Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26489974-20160315055507/@comment-11362412-20171013164623

Gilgameshkun wrote: "The Creeping Doom" wasn't just bad... It was more character derailment&mdash;for Donnie, Raph and Mikey. It was such an idiot plot. Donnie puts an unprotected jar full of a hazardous substance on an unstable open shelf in his lab, and Mikey, already repeatedly being written as too dumb to live at this point, plays his reckless role in causing the disaster to unfold. Some of the worst Mikey writing since "Mikey Gets Shellacne". But Raph... "Give me your best shot." Really, Raph? You shouldn't be that stupid or easy to schmuckbait. But then the solution to the problem is...Mikey. Once again, the cause and solution to everyone's problems. Extreme recklessness without consequences. This does not make Mikey fun or endearing&mdash;it makes him a caricature at the cost of being a character. Other versions of Mikey don't screw up this bad this often, and when they do really screw up, there are likelier to be real consequences for it.

And think, if it had been Bloodsucker, the episode would have been much different.