i like that you focused more on your own experience engaging with rise rather than focusing on reviewing the more objective things. we praise rise so much for its artistic and narrative achievements and sometimes forget to mention what it means to us as individuals. thanks for sharing 💕 also your view on the krang is totally valid. maybe it's just because I've been a long time tmnt fan and have seen some ✨rough✨ iterations of the krang, so these ones are my favorite and so exciting to watch for me, but from the perspective of a first time tmnt viewer, i can definitely see how they'd be kinda meh. i guess there's only so much you can do with a movie villain. 😔
Thank you :D I really think there was something valuable in sharing my own experience, and I appreciate stout sharing yours as well :] My view on the Krang was really my one hot take 😭
OH. MI. GOSH. I have never in my life had seen someone said so many things that i thought. Rottmnt, gender envy, autism crisis, hyperfixation, being nonbinary, over attachment to fictional characters, the fandom as a safe space. All of it i had felt for months now with this show without talking about it with anyone. This is just what i needed, and couldn't keep myself from happy stimming all 23 minutes. Just thank you.
THE FACT THAT YOU WERE HAPPY STIMMING MEANS SO MUCH TO ME. I remember happy stimming while watching other video essays about rottmnt, and I'm so glad I can give that to someone else too 😭 Also it's so cool that you could see yourself in my experience! I really hoped for something like that when I decided to share
IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE EXPERIENCING WHAT I AMMMM I didn’t know that my “me being weird” traits were me being autistic until just recently And by recently I mean like, the past 2 weeks
DUDE. DUDE... Okay, to be honest, I felt kind of... embarrassed with how obsessed I've been with this show the past few weeks? (The past two days I've been uh... CONCERNINGLY hyperfixiated on it...) I think that's mainly just because everyone around me-family, friends, even people online-expresses how much they dislike it. And I gotta admit, I can see why they'd hate it at first glance. It seems quite immature and fast paced-but I wish they'd sit through more then five minutes of the show and realize it's so much more than that! Anyhow, my point is, it makes me really happy to know I'm not the only one decending into madness over ROTTMNT. I also HEAVILY relate to Donnie, and weirdly enough his character has also caused me to reflect on my neurodivergence?? AND THE GENDER ENVY THING. I actually YELPED when you mentioned that because I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE HAVING GENDER ENVY FOR FUCKING ANIMATED TURTLES. Istg. I'm gonna bash my head against a wall. 😂 Anyway, I loved this video. Your voice is very soothing as well. 💛
Honestly don't let those people who don't like the show get you down!! They're entitled to their opinion of course but the show really is so much more than what it would appear to be at first glance. Thank you for enjoying the video :D I'm really glad my experience of gender envy for the turtles resonated with you!!! I'm sure you'll find there's a lot more people who think the same way, so we're not alone!! GOD WHY ARE THEY GENDER, THEY'RE TURTLES
Rise of the TMNT was part of my Autistic journey too. To see a character so open about displaying their autistic traits helped me actually internalize that it wasnt wrong to have them or display them openly around my close friends. I'm glad that Donatello helped me internalize this idea, as now I feel safer about expressing my behavioral quirks around my close family and friends again such as stimming and nicking phrases and quotes from the media I like (particularly Rise). I feel a lot better now that I know I can be autistic and accepted for it.
This was so nice to hear :'] Rise has had me feeling a lot more comfortable expressing my autistic traits as well. It's so wonderful when media can impact us positively like this.
I was initially really scared of getting into the fandom, as I have had past experiences in the 2012 fandom that were *ahem* not fun. I was so very pleasantly surprised to see that the Rise fandom is just so chill and welcoming, and fights are few and far between. I’ve been here for a few weeks, which is more than what could be said for other fandoms!
to be honest, i am an animator and some rise scenes were always trtending on animation twitter, thats how i fell down the rabbithole and binged the whole thing after the movie came out, when it was new on my netflix page. It was harder for me to access the series, but it was worth it in the end. After the whole thing i was in an emotional func as well because i related to donie in so many things in an unhealty level. I was never diagnosed with stuff but seeing him made me happy and less alone, just labeled wierd by my family and others. Since i made some impulsive art from the turtles, and a comic as well. I really fell down this hole and i dont really wanna come out yet, or at least i jump back in when the work and life stuff is done so i can relay here. many fantastic and supportive artists and voice actors are there and just a generally fun time. Welcome to the wholesome fandom which is rottmnt. And seriosly this video was so well edited omfg. it must have took forever.
Ugh yes the show really should be praised for it's animation, thank you for sharing your story as well :] And thank you for the welcome into the fandom! I feel pretty at home here, even if I haven't talked much to people, there's so many cool artists I look up to, and I've been inspired to create my own art for the show as well. Fellow Donnie relater
@@mars.mp3 i can relate how much time it takes to edit. I have seperate channels for seperate languages and interest like 6 in total and one mostly features game openinons, like your video essays just vithout the mascot in the front or the effects on top of the footage. i just do it like scissors and glue. some videos even take half a year to edit if i want to make it more quality. just to snipe out specific shots from hours of gameplay. so yea kuddos for the mountan of work you put into this.
@@kirasigncomics Editing really is just so tedious. My pngtuber/avatar honestly takes off a bit of the workload because I don't need relevant clips for every minute. Cudos to you too though for being an editor!!
I'm so happy it inspired you! :D I honestly just really wanted to share my love for the show, and I'm not good at analyzing stuff like some other good rise video essayists, so i approached it in the way i could!
I fell into this amazing show this week, binged everything, and am hyper fixating like mad. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this strongly about an animated show, and even then… there’s nothing quite like the special mix this one has. I just can’t get over the deep sadness and anger that we got so little. The amazing people who worked on this labour of love deserve the world
I am very happy that A LOT more people have been getting into the show after the movie. I watched rise before the movie came out but I wasn’t really attached to it or as interested as I was now. I was obsessing over another fandom so I’m pretty sure that didn’t help me focus on this masterpiece of a show. But after the movie I started contemplating my life choices regretting that I should’ve gotten into the show a lot sooner 😭🤣 I began to realize how amazing the characters are and how underrated this show is.
i am also a disaster who only started watching the series because 1. i heard donnie was autistic, & 2. THEY ARE SO GENDER OMG (especially the disaster twins) and i immediately fell in love and have been obsessed with these turtles since. edit: also, when you mentioned the need to absorb all of donnie's speech patterns.... same. just same.
I only recently learned about hyper fixation. I was diagnosed as autistic when I was 9 I was young and from an early age, I was told that I had “special interests” that can dominate my interactions with others. Like my conversations or thoughts. But I didn’t think hyper fixation was a part of the process of developing a special interest. I thought your special interests are hobbies or subjects you 100% love no matter what and can’t ever stop talking about. For instance, I have a special interest in animation But that doesn't mean I every show that’s animated I automatically love, when I talk to other people who aren’t autistic, I’m told “then that’s not your special interest” But when it comes to certain shows, songs, books, or concepts I found myself in weird off-and-on relationships with them. Tmnt is one of them. In 2013 I fell in love with the 2012 version of the show and had a cult-like watch pattern with the show and weirdly enough it started a weird hyper fixation on not only the turtls but also “apritello” (Donnie x April) I was a kid at the time and didn’t know how creepy Donnie's actions were in that version nor realize how mean April was to him. But the “will they, won't they” and “friends to lovers” concepts just became a big hyper-fixation of mine. I am a hopeless romantic after all. I would look up cute apritello fanfics and save cute fanart as my wallpaper. But I noticed at after the third season I fell out of love with the show. I just felt burnt out. When I reheard about the show getting a reboot I didn’t care. I remember only hearing racist things about April’s new design and as a black girl myself, I liked the representation but I saw that if anyone openly said they liked her new design they would get a lot of hate so I kinda backed away from the show. I picked up the show recently. I heard that the show already had been put through the wringer. First season out through hell. The second season was cut in half then forced to be rewritten into a series finally within only two months? I heard the show was on pause, meaning we could get more in the future depending on ratings. However, I tried to not get my hopes up. I went into the show. Depressed art collage student with storyboards due and failing classes. Too tired to get out of bed. And I was hooked on Donnie. And again I was hooked on the thought of apritello. Within this version the relationship is soooo healthy, it works great for both platonic and romantic, so I can see it going both ways. I know most people think of them as a sibling-type relationship because the 2012 version just completely ruined the concept of them being in a romantic relationship forever and I’m 1000% ok with that. And I can see why their relationship works better as an older sister relationship and why it’s better overall. But I still found myself with this weird hyperfiction with the ship once again. it made me redownload Tumbler which is something I haven’t touched in years. I just to find more headcanons and fanart. I think my hopeless romanticness mixed with my love for the relationship and the Tmnt just matched together way too well with ROTTMNT cause it’s so healthy and I needed a healthy relationship in my own life. Now that the show is on pause, I don’t know how to feel, I told myself to not get too attached. But I did. It sucks but it’s also a weird situation I’ve found myself in. I’m looking up more Tmnt Content even if it’s not related to Rise.
I really liked hearing your experience as well! :D I'm glad you've found something in Rise now, even if not back then. I personally view April and Donnie more as siblings, but I'm glad you could find something you perceive as healthy :]
I'm really glad people could see the value in my experience :D I love talking about myself so I was happy to do it haha. Honestly Mikey is gender but Donnie and Leo gave me the most gender envy. As an artist I'm a bit similar to Mikey, but I relate mostly to disaster twins. Thank you for sharing your experience :D
When you got sick, that may have been a form of burn out. This can happen because when we hyperfixate, we tend to lack in other departments , such as self care, in order to focus more on our hyperfixation. That can include not giving our bodies and minds time to comprehend what it is we're learning (which is also why a lot of us have trouble getting to sleep, because its still trying to understand what happened), until our body forcibly makes us take a break, or at least tries to. Being extremely tired, getting bad headaches, getting sick, and etc. are some ways that can show up.
20:53 why do I kinda relate to this? This happens to me to sometimes where I get so interested in a topic that I kinda get worried that I’ll start losing interest
For me it's like, oh no, all of the happiness this brought me suddenly gone? I don't know what to do with my life now!! So i think it's fair to be scared
@@mars.mp3 I'm still watching and when I saw your reply after checking a different device, I was like "holy shit" myself. And okay maybe not _exactly_ because I didn't get gender envy nor am I trans, and I watched the _show_ first, but still, we both saw skulltrot's video and got into it.
Great video, I relate to nearly everything about your experience watching this series. One thing I disagree with though is the one-dimensionality of the Krang. There is this amazing video analysis on Leo that at some point explains the parallels between his internal conflict and the philosophy of the Krang. It's called "Leo's Misunderstood Ego" by Skulltrot. Edit because I have no self-control: The gist is that the Krang believe only the strongest and most powerful have the right to live on and prosper. This is what forms their ego. Instead of co-existing, they kill off other civilizations and justify it with the fact that those civilizations couldn't defend themselves and therefore were lesser. It's simular to how Leo feels the need to single handedly take out bad guys without the help and support from his teammates. That reasoning is why after Leo's sacrifice, Sister Krang laughs at April and Splinter's despair instead of mourning her own brother. She sees herself as a victor in this scenario. It is also why Leader Krang is so angered by being sent back through the portal because it proves that he wasn't the great conqueror he thought he was. This anger is pushed further by Leo smiling. "Why should someone who has also been defeated be happy?" Is likely what his thought process was like at that moment. So yeah, I think the Krang were actually written with a lot of complexity. But I do love how stereotypically evil they got to be in this movie.
Yeah!!! I actually watched that and was like "WAIT OMG THERE IS MORE TO THEM" I don't think that changes anything about how entertaining they are to me, but it does add another layer I really like!! :D honestly I watched that video and got the motivation to finish mine!
At first I really hated the new rise series because of how they changed Raph and Donnie so much because they were my all time FAVOURITES so it was very hard for me to get used to the new turtles 🐢 They are still my favourite turtles Old or new and Im very attached to both 2012 and 201 tmnt ❤ ALSO YES GENDER ENVY HIT ME HARDD! Im a very straight female but this confused me so much… i love being a female and never want to change BUT IF I WAS BORN A MAN I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO BE JUST LIKE THEMM!!
