How many human characters are left on the show?
 

Seriously, how many? I lost count.

April, Casey, Shredder.

That's it, pretty sure.

Few enough to count on one hand.

Are we counting lesser players? If so then add in April's dad and Kurtzman.

(Unless something became of them and it's been so long that I'm forgetting... Goodness knows Mr. O'Neil can't stay out of trouble.)

Are we counting April?

Yeah I agree.

April may be human in appearance, but she is technically part Kraang.

Nah, you're forgetting a bunch. Hun, Big Louie & his goons, The Purple Dragons, Kurtzman, Kirby, The Earth Protection Force, prolly more, even.

Kirby O'Neil has been mutated for a long time, so there are different ways of counting him too...

Yes but at the moment he is currently a human.

Tea time girl. Pizza Delivery boy. Mr. Murakami. Crazy bum. Pigeon Man guy/Tea Time Girl's father....

Don't forget Joan Grody!

Oh yeah and that anchorman with the Chinese, Spanish, Irish name. lol

Yeah, April shouldn't be on the list. And when they decide to make SuperShredder -- and it's a complete inevitability -- you can scratch him off the list too.

Completely forgot April being 50% WTF. :tlol:

It's alright. Like I said, it's easy to forget because she still looks like a human.

We still have Carlos Chiang O'brian Gambe. Thank god.

The homeless guy, the people who were saved by or swarming around Muckman. The shopkeeper near the farm house, but he's probably still asleep right now. lol

Plenty of humans, but not so much on those that are important.

It's also easy to forget because the writers forget. What a f*cking mess.

I'm beginning to think that Ciro and Brandon have a mutagen fetish.
"50 Shades of Ooze."

Brandon atleast does. Ciro obviously wanted this show to go in a different direction.

Wait, am I missing something? Has Brandon outranked Ciro?

Eew. Also Ick.

ok... now I'm curious... what direction did Ciro want for the show?

More of a serious direction I'd assume from watching season 1. Season 2 had a whole new batch of writers.

That is what I hate about Nickelodeon. They don't care about quality anymore. All they care about are sales from the latest new merchandise. They probably replaced the writers because they didn't follow their standard "criteria" of what's deemed accept to viewers. It is such a shame and a disappointment.

Oh wow :teek: That would explain why they stopped adding to the character development for the bad guys and the comedy took a dive downhill (I guess to be like present-day Spongebob.) Kind of sucks though, imagine more of the episodes being like Wrath of Tigerclaw and having less goofy filler...

It is me, or is Nick slowly shooting itself in the foot? It feels like it to me anymore. Kids will be revisiting this years from now, and I'm hoping they don't shake their heads like 'WTH did I watch?'

The writers left to work on a different show.

Why the hell are people saying the writers changed? A handful of writers left, most of the core team is exactly the same.

Enough people left to make the quality of the show worse.

Isn't season 2 better than season 1 ?

Where are people getting that Ciro wanted to take this show in a different direction? Ciro hired Aumen. They worked together before TMNT.

I don't think the writing took a dip at all. Season 2 was better than season 1. There were A LOT more emotional moments in 2 as well. Slash and Destroy? Vengeance is Mine? Wrath of Tiger Claw? The Invasion? Those are some of the best episodes in TMNT history. That just proves that the writers CAN do it. Season 3 has lacked emotional moments thus far, but here's hoping that Tale of the Yokai/Mega Shredder will have some. I mean, Tale of the Yokai is bound to have some, but Mega Shredder I'm not too sure about. And I wouldn't blame the filler episodes on the writing team, I'd blame it on Ciro and Brandon. That's why I think season 4 is going to have a lot less filler 'cause it's only 20 episodes, along with season 5.

So....
 

Out of the main roster, only a handful of characters are actually human:
- Casey Jones
- The Shredder
- Hun
- The Purple Dragons(3)

This...is upsetting. The show ratio of mutants and humans are greatly unbalanced. I know that Shredder will probably turn into a mutant, so there will be even FEWER humans. Ugh.....

If Hun & The Purple Dragons are "the main roster" so too is Kurtzman & Kirby.

Why is upsetting that there aren't many human main characters in a show about mutants? I don't get it.

Nobody said it was upsetting. It's just struck as odd or lacking in good characters that haven't gotten on the mutant bandwagon.

Literally two posts above you, fam.

....Okay, I'll take that back.

Also, dare I ask what "fam" is and whether or not it's meant in a bad way?

Fam is like dude, bro, homie, etc. Short for family.