Raph's plastron scar...

[Papenbrook]

My opinion:

I honestly don't think it will live up to its potential. I know that the writers can't explore the show's arcs very well. (Ex.:Mutagen Man's arc, Karai's arc, The love triangle storyline)I think it is one of those arcs /storylines that will only last for a few minutes.

Discuss below.

[snake]

Yeah. They've been dragging their feet on this since season 1. I just want to see a turtle tots flashback episode.

[Etsyturtle2]

I couldn't care less. A turtle tots episode would be great, though!

[Ninturtle]

My opinion:

I honestly don't think it will live up to its potential. I know that the writers can't explore the show's arcs very well. (Ex.:Mutagen Man's arc, Karai's arc, The love triangle storyline)I think it is one of those arcs /storylines that will only last for a few minutes.

Discuss below.

How is the story of Raphs plastron scat going to be an arc?

[Etsyturtle2]

How is the story of Raphs plastron scat going to be an arc?

I thinks purple kraken is referring to season four flashback. I thought I heard something about this in season four discussion thread.

[JTH]

Yeah. They've been dragging their feet on this since season 1. I just want to see a turtle tots flashback episode.
"They've" been dragging. They mentioned it like twice. That's not hardly anything to make a deal of.

We've been dragging our feet on this since Season 1. And if anything, it will be a quick 2-3 minute flashback, and we'll complain that they "hyped" this all up for that? They didn't hype anything, we did.

This is again people making something out of nothing.

[Meliwen]

I don't think the scar by itself is necessarily going to be an arc, but I would love to see it as part of one. On the character sheet it mentioned it was the beginning of Raph's bad disposition, so it would be nice if that was Raph's arc and his scar serves as an extra bit of insight to his character and the arc as a whole.

That being said, it'll probably be featured in a one episode deal without being part of anything larger.

[Cure]

I honestly can't believe it's even this big of a deal for some people. He got it being reckless. The end.

[CyberCubed]

Next thing you know people will be complaining why we didn't get a story of why Donatello has a gap in his teeth.

[Amaranthus]

Next thing you know people will be complaining why we didn't get a story of why Donatello has a gap in his teeth.

I used to have a gap (sort of, they actually overlapped each other) between my front teeth because I put spoons between them when I was younger.

[Shark_Blade]

What arc? He has that scar ever since the glass bowl dropped down into the sewer scene.

[Etsyturtle2]

Dang am, I do that all the time with toothpicks, spoons and tmnt weapons. The last one is from when I was younger, and couldnt care less about tmnt.

[Powder]

Why the hell would they make an entire arc around a chipped shell? Get in touch with reality.

& Etsy, we get it, you wanna fit in. You've made that same unfunny reference to that thread about 5 times today. Nobody's laughing.

[Etsyturtle2]

Why the hell would they make an entire arc around a chipped shell? Get in touch with reality.

& Etsy, we get it, you wanna fit in. You've made that same unfunny reference to that thread about 5 times today. Nobody's laughing.
What reference?

[Cure]

Yeah, play dumb. I'm sure those words in your posts emboldened themselves.

[GoldMutant]

Are we really going to use physical description other than Shredder's burns as anything of relevance for an arc? If you mean self contained episode, then its subjective, but no way that's an arc. I know the writers in a book stated it will be confirmed to use later, but here's my two cents:

No, it isn't happening at all. Turtle tots is being held back, even if a Comic Con brought it up (I don't know which) for no inexplicable reason. The show has proven not to build any arc due to it being self contained; even then, theories get disproven on this show every instance. Even then, we ride the hype train and get disappointed after blowing it out of proportion. Last time it occurred was Clash of the Mutanimals and people were angry over the episode, myself included as an actual story or not.

I say it's not enough to warrant enough attention; for Raph to get limelight I'd like from this, otherwise it's a waste of time and an opportunity.

[Etsyturtle2]

Yeah, they did.:tcool:

[IndigoErth]

I have strong doubts it will turn out to be anything too exciting. We have a bad habit of hoping something is going to be some great revelation and then the writers didn't feel the same way, so, I'm not going to get my hopes up. May well be some random "remember when" incident mentioned for all of four seconds.

I thought it was already cracked in the opening sequence, after mutation, but looking at it online I guess I was mistaken. (Or is there another shot that shows it that I'm forgetting.)

[victory_angel]

I have strong doubts it will turn out to be anything too exciting. We have a bad habit of hoping something is going to be some great revelation and then the writers didn't feel the same way, so, I'm not going to get my hopes up. May well be some random "remember when" incident mentioned for all of four seconds.

I thought it was already cracked in the opening sequence, after mutation, but looking at it online I guess I was mistaken. (Or is there another shot that shows it that I'm forgetting.)

It's shown cracked in the flash back to when they were first mutated.

[Sabacooza]

It's shown cracked in the flash back to when they were first mutated.
Then yeah, I guess there would be no point then. How interesting could it be to have an episode dealing with them before they're mutated? Not very. If it would've happened when Raph was a preteen then maybe.

[shuriken]

What reference?

If it's any consolation I found it amusing.
Anyway I really need to catch up on this freaking series...
Also relax Powder you, although I agree on your sentiment a out a story arc centered around a cracked plastron.

[kelligrafie]

I'd LIKE there to be a little story about how Raph got the crack in his shell. but four seasons in and hardly any referrals to the crack don't bode well for my hopes.

It would've been a good filler for a quieter episode in season one or two maybe, but I think it's a bit late to be telling that tale now.

[victory_angel]

I'd LIKE there to be a little story about how Raph got the crack in his shell. but four seasons in and hardly any referrals to the crack don't bode well for my hopes.

It would've been a good filler for a quieter episode in season one or two maybe, but I think it's a bit late to be telling that tale now.

it's never too late for a good flashback episode. All they need is a set up for one, rather then randomly saying "remember when you got that chip in your shell...good times." when it really has nothing to do with the situation.

Any memory clips we have scene have always tied into the context of the episode. So perhaps a Raph focused episode that has memories to how his shell was damaged and how that ties in to what is going on in that episode.

[Eurydemus]

More Raph-centric episodes is a-okay in my book.

Maybe if this Half Shell Heroes thing gets picked up as a regular spin-off we'll see the cracked plastron thing addressed there.