Dude I dont believe myself to be autistic or have ADHD but damn I agree with all that you've said. I just.. fell. I was on the wall about it, and then i was the biggest stan. Thats insane that someone had such a similar expereince and was so eloquent about it. Thank you
I'm on the autism spectrum, I was diagnosed when I was 8, I'm 31 now so yeah, I've known the majority of my life. I hard related to Donnie while watching in many ways, I'm not low empathy, kinda the opposite actually, to the point where when I was in high school, my first period class sold diet soda in a mini fridge to students for 50 cents a can, it was work experience so the class was in this teeny tiny little office that was once a closet so it was a bit of a hidden spot to snag soda. One day, out of nowhere, I decided to buy a diet Dr. Pepper for my second period teacher, unsure why I felt the need to do that given it was just another regular school day. So I went straight to second period once the bell rang & made sure to be in the class as early as possible to hand it to her & I kid you not, she claimed she was so thirsty that she was about to ask a teacher assistant to grab her something to drink. I've had other instances like that but much smaller like a recent example I can give, a friend of mine that I hadn't talked to in a while, I was just sitting there watching a random youtube video & then suddenly, decided to send her a message out of nowhere asking if she's doing alright & if she needed to talk to someone & she replied a few minutes later, stating that she just sat down at her computer right as I sent that message & as it turns out, things weren't doing good at all. We did talk but she was partially in shock for how I knew. So hey, while I can relate in many other ways, low empathy is not one of them but like since I was diagnosed at the age of 8, pretty much all of my friends from school I know, I met through special ed because they were the easiest to get along with & I have friends with low empathy & while it can be a little frustrating at times, I know it's apart of them & I work with it, I know they're trying their best & that's what's important. As for ways I can relate to Donnie, hyper fixation, easy hard relate. Purple Game called me out so much, I noticed that this was starting to be me with this series, I have the theme song on my phone & I listened to it like 10 times today, would of been more but I was at a wedding & purposefully kept my phone locked away in the coat closet so I could focus on being there for my sister & her wedding. I've been hyper fixated on things in the past so I'm use to it, I can see the signs when it comes, when I was a young teen, it was Danny Phantom & Toontown, sounds kinda sad saying that now given one was cancelled & the other closed down but hey, there's a DP graphic novel coming out & I've been playing Toontown Rewritten almost as much as I played the original Toontown so not as sad as it sounds on the surface. Not too long ago, it was Miraculous Ladybug then the Disastrous Life of Saiki K. then back to Miraculous again. Well, I said not too long ago but I think it's been like 5 years at this point since I got into Miraculous, dang, time does fly! With recent stuff going on, I think my brain was ready to jump to another & Rise just ended up being there when I needed it so here I am, finished the series & movie within 1 weekend & craving more but since Nick murder this thing before it had a chance, fan stuff is what there is. Also, I have a different system for remembering stuff, not like his mystic library rap, it's a little difficult to explain how it functions, suppose domino effect? I can remember something that happened in relations to things & figure things out from there, not the best way to explain it but that's what I got. I joke on having a bad memory because I do, if I can't find a connection then things fall flat but then I can remember the day my friend & I stayed at the park after sunset, singing songs from Avenue Cue was September 14th, 2007 because we saw some weird freaky thing in the park that scared us away so we went back to my place & slept there then went back that morning to investigate what that thing was & we came up with nothing but my friend found a box that was hidden kinda close to where we saw the thing & she opened up to see lots of little different toys & things inside & there were instructions stating that if you find the box, to put it back where it was because it's apart of a world wide treasure hunt & we're welcome to take things out but we must put things back in if we do & there was even a notebook to sign so my friend & I each decided to sign the notebook & put the date inside, she asked me what the date was & I could remember it because it was my cat's birthday, I drew a picture of my cat in the notebook. That's how my memory works, I admit it's more entertaining to do it through song, wish I could but I don't have the mind for that. When I need to remember things in the now like a 4 digit code or whatever, I'll keep it in my head for the period of time needed by thinking of things that relate to the numbers or whatever, when my friends & I play Pokemon together, they can just say the code out loud to me for doing raids or a shared world because I can recall it by making up silly acronyms for the letters & find a way to fit the numbers into it. There's many other things I can say where I felt a relation to Donnie but I talk A LOT & this comment will go on for miles if I do, sorry about that. I love sharing stories & explaining things. Will say on the whole thing about the Kraang being a bit boring, yeah, I get that, I've been watching the 2012 series & I got very sick of those Kraang but more so from over exposure to them, I had the same issues with certain things when watching Stargate SG-1 when they were dealing with particular enemies for too long but I feel they worked in the movie because it's a one & done deal, they don't need too much depth because we're looking at the characters we know & love, watching their growth through this & if it took the time to go in too deep for the enemy, it might take away from that. It could also add if done right but with how this was executed, I enjoyed it. Kinda wish each turtle could have a movie more so focused on them like this was Leo's, now we need one for the other three, could potentially get a more dynamic villain that way, too bad that won't be a reality. Finishing up, love hearing what other people think but that's just me, I like seeing what make people tick so I enjoyed hearing what you had to say. Being open can be difficult, I don't often talk about things relating to my gender identity because I don't know how to talk about it without coming off as weird or strange so you're brave for that, I get how scary that can be. Heck, I'll admit I typed out my deal in this paragraph & then deleted it because I am not comfortable saying. I personally enjoyed listening to you talk about all this, was nice, I need a little bit of something to feed my current Rise obsession & listening to how other people are affected by it helps. I'm sure there are others who also enjoy it. You'll find as you get older, many people who are quite young now might appreciate you sharing this since it might help them learn stuff about themselves.
As of now, I've watched the movie 12 times, the entire show twice, and most of the analysis' and fan animations I can find on youtube, and I have no clue how I never found this one! I really enjoyed hearing your perspective and experience with the series, especially since most of the review videos focus on the beautiful animation and leo's character development. Donnie was the one to finally make me watch the show after I kept seeing clips of him (I have memorized his entire rap in the mystic library episode and dressed up as him for halloween for the gender), and rise has definitely encouraged me to continue with animation and digital art. Segway, thank you for sharing your descent into the rabbit hole, I was spinning in my chair and reciting movie lines (when they came up) for the full 23 minutes :D
YOUR SUPER UNDERRATED OMG!! Rise of the Tmnt had been my biggest hyper fixation yet! (Before it was amphibia)I really enjoyed this video and hearing about your journey into rise was incredible to hear, I appreciate your honesty on how you thought the show was executed and YES- I absolutely agree on wanting the show to have more emotional moments, I’m really a sucker for comedy and emotional beats!! Also the Leo fan art you made is so amazing your really good at drawing expressions!! As someone that is also trans I absolutely relate to feeling gender envy ESPECIALLY FROM LEO HOLY TRUFFLE MAC AND CHEESE- I also commented this on HeyBuwan’s video so I’m just gonna add this here: This show is such a gem to see in the media today- it’s a shame I didn’t get into this show sooner.. I was a huge fan of TMNT I grew up with everything you could imagine. I watched the 1987 show, 2003 show 2007 movie and even the next mutation etc. When I was around 9 I was a massive fan of the 2012 series so when I heard about Rise of TMNT it put a bad taste in my mouth cause I was just getting over the fact that the 2012 series ended. I remember at first disliking the style and hearing about how everyone put bad reviews on this show However everything changed when 4 years later I hear about the Rise of TMNT movie coming to Netflix and everyone seemed to be enjoying it- because of this I did what I should have done all those years ago.. I watched the show and then the movie in order to get adjusted to the world, characters, conflict etc. I can finally say that I regret not finding the heart to look past what everyone thought and give it a shot myself! I absolutely love the brother’s dynamics and characters in general, and believe it or not this was the first and only time I have related to ALL the brothers- I related to Raph because of him being the oldest and struggling to bond with his family and have them work together as a team, For Leo I related to his carefree and relaxed facade attitude and him wanting to prove himself, For Mikey I related to his honesty, him being the therapist in the family, and both of us are artists, and finally for Donnie I related to his hyper focus on his passions, monotone behavior and him having trouble embracing emotions- AND OMG I LOVE APRIL IN THIS SHOW- her charm and no nonsense attitude she is seriously incredible!! The animation blew me away, and as an aspiring artist and animator it has really inspired me!! I can feel and tell that this crew working behind the show had passion and a beautiful story to tell- this is the most interesting and uniquely done iteration of the turtles I have ever seen in recent years and I truly hope that it gets picked back up again And if this is the end-
Thank you so much for all the compliments omg! Also LEO IS SO GENDER, HOW DOES HE DO IT. As well thank you for sharing your experience, can't believe I'm in the presence of a long term fan!!! I'm glad you eventually gave Rise a chance :] and honestly I also relate to all the turtles, they all have their unique things that are very relatable haha
Honestly, this was refreshing to watch. I've watched a LOT of reviews on ROTTMNT (totally not because I needed more of the show or anything, haha, totally.) but almost none of them actually talk about their personal thoughts and/or experiences with the show and movie, they focus more on the writing and animation. And while yes, the writing and animation are amazing and stunning and beautiful and spectacular, sometimes people just want to know WHY someone likes the show. Not the why is it good, but the why you like it. Personally, the way the characters are written and then portrayed that made me love the show/movie so much, along with the fact I could actually rip apart each turtles personality and then take small bits of each to throw into a blender, blend it all together, and then you get my personality. It's insane actually how often I rip apart characters I love just to figure out why I love them so much. I love this April (Best April in my opinion, granted I only watched half of the 2012 series though) because of how absolutely chaotic she is. Like, I'm sorry, if I ever met someone with even half as much chaotic energy as her I will be finding a way to make them my friend. I love this Splinter because of how nice it is to see a new view on him, I know I mentioned I only watched the 2012 series, but while practically tearing apart all the fan work for Rise so I can find more of it, I did come across small tid-bits on the other Splinters. I get that he's supposed to be the 'wise old rat man that knows everything', but it's refreshing to see him not being that, but instead more of a lazy depressed parent rat man that was entirely not ready to have children. Added bonus for him actually having a character arc in Rise!! (Adding this here before I forget, but my name, like, first name, was in the show and spelled the exact same way I spell it, and when I say I paused the show to practically go scream because HOLY HECK THAT'S NOT SOMETHING I WAS EXPECTING?? LIKE- IT WAS A ONE-TIME MENTION AND ALL BUT OH MY GOD???) I love this Raph, he is the definition of 'oldest child' and 'Gentle giant' mashed together but still with small itty bitty pieces of 'I'm an angry child' sprinkled in there. It's also nice to see him as the leader (even if only in the series) for a change, that small change honestly was awesome to see. He is a giant teddy bear, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise/lh I love this Mikey, and yes while he is somewhat similar to other versions of him, or, at least more-so than the rest of the turtles, it's always nice to have at least one thing and/or character that's just universally similar. The 'probably has ADHD in canon but I don't think it was ever stated but it's universally agreed on in the fandom pizza addicted youngest brother, which adding that the youngest brother bit was also just universally agreed on in the fandom', character. I love this Donnie, he is no doubt tied for my favorite character in the series for first place AND tied for first place on my all-time favorite characters list. He is tragically relatable throughout a massive section of the series/movie, and is also the reason I initially gave ROTTMNT a chance!! (I'll explain how I found the show in a bit, because diddly dang was it not the way it should have been) The added fact that I can see bits of myself and my sibling in him also adds to the fact, honestly. I got my mom to watch the first episode, and he's her favorite as well!! Hahaha, now I just need to get her to watch the entire series at a time that isn't almost 9:00. I love this Leo, he's my other favorite character and tied for first place with Donnie for the series. I don't think I've seen very many characters with a personality anywhere near what his is like, and I am aware of how many times I've used the word 'refreshing', BUT IF THIS LEO ISN'T REFRESHING PERSONALITY-WISE THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS. How I found this show and the movie (as well as how I watched it) was a bit different than how I would usually find something to watch. I would usually ask my friends for show suggestions or just scavenge my streaming services for anything interesting. I was watching a review on TOH (Just adding this, but also WHAT?? I DIDN'T THINK I'D FIND ANYONE BESIDES ME AND LIKE TWO OTHER FRIENDS WHO WATCHED TOH AND AMPHIBIA //AND// ROTTMNT!!!!) when I spotted this on the little recommended bar thingy thing on the side of the screen. I hadn't even heard of the shows existence until I saw a review for it there. Not a single ad for the toys, not a single ad to watch it, not even mentioned on any social platform I'm on (which is insane??? I'm on so many. Well, I'm on a lot but I'm also not- It's hard to explain really.) so I watched the review. I was nodding along to the review and all that jazz until at THE VERY END OF IT it was mentioned that Donnie apparently was canonically autistic. Considering that I can't recall any representation for autism specifically that I've seen over my few years of being a cartoon addict, I was intrigued. So, with spoilers in hand due to my lack of thought process, I watched the show. I loved it INSTANTLY. Now, how did I go about watching the show and the movie in an odd way? Hahaha- Well, let us just thank Netflix for that. You see, I only have access to the first season of ROTTMNT and the movie on Netflix (I know Canada Netflix has access to the entire show, my friend who uses an account in Canada told me) so I ended up watching the first season, the movie, and then later finding out there was a season 2 and that I could watch it on Paramount+. So, good naturedly, I got my parents to renew their Paramount+ subscription, and then binged the entire show in one go. I rewatched the movie again after I finished season 2, which made some things make more sense (Donnie having mystic abilities and not his Tech-Bo). I watched this show, in total, without including the confusing time gap of how long it took me to find season 2, roughly 1 and a half days to watch. I binged the entirety of season 1 in one day, along with the movie, and did the same with season 2 when I found it. And me being me, I of course shoved this show down my friends' throats in the same way I did with The Owl House, Amphibia, and Dead End: Paranormal Park. One of my friends binged it in 3 days (The one in Canada), the other I had to make an entire deal with. It was funny actually, I watch Arcane, and they watch ROTTMNT. I still need to uphold my end of the deal, but I'll do it once ROTTMNT brain rot dies off. They actually didn't like it at first, but after watching the show a bit more they declared Raph as their favorite, which I'm assuming means they like the show. I also have some blackmail in terms of Discord PFP which was an entire accident, but I got a screenshot of them with a Raph PFP. When I say it was an accident though I really do and don't mean it. Getting the screenshot, that was on purpose, but being able to see the PFP? That was an accident. You see, my Discord is a tad bit broken, so I was offline when they had it as their PFP. They had changed it back before I woke up that day. I should have technically never been able to get that screenshot, but here we are, me with screenshot evidence of them with a Raph PFP. Sorry for this being a long comment, I'm just really passionate about this show apparently. Sincerely, a fellow ROTTMNT fan.
