I think it's stupid how you say it's not animation because it's done on computers. Animation doesn't mean drawing it by hand and then putting it together. It's still animation on computer. Sorry, step in to the 21st century please and get real.
Secondly, I watched the first episode and there were certain things I didn't like. At least what I thought was happening... the one thing is.. I don't know about the turtles.. but Splinter was a real person instead of a rat that got transformed into Splinter after his owner died... he was the person that got in the fight with Shredder and then got the ooze on him and it turned him into a giant rat. I don't know that I liked that.
I also don't like that April is some little kid, however what Violetta said makes sense. It does make kinda more sense that some little kid would make friends with the TMNT instead of some older news reporter.
And about the tickling. Just because you might think it's similar to the old TMNT, doesn't mean there's going to be tickling. Don't be all like, "There might be tickling OMG! There might be tickling." Yadda yadda. That just sounds stupid, in my opinion. For one thing, as someone said April is a young girl this time so it's a little bit different. Also, even though it might be in the "spirit" of the 1980s show, I don't think it's written by the same people. Therefore it probably won't happen. They're making it similar to the show but they're not going to go back to show and put in that sort of stuff that they had in that show... They're just making it seem like it used to be. They're not going to be like "Oh, there was tickling... let's add that in..."
I'm sorry, that whole thing probably sounded rude... I didn't mean for it to come off that way. Just showing my views.