Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13659320-20131117005725/@comment-24204226-20131128033421

Creck555 wrote: I hope that happens so at least raph can have one kind father son moment where splinter isn't a dick but I guess that splinter will probably beat up raph for slash's attack. Splinter and Raph have had a father and son moment. It was during Turtle Temper. No, it wasn't the part when he had the other Turtles insult him. Splinter was talking to Raph about a day when Shredder (Oroku Saki then) had insulted him. Splinter retaliated and the two let a rivalry fester into hatred. Then Shredder had come back to finish him off and that's when Tang Shen was killed. Raph replies by saying he (Splinter) had no choice. Splinter replies by saying he could have chosen to ignore him or let his words "wash over him like a river over stone." Then Splinter tells him that he let Shredder anger him, turning his words into weapons and that that was the choice he made. He then asks Raph, "What choice will you make?" Perhaps the fact that I am a parent helps me to see that this was a tender, teachable moment for Raph. Splinter was basically wanting to know if Raph would make the same mistake as he did or would Raph learn to control his anger and be better off for it?