I loved your comment, it's really interesting to see other people's perspective on the show as well :D I'm really glad to have created a space where people can just talk about how passionate they are for the show. Also both Leo and Donnie are my favorites
Your comment is a beautiful essay and I enjoyed every single second of it😂 I also agree on enjoying people talking about why they like the show personally rather than just all of the amazing animation and writing (even though it’s deserved). I never grew up with any tmnt exposure besides brief glimpses of the 2012 episodes once in a while, but as a brand new fan as of a couple months ago I am consumed by the raw lovability of rise and it’s characters. I discovered the movie almost by accident, I had a non-spoiler review pop up in my feed one day and out of boredom watched it. That was the best thing I could have done because it made me curious and I downloaded the movie to watch on a long plane ride to France, guessing that even if it wasn’t as good as everyone made it sound, it could at least entertain me with the impressive animation. By the time I got back to the states I had rewatched it at least three times! I relate to Raph hardcore as the oldest sibling in my family but Donnie has that edge that makes me envy his personality (I’m ADD and felt seen by many of his relatable character attributes even though I’m not autistic). It’s nice to hear people’s stories about how they found and fell in love with the show 👍
I dont have autism but I honestly loved seeing your thought process throughout your discovery of the show, it showed me a lot of things i overlooked when i was watching it myself! Thank you so much for sharing
@@mars.mp3 It was really eye-opening really! I enjoyed it a lot :) I've really only need focusing on Leo for the first few days of watching the show so this video helped me realize theres so much more to not only Donnie but Raph and Mikey too so Ive basically been successfully sucked into the Rottmnt rabbit hole and im loving every SECOND of it
Just.. great work on the video ;-; I had to comment something. I started watching rise before seeing mutant mayhem, and even tho I do feel a little late to the fandom, I cannot explain how much everything about this show has effected me in just the last week, and how much I related to almost EVERYTHING you said on the video. I wish u well
Bro you’re so funny 😭😭 also thank you very much for the subtitles!! It makes it so much easier to watch and I just so happened to click on this when my headphones died in a public place so it was very very convenient and I probably would not have remembered to watch the video otherwise tbh. Also also!! I’ve also absorbed Donnie’s tendency to say things aloud, and now EVERY TIME I yawn, I just. Say “yawn” immediately after
Omg I feel the same. I’ve been obsessed and constantly hyperfixiated for like 4 months, still I am😀, and I am scared to let them go. I genuinely love Rise and I want another season so bad that I would give them a kidney, for do it. I still have hope though, they said the show was just unposed, never cancelled
@@mars.mp3 the authors released some storyboards from the movie(heartbreaking, like there is Future Leo that is about to do a karaoke peepaw). and they said that in S2 there was supposed to be an ep where all the turtles became small, expect for Mikey, who had to babysit them. There was also gonna be an ep where karai was gonna teach the turtles to fight, but Nickelodeon decided to cut it😩. I really tried to don’t think about them, but it’s impossible and I really appreciated ur video, it was good for my mental health
1st, I genuinely have no idea how you are so underrated. 2nd, HOLY SHIT YES WITH THE GENDER ENVY! *LEO GIVES ME GENDER ENVY EVEN THO WE'RE THE SAME GENDER!*
The hyperfixation and emotional exhaustion is really relatable for me with this show. May have been a little neglectful in some areas of my life. I think i might be autistic based on how i relate to Donnie and my own past experiences. Leo is in my top three fictional crushes (mostly because of Future Leo). Got a mild break from Rise when Tears of the Kingdom (I love Legend of Zelda) came out and i think my activity in the fandom will plato a bit, though it'll always be something I circle back to since TMNT is generally something I circle back to.
I'm still trying to find a way to watch Rise but I know basically the entire plot because... That's how I choose what's good to watch or not I suppose ?? Either way, the parts where you spoke about your high expectations on the show and how you expected it to be more emotionally-driven and that it wasn't perfect and stuff... You actually reminded me of my main-hyperfixation. I don't if it's polite to get mention it on a video that has absolutely nothing to with it tho... But when my dad asked me why I was so obsessed with the show, I didn't know how to answer it, I just said "I enjoy the characters" "But they aren't even developed enough" and I couldn't reply. Because there was true to it, and that was why I had a complicated relationship with the show, but I still am trapped in the hyperfixation limbo.
As someone who is also obsessed with Donatello, I do not blame you for talking about him for majority of the video. I found myself drawn to his character. I do not have autism however, but I do have ADHD and the hyperfixations and stimming just sorta come with it. I didn’t realize how much I related to Donnies character either until I watched a character analasys video about him, and it was then I realized how much alike I am to him. And dude don’t even get me STARTED on the gender envy I have for him lmao.
on the topic of villainy: i think having a villain with such a simple goal and not very fleshed out can be a positive in certain stories, because it allows the audience to "fill in the blanks". and that in itself is what makes them so scary as it plays on the fear of the unknown. or maybe i just enjoy a villain who's evil for evil's sake.
Being so mesmerized by the movie to the point you don't recall what happens and having to watch it again is the ultimate superpower honestly. - Video essays like this (learned the show's existence by AGAİN skulltrot) give me life, I feel like my thoughts and feelings are CLİCKİNG perfectly with this fandom and Im falling in love all over again. I too go and watch the fight scenes on repeat There is so much happening and it's so fluid. The animators are just amazing at team fight choreographies, it was also apparent in the show but that only got x10 better in the movie. (lemme remind you that the initial storyboarding of the sky fight scene was supposed to be twice as long, you can find it on youtube still İT İS G O R G E O U S ! - Also, I really relate to your experiences with the series ending and feeling tired while watching and also feeling kinda empty when it was over like it was the one thing giving me joy and it's gone. I dragged it as long as I could, watched some episodes multiple times, and finished it in about 2 weeks, watching 2-3 a day and spending the rest of the time in fanart, just being drunk with happiness every time I was thinking about it. When ı was sad I found comfort in this show and it's found family. I just didn't want it to end, I remember needing to breathe before finishing it. Appreciate the fact that I could even watch it, instead of being resentful that it was shortened. Anyway overall I consume ROTTMNT content when I need it now and we have a good relationship. İt just spoke out to me what you said in your video, and I wanted to address that. Kudose to u
HELLO YES HI THIS VIDEO WAS GREAT i love this show so much i've been hyperfixated on it for months and my family is so done wITH mE JHGVFGH ITS SO EMBARRASSING HOW MUCH I LOVE IT??? DONNIES RAP IS MY RINGTONE SEND HELP i stg i've rewatched it an ungodly amount of times and have made so many videos on the show that I have yet to post 😭anyways thank you for sharing your experiences. I SWEAR TO SWISS CHEESE IF THEY DONT MAKE A SEASON 3 I WILL BURN EVERYTHING
“I really need more videos to feed my hyperfixation and that’s kind of what I wanted to be for others” Thank you :] I’m stuck in a limbo where I kind of really wanna watch the show but have no energy to go looking for somewhere it might be available. So I’ve been consuming all rotmnt content I can find😂
I saw the video you mentioned and then dabbled a bit but then decided to actually sit down and watch it seriously and I went down hill so fast. I love Donnie, he's my favourite and I also have started verbalizing my actions more. I've always done "itch, itch, itch" while scratching myself (or animal or another human) or I do "stretch" while stretching but now I've started saying "Gasp" and others. I've said "no problem" for a long time but yeah... I've started saying "No probbles". Basically echoing Donnie. (Echolalia ftw!!) I'm 21 (turning 22 very soon) and I feel so free to unmask even more (I don't mask much to begin with). It is good, I'll verbalize my actions all I fuckin want!! I called my younger brother yesterday to talk about it and I was like "So, do you still like TMNT?" And he cut me off by saying "Oh, you gonna talk about Rise!?" And I got so excited!! I asked him who he thinks my favourite character is and he cut me off by saying "Donnie". He said he knew it cus he saw skulls' video recommended to him too! My brother (at this point) only has watched half of the first episode and I'm so excited to hear him tell me more. I'm adverse to touch mostly. When I want to cuddle or be close to a person (mostly either my mum or my best friend) I will go and get that effection but if you try to touch me (ESPECIALLY if I don't know you) I will not be happy. Seeing low empathy portrayed made me so unbelievably happy because while they call him out on his bullshit (which is healthy and should be done) they do it with love and don't try to change him. Just so many thoughts and how much love I have for it. Nick (and a lot of the nostalgia gatekeepers) didn't give the show the chance. The writers and everyone just didn't have enough. Not given enough resources or time to fledge out what they wanted. So, I know even with it's flaws, they did the absolute best they could with the shit hand they were given. We can only hope that those higher ups and "fans" will give this rendition of the turtles more. #saveROTTMNT
i think i'm getting emotionally exhuasted but in a way of i'm hoping so hard for this show to be saved and i'm holding onto to that strongly also my mental health has not been good lately, i've been very anxious and i can't tell if rottmnt is affected that or my anxiety is affect my injoyment of rottmnt rise is my favorite show in a good long while, it's high on a pedastal for me i don't want it to end, i don't want to stop, i havent felt like this before. i've been hyperfixated before, but i haven't been stressed about it like this
I honestly get that, like I would have this pit in my stomach when I went too long without consuming rise content 😭 It's strange how a show can affect us so much. Please take care of yourself!
i think i know what happened to me i was getting a really bad anxiety episode and i kinda,, forgot to eat for a few days (1 or less meal a day) which just made it worse after i had an anxiety attack at work and took the next day off and actually ate something i felt so much better aslo i got on my meds again the reason ehy i thought that rottmnt was doing this is cuase it's my hyper fixation, my mind is only thinking of rottmnt for the most part so it just kinda stuck the bad shit onto it i'm good now :3
I honestly had a very similar experience. I had watched the movie first and fell in LOVE with it. I then had seen more and more clips on TH-cam until I decided to watch it. I have never felt so emotionally connected to a cartoon before and it had gone to the point that I was jealous of them, including there gender. I made fan-animations and have been using my TH-cam as a good way to express myself! My whole life I never thought I would become a ninja turtles fan but It’s been the most fun in my life. Thank you for sharing this video because I found it very relatable ❤
It's so interesting to see how our experiences are similar :D And I also feel very emotionally connected to this show, more so than with any other show except for maybe the owl house.
amazing video,, everything u said feels like u took the words and experiences right out of my mouth. even down to the watching heartbreak high bit,, like that was so specific and funny to me that I did the same. the turtles are huge gender envy, and god I just love seeing the family all be themselves together. fellow Donnie enjoyer and enthusiast,, awesome vid man!!
As someone who is getting evaluated for adhd and possibly autism in the future (adhd first, most likely-) I fell in love with Rise because of my similarities with Donnie as well as my connection with the previous animated iteration, the 2012 version. I, much like Donnie, experience sensory issues and I also stim frequently and get hyperfixiated on certain media (tmnt atm, but also other subjects), and because I'm nonbinary and on the aro spectrum, I headcanon Donnie as demiromantic and non-binary, and I really love that so I'm also really attached to Donnie and the characters!! :)) I'm glad someone else can relate!! :D
I FIND IT SO INCREDIBLY INTERESTING HOW SIMILAR OUR GETTING INTO RISE WAS. DOWN THE DETAIL WAS ALMOST THE EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE. SAW CLIPS ON TT. WOAH DONNIES AUTISTIC I GOTTA WATCH THIS. MADE ME REALIZE IM AUTISTIC. IM ALSO TRANS SO LOTS OF GENDER ENVY FROM DONNIE (EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOURS??) GREAT NOW IM HYPERFIXATED ON RISE AND DONNIE. I ADORE THIS VIDEO
WOW both of our experiences are so similar is uncanny.even down to the reason why i watched the show.i was a fan of the other versions always had been, but i didn’t know rottmnt existed until i watched the video u talked about.as a donnie stan sinces the 80 cartoons,i always related to him, but rottmnt donnie made me felt heard. i just knew i had to watch it
I like the video a lot. I also like you express yourself about the show and movie. Something that i hope i can do to my friends. To share this awesome show with me. And this video making me love the show even more. And im happy for it. The show is amazing and i really like the character. Not only that, because the animation is top tier, the show inspire me more for making and learning art. With making the fanart, i feel become more good at making art.
