Michael Bay just told us to shut up.

+10 to your dork roll if you get this one.

"Fans need to take a breath and chill. They have not read the script...Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world."

-Michael Bay telling us all to shut the hell up

"Michael Bay made Revenge of the Fallen."

-Me, on why we're right to be concerned 

Yeah, I'm talking about this again. Michael Bay had to know that making some crazy town statement like: 'These turtles are from an alien race' was going to piss fans off. That's why they call us fans: if we were reasonable people we wouldn't be having this discussion. And yes, I did notice the cleverly revisionist use of 'Ninja Turtles' instead of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' well played, well played.

My problem with the Watchmen movie was that there weren't enough aliens.
The lesson to be learned here is that I'm going to hate whatever they do.

Michael Bay: A master of
rich, complex storytelling.

Oh, and just to be clear: my problem is not that aliens are being introduced into TMNT. There have always been aliens in TMNT. Krang, Triceratons, and sometimes even The Shredder. My problem is the suggestion that Bay is somehow improving on the subject matter by adding a 'more complex backstory.' Poppycock I say. Ninja Turtles is basically about ninja fighting and pizza, it's not Shakespeare. Why do the people who make adaptations of comic book characters always insist on putting their own needlessly complex spin on the origin story, Christopher Nolan? Just mutate the damn turtles before the title credits and then let them spend the rest of the time beating up the Foot Clan and cracking wise, that's what everybody came to see.

Feel free to check my ninja math here, but I'm pretty
sure the Turtles are already awesome.

Update!

"Behold: the power of nerds
complaining on the internet!"

Check out this interview Collider (via io9) did with the reboot's director Jonathan Liebesman. In it, he reminds us that the ooze that mutates the turtles is alien and that they're still 'sitting in a room figuring everything out.' The ooze being invented by aliens is true in most versions of the origin story and is not at all the same thing as the turtles themselves coming from another planet. This means that either Michael Bay doesn't know what he's talking about or they're caving to fan outrage. I suspect that both are a little true.