[AerostarMonk]

Actually, if you read both Pre and Post-Crisis issues featuring Killer Moth, you'll find that both are techincally accurate. While Teen Titans is obviously a representation of Post-Crisis Charaxes, minus the cannabilism, and the Batman is Pre-Crisis wacky 60's villain that actually mixes in the Charaxes origin, minus Neron of course.

Though flat, I still enjoyed the Doom Patrol. I always will like the Doom Patrol. While not being all they could've been in those two eps, that little taste was enough for me to like them. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that one.

As for Shredder, you're forgetting comic book and tv logic. Sure from a realistic standpoint it would make sense for the Shredder to kill the Turtles right away, but by that view, it would be impossible to beat the Flash, the massive collateral damage by superheroes would've killed more people than they've saved, Batman would simply kill all of his villains and so on and so on. Shredder not dispoing of the Turtles is simply another victim of the logic that is serial storylines.

I can understand you being upset with the changing of Shredder's species, but I really think it's no worse than putting Doom on a space station and endowing him with superpowers. For me it's a storyline that worked. We're at the point where we're forced to agree to disagree.

As for the subject of nostalgia, I would willingly throw many of the worst ideas from my childhood to the bin. Childhood memories will never stand over quality. I also don't stand for the, "It's for kids" argument. The best shows and movies can entertain kids and adults alike without pandering to either. If I remember correctly Star Wars was also for kids, but that didn't stop it from being the phenomenon it became. The best shows and movies supposedly aimed only at kids are the ones that reveal new levels as the kids get older, not stay in a nostalgia-lined time warp where they're forced to send their minds back 10 years to recapture lightning in a bottle. Just to give an example, as a kid you may have liked Mr Rogers and loved the trolley going to the land of make-believe. As an adult you come to appreciate some of the long-dead special guests, the once in a lifetime trips to factories, and the complex piano playing of the great John Costas. No, the best do not pander, they simply try to be all they can be.