Thank you for sharing your experiences! I started watching the film because of that video too! I'm not officially autistic (never got tested, might try one day), but I do have a lot of autistic behaviours and I care about representation anyway. I did not watch the full video at first cause I was like, you know what, I kinda wanna watch the whole film without spoilers now. I was blown away! There's so much I can say but seeing a character like Donnie was so amazing. To see a character who 'just happens to be autistic', having similair traits as I do while being so cool and badass is just so awesome. Also to see how he is accepted and loved just the way he is by his family and friends (okay yes, they do make fun of him sometimes, but nothing more than the brotherly teasing they do with the other brothers too) and treated as an equal was so validating. It really helped me understand some things about myself (like my love-hate relationship with physical touch) and helped to tone down the voice in my head saying that being different is wrong and I deserve nothing nice because of it. When watching Rise for the first time, I was just happy to see autism represented so posivitely; I never guessed that Donnie would literally help me on my journey to love myself. I'm gonna dress up as him for Halloween (it's later at my uni cause Halloween is during exam season rip) and might have spend a bit too much money buying stuff to actually cosplay him and his brothers. Oh well. I hope that one day I can access the full show, but the film, fan compilations and art still suffice for now. Have a lovely day x
Honestly Donnie's portrayal of autism is so precious to me. It's so strange and wonderful how these fictional characters have an actual impact on us as people. And you have a great day as well!
"I felt gender envy from all the turtles" Bro.. the way that sentence resonated with me- This is honestly a fantastic breakdown of the show and your experiences, and heavily relatable! As someone else who is nb and autistic (and who heavily kins and projects onto Donnie), I felt this a lot, and I'm glad to see fellow autistics talking about my current hyperfixation in a super relatable way! Donnie is also my favourite, and I love the episodes themed around him as well, especially mystic library, and seeing a video of autistic Donnie moments was what actually convinced me to watch the show! I also haven't seen the old TMNT shows (yet), so I'm heavily attatched to this cast, and yes, I did cry for hours after seeing the movie.. (ಥ﹏ಥ) I also noticed the shape language in the show, which excited me, since I love picking out small details in character designs like this! Overall just- HHHH THIS IS SUCH A GOOD ANALYSIS OF THE SHOW?? I could probably go on for PARAGRAPHS, both on how much I ADORE this show, and how much I love this video! Thank you so much for this!
@@mars.mp3 ofc! And I get what you mean, I'll definitely watch the 2012 TMNT, but my hyperfixation is at its peak currently and I'm gripping onto it with iron claws, haha!
This delighted me, im glad people are getting into rise and just the tmnt in general. The fear of a hyperfixation leaving is real dude. Ive been into tmnt since the 2003 series and do have a lot of fond memories of it. Rise did however take the top spot for me tho. Some of the other series do feel like a product of their time, i dont think rise will have the same issue
I'm glad someone else mentioned the Krang's 1D personality. The movie's great but the Krang just aren't interesting threats no matter how cool they look
How are we exactly the same person?? I got into rottmnt through that autism vid bc I had just been diagnosed and I also was watching Heartbreak High at the same time omg
Currently on the descent, just finished season one and desperately trying to find somewhere to watch the rest. Netflix only has the first season and I’m getting manic at this point
Honestly I really enjoyed this. I love hearing everyone's thoughts and opinions on the show. I do feel like you pulled thoughts out of my head sometimes. 😅. I agree completely. C:(
honestly i adored the show, the characters, animation and everything then i watched the movie, and suddenly the show consumed me so thoroughly to the point where i made playlists for donnie and leo and listened to them for months on end when i tell you i aggressively kin leo's whole fucking character, oh my god
That's pretty interesting :D I remember watching a bit of the 2012 show with my brother but being put off by the gooey ooey slime thing with guts inside.
I feel like I'm on the same path as you- i've entered the turtle madness, now it's only a matter of time until I get emotionally burned out by loving these turtles far too much.
It's so exciting to see more people get dragged into this brainrot hellhole! I've been hyperfocused on this series for roughly 40 days straight, and it's easily the most intense hyperfixation I've ever personally had! I, like many other people, got dragged in through fanmade clip compilations that started getting recommended to me here on youtube (istg youtube is secretly one of the biggest advocates for the show) and have been pretty much gone for it ever since. My experience with it hasn't been particularly unique, though I suppose there is one rather interesting thing about it. I grew up watching the 2012 cartoon, but my nostalgia for the franchise actually made it *easier* for me to get into Rise, something which a lot of older fans apparently struggle(d) with. While the characters in Rise seem to have been drastically changed when compared to their older iterations, to me they've always just been The Boys(TM), and a lot of their older character traits are still pretty prominent! (except for Donnie. There was very little character to be passed down to Rise!Donnie, so he's pretty original) Anyways, this was a great video! I hope you enjoy your stay in the fandom! (btw just so you know, the tumblr side of the fandom is pretty chill and easily one of the best fandom spaces I've been in, so if risetwt starts heating up I'd highly recommend jumping ship!)
I find it interesting that you found Rise to be so accessible :D I'm glad you had an easy time getting into the show. Also honestly Twitter is a shitshow most of the time in my experience so I should probably jump ship 😭
3:46 honestly, as a part of the lgbtq+ community, i hope so 😢 edit: i think that: leo, totally gay, raph, (in me opinion) asexual, mikey, gay, and donnie, bisexual. now personally, thats just my au. but i genuinely think its cannon.
I started watching the series first and then the movie. Actually Donnie was what piqued my interest in the show because I’m autistic too and struggle to find autistic characters I relate to. And then I stayed for that and the animation style (and everything else haha) it’s a huperfixation turned special interest c: I also headcannon Leo as Autistic and ADHD
I saw one episode on youtube years ago and had no idea what i was watching And a little while ago i started seeing content about it (animations/memes ect..) I was like hmm... "Why not? Where can i watch? NETFLIX? HECK YEA" I watched the first season then the movie then i realized i was missing a whole season so i went to paramount plus for the free trial to watch the second season binged all of it lol
you might like this information. Leo is a red streak slider turtle. These turtles have a sexual dichotomy where the female and male look very different. Males have a tail they can use both to whip predators away, and to impress females with certain "provocative" movements. Essecially for mating calls. Point is, males distinctly have a long tail, and they have one streak across their face. Females have no use for a tail so they don't have one. They have two red streaks on their face sometimes, but no males have two. Leo is a man. He has a male voice, is referred to as a man, wears clothes that are marketed to men, etc. However, he has no tail at all, and he has two red streaks. Do you know what that means? He is a female. This means that Leo is transmasc. I'm not sure if the producers did this on purpose but it's canon for me here's some more analysis that I didn't understand archiveofourown.org/works/41552091
YEAHHHH TRANSMASC LEO!!!!! I love the headcanon sm and it's nice to see it be kinda backed up by something!! I get gender envy from him specifically so there's something so comforting about trans Leo to me.
I want to like your comment 10x times more than 500 but alas, with only one account it appears I cannot. I didn't know this but knowing it now only makes me adore the HC even more. With the fact it's actually possibly canon though, that bit makes me so happy
NO WAIT STOP THAT SAME VIDEO ABOUT DONNIE IS WHAT GOT ME TO WATCH THE SHOW HELP. (Edit): The obsession, it's so so bad and it hit so goshdarn hard, like I can't. Also, as a fellow genderqueer HELP. Those turtles got me in a mental CHOKEHOLD, a gender chokehold, live laugh love ROTTMNT. I can't T-T. We are very normal about Donatello. Extremely normal about these 2D animated turtles.
Also, the thing about not watching the other variations and loving the Rise designs I quite literally got into an argument with my stepdad about how the Rise designs were just so much better because it was so much more dynamic than the other shows and part of that freaking DREW me to the show moreso than I already was.
I really liked this video; it helped feed my current obsession with this absolute banger of a show since it's really hard to find people to talk about it with since literally nobody gave it a chance despite it being absolutely stellar from a totally non-biased opinion. This made me happy. :D
As someone who started the series on Netflix not realizing there was 2 seasons and then watching the movie before watching the second one can someone tell me the proper episode order? Cause apparently the ones on Netflix are wrong
Oh gawd i get gender envy with em too lol XD its mostly with mikey tho- save me with my new hyperfixation- LIKE I NEED TO STUDY BUT I CANT- Ive been drawing these turtles even to idk how to draw em right- i just- why- Edit: while listening to this video i drew them again cuz you mentioned shape language- Save me-
Yayyy!!! Approval!! That honestly means so much to me, I personally stim a lot when watching videos about the turtles too, so I'm glad I could provide the same for someone else! :D
Ashdbdofvejvrkeevrkevdhevksv no but i got into the fandom from the same exact video essay. Ive watched all of their other ones on the turtles, and am patently awaiting one on raph. Loved ur vido btw, im not diagnosed with autism, but i deeply relate to some people talking about their experiences with it on a kind of concerning level
18:42 ok, yes I see what you mean and I’m not saying “no you’re wrong your opinion sucks” or anything of that sort, but I will say that every time I SAW them I’d cringe like crazy, because their slimy ness. That’s a sensory thing for me. It makes them so much scarier 🥲😂
Honestly I do agree that they're pretty scary! :D Especially within the armour I think they're intimidating. Also their designs are absolutely gross and I think that's a good quality they have 😭 But if you remove that and have just their characterization I don't like it all that much. But that's my opinion, I don't expect everyone to agree with me :]
The Krang’s motives are boring, that I can agree with, but I liked how they were portrayed to ACTUALLY be scary, cause a lot of western cartoons in this genre try to laugh off the severity of a situation because yk, they’re KID shows, and there’s only a few sparse moments where you can actually see how dangerous they are. This movie allowed the Krang to be actually impactful, you can see the horrible things they do, the people that they either possessed or killed (you cannot tell me that those news reporters in the helicopter survived, they are SO dead), and they made it clear that they were not threats the characters could laugh at to bring levity to the situation like they did with the other villains.
i like that you focused more on your own experience engaging with rise rather than focusing on reviewing the more objective things. we praise rise so much for its artistic and narrative achievements and sometimes forget to mention what it means to us as individuals. thanks for sharing 💕 also your view on the krang is totally valid. maybe it's just because I've been a long time tmnt fan and have seen some ✨rough✨ iterations of the krang, so these ones are my favorite and so exciting to watch for me, but from the perspective of a first time tmnt viewer, i can definitely see how they'd be kinda meh. i guess there's only so much you can do with a movie villain. 😔
Thank you :D I really think there was something valuable in sharing my own experience, and I appreciate stout sharing yours as well :] My view on the Krang was really my one hot take 😭
my my my fancy seeing you here. Binging ROTTMNT analysts videos like the rest of us. RReSpeCt
OH. MI. GOSH. I have never in my life had seen someone said so many things that i thought. Rottmnt, gender envy, autism crisis, hyperfixation, being nonbinary, over attachment to fictional characters, the fandom as a safe space. All of it i had felt for months now with this show without talking about it with anyone. This is just what i needed, and couldn't keep myself from happy stimming all 23 minutes. Just thank you.
THE FACT THAT YOU WERE HAPPY STIMMING MEANS SO MUCH TO ME. I remember happy stimming while watching other video essays about rottmnt, and I'm so glad I can give that to someone else too 😭
Also it's so cool that you could see yourself in my experience! I really hoped for something like that when I decided to share
IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE EXPERIENCING WHAT I AMMMM
I didn’t know that my “me being weird” traits were me being autistic until just recently
And by recently I mean like, the past 2 weeks
IKR!?!? I felt like i was looking into a mirror watching this video. i kept going "ur just like me fr" every 2 seconds i swear lol
DUDE. DUDE... Okay, to be honest, I felt kind of... embarrassed with how obsessed I've been with this show the past few weeks? (The past two days I've been uh... CONCERNINGLY hyperfixiated on it...) I think that's mainly just because everyone around me-family, friends, even people online-expresses how much they dislike it. And I gotta admit, I can see why they'd hate it at first glance. It seems quite immature and fast paced-but I wish they'd sit through more then five minutes of the show and realize it's so much more than that! Anyhow, my point is, it makes me really happy to know I'm not the only one decending into madness over ROTTMNT. I also HEAVILY relate to Donnie, and weirdly enough his character has also caused me to reflect on my neurodivergence?? AND THE GENDER ENVY THING. I actually YELPED when you mentioned that because I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE HAVING GENDER ENVY FOR FUCKING ANIMATED TURTLES. Istg. I'm gonna bash my head against a wall. 😂 Anyway, I loved this video. Your voice is very soothing as well. 💛
Honestly don't let those people who don't like the show get you down!! They're entitled to their opinion of course but the show really is so much more than what it would appear to be at first glance.
Thank you for enjoying the video :D I'm really glad my experience of gender envy for the turtles resonated with you!!! I'm sure you'll find there's a lot more people who think the same way, so we're not alone!! GOD WHY ARE THEY GENDER, THEY'RE TURTLES
SAMEEEEEEEEEE
I HAVE FOUND THE PEOPLE THAT UNDERSTANDDDDDD
quickly dropping in, here to say, u are not aloneee loll
Rise of the TMNT was part of my Autistic journey too. To see a character so open about displaying their autistic traits helped me actually internalize that it wasnt wrong to have them or display them openly around my close friends. I'm glad that Donatello helped me internalize this idea, as now I feel safer about expressing my behavioral quirks around my close family and friends again such as stimming and nicking phrases and quotes from the media I like (particularly Rise). I feel a lot better now that I know I can be autistic and accepted for it.
This was so nice to hear :'] Rise has had me feeling a lot more comfortable expressing my autistic traits as well. It's so wonderful when media can impact us positively like this.
I was initially really scared of getting into the fandom, as I have had past experiences in the 2012 fandom that were *ahem* not fun. I was so very pleasantly surprised to see that the Rise fandom is just so chill and welcoming, and fights are few and far between. I’ve been here for a few weeks, which is more than what could be said for other fandoms!
