Talk:The Big Blow-Out!/@comment-4783859-20171115205000/@comment-33165688-20171116201455

Werdelet, tonal inconsistency is not a brave decision. It's considered a flaw by every artistic standard.

As for the time travel aspect, you're not noticing that the entire time travel aspect shouldn't even be a part of the series in the first place if you take the MA arc as canon. Because Renet is supposedly from the future, yet her existence and everything she established is an impossibility if one takes MA as canon. No humans, no history books, no world-saving. And as such, she cannot come back and do stuff with the Turtles in the first place - it would only be a possibility if the past she spoke of was something that actually happened. If that past ceased to be in favor of the MA arc, her coming to the past would never have happened at all. Am I making sense?

The butterfly effect doesn't excuse the fact that we were told of a solid, preestablished fact that had already happened from Renet's perspective, thus being solidly established, and this arc made it completely impossible... not just impossible, but it requires the wiping-out of a popular character and multiple story arcs. Yet there's no acknowledgement of that, or the fact that it would retroactively make the character and those arcs vanish.

So no, it's just bad writing. There are quite a few massive flaws in the writing of it, and some so egregious that they effectively make it mutually exclusive from previously-established arcs (anything with Renet). Nobody can just wave their hand and go, "It's time travel, no rules required!"

And yes, fridging the female characters is inexcusable.