Man, a guy is gone for a couple of days and suddenly the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are aliens. Everything that I thought was real in this world has been upended and, as usual, Michael Bay is to blame.
But let me back up, last week we noticed that yet another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was coming in 2013 and that we knew pretty much nothing else about it. Well, the producer of that reboot, Transformers director Michael Bay, clearly read that article and decided to throw us a bone. So, at a presser for Nickelodeon, he revealed that “these turtles are from an alien race,” according to Screen Rant. Aliens who come to Earth to sell us toys is certainly familiar thematic ground to Bay, but the fans were unconvinced. And by “unconvinced” I mean incredibly, chair-throwingly angry (can we all take a moment to enjoy that I just linked to an article in The Guardian bemoaning the fact that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are aliens) which, if that idea was so important to the success of the TMNT franchise, why didn't all these people go see the 2007 cartoon version where the turtles were indeed mutants. Perhaps these people just demand accuracy in their movie titles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-Like Aliens would not have the same ring to it?
Michael Bay is more than a mere man, or even a mere filmmaker. He is an artist and if he wants aliens in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie then, damnit, there's going to be aliens. And you haven't even, like, read the script or anything Internet, so just shut up, okay! Seriously, the guy had to put out an official statement that said “Fans need to take a breath, and chill. They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of [Teenage Mutant] Ninja Turtles to help expand and give a more complex back story.” What's next Bay? No pizza? Will the turtles all be named Bieber so the younger generation can empathize with them more? Seriously, give me a call; I've got a million of these and I couldn't care less about the integrity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
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