Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-25262453-20180410165809/@comment-995426-20180411033406

No, it wasn't too long.

It's just, there are a lot of things the show has done so badly, that it's not always easy to think of how they can be done right after seeing them go so wrong. I actually thought April and Donatello were handled relatively well during the first two seasons and the North Hampton arc with how gradually the chemistry and dynamic between the two was developed, but that love triangle with Casey got really old, really fast. And the show's versions of Renet and Mona Lisa were introduced from the beginning primarily for fanservice, which preempted any good independent character development they could have had&mdash;and Renet (Comics) is actually a fairly well-developed character in her own right even without a scripted love interest. There came a point when it got so bad I completely stopped watching. I haven't even seen most of season 4, and didn't watch any of season 5.

So I have good reason to rewind the clock back to the end of season 2 before writing onward. Before then, the show was engaging and had lots of good banter between the characters that developed their personalities in subtle ways. Afterwards, the show was wooden, tedious and uncomfortable.