I'm glad you're enjoying your stay! :D I personally don't participate in fandoms usually, but I've been a bit of a silent observer of the Rise fandom.
to be honest, i am an animator and some rise scenes were always trtending on animation twitter, thats how i fell down the rabbithole and binged the whole thing after the movie came out, when it was new on my netflix page. It was harder for me to access the series, but it was worth it in the end. After the whole thing i was in an emotional func as well because i related to donie in so many things in an unhealty level. I was never diagnosed with stuff but seeing him made me happy and less alone, just labeled wierd by my family and others. Since i made some impulsive art from the turtles, and a comic as well. I really fell down this hole and i dont really wanna come out yet, or at least i jump back in when the work and life stuff is done so i can relay here. many fantastic and supportive artists and voice actors are there and just a generally fun time. Welcome to the wholesome fandom which is rottmnt. And seriosly this video was so well edited omfg. it must have took forever.
Ugh yes the show really should be praised for it's animation, thank you for sharing your story as well :] And thank you for the welcome into the fandom! I feel pretty at home here, even if I haven't talked much to people, there's so many cool artists I look up to, and I've been inspired to create my own art for the show as well.
Fellow Donnie relater
@@mars.mp3 i can relate how much time it takes to edit. I have seperate channels for seperate languages and interest like 6 in total and one mostly features game openinons, like your video essays just vithout the mascot in the front or the effects on top of the footage. i just do it like scissors and glue. some videos even take half a year to edit if i want to make it more quality. just to snipe out specific shots from hours of gameplay. so yea kuddos for the mountan of work you put into this.
@@kirasigncomics Editing really is just so tedious. My pngtuber/avatar honestly takes off a bit of the workload because I don't need relevant clips for every minute. Cudos to you too though for being an editor!!
I have never Seen a "just my opinion" Analysis of a Show Like this and it really inspired me ^^
I'm so happy it inspired you! :D I honestly just really wanted to share my love for the show, and I'm not good at analyzing stuff like some other good rise video essayists, so i approached it in the way i could!
@@mars.mp3 i liked it a lot so thank you ^^
I fell into this amazing show this week, binged everything, and am hyper fixating like mad. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this strongly about an animated show, and even then… there’s nothing quite like the special mix this one has. I just can’t get over the deep sadness and anger that we got so little. The amazing people who worked on this labour of love deserve the world
The show really got fucked over with the shortening of the second season :[ I wish there was more content because I just love this show so much 😭
I am very happy that A LOT more people have been getting into the show after the movie. I watched rise before the movie came out but I wasn’t really attached to it or as interested as I was now. I was obsessing over another fandom so I’m pretty sure that didn’t help me focus on this masterpiece of a show. But after the movie I started contemplating my life choices regretting that I should’ve gotten into the show a lot sooner 😭🤣 I began to realize how amazing the characters are and how underrated this show is.
I also was kinda like "aw dang I should have gotten into the show sooner" but I'm just glad to be watching it at all tbh!!
I’m SO glad I’m not the only one hyperfixating on this show rn!!
Yessss!! I feel like a lot of us are in the brainrot hole together rn >:]
i am also a disaster who only started watching the series because 1. i heard donnie was autistic, & 2. THEY ARE SO GENDER OMG (especially the disaster twins) and i immediately fell in love and have been obsessed with these turtles since.
edit: also, when you mentioned the need to absorb all of donnie's speech patterns.... same. just same.
I only recently learned about hyper fixation. I was diagnosed as autistic when I was 9 I was young and from an early age, I was told that I had “special interests” that can dominate my interactions with others. Like my conversations or thoughts. But I didn’t think hyper fixation was a part of the process of developing a special interest. I thought your special interests are hobbies or subjects you 100% love no matter what and can’t ever stop talking about.
For instance, I have a special interest in animation But that doesn't mean I every show that’s animated I automatically love, when I talk to other people who aren’t autistic, I’m told “then that’s not your special interest”
But when it comes to certain shows, songs, books, or concepts I found myself in weird off-and-on relationships with them.
Tmnt is one of them. In 2013 I fell in love with the 2012 version of the show and had a cult-like watch pattern with the show and weirdly enough it started a weird hyper fixation on not only the turtls but also “apritello” (Donnie x April) I was a kid at the time and didn’t know how creepy Donnie's actions were in that version nor realize how mean April was to him. But the “will they, won't they” and “friends to lovers” concepts just became a big hyper-fixation of mine. I am a hopeless romantic after all. I would look up cute apritello fanfics and save cute fanart as my wallpaper. But I noticed at after the third season I fell out of love with the show. I just felt burnt out.
When I reheard about the show getting a reboot I didn’t care. I remember only hearing racist things about April’s new design and as a black girl myself, I liked the representation but I saw that if anyone openly said they liked her new design they would get a lot of hate so I kinda backed away from the show. I picked up the show recently. I heard that the show already had been put through the wringer. First season out through hell. The second season was cut in half then forced to be rewritten into a series finally within only two months? I heard the show was on pause, meaning we could get more in the future depending on ratings. However, I tried to not get my hopes up.
I went into the show. Depressed art collage student with storyboards due and failing classes. Too tired to get out of bed. And I was hooked on Donnie. And again I was hooked on the thought of apritello. Within this version the relationship is soooo healthy, it works great for both platonic and romantic, so I can see it going both ways. I know most people think of them as a sibling-type relationship because the 2012 version just completely ruined the concept of them being in a romantic relationship forever and I’m 1000% ok with that. And I can see why their relationship works better as an older sister relationship and why it’s better overall. But I still found myself with this weird hyperfiction with the ship once again. it made me redownload Tumbler which is something I haven’t touched in years. I just to find more headcanons and fanart.
I think my hopeless romanticness mixed with my love for the relationship and the Tmnt just matched together way too well with ROTTMNT cause it’s so healthy and I needed a healthy relationship in my own life.
Now that the show is on pause, I don’t know how to feel, I told myself to not get too attached. But I did. It sucks but it’s also a weird situation I’ve found myself in. I’m looking up more Tmnt Content even if it’s not related to Rise.
I really liked hearing your experience as well! :D I'm glad you've found something in Rise now, even if not back then. I personally view April and Donnie more as siblings, but I'm glad you could find something you perceive as healthy :]
I love it when people share their personal experiences
I'm really glad people could see the value in my experience :D I love talking about myself so I was happy to do it haha. Honestly Mikey is gender but Donnie and Leo gave me the most gender envy. As an artist I'm a bit similar to Mikey, but I relate mostly to disaster twins.
Thank you for sharing your experience :D
When you got sick, that may have been a form of burn out. This can happen because when we hyperfixate, we tend to lack in other departments , such as self care, in order to focus more on our hyperfixation. That can include not giving our bodies and minds time to comprehend what it is we're learning (which is also why a lot of us have trouble getting to sleep, because its still trying to understand what happened), until our body forcibly makes us take a break, or at least tries to. Being extremely tired, getting bad headaches, getting sick, and etc. are some ways that can show up.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense 😭 I had a good time just laying in bed tbh, I really needed that break
Can already tell this is going to be great!!!
20:53 why do I kinda relate to this? This happens to me to sometimes where I get so interested in a topic that I kinda get worried that I’ll start losing interest
For me it's like, oh no, all of the happiness this brought me suddenly gone? I don't know what to do with my life now!! So i think it's fair to be scared
We have the EXACT SAME experience getting into _Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ and it's kinda creepy but also kinda awesome.
Holy shit that's so cool
@@mars.mp3 I'm still watching and when I saw your reply after checking a different device, I was like "holy shit" myself.
And okay maybe not _exactly_ because I didn't get gender envy nor am I trans, and I watched the _show_ first, but still, we both saw skulltrot's video and got into it.
@@ArgentuTA164-2 the power skulltrot has 😭 I'm still glad you could relate to my experience though :D
Great video, I relate to nearly everything about your experience watching this series. One thing I disagree with though is the one-dimensionality of the Krang. There is this amazing video analysis on Leo that at some point explains the parallels between his internal conflict and the philosophy of the Krang. It's called "Leo's Misunderstood Ego" by Skulltrot.
Edit because I have no self-control:
The gist is that the Krang believe only the strongest and most powerful have the right to live on and prosper. This is what forms their ego. Instead of co-existing, they kill off other civilizations and justify it with the fact that those civilizations couldn't defend themselves and therefore were lesser. It's simular to how Leo feels the need to single handedly take out bad guys without the help and support from his teammates. That reasoning is why after Leo's sacrifice, Sister Krang laughs at April and Splinter's despair instead of mourning her own brother. She sees herself as a victor in this scenario. It is also why Leader Krang is so angered by being sent back through the portal because it proves that he wasn't the great conqueror he thought he was. This anger is pushed further by Leo smiling. "Why should someone who has also been defeated be happy?" Is likely what his thought process was like at that moment.
So yeah, I think the Krang were actually written with a lot of complexity. But I do love how stereotypically evil they got to be in this movie.
Yeah!!! I actually watched that and was like "WAIT OMG THERE IS MORE TO THEM" I don't think that changes anything about how entertaining they are to me, but it does add another layer I really like!! :D honestly I watched that video and got the motivation to finish mine!
@@mars.mp3 I'm glad you enjoyed the video as well :) Your opinions are valid. I think thematic parallels are so neat.
At first I really hated the new rise series because of how they changed Raph and Donnie so much because they were my all time FAVOURITES so it was very hard for me to get used to the new turtles 🐢
They are still my favourite turtles Old or new and Im very attached to both 2012 and 201 tmnt ❤
ALSO YES GENDER ENVY HIT ME HARDD!
Im a very straight female but this confused me so much… i love being a female and never want to change BUT IF I WAS BORN A MAN I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO BE JUST LIKE THEMM!!
Dude I dont believe myself to be autistic or have ADHD but damn I agree with all that you've said. I just.. fell. I was on the wall about it, and then i was the biggest stan. Thats insane that someone had such a similar expereince and was so eloquent about it. Thank you
You're so welcome. It's interesting that a lot of us have had the same experience!!
I'm on the autism spectrum, I was diagnosed when I was 8, I'm 31 now so yeah, I've known the majority of my life. I hard related to Donnie while watching in many ways, I'm not low empathy, kinda the opposite actually, to the point where when I was in high school, my first period class sold diet soda in a mini fridge to students for 50 cents a can, it was work experience so the class was in this teeny tiny little office that was once a closet so it was a bit of a hidden spot to snag soda. One day, out of nowhere, I decided to buy a diet Dr. Pepper for my second period teacher, unsure why I felt the need to do that given it was just another regular school day. So I went straight to second period once the bell rang & made sure to be in the class as early as possible to hand it to her & I kid you not, she claimed she was so thirsty that she was about to ask a teacher assistant to grab her something to drink. I've had other instances like that but much smaller like a recent example I can give, a friend of mine that I hadn't talked to in a while, I was just sitting there watching a random youtube video & then suddenly, decided to send her a message out of nowhere asking if she's doing alright & if she needed to talk to someone & she replied a few minutes later, stating that she just sat down at her computer right as I sent that message & as it turns out, things weren't doing good at all. We did talk but she was partially in shock for how I knew. So hey, while I can relate in many other ways, low empathy is not one of them but like since I was diagnosed at the age of 8, pretty much all of my friends from school I know, I met through special ed because they were the easiest to get along with & I have friends with low empathy & while it can be a little frustrating at times, I know it's apart of them & I work with it, I know they're trying their best & that's what's important.
As for ways I can relate to Donnie, hyper fixation, easy hard relate. Purple Game called me out so much, I noticed that this was starting to be me with this series, I have the theme song on my phone & I listened to it like 10 times today, would of been more but I was at a wedding & purposefully kept my phone locked away in the coat closet so I could focus on being there for my sister & her wedding. I've been hyper fixated on things in the past so I'm use to it, I can see the signs when it comes, when I was a young teen, it was Danny Phantom & Toontown, sounds kinda sad saying that now given one was cancelled & the other closed down but hey, there's a DP graphic novel coming out & I've been playing Toontown Rewritten almost as much as I played the original Toontown so not as sad as it sounds on the surface. Not too long ago, it was Miraculous Ladybug then the Disastrous Life of Saiki K. then back to Miraculous again. Well, I said not too long ago but I think it's been like 5 years at this point since I got into Miraculous, dang, time does fly! With recent stuff going on, I think my brain was ready to jump to another & Rise just ended up being there when I needed it so here I am, finished the series & movie within 1 weekend & craving more but since Nick murder this thing before it had a chance, fan stuff is what there is.
