Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24058209-20141013155744/@comment-995426-20141014130306

Actually, I'm liking what they're doing with season three so far. And it's only been two episodes.

ShellBrain: Do you hate that Raph had a temporary change in mutation, or do you hate that he was turned into a plant? Because a temporary change in mutation happened in the semi-canonical Mirage storylines, and. What I didn't care much for in was the Creep. It had a role very similar to Bloodsucker...but was trying to be Jason from Friday the 13th. I thought that could have been done better. But, I suppose it is what it is now.

Also, I'm surprised so many people seem to hate the April/Donnie story arc. I think it's one of the more interesting things about the show. Not like I'm actively shipping anyone or anything, but it would be interesting if, for once, April didn't end up with Casey. I guess it doesn't help that I've never really warmed up to this Casey. I don't dislike him, but most of the time he's just there not really being interesting.

Besides, I didn't think they were strictly recycling the first two seasons' formula with April and Donnie. I think both characters have changed, in subtle ways. Season three so far has shown Donnie to have moved past merely feeling threatened by Casey and trying to one-up him for April's affections, to a new circumstance where Donnie feels increasingly spiteful toward Casey and paranoid of any time April spends with him. And this seemed to reached a saturation point in, when a frustrated Donnie finally resolved to give up on her, and actually confronted her about his feelings&mdash;something he never successfully did in a real two-way interaction with her before&mdash;no "did I forget to mute that?", no abrupt excuses to avoid the issue&mdash;he actually talked about his feelings, she listened, and she seemed to respond candidly. And April's reaction to Donnie was beyond just nervous or polite smiling or a thank-you, a hug or a kiss on the cheek. She responded to him calling himself "just a mutant" by calling him "my mutant", and gave him a kiss that was very noticeably longer than a usual brief peck, with her head obscuring the camera and making it ambiguous whether or not she was kissing him on the lips. No, I think that, whatever happens next, this is actually a new development, and they would be stupid to keep recycling plot points just to give the story arc fake longevity.

So, we should give the writers the benefit of the doubt that the show could still develop well. I intend to keep watching, because it's actually never been more interesting than it is right now.