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Luckyday 12-26-2013 10:11 AM

Do you want April's empath sensing powers to be explored in this season?
 
I just want know how it works and maybe it's the rules and the limitations. I just have a feeling that it's more akin to listening radio waves but that's honestly more wild mass guessing on my end. :P

TurtleTitan97 12-26-2013 01:06 PM

I'd definitely would like to see that aspect of April explored.

Aaronardo 12-26-2013 02:26 PM

Maybe when the TMNT are in Dimension X, kinda jumping around dimension by dimension, there might be an April subplot there. Somehow.

BubblyShell22 12-26-2013 04:02 PM

Well, she is meeting Kurtzman this season, and we're going to get more info about why the Kraang want her. Maybe her abilities will be explored more there.

Bossa Nova 12-26-2013 10:38 PM

Naw, I'm sick of this April and anything to do with her. If her "power" is something that can happen in other creatures I might be more interested, but if it's this whole "April is the chosen one and she's so omgspecial" then I really could not give a crap.

Luckyday 12-26-2013 10:53 PM

Nah, I am pretty sure that Splinter has too to some extent but April's six sense is stronger due.....something. I really hope this will be fully explain in the Kraang Connection.

BabyTurtles 12-26-2013 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Bossa Nova (Post 1191103)
Naw, I'm sick of this April and anything to do with her. If her "power" is something that can happen in other creatures I might be more interested, but if it's this whole "April is the chosen one and she's so omgspecial" then I really could not give a crap.

yea...this.
still hoping she doesn't turn out to be the romantic subplot macguffin girl.(or.....Phlebotinum Girl)

but so far....that's all she's being.

so.....as negative as it is...I'm not really interested in her...."I'm special but I don't know why" plot.

:ohwell:

IDK....maybe I'll get into it when it's explored more...

Stingray69 12-26-2013 11:06 PM

Heck yea I want to see her as a whole charector explored more not just her power.

drgon78 12-27-2013 06:28 AM

I like this version of April better then any of the others. So yeah I like any episodes that focus on her and I would like to know more about her abilities and the how and why about them.

beavercartoon 12-27-2013 08:11 AM

I would like to see April get more character development/focus but I'm not sure that exploring her empathy powers is the way to do it.

Maybe the show should start by giving more details into her background. (Did April have any living relatives besides Kirby? What classes is she taking in school besides trigonometry? Does she have any pets? Does she have other or interests like the school paper or band? Did she have friends at school that she might confide in besides Casey? etc)

I think April has the potential to be very interesting but her role needs to be expanded beyond friend/crush + occasional guest star. She doesn't have to take over the show and become a super magical mystical girl important to everything and everybody but it would be nice for April to get a few spotlight episodes.

DarkLightDragon 12-27-2013 11:08 AM

^Pretty much my thoughts on the matter.

As for any living relatives she had besides her dad, she did stay with her aunt after her dad was abducted way back in the Season 1 premiere. Problem is, you easily forget she ever had an aunt is because we never see nor hear anything of her.

Even when April had to stay with the guys after her encounter with Karai, we never know or care if she notifies her aunt about her whereabouts or why she had to live somewhere else (granted she'd never reveal the whole truth as to why, but at least come up with an excuse). And that's likely because the writers forgot about her. They don't treat this aunt as anyone important in April's life, so why should we? It is one of the few things that slightly annoys me about this show. When it's not the plot amnesia, it's the total lack of focus of how or where April lives when she's not at school or hanging out in the lair.

I am no means asking for the show to starting revolving around her and replace the turtles as the main characters. Oh no, that'd be stupid to do. But as it stands, there's very little worth caring about her that doesn't revolve round school, her constant worrying over her dad (yeah, I've ranted enough about that, so I'm not bringing up here), or whatever makes her so special to the Kraang.

BabyTurtles 12-27-2013 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkLightDragon (Post 1191192)
^Pretty much my thoughts on the matter.

As for any living relatives she had besides her dad, she did stay with her aunt after her dad was abducted way back in the Season 1 premiere. Problem is, you easily forget she ever had an aunt is because we never see nor hear anything of her.

Even when April had to stay with the guys after her encounter with Karai, we never know or care if she notifies her aunt about her whereabouts or why she had to live somewhere else (granted she'd never reveal the whole truth as to why, but at least come up with an excuse). And that's likely because the writers forgot about her. They don't treat this aunt as anyone important in April's life, so why should we? It is one of the few things that slightly annoys me about this show. When it's not the plot amnesia, it's the total lack of focus of how or where April lives when she's not at school or hanging out in the lair.