Also, I have a different system for remembering stuff, not like his mystic library rap, it's a little difficult to explain how it functions, suppose domino effect? I can remember something that happened in relations to things & figure things out from there, not the best way to explain it but that's what I got. I joke on having a bad memory because I do, if I can't find a connection then things fall flat but then I can remember the day my friend & I stayed at the park after sunset, singing songs from Avenue Cue was September 14th, 2007 because we saw some weird freaky thing in the park that scared us away so we went back to my place & slept there then went back that morning to investigate what that thing was & we came up with nothing but my friend found a box that was hidden kinda close to where we saw the thing & she opened up to see lots of little different toys & things inside & there were instructions stating that if you find the box, to put it back where it was because it's apart of a world wide treasure hunt & we're welcome to take things out but we must put things back in if we do & there was even a notebook to sign so my friend & I each decided to sign the notebook & put the date inside, she asked me what the date was & I could remember it because it was my cat's birthday, I drew a picture of my cat in the notebook. That's how my memory works, I admit it's more entertaining to do it through song, wish I could but I don't have the mind for that. When I need to remember things in the now like a 4 digit code or whatever, I'll keep it in my head for the period of time needed by thinking of things that relate to the numbers or whatever, when my friends & I play Pokemon together, they can just say the code out loud to me for doing raids or a shared world because I can recall it by making up silly acronyms for the letters & find a way to fit the numbers into it.
There's many other things I can say where I felt a relation to Donnie but I talk A LOT & this comment will go on for miles if I do, sorry about that. I love sharing stories & explaining things.
Will say on the whole thing about the Kraang being a bit boring, yeah, I get that, I've been watching the 2012 series & I got very sick of those Kraang but more so from over exposure to them, I had the same issues with certain things when watching Stargate SG-1 when they were dealing with particular enemies for too long but I feel they worked in the movie because it's a one & done deal, they don't need too much depth because we're looking at the characters we know & love, watching their growth through this & if it took the time to go in too deep for the enemy, it might take away from that. It could also add if done right but with how this was executed, I enjoyed it. Kinda wish each turtle could have a movie more so focused on them like this was Leo's, now we need one for the other three, could potentially get a more dynamic villain that way, too bad that won't be a reality.
Finishing up, love hearing what other people think but that's just me, I like seeing what make people tick so I enjoyed hearing what you had to say. Being open can be difficult, I don't often talk about things relating to my gender identity because I don't know how to talk about it without coming off as weird or strange so you're brave for that, I get how scary that can be. Heck, I'll admit I typed out my deal in this paragraph & then deleted it because I am not comfortable saying. I personally enjoyed listening to you talk about all this, was nice, I need a little bit of something to feed my current Rise obsession & listening to how other people are affected by it helps. I'm sure there are others who also enjoy it. You'll find as you get older, many people who are quite young now might appreciate you sharing this since it might help them learn stuff about themselves.
As of now, I've watched the movie 12 times, the entire show twice, and most of the analysis' and fan animations I can find on youtube, and I have no clue how I never found this one! I really enjoyed hearing your perspective and experience with the series, especially since most of the review videos focus on the beautiful animation and leo's character development. Donnie was the one to finally make me watch the show after I kept seeing clips of him (I have memorized his entire rap in the mystic library episode and dressed up as him for halloween for the gender), and rise has definitely encouraged me to continue with animation and digital art. Segway, thank you for sharing your descent into the rabbit hole, I was spinning in my chair and reciting movie lines (when they came up) for the full 23 minutes :D
YOUR SUPER UNDERRATED OMG!! Rise of the Tmnt had been my biggest hyper fixation yet! (Before it was amphibia)I really enjoyed this video and hearing about your journey into rise was incredible to hear, I appreciate your honesty on how you thought the show was executed and YES- I absolutely agree on wanting the show to have more emotional moments, I’m really a sucker for comedy and emotional beats!! Also the Leo fan art you made is so amazing your really good at drawing expressions!!
As someone that is also trans I absolutely relate to feeling gender envy ESPECIALLY FROM LEO HOLY TRUFFLE MAC AND CHEESE-
I also commented this on HeyBuwan’s video so I’m just gonna add this here:
This show is such a gem to see in the media today- it’s a shame I didn’t get into this show sooner.. I was a huge fan of TMNT I grew up with everything you could imagine. I watched the 1987 show, 2003 show 2007 movie and even the next mutation etc. When I was around 9 I was a massive fan of the 2012 series so when I heard about Rise of TMNT it put a bad taste in my mouth cause I was just getting over the fact that the 2012 series ended. I remember at first disliking the style and hearing about how everyone put bad reviews on this show However everything changed when 4 years later I hear about the Rise of TMNT movie coming to Netflix and everyone seemed to be enjoying it- because of this I did what I should have done all those years ago.. I watched the show and then the movie in order to get adjusted to the world, characters, conflict etc. I can finally say that I regret not finding the heart to look past what everyone thought and give it a shot myself! I absolutely love the brother’s dynamics and characters in general, and believe it or not this was the first and only time I have related to ALL the brothers- I related to Raph because of him being the oldest and struggling to bond with his family and have them work together as a team, For Leo I related to his carefree and relaxed facade attitude and him wanting to prove himself, For Mikey I related to his honesty, him being the therapist in the family, and both of us are artists, and finally for Donnie I related to his hyper focus on his passions, monotone behavior and him having trouble embracing emotions- AND OMG I LOVE APRIL IN THIS SHOW- her charm and no nonsense attitude she is seriously incredible!!
The animation blew me away, and as an aspiring artist and animator it has really inspired me!! I can feel and tell that this crew working behind the show had passion and a beautiful story to tell- this is the most interesting and uniquely done iteration of the turtles I have ever seen in recent years and I truly hope that it gets picked back up again
And if this is the end-
Thank you so much for all the compliments omg! Also LEO IS SO GENDER, HOW DOES HE DO IT. As well thank you for sharing your experience, can't believe I'm in the presence of a long term fan!!! I'm glad you eventually gave Rise a chance :] and honestly I also relate to all the turtles, they all have their unique things that are very relatable haha
Honestly, this was refreshing to watch. I've watched a LOT of reviews on ROTTMNT (totally not because I needed more of the show or anything, haha, totally.) but almost none of them actually talk about their personal thoughts and/or experiences with the show and movie, they focus more on the writing and animation. And while yes, the writing and animation are amazing and stunning and beautiful and spectacular, sometimes people just want to know WHY someone likes the show. Not the why is it good, but the why you like it. Personally, the way the characters are written and then portrayed that made me love the show/movie so much, along with the fact I could actually rip apart each turtles personality and then take small bits of each to throw into a blender, blend it all together, and then you get my personality. It's insane actually how often I rip apart characters I love just to figure out why I love them so much.
I love this April (Best April in my opinion, granted I only watched half of the 2012 series though) because of how absolutely chaotic she is. Like, I'm sorry, if I ever met someone with even half as much chaotic energy as her I will be finding a way to make them my friend.
I love this Splinter because of how nice it is to see a new view on him, I know I mentioned I only watched the 2012 series, but while practically tearing apart all the fan work for Rise so I can find more of it, I did come across small tid-bits on the other Splinters. I get that he's supposed to be the 'wise old rat man that knows everything', but it's refreshing to see him not being that, but instead more of a lazy depressed parent rat man that was entirely not ready to have children. Added bonus for him actually having a character arc in Rise!!
(Adding this here before I forget, but my name, like, first name, was in the show and spelled the exact same way I spell it, and when I say I paused the show to practically go scream because HOLY HECK THAT'S NOT SOMETHING I WAS EXPECTING?? LIKE- IT WAS A ONE-TIME MENTION AND ALL BUT OH MY GOD???)
I love this Raph, he is the definition of 'oldest child' and 'Gentle giant' mashed together but still with small itty bitty pieces of 'I'm an angry child' sprinkled in there. It's also nice to see him as the leader (even if only in the series) for a change, that small change honestly was awesome to see. He is a giant teddy bear, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise/lh
I love this Mikey, and yes while he is somewhat similar to other versions of him, or, at least more-so than the rest of the turtles, it's always nice to have at least one thing and/or character that's just universally similar. The 'probably has ADHD in canon but I don't think it was ever stated but it's universally agreed on in the fandom pizza addicted youngest brother, which adding that the youngest brother bit was also just universally agreed on in the fandom', character.
I love this Donnie, he is no doubt tied for my favorite character in the series for first place AND tied for first place on my all-time favorite characters list. He is tragically relatable throughout a massive section of the series/movie, and is also the reason I initially gave ROTTMNT a chance!! (I'll explain how I found the show in a bit, because diddly dang was it not the way it should have been) The added fact that I can see bits of myself and my sibling in him also adds to the fact, honestly. I got my mom to watch the first episode, and he's her favorite as well!! Hahaha, now I just need to get her to watch the entire series at a time that isn't almost 9:00.
I love this Leo, he's my other favorite character and tied for first place with Donnie for the series. I don't think I've seen very many characters with a personality anywhere near what his is like, and I am aware of how many times I've used the word 'refreshing', BUT IF THIS LEO ISN'T REFRESHING PERSONALITY-WISE THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
How I found this show and the movie (as well as how I watched it) was a bit different than how I would usually find something to watch. I would usually ask my friends for show suggestions or just scavenge my streaming services for anything interesting. I was watching a review on TOH (Just adding this, but also WHAT?? I DIDN'T THINK I'D FIND ANYONE BESIDES ME AND LIKE TWO OTHER FRIENDS WHO WATCHED TOH AND AMPHIBIA //AND// ROTTMNT!!!!) when I spotted this on the little recommended bar thingy thing on the side of the screen. I hadn't even heard of the shows existence until I saw a review for it there. Not a single ad for the toys, not a single ad to watch it, not even mentioned on any social platform I'm on (which is insane??? I'm on so many. Well, I'm on a lot but I'm also not- It's hard to explain really.) so I watched the review. I was nodding along to the review and all that jazz until at THE VERY END OF IT it was mentioned that Donnie apparently was canonically autistic. Considering that I can't recall any representation for autism specifically that I've seen over my few years of being a cartoon addict, I was intrigued. So, with spoilers in hand due to my lack of thought process, I watched the show. I loved it INSTANTLY.
Now, how did I go about watching the show and the movie in an odd way? Hahaha- Well, let us just thank Netflix for that. You see, I only have access to the first season of ROTTMNT and the movie on Netflix (I know Canada Netflix has access to the entire show, my friend who uses an account in Canada told me) so I ended up watching the first season, the movie, and then later finding out there was a season 2 and that I could watch it on Paramount+. So, good naturedly, I got my parents to renew their Paramount+ subscription, and then binged the entire show in one go. I rewatched the movie again after I finished season 2, which made some things make more sense (Donnie having mystic abilities and not his Tech-Bo).
I watched this show, in total, without including the confusing time gap of how long it took me to find season 2, roughly 1 and a half days to watch. I binged the entirety of season 1 in one day, along with the movie, and did the same with season 2 when I found it.
And me being me, I of course shoved this show down my friends' throats in the same way I did with The Owl House, Amphibia, and Dead End: Paranormal Park. One of my friends binged it in 3 days (The one in Canada), the other I had to make an entire deal with. It was funny actually, I watch Arcane, and they watch ROTTMNT. I still need to uphold my end of the deal, but I'll do it once ROTTMNT brain rot dies off. They actually didn't like it at first, but after watching the show a bit more they declared Raph as their favorite, which I'm assuming means they like the show. I also have some blackmail in terms of Discord PFP which was an entire accident, but I got a screenshot of them with a Raph PFP. When I say it was an accident though I really do and don't mean it. Getting the screenshot, that was on purpose, but being able to see the PFP? That was an accident. You see, my Discord is a tad bit broken, so I was offline when they had it as their PFP. They had changed it back before I woke up that day. I should have technically never been able to get that screenshot, but here we are, me with screenshot evidence of them with a Raph PFP.
Sorry for this being a long comment, I'm just really passionate about this show apparently.
Sincerely, a fellow ROTTMNT fan.
I loved your comment, it's really interesting to see other people's perspective on the show as well :D I'm really glad to have created a space where people can just talk about how passionate they are for the show.
Also both Leo and Donnie are my favorites
Your comment is a beautiful essay and I enjoyed every single second of it😂 I also agree on enjoying people talking about why they like the show personally rather than just all of the amazing animation and writing (even though it’s deserved). I never grew up with any tmnt exposure besides brief glimpses of the 2012 episodes once in a while, but as a brand new fan as of a couple months ago I am consumed by the raw lovability of rise and it’s characters. I discovered the movie almost by accident, I had a non-spoiler review pop up in my feed one day and out of boredom watched it. That was the best thing I could have done because it made me curious and I downloaded the movie to watch on a long plane ride to France, guessing that even if it wasn’t as good as everyone made it sound, it could at least entertain me with the impressive animation. By the time I got back to the states I had rewatched it at least three times!
I relate to Raph hardcore as the oldest sibling in my family but Donnie has that edge that makes me envy his personality (I’m ADD and felt seen by many of his relatable character attributes even though I’m not autistic). It’s nice to hear people’s stories about how they found and fell in love with the show 👍
I-you just voiced EVERYTHING. One big thing I couldn’t explain how exhausted I was from the excitement rush this show gave me.
I dont have autism but I honestly loved seeing your thought process throughout your discovery of the show, it showed me a lot of things i overlooked when i was watching it myself! Thank you so much for sharing
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!! Honestly Leo is so relatable 😭 I should probably think about that hmm
@@mars.mp3 It was really eye-opening really! I enjoyed it a lot :) I've really only need focusing on Leo for the first few days of watching the show so this video helped me realize theres so much more to not only Donnie but Raph and Mikey too so Ive basically been successfully sucked into the Rottmnt rabbit hole and im loving every SECOND of it
U did such a good job with this video!! The show/movie analysis as well as the introspective analysis is interesting and amazing :))
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it :]
This literally has been my Hyperfix show for like 3 months!
