#Like only time I can sorta get mega April hate is really when she calls the turtles “mutant freaks” after her dad gets mutated | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bluewithpurplepolkadots · 2 years ago

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Honestly the writing surrounding April wasn’t great in 2012 (okay it was at times a goddamn mess and they had too much going on there, streamline things people) but I don’t trust people who really (obsessively even), seem to hate her and yet apparently love and adore that shows versions of Donatello and Casey.

Please.

#TMNT 2012 #I’m sorry but Donatello and Casey were often annoying and it wasn’t as if April was exuding ‘make boys act shitty’ toxins from her pores #it was mostly messy writing tbh #like it’s not actually that big of a problem the boys were pretty shitty at the beginning … it just didn’t have great character arcs for it #Like only time I can sorta get mega April hate is really when she calls the turtles “mutant freaks” after her dad gets mutated #but like I’m more irritated by the fact donatello when he learns a lesson gets constantly hit with a reset button next time he sees her #and Casey learns not a goddamn thing #Like teaching boys not to be weird to girls in romance isn’t a half bad character arc or lesson to teach #Esp when the show’s primary demographic aim is probably young boys #but the trouble is even the show was weird about April at points #‘The fuck: why did the show tie april up like that?’#is not something I should be asking myself #Like in retrospect people freaked about april kissing Donnie in that big foot episode as ruining donnies potential to move on #but donatello has ‘learned a lesson’ before only to have it seem like it never happened next time #so did she really? Let’s think about that in context a bit harder folks #like I hear it gets better like in season four but godddaaaammmnn #Like how is splinter not putting his head through a wall from bashing it into it in frustration given his back story #this splinter has the patience of a saint when it comes to his second youngest frankly #2012 TMNT criticism

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