Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11469381-20150831022901/@comment-995426-20150921013256

I'm going to miss Raph/Slash and Mikey/L'head. :( Slash in particularly deserved a better last few days with Raph than Raph being such a cold fish to Slash. The last real tender Raph/Slash moment was a brief flash-in-the-pan scene in Clash of the Mutanimals.



If I'd known back then that that was the last Raph/Slash chemistry we were going to see, I'd have been even more annoyed. These were the same two characters that we knew, in unambiguous terms, loved each other, and eagerly delighted at the opportunity of being each other's partner. Slash was the same guy Splinter compared to the partner he had loved and lost (Tang Shen). It was part of a brave new world when some of us thought Nickelodeon was being brave enough in general to just let characters love who they would love.

Dammit, Nick. Slash deserved a much better send-off, even if it's only temporary to the plot. (Perhaps Annihilation Earth had too much chaos going on, but Dinosaur Seen in Sewers had a perfect opportunity for Raph and Slash to emotionally acknowledge each other one last time, and they wasted it.) We were so na&iuml;ve to hope for more real progress in positive G-rated LGBT visibility that we could share with our family and friends of all ages, and now we feel unceremoniously ignored all over again.

At least we had one last heartwarming Mikey/L'head moment, in recognition of the chemistry they used to have in such abundance. I mean, yeah, the age difference is kinda weird now, but temporal differentials have been creating romantic age gaps since the beginning of science fiction. Now, funnily, time has completed stopped for L'head in this timeline. If Mikey were to age many more decades, he might finally catch up to L'head's age, though it's not like L'head can enjoy life stuck inside a quantum singularity frozen in the pose of a Michelangelo painting. (You know, the other Michelangelo, whom Splinter named his son after. The Italian openly gay romantic-yet-celibate lover who painted all those well-toned naked men on the ceilings of churches.)