User blog comment:Dead Ninja/I hate Michael Bay/@comment-1317092-20121210025504

Even worse: Seemingly he wanted to make Casey Jones the main protagonist and turn Shredder into "General Schradder" with the Foot soldiers being... soldiers... instead of ninjas.

I got that from reading leaked fragments of a script that was later deleted from the page where they were. There's the possibility of these fragments being a hoax (too many elements based on Bayformers, it just lacked "hideous skeletal turtles"), but at least I'm not the one kidding.