And the permanence of the work means certain versions become iconic.
Iconic:
I do I put my thoughts into words that don't project even more thirst? The version of April from the first cartoon is like a late 80s reinvention of Lois Lane, with all the same descriptors that feminists and wokists should love: independent, brave, driven, smart (smarter than Vernon), and on. But importantly, I think, not too
sensible. That's what lets her investigative journalism and the subsequent peril become the hook for the turtles to get involved in many plots. Because she's
not a match for weirdo ninjas, mutants and aliens - incompetent as they are otherwise - and that's fine.
All later cartoon versions of April became too sensible, and that gradually changed as political correctness and wokistry warped the meaning of 'sensible'. 2003 April went back to being a lab tech. Girls in STEM! That's okay. But she also got just a touch of the Mary-Sues and became too fucking boring. I tried watching the show until the turtles got shot forward in time. I looked at the giant statue erected to the glory of Toni Stark and I almost retched.
I didn't watch the 2012 series, expect one or two episodes that I found partly entertaining, partly obnoxious. April's de-aged, fine, but I hear they trained her as a ninja? Well WTF was the point in that? They've already got four or five teenage ninjas running about there! Sacrificing the distinctiveness of her role, in favour of the 'sensible' option of showing her doing and being what any
male can do, like some CGI pooner.
By the 2018 series I had so little investment in turtles or cartoons I barely cared. Looks shit. April remains a teen and is the latest victim of the race-swapping trend, which is 'sensible' because otherwise little black girls will have the sads, or some shit.
Now Mutant Mayhem. It's progressive! Look at the progression! Stick in the mud. Teenage stick in the mud. Black teenage stick in the mud. Obese black teenage stick in the mud.
Obese black teenage stick in the mud!
Obese black teenage stick in the mud!
Obese black teenage stick in the mud!
Shero with a sickle cell, black lives matter!
TL; DR: I only like the version I saw as a kid. And I liked the version I saw as a kid because it was stacked.
