Talk:List of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes/@comment-39662011-20200105222030/@comment-995426-20200107151058

We don't necessarily want Shredder or Casey Jones in this series. Not that we actually don't, but it's entirely possible to have a good TMNT story without either of them. Archie TMNT went 70 issues not including special issues and miniseries, and it had no Casey at all. And the 2012 TV series seemed to add Casey (and some other legacy characters) only as an afterthought, and his character always felt showhorned in and never quite had chemistry with the other characters that had developed since season one. And Mirage TMNT, Archie TMNT and IDW TMNT have all happily gone very long stretches without the Shredder being part of the story. Legacy characters don't always need to be involved just because they're legacy characters. What matters is whether the story and the characters it has are written well. And whether or not this eventually proves to be the case, Rise of the TMNT has excluded a great many legacy characters thus far, and I wouldn't want them added just because of external demand&mdash;they should be added only if and when the writers can do so in a way that advances and enhances the story that already exists.