Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20150429022629/@comment-25614818-20150510205953

ShellBrain wrote: So are all the mutants present at the race working for Shredder?? I thought the race thing was kind of lame... I would have liked it if Xever told the racers (which should have been, Casey, Mikey and Jones - and then one random mutant) that the winner is the one who will survive and the losers will die - creating tension between Mondo and the others - because he doesn't want to die, have him be apologetic about it, like "I'm sorry guys... but I need to win this race" -- then bam - have the whole lesson about friends not leaving friends... Though, there was the part where Casey got left behind in the episode, where I was thinking... ook... so they left Casey behind, so much for that whole lesson they were trying to showcase... Then all of a sudden he was okay? I didn't like that very much... Also, how did they see the end of the race, when they were far away and had to go around a turn to reach it... it didn't make sense. The episode felt campy and childish when we got to the climax being a silly "deathrace"... I dunno, my brother came into my room while I was watching it and was like "This is ninja turtles? This looks so lame and stupid" to which, I couldn't exactly argue... I liked everything in this episode up until that lame race storyline that came out of nowhere... Its like when a villain catches a hero only to allow him an oppurtunity to escape. Yet another episode that felt like it was pandering to the younger audiences and not delivering a solid story even older viewers (like myself) could really enjoy. Like I said, the race bit felt so campy and lame... I would have liked it if Mr X wasn't fishface and the racers were, as I said before, Mondo, Mikey, Jones and a random mutant and they were racing to be first as to not die -- then you could have had Mikey, Mondo and Jones overcome this obstacle and beat Mr X - who now that I think about it, could have been a human villain, and that last random mutant I spoke of, could have been his own creation (when he obtained mutagen) and when the guys try to stop him and his races; they would have had to fight whatever mutant that would be... Instead we got a room full of villains just walk out at the end, like, oh the turtles, Shredder's enemy, the guys we are constantly saying we want to crush; all gathered here, together, in an enclosed space.... ah well... the race is over, let's just let them go. I thought it was weak. O...k... are you finished writing your essay? But anyway, I have to agree that this wasn't the best episode. The actually race was ok, but I wished that Mondo had a bit more of a connection to Xever.

Like in some Fanfiction stuff, Xever had a sister (which was Mona Lisa), but Mondo (or Jason) could have been his brother or something like that.

I don't know!!! I really want to Xever's past; about how he became part of the criminal world in South America etc.