dexatekrip
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The new announcement about TMNT got me to thinking.
Often times, when a series hits a slump or creative suit types decide that they want to meddle in things unnecesarily - a series concept gets changed - sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse - in hopes of keeping the franchise alive.
In some cases - like Scooby doo - the introduction of a new character can both keep it alive or slowly kill it.
In some cases - like the Smurfs - the settings and periods can change, and the series won't survive.
or in some cases - like Pokemon or Power Rangers - the series CONSTANTLY reinvents itself to remain fresh and active.
TMNT 2K3 reinvented itself similar to how the Smurfs did - by introducing an overreaching arc of Time Travel. the cancellation of NBC's Saturday morning lineup and lagging ratings are what did in Smurfs, but as far as I can think of TMNT 2K3 is the only series that actually tried this concept of "time travelling" thier characters or shunting them off to a distant locale, only to have them actually "make it home."
I can't think of another cartoon series that's actually done that so quickly. Heck, it took Zombie Island and "forgetting about Scrappy" several decades later to even get Scooby Doo back to par. the Smurfs thing was only ever resolved in its original format - the comics.
So what cartoon series have retooled itself drastically - either through time travel or some other sort of hokey gimmick - and actually made it back to their main storyline or "thier main era" - relatively still going? Is TMNT the only one? There has to be something else that i'm just not thinking of.
Often times, when a series hits a slump or creative suit types decide that they want to meddle in things unnecesarily - a series concept gets changed - sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse - in hopes of keeping the franchise alive.
In some cases - like Scooby doo - the introduction of a new character can both keep it alive or slowly kill it.
In some cases - like the Smurfs - the settings and periods can change, and the series won't survive.
or in some cases - like Pokemon or Power Rangers - the series CONSTANTLY reinvents itself to remain fresh and active.
TMNT 2K3 reinvented itself similar to how the Smurfs did - by introducing an overreaching arc of Time Travel. the cancellation of NBC's Saturday morning lineup and lagging ratings are what did in Smurfs, but as far as I can think of TMNT 2K3 is the only series that actually tried this concept of "time travelling" thier characters or shunting them off to a distant locale, only to have them actually "make it home."
I can't think of another cartoon series that's actually done that so quickly. Heck, it took Zombie Island and "forgetting about Scrappy" several decades later to even get Scooby Doo back to par. the Smurfs thing was only ever resolved in its original format - the comics.
So what cartoon series have retooled itself drastically - either through time travel or some other sort of hokey gimmick - and actually made it back to their main storyline or "thier main era" - relatively still going? Is TMNT the only one? There has to be something else that i'm just not thinking of.