Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26431570-20170708024820/@comment-995426-20170709004637

Are you kidding? I wish you hadn't left. XD The show may be terrible now, but someone has to remember the ways it was still good. Haven't you noticed how all the characters became shallower and more one-dimensional since season 3? Even most of the good moments they still had were isolated and fleeting, and didn't always contribute to long-term character development. As someone else mentioned, the show's treatment of Splinter with Mikey was even worse than Splinter and Miwa, as he was the only child Splinter had never been shown having a heart-to-heart with by the time he died, which only served to make Mikey as a developed character seem even more inconsequential, especially after that initial burst of sober, caring, wise-beyond-his-years character development he had in season 1. In that kind of genre shift towards the more episodic, Splinter and Miwa really didn't stand a chance.