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Ok. I admit Raphael falling in love with Mona Lisa was way too fast, if they were going to have them fall in love, they should have made it happen more gradually over her episodes. But as for the rest of your argument in that blog post, it's to angry and you make points but don;t back them up with evidence from the show. You don't give examples, so it's hard to know what specifically you're talking about.

As an aside, why is it so comman among the internet that people think Raphael was gay or trans or something. I mean, you call him a big sister in your blog post, and I just don't see it. I mean, I kind of did a little in the early stuff, but if there was any LGBT turtle, my money would have been on Mikey (I kind of always thought he was bi because of how he interacted with Leatherhead). I also thought Casey Jones mught have bean trans after Plan 10. But I have learned that in non-adult cartoons, you just can't beleive that sort of thing is ever there unless they outright say it, because it's something that is almost definatley not going to happen untill a couple more years into the future. And I GUARANTEE, that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the wrong place to start doing it in unless they make a show that is specifically stated for adults. It sucks, and we're getting past it as a culture in little bits every day. But mainstream media is not in a place where it has enough of a spine to deal with the resulting parental outrage.

Also, apparently acording to that deviantart guy, people think Splinter dying was a bad thing. I understand that they may have bean fired for it, it was pretty heavy, but that was the best oportunity for character development we could have had. They probably didn't get the chance to capitalize on it because of the resulting fallout if he's right.