Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20150425050906/@comment-995426-20150503161754

In all honesty, season three is increasingly boring to me. The subplots of teenage angst and coming-of-age (particularly the romantic subplots) were one of the things that made the series interesting, and now they get the rare blips at best. I mean, Donnie may not actively make a fool of himself over April as much anymore, but now the show barely addresses that at all. Casey's character seems increasingly wasted, as if the show is trying to make excuses to keep him around at all. The first and second seasons were not so obviously cynically toyetic, but this third season is blatantly so. What I liked about this show was that it was TMNT with sitcom and romantic comedy elements and a stronger sense of continuity from one episode to the next. Now these latest episodes seem so...disjointed from anything, as if the show is gradually sliding into 1987itis. Even the Shredder and his stock plot of mind control have gotten much duller. And come to think of it, Bradford and Xever seem more and more to have vanished from existence/relevance ("Chuck Cunningham Syndrome"), and Bebop and Rocksteady are not really an improvement. I wonder if these are signs the show has already jumped the shark.