Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160509012936/@comment-995426-20160726152338

KunokitaxD4:

I regret our misunderstanding from before.

That said, I agree with your latest recent comment, on almost every point. However, I don't think it's bad for characters to have multiple crushes. What's bad is turning them into fast and easy love interests. And I have always appreciated good TMNT drama; it just doesn't need to be excessively soapy, as if all the male and female regular characters are playing musical chairs with each other as love interests.

But I also think that, though Mikey's crush on Chris Bradford may have been real, they had no chemistry because Bradford never had any fondness for Mikey whatsoever. There's also the matter that Bradford was probably more than twice Mikey's age when they first met, which is not necessarily true for Mikey and Leatherhead even though LH is elderly now. I like to think LH was also a teenager when they met, especially considering LH had no kind of social life whatsoever before meeting the turtles. Or maybe LH's age was just irrelevant, because Mikey already had a surprisingly deep old-soul wisdom that made Mikey the more enlightened of the two.

But yes, Shinigami being announced beforehand as a main character's crush is...really quite tacky. When it's announced in advance, it spoils things for the audience, and complicates whatever chemistry characters would have been able to develop more naturally because there's such heavy expectation for them to show fireworks as soon as possible. When female characters are treated like objects to be paired up to please anticipating fanboys, the result honestly more resembles porn than drama.