Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-16581186-20151129161318/@comment-995426-20151129170607

Please understand: It's not just me&mdash;a lot of people loved Raph &times; Slash, and it was my favorite thing about the show. They got a lot of recognition, and most of it isn't creepy at all. Most of the people who like this don't even consider it T-cest because they just never necessarily saw it that way. Especially after the way Spike was introduced in the pilot episode, a lot of people naturally saw it as a youthful desire for romantic attachment&mdash;first impressions matter.

And it became apparent that Slash calls all his close male friends "brother." If there were female Mutanimals, I wouldn't be surprised if Slash called them "sister." You'll have to keep in mind that Archie TMNT's symbolically addressed each of the turtles as "cousin." I think 2K12 Slash's terms of endearment are a nod to Archie Slash's speech. And yes, I know plenty of gay men who call their boyfriends "brother" or similar&mdash;it's not exactly unusual.

And none of this has to feel in any way threatening to you liking Raph &times; Mona Lisa. It's a very different show now. It was painful to divorce myself from it over the past year, but that doesn't have to matter anymore now. It's just one of several imagined 2K12 futures, and I've already moved on to one of the other 2K12-based continuities&mdash;where the earth hasn't been destroyed, Splinter is still alive, there is no Mona Lisa, and Slash has gotten lots of new character development the show wouldn't give him.

I don't want to be treated like I'm delusional&mdash;it's extremely belittling and disrespectful. I'm not so sore about a change in canon anymore, since it's not a canon I care for anymore. I'm sore about the character development I liked being abandoned, period. I'm beginning to understand what my 2003 TV series fan friends felt like when that show abandoned the canon they liked to become Fast Forward. For me, 2K12 season 4 is the new Fast Forward. It's a separate creature now. And I think it's okay for you to like it. It really is. It's just not my show.