02-21-2017, 05:00 PM | #221 |
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Try reading DC comics sometime, dude...
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02-21-2017, 06:50 PM | #222 |
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i've read plenty of DC.
lots of Marvel too. they're both full of bunky!
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02-21-2017, 06:52 PM | #223 | |
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Haven’t they killed out Superman a few times in the DC comics? I remember they did that time back in the mid-90s and people got all crazy over it, iirc.
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Season 2’s ending didn’t count because we saw him get saved by Karai. April and the others didn’t know that, but we, the audience, did. For that, it was more like, “What’s going on with Splinter? How is he doing? I hope he’s okay.” Mikey pretty much echoed as much when he calmed down Raph, reassuring him that Splinter would be okay because of his being a ninja master and in the early eps, Mikey was still optimistic over Splinter, whereas Raph wasn’t. The season 4 Rat King ep didn’t count since it was adapting a portion of Mirage and as far as I remember, Splinter survived, although he did have to resort to cannibalizing rats which the show didn’t let him do. I’m glad they didn’t keep that in. That would’ve freaked me out, but they probably did that because they used the human > rat origin as opposed to rat > mutated rat origin. Rats cannibalize other rats. It’s creepy. >< So yeah, don’t see how it cheapens the death when it’s only happened once as far as Splinter goes. |
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02-21-2017, 07:21 PM | #224 |
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it's cheap because they've been taunting Splinter's death for pretty much the entire series.
as if it's been pointing to 'Spinter's gonna die' they did the same thing at the end of Season one teasing that Leo was gonna die. it's just cheap audience manipulation.
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02-22-2017, 10:17 PM | #225 |
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Whats worse is that it could've been avoided if Splinter checked to see if Shredder was still alive.
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02-22-2017, 10:38 PM | #226 |
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We all know Leo wasn't gonna die. Even if you never read the comics, the 90s movie and 2K3 series say hi.
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I remember back then non-comic book readers found out that there were things out there like Doomsday that were powerful enough to makeSuperman bleed.
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02-23-2017, 05:23 AM | #228 | |
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talk about lazy writing!
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02-23-2017, 04:21 PM | #229 |
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Honestly so far the one thing I'm taking away from this series is that Spinter never checks for a body and never checks his damn 6
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it's so true though!! don't rodents have a heightened sense of hearing? you'd think even if Splinter wasn't sensible enough to make sure his treacherous blood-thirty arch nemesis wasn't sneaking up behind him, that maybe his acute rat-hearing might have tipped him off? UNLESS . . . this Nick version of Shredder has a very soft step? which would be yet another thing we take from this new series. OH! also folks have the foresight of when they are about to die, and will drop hints to all those close to them about their eminent death.
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02-23-2017, 05:49 PM | #231 |
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Not that Splinter wanted to die, but he knew in the upcoming fight one of them would not survive the battle. But in this last fight it had to come down to him and the Shredder in order to bring their chapter to a close. That is also why he Split up is family the way he did because he knew the Shredder would kill them as a means to hurt him so he limited himself to the literal "strongest" fighters of his family while his most "Skilled" Son's were not targets for the Shredder. Last edited by victory_angel; 02-23-2017 at 09:22 PM. |
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02-23-2017, 09:44 PM | #233 |
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Bruce Wayne's parents always die....
I definitely agree with the cheapening, but yeah, I wouldn't want Splinter actually die. That would suck. Pseudo cyber space death in BTTS .. .BUT STILL CAME BACK. |
02-24-2017, 12:43 AM | #234 |
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A good question is what does Karai do for a living? I mean she doesn't have Shredder's resources anymore so how can she afford to stay in his hideout or pay her ninja mercenaries?
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i'm sure many people enjoyed the episode. and that's great. but it just felt too forced to me. i still enjoy the series for what it is, but i really don't love it like i used to. and that very disappointing to me, cuz i really did LOVE the heck out of this series at one time.
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02-24-2017, 02:21 PM | #236 |
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02-25-2017, 10:09 AM | #237 |
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Well, he is still a ninja after all. Stealthy silent attacks are kinda their thing.
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02-25-2017, 01:24 PM | #238 | |
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this guy just screams "stealthy" or maybe more - 'silent but deadly'?
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02-26-2017, 03:53 AM | #239 |
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If Splinter had just been killed once and then it's all over, there would probably be complainings over the series becoming too violent. So instead, maybe that's why Nickelodeon drags out Splinter's death as much as possible by killing him, and resoring him. Now he's killed again, but Nickelodeon may think less people care then.
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02-27-2017, 03:24 PM | #240 |
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You know, The only thing I'm taking away from this thread is that why are we looking at this show in retrospect when we have a FULL SEASON left?
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