Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151023223507/@comment-995426-20151028003928

You spoke of season 3, but actually described season 2. I don't have a huge problem with season 2. It just is when some of the worst problems only started to creep in. It was still largely good. The Mutation Situation was one of the episodes I actually really liked.

Anyway, when Donnie and Casey keep having the same rivalry plot over and over and over again, it's not development&mdash;it's recycling. It gets old, and it would be nice to see a new and uniquely different phase of their development.

The Karai plot has really worn thin too, like it's been dragged out long past its effectiveness to the point where we just want it resolved already.

And while it was meaningful that Leo realized he couldn't interfere with history, that entire episode still seemed very bored, like it was just going through the motions of telling what happened in the past without any real twists or turns. "You shouldn't interfere with history or you mess up the present" is already a very old, well-recognized time travel trope, and Leo realizing it was like saying water is wet.

And when I say character derailment, I speak not only of character neglect (and there's lots of neglect), but also stuff like turning April into more and more of a psychic Mary Sue, or Casey's utter failure to become an interesting, well-developed character (thus failing to match up to practically every Casey that preceded him), or far too many times when they've given very interesting hints of character development to various characters only to completely ignore those hints in the future as the show keeps changing writers and directions. Raph in particular was one of the deepest, most complicated characters in the first two seasons, and now he's one of the most formulaic, and especially since Dinosaur Seen in Sewers has also become one of the most unlikable.

Anyway, Amazing Adventures is taking the characters I loved and actually developing them rather well so far, using its own continuity to reverse more and more of the complaints I've accumulated about the show. In just three issues so far, it's told a better story and had better characters than virtually all of season 3. Zodiac had a fantastic debut, and Slash hasn't seen this much character development since Battle for New York. Even Pete is getting character development, and he's actually more cute and less grotesque now. It's been great! :)