Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29657114-20170222003316/@comment-25652270-20170224160751

I'm personally getting really sick and tired of it. Master Splinter is the best character in the whole damn show and he really keeps the turtles grounded and is the figure they need to keep them in line. Why do they have to keep killing him off? They tried at the beginning of the goddamn season and now that we're only nine or so episodes in they're apparently doing it for reals again. It's starting to become a bit of a joke: "How many times is Splinter going to die this season?"

If they must "kill" off a character for a little while, I think it would be pretty dramatic and dynamic to have it be one of the turtles. They've had each of the turtles horribly injured true, but that only really happens for maybe one and a half episodes. Leo was comatose for small end of a episode and just barely past the beginning of the next one. They should try having them be sick, hurt for a longer or go missing for an extended period of time.

Mikey could be kidnapped and taken to Dimension X (against his will or maybe was recruited by the Utrom)

Raph could be flung back into space and reunited (and later returned) with Mona Lisa

Leo could be taken by the Foot.

Donnie could be taken by the government.

There are just so many different ways they can go with it if they want to see some massive bits of drama. Break up the dream team for longer than ten minutes! Don't keep taking away the same goddamn character every single time! It's getting very old.

Even April and Casey could be missing for a while. They don't need to be in every single episode, I'm sure they have something else to do, granted April is a now a full blown ninja...which still doesn't sit well with me...but don't they have school? Homework....a family member that is suffering from some pretty traumatic PTSD..Hockey practice...something?

Why do we have to keep losing Splinter? I personally would love (and now he's "dead") more father/sons moments. They have him talk to Raph, Leo, Donnie and even April for god's sakes, but there was NOTHING with Mikey. Mikey was never given a father/son moment that I can remember, they only showed the other three having the heart to heart talks. Mikey needed some parental guidence too. In fact, as far as I can remember, the ones that had the most Mikey/Splinter moments were 89's version and 03's version. None of the movies had it, and now that Splinter is "dead" we're not going to get it. Mikey's going to forever be the odd turtle out

Maybe the voice actor behind Splinter is having a bit of trouble with his contract...I don't know, but seriously...STOP KILLING OFF THE SAME CHARACTER!

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