Darkest Plight: Rat King Mirage comic book material, NICE!!!

There is a reason for the 1987 series veering so much from the source material. The 2003 series is pretty much the original plan for the first one having finally materialized. It seems that the exectives at CBS (the channel on which the first show originally aired), at the time were to afraid to use the comic book as the basis for the show because they felt that it was to dark and edgy (the same problem that Michael Bay and the execs at Paramount have with it), so the tone was lightened way up and it took it's own route. For want of making it kid friendly it was made to be light hearted, the turtles were very childish and every episode was a stand alone instead of being parts of an on going story. Aside from a few episodes that took place up at the farm it had nothing to do with the comic book. Thankfully that problem has since been fixed. The 2003 series was awesome, my favorite one so far, and the Mirage moments in the current series have been enjoyable for me, especially this last one and also in the episodes "The Good, The Bad And Casey Jones" where they covered Raph's one shot and "Invasion " which featured part of Leo's one shot.