Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151023223507/@comment-26062541-20151027233632

Wait, you got "No-depth" from Mikey's mind sucking experience? I thought it was that his mind is SO wild that no-one can break it,not even evil sauropod science. He's kinda like mush that way, can't build it up but you can't break it down, its all give. In a way, mush has the edge. Hank Rutherford Hill.

Either that or it was just a hilarious trip scene.

Back to the topic, while I agree its importance, I don't think its needed ALL the time. I think its a good thing they leave their development up to interpretation, which in my opinion makes it a much more engrossing experience as a viewer. What I don't see, I fill in the blanks, as what I DID see was pretty dang cool.

Also I would not call what they went through in the latter half of season 3 as derailment, when they derail, they stupidly let loose a million viles of mutagen through-out the city and are then lose their best friend who for some reason thinks SHE has to apologize to them. Sure they acknowledged it, and it lead to some AWESOME mutants such as the legit scary Xenomorph pastiches the squirrelenoids being made- BUT STILL!

And no development? How about that inward journey where they fought their own personal demons in the forms of recycled animation models? How about Casey and Donnie becoming friends after the events of Speed Demon while STILL being romantic rivals? Friendly rivals for the win! How about repetitively dealing with the fact that they fail to save Karai over and over and OVER, the failure looming over their heads constantly. Or learning that in order to save Splinter, they had to watch their step-mom be MURDERED, making them realize how glad they are to have Splinter, which if you think about it was clever foreshadowing to the dark events of the finale.

Either way, even if there was not development, there certainly wasn't derailment.