I am no means asking for the show to starting revolving around her and replace the turtles as the main characters. Oh no, that'd be stupid to do. But as it stands, there's very little worth caring about her that doesn't revolve round school, her constant worrying over her dad (yeah, I've ranted enough about that, so I'm not bringing up here), or whatever makes her so special to the Kraang.

yea this!

and Beavercartoon hit the mark also!

I just want to care about her more....but turning her into some important special person without getting to know her....is not the right way to do it.

SHOW us why we should care about her (give us some background on her....some turtle bonding moments) don't just TELL us she's special.

ObiWanFan4life 12-28-2013 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BabyTurtles (Post 1191234)
yea this!

and Beavercartoon hit the mark also!

I just want to care about her more....but turning her into some important special person without getting to know her....is not the right way to do it.

SHOW us why we should care about her (give us some background on her....some turtle bonding moments) don't just TELL us she's special.

This. Also, when are they going to SHOW US what her powers are? Why do the Kraang actually need her ?

BabyTurtles 12-28-2013 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ObiWanFan4life (Post 1191334)
This. Also, when are they going to SHOW US what her powers are? Why do the Kraang actually need her ?

probably next episode? :3 it's about that kurtzman? (I think thats his name?)

and he's been researching the kraang and stuff..and knows somethings about April.

drgon78 12-31-2013 07:01 AM

I don't remember them saying the next episode is the Kurtzmen one, were did you see that?

Luckyday 12-31-2013 11:23 AM

I think somebody saw the production number at one of the conventions but I am not sure.

I am pretty April's sensing power is base on electroreception. Humans have it to but hers are on an way above average scale. Sensing electric waves can influence humans' emotions. We know that she is more of a empath then a telepath and at this point, we have seen her sensing the Kraang machine power ball so this just makes it seem more likely that April is a human with an enhanced electroreception in her brain.

drgon78 12-31-2013 04:20 PM

Well I hope that is the next episode that they introduce this guy.

Luckyday 02-11-2014 10:32 AM

If her power is base on eletro-communication then she would probably become at risk of electromagnetic radiation from other machines.

Maybe that why the kraang position themselves in the stomach rather the head.

kelligrafie 02-11-2014 11:20 AM

I think that it could be one way to help introduce dimension x to the turtles, but that will inevitably happen with the kraang aspect any way.

The way they've done April's powers has been quite unusually clumsy. One minute she's a normal girl, then we've had two episodes on the trot where's she suddenly knows people are stalking her because she "psychicly" felt their presence. And the same with the first series, nothing for 90% of the episodes and then suddenly she's telepathic and one step away from levitating objects across the room like Professor Xavier.

I have nothing against April being a bit more than 'average', but perhaps a bit of subtlety wouldn't go amiss.

victory_angel 02-11-2014 02:16 PM

If Kurtzman turns out to be an Utrom/Kraang. Maybe he could shed more light on what the Kraang are and why they are interested in invading earth.

Karai Samurai 02-11-2014 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by BabyTurtles (Post 1191109)
yea...this.
still hoping she doesn't turn out to be the romantic subplot macguffin girl.(or.....Phlebotinum Girl)

but so far....that's all she's being.

so.....as negative as it is...I'm not really interested in her...."I'm special but I don't know why" plot.

:ohwell:

IDK....maybe I'll get into it when it's explored more...


Yup. I think that April's new found powers (like Donnie's crush and her relationship with Casey) is yet another thing to limit her characterization. It's like, okay cool she has this special power. But who is she again? April's humanity should be explored before her powers.

plastroncafe 02-11-2014 05:40 PM

Maybe, and I'm just kind of hoping out loud here, this new reveal will be the catalyst for the exploration of her humanity.

TigerClaw 02-11-2014 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by plastroncafe (Post 1211133)
Maybe, and I'm just kind of hoping out loud here, this new reveal will be the catalyst for the exploration of her humanity.

Yeah, In all past incarnations, They never really explored April's origins and she has always been treated as the damsel in distress or sidekick, By making her the catalyst, Her role in the Turtle's lives and this world in particular, would be much more important. I wouldn't be surprise if shes the one that ends up saving the world.

drgon78 02-11-2014 10:15 PM

I would like for April to be the one who saves the world from the Krang. It would be very fitting that the Krang's creation would cause there undoing. Though I think the Turtles should defeat most other threats. I like her powers though right now it is like "wild magic" or Ron Stopable's mystic monkey powers, it comes and it goes.


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