Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151024145123/@comment-995426-20151103033252

Is your brother gay? :) And yes, all the people I've known who act like Raphael did in the first two seasons, have been women or gay men. I've never known a straight man to have such a perfect insight into women's thoughts the way Raph was written to be.  Even a psychologist learns it academically rather than knows it intuitively.  And my sisters were always first to shove, slap or insult an obnoxious sibling.  They didn't take BS, and neither does Raph.  But Raph also had plenty of tender, caring moments where he was the first to come to a brother's help, whether it was Donnie making a fool of himself in front of April, or checking on Mikey's arm injury, or uniquely understanding the little ways Leo was being manipulated by a cunning kunoichi.  Sisters are like that...and so often are gay brothers.  Sisters can be tough and can fight like cats, but they can still have a strong rapport and camaraderie and care strongly for the comfort and well-being of their loved ones. Raph wasn't a tough guy&mdash;he was one tough bitch, and he was glorious at it. Damn, I wish they hadn't derailed that aspect of him so completely...it made him so damn interesting as a character, and now he's such a bland character.

What, so there's a Swan's Law just like there's a Godwin's Law? :P So what other analogy is there for characters without believable chemistry hooking up fast romantically? It may not have been Mikey-and-Renet fast (the more perfect Twilight analogy), but it was still pretty damn fast.