Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24025351-20131014203143/@comment-24020550-20131016203459

ShellBrain wrote: I kno. thats what made the episode so GREAT though, was the emotional hurt that it made us feel. I loved the voice acting, it was spot on from April yelling No NO!!!! after her father was mutated and when she cried i never want to see your faces ever again. It was some powerful stuff. April will come to her senses though, we shoulnd't jump on the hate train yet. I don't hate April, I think she overreacted waaaaaaay too much. I can understand her anger, and reasonably if she goes off to think for awhile that's fine, but when she cools down she needs to go back to the turtles, because let's face it, they're the ONLY people who can help her unmutate her dad.

I mostly dislike how she acts as if the turtles intentionally did this. Was it their fault? Yes. Did she have a right to be mad? Yes. But had the Kraang not been transporting the mutagen in the first place it wouldn't have happened. And HAD the turtles not stopped the Kraang (granted not the best way but it did stop them) SHREDDER would have had all that mutagen. How freakin' frightening is that? So blowing up at the turtles as she did was alittle bit over the top. Had I been in the situation, I would have been mad at them yes, but I would also feel guilty at the fact I had froze up and didn't move, forcing my Dad to sacrifice himself to protect me. Fruthermore, why did her Dad have to be out there anyways? From what it seemed, all April had to do was wave the little radar gadget around so the turtles could lock on. She basically put her own father into danger. Sorry, at that point I would break down with guilt and blame it more on myself.

Still, I can already see what's going to happen and WHY it was done this way. They needed the drama and they needed April to be away from the turtles so she could meet Casey seprately.

In any case, I don't hate April, I just think she's being stupid (or should I say she's being written to act stupidly) for the sake of drama. I'm just hoping she'll reconcile soon with the turtles, because basically she's a walking target to the Kraang or even Shredder since he now knows he can use her to draw out Splinter, let alone Karai who seems pissy over her being so 'special'. Sadly she's a major damsel in distress key-ponent, though she has shown to atleast be able to handle herself alittle better than most damsel's in distress, especially for a 'normal' girl.