Talk:The Creeping Doom/@comment-995426-20150819223832

GillytheGREAT:

Season 3 has had none of the complex character development, interpersonal relationships or emotional depth (especially the believable angst) that were so wonderfully cultivated in the first two seasons. Now, the show overall feels simpler and dumber, to the point where it has become even harder to care about the characters, and nothing seems to consequentially affect characters as much as it did anymore. The wham season 2 finale promised to be a magnificent springboard for character development in season 3, but instead the characters became drastically simplified and steadily but surely lost their dimension. This is why practically all my TMNT fan friends who used to be glued to this show, have since been turned off by season 3 and no longer really care what's in new episodes.

So when we're presented with a plot where Donnie temporarily loses his intelligence, the joke is "how would we tell the difference?", but the real question is, why should we still care about what happens to a now-one-dimensional character when there almost certainly won't be any consequences in later episodes?

TMNT 2K12 has become a complete joke in this season&mdash;even worse of a soulless toyetic show than we ever complained about the 1987 show becoming. Even the merchandise, toys and video games are of shoddy quality. Thank goodness for other TMNT versions (IDW, Gaiden, etc.) that still have well-developed characters and plot. But it's still rather painful, because at once time we came to love the 2K12 characters and plot too.