before, April become a Alien Turtle and become the love interest of one [all?] of the turtles.
*Sigh* While yes, I have seen Venus de Milo and the fact that after that terrible live action kid's show they did leave her canon, I would rather have her stay to the obscurity of the slashfic writers. I know, I know April DID turn into a turtle for a brief period (thank you Archie comics) and.. ..... hell, know what? Can't screw up something that's already hit bottom. I'm all for it, and while they're at it. I want the main bad guy to be Commander Mozar, and the turtles have to join up with the mighty mutanimals (Meagan Fox would actually make a pretty damn good Candy Fine) and somewhere toward the end, Ace Duck gets shown flying the Turtle Blimp. (I really, REALLY wish I had to look up any of those references..)
My problem with this is, Bay immediately changed the script to make the turtles aliens. And I have to think to myself, why would you do this? Well I suppose my theory is that five abominations with the backdrop of rooftop/sewer/alley doesn't allow Bay the ability to do what he does best, big war scenes. He'd have to focus very closely on character interaction. As aliens, he can literally spend half the movie if he wants showing the turtoids or whatever he chooses to call them fighting Krang's Armada Fleet then crash landing, and spend the other half of the movie having that kookie military face Krang in an epic war battle with sequel bait saying if you want to actually see the turtles in a real damn movie, maybe pay me loads of money and I'll get around to a Turtles II: Raise From the Sewers.
In the comics, we're finally seeing something closer to the original comic finally get back on way via IDW, with even half the original writers. And if this farce gets made, it could have a drastic and lasting impression on the franchise from here on out. I have a bad feeling it's being designed and marketed for the same crowd that Bay marketed the Transformers for. Not the fans. Not the guys whom cared and stuck with it to see a revival, but the tank top wearing, Jersey Shores watching, Miller-damn-Lite drinking Bro culture that will come to the theater to see a bunch of explosions and tanks and crap, a little bit of wire-fu, and boobs.
If it makes money hand over fist, they push it. Even at the cost of the fans, and regardless of the show. It worked in the movies, lets make the next cartoon around that premise, or the next comic. I mean, if he WANTED to ignore the characters and make an alien movie, couldn't he have just went with Bucky O'Hare? That's sat in the mothballs so long it doesn't matter what you do to it. (Not Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys thought, I enjoyed that immensely and would buy the rights to it myself if I was able too.)
I guess it's really not about who plays April O'Neal to me, so much as I know I won't see the original comic on the big screen (B&W ultra-violent ninja story.. directed by Quentin Tarantino or Guillermo del Toro) or the new comic on the big screen (Achromatic semi-gritty ultra-violent ninja story.. directed by I dunno, Park Chan-Wook or Prachya Pinkaew I suppose). So what's the point?
