Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16581186-20151227004739/@comment-995426-20160127072357

He didn't wait three seasons to ask her out&mdash;he waited less than 30 minutes. The problem is that her story represents a retooled Raph I can no longer stand&mdash;a very serious decline that was already happening over season 3, but now is just plain terrible. This Salamandrian might have been perfectly fine as a friend or sister type of character, but they forced the fast-acting romantic angle, destroying both characters' credibility in the process.

I miss the old Raph who was indifferent to women, competed with April, catfought with Karai and angsted over Slash. He was interesting, and had some of the best, wittiest lines and some of the unexpectedly deepest moments. I wanted to get to know that guy better.

This Raph was already becoming dull and unsympathetic, but this storyline he was forced into only confirmed my worst fears of what the writers were doing to him and to this show&mdash;turning it all into Fred Wolf syndrome hell. If I wanted to watch narmy trash, I'd just watch the 1987 TV series.

Remember, every time someone wishes more Fred Wolf syndrome on a TMNT story, an angel commits seppuku in a meat grinder and their remains are rendered into a bio-petrochemical to be processed into plastic to be factory-molded into Playmates toys.