Talk:Y’Gythgba/@comment-995426-20150817044956

Aderynthemoose5000:

Citations, please. "Relationship" could mean almost anything, from friendship to romance.

And a 1st grade reader? Is that canon, or is it just third-party licensed media? I wouldn't really consult third-party licensed media for TV canon, any more than I'd consult a Flash or mobile game for TV canon.

I've been discussing this with other TMNT fan friends, and we agree that Raph's personality so far would make it seem extremely unlikely he'd get a girlfriend, and he would have to be seriously retooled/retconned to make it work. One friend described the idea of giving him a girlfriend as the writing equivalent of low-hanging fruit.

Of course, none of us are that hopeful for good writing for this show anymore&mdash;not like the relatively better writing we saw in the first two seasons. The show used to regularly give nods to grown adult fans in the audience, but now it seldom does, with the quality of plot and character development going rapidly downhill. The whole flimsily-written Mikey/Renet plot is one of the worst recent examples of this, as it seriously derailed both characters' developments. If they keep doing that to other characters too, the show will only get that much worse.