That's so cool! I think I've been going for almost 2 months now :D
@@mars.mp3 Oo nice! I’m glad people are starting to find the show :D
Just.. great work on the video ;-; I had to comment something. I started watching rise before seeing mutant mayhem, and even tho I do feel a little late to the fandom, I cannot explain how much everything about this show has effected me in just the last week, and how much I related to almost EVERYTHING you said on the video. I wish u well
Bro you’re so funny 😭😭 also thank you very much for the subtitles!! It makes it so much easier to watch and I just so happened to click on this when my headphones died in a public place so it was very very convenient and I probably would not have remembered to watch the video otherwise tbh. Also also!! I’ve also absorbed Donnie’s tendency to say things aloud, and now EVERY TIME I yawn, I just. Say “yawn” immediately after
Thank you so much! Honestly subtitles makes watching videos easier for me as well, so I'm glad to provide that little bit of accessibility :]
HELP I also had a major gender envy moment due to ROTTMNT 😭 Donatello made me realize I might be (at least somewhat) agender
{ You are SUPRISINGLY underrated-
But I love this show so much :') }
Well I started TH-cam not too long ago! But thank you :D i also love this show sm
wonderful video, really enjoyed it
forgot to change accounts? i mean either way, the video was great!
@@veve2484 It's a little bit I have with myself, I do this on every video I post!!
@@mars.mp3 ohh, that def makes a lot more sense haha!
Omg I feel the same. I’ve been obsessed and constantly hyperfixiated for like 4 months, still I am😀, and I am scared to let them go. I genuinely love Rise and I want another season so bad that I would give them a kidney, for do it.
I still have hope though, they said the show was just unposed, never cancelled
I really hope we'll get more content for Rise. I need it, for my mental health
@@mars.mp3 the authors released some storyboards from the movie(heartbreaking, like there is Future Leo that is about to do a karaoke peepaw). and they said that in S2 there was supposed to be an ep where all the turtles became small, expect for Mikey, who had to babysit them. There was also gonna be an ep where karai was gonna teach the turtles to fight, but Nickelodeon decided to cut it😩. I really tried to don’t think about them, but it’s impossible and I really appreciated ur video, it was good for my mental health
1st, I genuinely have no idea how you are so underrated. 2nd, HOLY SHIT YES WITH THE GENDER ENVY! *LEO GIVES ME GENDER ENVY EVEN THO WE'RE THE SAME GENDER!*
Omg thank you! The turtles give me so much gender envy fr
The hyperfixation and emotional exhaustion is really relatable for me with this show.
May have been a little neglectful in some areas of my life.
I think i might be autistic based on how i relate to Donnie and my own past experiences. Leo is in my top three fictional crushes (mostly because of Future Leo).
Got a mild break from Rise when Tears of the Kingdom (I love Legend of Zelda) came out and i think my activity in the fandom will plato a bit, though it'll always be something I circle back to since TMNT is generally something I circle back to.
I'm still trying to find a way to watch Rise but I know basically the entire plot because... That's how I choose what's good to watch or not I suppose ?? Either way, the parts where you spoke about your high expectations on the show and how you expected it to be more emotionally-driven and that it wasn't perfect and stuff... You actually reminded me of my main-hyperfixation.
I don't if it's polite to get mention it on a video that has absolutely nothing to with it tho... But when my dad asked me why I was so obsessed with the show, I didn't know how to answer it, I just said "I enjoy the characters" "But they aren't even developed enough" and I couldn't reply. Because there was true to it, and that was why I had a complicated relationship with the show, but I still am trapped in the hyperfixation limbo.
As someone who is also obsessed with Donatello, I do not blame you for talking about him for majority of the video. I found myself drawn to his character. I do not have autism however, but I do have ADHD and the hyperfixations and stimming just sorta come with it. I didn’t realize how much I related to Donnies character either until I watched a character analasys video about him, and it was then I realized how much alike I am to him. And dude don’t even get me STARTED on the gender envy I have for him lmao.
Very well done! It sounds like this was cathartic for you. Thank you for sharing. :3
on the topic of villainy: i think having a villain with such a simple goal and not very fleshed out can be a positive in certain stories, because it allows the audience to "fill in the blanks". and that in itself is what makes them so scary as it plays on the fear of the unknown.
or maybe i just enjoy a villain who's evil for evil's sake.
Being so mesmerized by the movie to the point you don't recall what happens and having to watch it again is the ultimate superpower honestly.
- Video essays like this (learned the show's existence by AGAİN skulltrot) give me life, I feel like my thoughts and feelings are CLİCKİNG perfectly with this fandom and Im falling in love all over again.
I too go and watch the fight scenes on repeat There is so much happening and it's so fluid. The animators are just amazing at team fight choreographies, it was also apparent in the show but that only got x10 better in the movie. (lemme remind you that the initial storyboarding of the sky fight scene was supposed to be twice as long, you can find it on youtube still İT İS G O R G E O U S !
- Also, I really relate to your experiences with the series ending and feeling tired while watching and also feeling kinda empty when it was over like it was the one thing giving me joy and it's gone. I dragged it as long as I could, watched some episodes multiple times, and finished it in about 2 weeks, watching 2-3 a day and spending the rest of the time in fanart, just being drunk with happiness every time I was thinking about it. When ı was sad I found comfort in this show and it's found family. I just didn't want it to end, I remember needing to breathe before finishing it. Appreciate the fact that I could even watch it, instead of being resentful that it was shortened. Anyway overall I consume ROTTMNT content when I need it now and we have a good relationship. İt just spoke out to me what you said in your video, and I wanted to address that.
Kudose to u
this is amazing!!! you did such a good job on this!
Thank you bestie
HELLO YES HI THIS VIDEO WAS GREAT
i love this show so much i've been hyperfixated on it for months and my family is so done wITH mE JHGVFGH ITS SO EMBARRASSING HOW MUCH I LOVE IT??? DONNIES RAP IS MY RINGTONE SEND HELP
i stg i've rewatched it an ungodly amount of times and have made so many videos on the show that I have yet to post
😭anyways thank you for sharing your experiences. I SWEAR TO SWISS CHEESE IF THEY DONT MAKE A SEASON 3 I WILL BURN EVERYTHING
Thank you!! Honestly I've been embarrassed about how much I love a show about mutant turtles as well, but now I'm just so happy to enjoy it.
“I really need more videos to feed my hyperfixation and that’s kind of what I wanted to be for others”
Thank you :] I’m stuck in a limbo where I kind of really wanna watch the show but have no energy to go looking for somewhere it might be available. So I’ve been consuming all rotmnt content I can find😂
i subscribed as soon as you referenced the Sonic 06 fandub 😭 amazing
The sonic fandubs have a special place in my heart
Glad so much people are still hyping rise of TMNT up
Agreed!!! It really is a good show that deserves to be loved as much as possible
@@mars.mp3 agreed
Love your video ✨
gah even after months of finishing the series and movie, i can't stop thinking about this show!!
I saw the video you mentioned and then dabbled a bit but then decided to actually sit down and watch it seriously and I went down hill so fast.
I love Donnie, he's my favourite and I also have started verbalizing my actions more. I've always done "itch, itch, itch" while scratching myself (or animal or another human) or I do "stretch" while stretching but now I've started saying "Gasp" and others.
I've said "no problem" for a long time but yeah... I've started saying "No probbles".
Basically echoing Donnie. (Echolalia ftw!!) I'm 21 (turning 22 very soon) and I feel so free to unmask even more (I don't mask much to begin with). It is good, I'll verbalize my actions all I fuckin want!!
I called my younger brother yesterday to talk about it and I was like "So, do you still like TMNT?" And he cut me off by saying "Oh, you gonna talk about Rise!?" And I got so excited!! I asked him who he thinks my favourite character is and he cut me off by saying "Donnie". He said he knew it cus he saw skulls' video recommended to him too! My brother (at this point) only has watched half of the first episode and I'm so excited to hear him tell me more.
I'm adverse to touch mostly. When I want to cuddle or be close to a person (mostly either my mum or my best friend) I will go and get that effection but if you try to touch me (ESPECIALLY if I don't know you) I will not be happy. Seeing low empathy portrayed made me so unbelievably happy because while they call him out on his bullshit (which is healthy and should be done) they do it with love and don't try to change him.
Just so many thoughts and how much love I have for it.
Nick (and a lot of the nostalgia gatekeepers) didn't give the show the chance. The writers and everyone just didn't have enough. Not given enough resources or time to fledge out what they wanted. So, I know even with it's flaws, they did the absolute best they could with the shit hand they were given.
We can only hope that those higher ups and "fans" will give this rendition of the turtles more.
#saveROTTMNT
It's so cool to see Donnie having such a positive effect on us both :D I love this show so much and it really did deserve better.
i think i'm getting emotionally exhuasted
but in a way of i'm hoping so hard for this show to be saved and i'm holding onto to that strongly
also my mental health has not been good lately, i've been very anxious and i can't tell if rottmnt is affected that or my anxiety is affect my injoyment of rottmnt
rise is my favorite show in a good long while, it's high on a pedastal for me
i don't want it to end, i don't want to stop, i havent felt like this before.
i've been hyperfixated before, but i haven't been stressed about it like this
I honestly get that, like I would have this pit in my stomach when I went too long without consuming rise content 😭 It's strange how a show can affect us so much. Please take care of yourself!
i think i know what happened to me
i was getting a really bad anxiety episode and i kinda,, forgot to eat for a few days (1 or less meal a day) which just made it worse
after i had an anxiety attack at work and took the next day off and actually ate something i felt so much better
aslo i got on my meds again
the reason ehy i thought that rottmnt was doing this is cuase it's my hyper fixation, my mind is only thinking of rottmnt for the most part
so it just kinda stuck the bad shit onto it
i'm good now :3
I honestly had a very similar experience. I had watched the movie first and fell in LOVE with it. I then had seen more and more clips on TH-cam until I decided to watch it. I have never felt so emotionally connected to a cartoon before and it had gone to the point that I was jealous of them, including there gender. I made fan-animations and have been using my TH-cam as a good way to express myself! My whole life I never thought I would become a ninja turtles fan but It’s been the most fun in my life. Thank you for sharing this video because I found it very relatable ❤
It's so interesting to see how our experiences are similar :D And I also feel very emotionally connected to this show, more so than with any other show except for maybe the owl house.
Slowly checking out the show as I get out of my owl house spiral
I highly recommend it! And also I love the owl house so much. I recently binged it with my friend!
amazing video,, everything u said feels like u took the words and experiences right out of my mouth. even down to the watching heartbreak high bit,, like that was so specific and funny to me that I did the same. the turtles are huge gender envy, and god I just love seeing the family all be themselves together. fellow Donnie enjoyer and enthusiast,, awesome vid man!!
Thank you so much! It really is strange to see how similar some of our experiences are, like woah, how did that happen???
You should check out Lego Monkie Kid, it was made by Flying Bark too and it has a similar vibe
Thank you for the recommendation!!
@@mars.mp3 you’re welcome!
As someone who is getting evaluated for adhd and possibly autism in the future (adhd first, most likely-) I fell in love with Rise because of my similarities with Donnie as well as my connection with the previous animated iteration, the 2012 version. I, much like Donnie, experience sensory issues and I also stim frequently and get hyperfixiated on certain media (tmnt atm, but also other subjects), and because I'm nonbinary and on the aro spectrum, I headcanon Donnie as demiromantic and non-binary, and I really love that so I'm also really attached to Donnie and the characters!! :)) I'm glad someone else can relate!! :D
I FIND IT SO INCREDIBLY INTERESTING HOW SIMILAR OUR GETTING INTO RISE WAS. DOWN THE DETAIL WAS ALMOST THE EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE. SAW CLIPS ON TT. WOAH DONNIES AUTISTIC I GOTTA WATCH THIS. MADE ME REALIZE IM AUTISTIC. IM ALSO TRANS SO LOTS OF GENDER ENVY FROM DONNIE (EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOURS??) GREAT NOW IM HYPERFIXATED ON RISE AND DONNIE. I ADORE THIS VIDEO
YEAHHH!! fellow autism and transgender person *waves*
@@mars.mp3 WAVES BACK
WOW both of our experiences are so similar is uncanny.even down to the reason why i watched the show.i was a fan of the other versions always had been, but i didn’t know rottmnt existed until i watched the video u talked about.as a donnie stan sinces the 80 cartoons,i always related to him, but rottmnt donnie made me felt heard. i just knew i had to watch it
I'm honestly so appreciative of the way Donnie's autism is portrayed, makes me feel all sorts of ways
I like the video a lot. I also like you express yourself about the show and movie.
Something that i hope i can do to my friends. To share this awesome show with me. And this video making me love the show even more. And im happy for it.
The show is amazing and i really like the character. Not only that, because the animation is top tier, the show inspire me more for making and learning art. With making the fanart, i feel become more good at making art.
