YeAH, I liked it when Splinter appears to them

yep, i did too, just like in the TMNT movie, the 90s version.

I remember that scene in the 90 version of TMNT. amazing how a puppet can carry so many human emotions. the students are only as good as their master.

well, the puppets and suits for the movie were done my the jim henson company, so it was no surprise there.
yeah, so very true, splinter was a very good master so they became good students.

jim Henson of course. like sesame street( my early childhood) , the dark crystal and labyrinth. still debating on which origin story of splinter is true; he was once human as the ninja master Hamoto Yoshi or was he a pet rat of Hamono Yoshii? or does it really matter?

yeah, it has been really debatable for years which splinter origin story is true, in the cartoon series he a ninja master into a mutant rat and in the movie he as pet rat that belonged to a ninja master and in the newest movie they changed his origin story to splinter and turtles were once test subjects in a lab that escaped. so really, who knows which is most true, i think the one from the comics is most true because that is how TMNT started. i think it was first origh story i mentioned but i can't really remember.

all those variations of the TMNT origin story also beg the question for the multidimensional interface. like in the sci-fi show sliders. same universe with their own unique frequencies. the "what ifs" to put it more bluntly.

yeah, that is very true too.

like how the villain krang originated from dimension x . love how the shredder was in shadow during the first course of the 1990 movie and got a big reveal in the middle. he only showed his skill against all four of the turtles right at the very end. which version of the fight between the turtle and the stredder is better; the 1990 version practical effects or the 2014 version with cgi?

wow, that is really a tough choice, i mean obviously the shredder and the turtles look better in the 90s version, but the fight scenes actually look better in the 2014 one mostly because they are choreographed better, their moves look like actual ninjitsu moves while the moves in the 90s movie looked more random. like when the turtles used that puk puk move to kick shredder off the platform, that was actually pretty cool. i don't really remember the turtles doing anything like that in the 90s movie.

i would give the 2014 movie more props for their fight choreography based off of the martial arts of ninjitsu while I give some prop for the subtly of the 1990 movies despite their randomness in the fighting style that's a cut off from a Shaw Brothers flick. different timeline has difference taste. what was hip and cool then is now dated. that's with almost everything right?

fair enough with the fight scenes. so very true, as a kid i thought the 90s movie was the best thing ever, looking back on it now i still do like the movie, but now i notice all the flaws and mishaps.

the ravages of time can be so cruel.

meh, yeah, it is just part of growing up.