Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160509012936/@comment-995426-20160816212136

Yoshimickster wrote: I think its safe to assume that puberty hit Mikey the HARDEST and now is attracted to every new girl he sees. Sorry Mikeyhead fans! Either that or the writers do pretty much whatever they want whenever they want. :P Now I pretty much prefer to see each new episode as a slightly parallel universe from the previous episode, since someone else's hands are on the story anyway. It's also a good way to explain away retcons. Isn't an upcoming episode going to have Raphael afraid of all bugs? In the past, he was just scared of cockroaches, and didn't have the same phobia of spiders or giant wasps. And then there was Raph having zero trouble warmly hugging Mikey in The Invasion ("I missed you too, little brother"), then only four episodes later in The Croaking, Raph was portrayed as finding brother hugs weird and wrong and never wanting to do them again. It's not just that the story has developed&mdash;certain underlying assumptions of the story actually do change. Things like this happen to pretty much every long-running TV series eventually.