It's really wonderful to find a show that inspires you :D I hope you're able to express your love for the show as well
@@mars.mp3 thanks. I apreciate it
Thank you for sharing your experiences! I started watching the film because of that video too! I'm not officially autistic (never got tested, might try one day), but I do have a lot of autistic behaviours and I care about representation anyway. I did not watch the full video at first cause I was like, you know what, I kinda wanna watch the whole film without spoilers now. I was blown away! There's so much I can say but seeing a character like Donnie was so amazing. To see a character who 'just happens to be autistic', having similair traits as I do while being so cool and badass is just so awesome. Also to see how he is accepted and loved just the way he is by his family and friends (okay yes, they do make fun of him sometimes, but nothing more than the brotherly teasing they do with the other brothers too) and treated as an equal was so validating. It really helped me understand some things about myself (like my love-hate relationship with physical touch) and helped to tone down the voice in my head saying that being different is wrong and I deserve nothing nice because of it. When watching Rise for the first time, I was just happy to see autism represented so posivitely; I never guessed that Donnie would literally help me on my journey to love myself. I'm gonna dress up as him for Halloween (it's later at my uni cause Halloween is during exam season rip) and might have spend a bit too much money buying stuff to actually cosplay him and his brothers. Oh well. I hope that one day I can access the full show, but the film, fan compilations and art still suffice for now. Have a lovely day x
Honestly Donnie's portrayal of autism is so precious to me. It's so strange and wonderful how these fictional characters have an actual impact on us as people. And you have a great day as well!
"I felt gender envy from all the turtles"
Bro.. the way that sentence resonated with me-
This is honestly a fantastic breakdown of the show and your experiences, and heavily relatable! As someone else who is nb and autistic (and who heavily kins and projects onto Donnie), I felt this a lot, and I'm glad to see fellow autistics talking about my current hyperfixation in a super relatable way! Donnie is also my favourite, and I love the episodes themed around him as well, especially mystic library, and seeing a video of autistic Donnie moments was what actually convinced me to watch the show! I also haven't seen the old TMNT shows (yet), so I'm heavily attatched to this cast, and yes, I did cry for hours after seeing the movie.. (ಥ﹏ಥ) I also noticed the shape language in the show, which excited me, since I love picking out small details in character designs like this! Overall just- HHHH THIS IS SUCH A GOOD ANALYSIS OF THE SHOW?? I could probably go on for PARAGRAPHS, both on how much I ADORE this show, and how much I love this video! Thank you so much for this!
Ahhhh thank you so much!! I'm really glad you found it relatable, it means a lot to me
@@mars.mp3 ofc! And I get what you mean, I'll definitely watch the 2012 TMNT, but my hyperfixation is at its peak currently and I'm gripping onto it with iron claws, haha!
This delighted me, im glad people are getting into rise and just the tmnt in general. The fear of a hyperfixation leaving is real dude. Ive been into tmnt since the 2003 series and do have a lot of fond memories of it. Rise did however take the top spot for me tho. Some of the other series do feel like a product of their time, i dont think rise will have the same issue
That's an interesting perspective :D I'm a very new ninja turtle fan so I wonder how long it will last.
i really liked this video, the gender crisis part kept making me laugh and i knew i love this video and now i am subscribing to you!
Thank you! :D I'm glad you found my gender envy entertaining 😭
@@mars.mp3 your welcome lol
It also doesn’t help the show was cut down in half in their last season
The show was fucked over by nickelodeon fr
@@mars.mp3 yep, allegedly some personal beefs between at the time new management at nick didn’t help either
I'm glad someone else mentioned the Krang's 1D personality. The movie's great but the Krang just aren't interesting threats no matter how cool they look
Like I think the have something going for them, but they're just not all that interesting. I'm glad we can share the opinion
How are we exactly the same person?? I got into rottmnt through that autism vid bc I had just been diagnosed and I also was watching Heartbreak High at the same time omg
IT'S SO WEIRD HOW MUCH RANDOM OVERLAP THERE IS
Currently on the descent, just finished season one and desperately trying to find somewhere to watch the rest. Netflix only has the first season and I’m getting manic at this point
I think you can watch it on Paramount Plus (you can also google it)
Honestly I really enjoyed this. I love hearing everyone's thoughts and opinions on the show. I do feel like you pulled thoughts out of my head sometimes. 😅. I agree completely. C:(
I actually stole all the thoughts from your head specifically when making this video /j
Oh that's why I've been so brain dead lately. \j c:
honestly i adored the show, the characters, animation and everything
then i watched the movie, and suddenly the show consumed me so thoroughly to the point where i made playlists for donnie and leo and listened to them for months on end
when i tell you i aggressively kin leo's whole fucking character,
oh my god
Fellow Leo kinnie *tips hat*
@@mars.mp3 *tips hat* respect respect
before this video i was a hater, but after it? i am a stan
I'm so glad I changed your mind
i love how our experiences are so different i have been a fan since i was 7 and grew up with the 2012 tmnt but it took me 4 years to start rise 💀
That's pretty interesting :D I remember watching a bit of the 2012 show with my brother but being put off by the gooey ooey slime thing with guts inside.
“If you can’t tell, I’m kinda obsessed with Donatello. ..which should be an autism trait in itself”
LITERALLY MEEEEEEEEEEE
Splinter took the Turtle Tank to a demolition derby!
You know for the movie, Donnie could’ve got an solo against the krang?
I feel like I'm on the same path as you- i've entered the turtle madness, now it's only a matter of time until I get emotionally burned out by loving these turtles far too much.
Emotions are so hard to deal with honestly, would be preferable to not keep getting burnt out but I'd do it all again for the turtles
It's so exciting to see more people get dragged into this brainrot hellhole!
I've been hyperfocused on this series for roughly 40 days straight, and it's easily the most intense hyperfixation I've ever personally had! I, like many other people, got dragged in through fanmade clip compilations that started getting recommended to me here on youtube (istg youtube is secretly one of the biggest advocates for the show) and have been pretty much gone for it ever since.
My experience with it hasn't been particularly unique, though I suppose there is one rather interesting thing about it. I grew up watching the 2012 cartoon, but my nostalgia for the franchise actually made it *easier* for me to get into Rise, something which a lot of older fans apparently struggle(d) with. While the characters in Rise seem to have been drastically changed when compared to their older iterations, to me they've always just been The Boys(TM), and a lot of their older character traits are still pretty prominent! (except for Donnie. There was very little character to be passed down to Rise!Donnie, so he's pretty original)
Anyways, this was a great video! I hope you enjoy your stay in the fandom! (btw just so you know, the tumblr side of the fandom is pretty chill and easily one of the best fandom spaces I've been in, so if risetwt starts heating up I'd highly recommend jumping ship!)
I find it interesting that you found Rise to be so accessible :D I'm glad you had an easy time getting into the show.
Also honestly Twitter is a shitshow most of the time in my experience so I should probably jump ship 😭
3:46 honestly, as a part of the lgbtq+ community, i hope so 😢
edit: i think that: leo, totally gay, raph, (in me opinion) asexual, mikey, gay, and donnie, bisexual. now personally, thats just my au. but i genuinely think its cannon.
I started watching the series first and then the movie.
Actually Donnie was what piqued my interest in the show because I’m autistic too and struggle to find autistic characters I relate to.
And then I stayed for that and the animation style (and everything else haha)
it’s a huperfixation turned special interest c:
I also headcannon Leo as Autistic and ADHD
I love the neurodivergent Leo headcanons.
OMG I FEEL YOU I'M OBSESSED WITH DONNIE TOO ITS GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE MY FAVORITE COLOR IS NOW PURPLE🤩
I GET THAT, I STARTED LIKING PURPLE MORE TOO
I saw one episode on youtube years ago and had no idea what i was watching
And a little while ago i started seeing content about it (animations/memes ect..)
I was like hmm... "Why not? Where can i watch? NETFLIX? HECK YEA"
I watched the first season then the movie then i realized i was missing a whole season so i went to paramount plus for the free trial to watch the second season
binged all of it lol
you might like this information.
Leo is a red streak slider turtle. These turtles have a sexual dichotomy where the female and male look very different. Males have a tail they can use both to whip predators away, and to impress females with certain "provocative" movements. Essecially for mating calls. Point is, males distinctly have a long tail, and they have one streak across their face. Females have no use for a tail so they don't have one. They have two red streaks on their face sometimes, but no males have two.
Leo is a man. He has a male voice, is referred to as a man, wears clothes that are marketed to men, etc. However, he has no tail at all, and he has two red streaks. Do you know what that means? He is a female. This means that Leo is transmasc. I'm not sure if the producers did this on purpose but it's canon for me
here's some more analysis that I didn't understand
archiveofourown.org/works/41552091
YEAHHHH TRANSMASC LEO!!!!! I love the headcanon sm and it's nice to see it be kinda backed up by something!! I get gender envy from him specifically so there's something so comforting about trans Leo to me.
I want to like your comment 10x times more than 500 but alas, with only one account it appears I cannot.
I didn't know this but knowing it now only makes me adore the HC even more. With the fact it's actually possibly canon though, that bit makes me so happy
*sighs in TMNT 2012 fan* Guess I'll fiiinally give it a try then-
Great vid bud
NO WAIT STOP THAT SAME VIDEO ABOUT DONNIE IS WHAT GOT ME TO WATCH THE SHOW HELP. (Edit): The obsession, it's so so bad and it hit so goshdarn hard, like I can't. Also, as a fellow genderqueer HELP. Those turtles got me in a mental CHOKEHOLD, a gender chokehold, live laugh love ROTTMNT. I can't T-T. We are very normal about Donatello. Extremely normal about these 2D animated turtles.
Also, the thing about not watching the other variations and loving the Rise designs I quite literally got into an argument with my stepdad about how the Rise designs were just so much better because it was so much more dynamic than the other shows and part of that freaking DREW me to the show moreso than I already was.
Sorry I yap a lot, no one's gonna read this ahh.
I really liked this video; it helped feed my current obsession with this absolute banger of a show since it's really hard to find people to talk about it with since literally nobody gave it a chance despite it being absolutely stellar from a totally non-biased opinion. This made me happy. :D
I had a very similar decent into the show
As someone who started the series on Netflix not realizing there was 2 seasons and then watching the movie before watching the second one can someone tell me the proper episode order? Cause apparently the ones on Netflix are wrong
Oh gawd i get gender envy with em too lol XD its mostly with mikey tho- save me with my new hyperfixation- LIKE I NEED TO STUDY BUT I CANT- Ive been drawing these turtles even to idk how to draw em right- i just- why-
Edit: while listening to this video i drew them again cuz you mentioned shape language- Save me-
I have like 4 pages in my sketchbook with JUST LEO. THE BRAINROT IS SO REAL
@@mars.mp3 SAVE US XD
Leo... are you sweating?
Uh, yeah, but only because my hand is on fire.
Bro I immediately started stimming when I started the video
Yayyy!!! Approval!! That honestly means so much to me, I personally stim a lot when watching videos about the turtles too, so I'm glad I could provide the same for someone else! :D
Ashdbdofvejvrkeevrkevdhevksv no but i got into the fandom from the same exact video essay. Ive watched all of their other ones on the turtles, and am patently awaiting one on raph. Loved ur vido btw, im not diagnosed with autism, but i deeply relate to some people talking about their experiences with it on a kind of concerning level
18:42 ok, yes I see what you mean and I’m not saying “no you’re wrong your opinion sucks” or anything of that sort, but I will say that every time I SAW them I’d cringe like crazy, because their slimy ness. That’s a sensory thing for me. It makes them so much scarier 🥲😂
Honestly I do agree that they're pretty scary! :D Especially within the armour I think they're intimidating. Also their designs are absolutely gross and I think that's a good quality they have 😭 But if you remove that and have just their characterization I don't like it all that much. But that's my opinion, I don't expect everyone to agree with me :]
AS AN ENBY PERSON I TOTALLY CANON DONNIE AS NON BINARY. AND AS AN AUTISTIC PERSON I CANON DONNIE AS AUTISTIC
I watched this attentively the entire time🤭(thats a compliment because Im very innatentive a lot of the time)
Aw I appreciate that
You're cool 👍 I think im a turtle now.
I do understand how a character can be a gender
The Krang’s motives are boring, that I can agree with, but I liked how they were portrayed to ACTUALLY be scary, cause a lot of western cartoons in this genre try to laugh off the severity of a situation because yk, they’re KID shows, and there’s only a few sparse moments where you can actually see how dangerous they are.
This movie allowed the Krang to be actually impactful, you can see the horrible things they do, the people that they either possessed or killed (you cannot tell me that those news reporters in the helicopter survived, they are SO dead), and they made it clear that they were not threats the characters could laugh at to bring levity to the situation like they did with the other villains.
Yeah! I definitely agree they are intimidating, made the movie very enjoyable :]
Feeling the same with the gender envy, I adore these gendery menaces
THE TURTLES ARE SO GENDER.
I made this video exclusively for the transgender rottmnt fans
where did you find the show? I've been looking for a way to wacht it..
The first season is on Netflix, and I think both seasons are on Paramount Plus!
Got into the whole thing the EXACT same way with the EXACT same video. Lmao
To be honest I have mixed feelings about this video (Rottmnt is my favorite TV series)
That's alright! :D I don't expect everyone to have the same opinion as me. In the end it's just my experience and I'm just glad to share it
❤😊
💓💓💞❤💜💙🧡 you be you o ok