Rise Official Episode Discussion S1 E9a The Gumbus
 

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo1pJGpH...&taken-by=tmnt

LOL Okay, props for the great twist ending. Kid Baxter... :lol: Kind of made up for how annoying April got. That girl just isn't entirely right in the head...

So, I guess we can scratch off Baxter showing up as any kind of real threat, but maybe the kid will keep up with the robot theme and be a minor issue. (Although his motivation for becoming a foe would be what, no donations?)

"It's like Christmas morning for food." Or something like that. This girl has clearly never been inside a grocery store...?

Good episode love the interactions between Mikey and Leo and I love that April was enjoying the spooky stuff.

Leo calls Mikey, Miguel

Baxter Stockman is now Baxter Stockboy!!!!!!! :o

How much of a threat can Baxter be in this series?

Even if he wasn't called "Stockboii", I still I would have figured it out. Because, you know, the design is pretty much a chibified 4Kids Baxter.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120806184740

Anyway, would Baxter be a threat in this series? Obviously they made him a child in order to make him more comedic, but then again all the villains in this show are comedic. He's a threat in the sense that any other villain in this series is.

It is not Baxter Stockman. Just a kid named Baxter. Not the famous Baxter Stockman. Baxter Stockaman as a kid however can still be a threat but only to other kids. Not ninjas and mutants because if he attacks they willl kill him with just one hit(if he was a kid) but iam sure this kid is not him. Baxter is realy a threat only when he is inside a huge robot with big guns. As a normal human or mutant he is not threat to anyone at all. He is a coward when he dont have any weapons or robot armor.

Sooo... is he going to post the video he took of Leo and Mikey (and April)? They didn't exactly demand he erase it or threaten him not to post it.

edit: Never mind, Mikey(?) does say they're taking the phone/footage with them. At least they had brains enough to do that that.

I want to figure out what the hell you're saying, I just believe I'll get an aneurysm if I think too hard about your inane post. The mere fact that you begin your statement by dismissing the kid as this show's interpretation of Baxter Stockman, it's just so... So... Well here's the headache, I knew it would come...

Haven't seen the ep, can someone post a screencap? Is he black? I guess him being the same age as April would make sense. Funny how the 2012 series kept Baxter as an adult.

Because he could have been a teen like April/Casey last time too but wasn't.

Yeah but why would they have done that?

He looks like a little kid. i wonder if there will be a time skip.

Want to know something funny? Prior to this episode, I thought that if Baxter were to appear in this series, he'd be an evil science teacher at April's school.

When they mentioned he was called "Stockboii" I turned to my brother and said "So when he grows up, he'll be a Stockman?" While I figured the name and design may have been a shout-out to Baxter, I actually did not expect him to BE Baxter!

Great episode and reveal. Having Baxter Stockman be a kid genius is a clever change of pace.

Thought it was funny when Leo said how long is this freezer aisle?

Baxter is a little bubba.

He might be 2003 Baxter when he was a kid. That when he grew up he created a portal and traveled to 2003 dimension. Just how 1987 krang was coming from the 2012 dimension.

I also really liked the fact that they made an Annoying YouTube Rando villain :lol:

He cant be 8 or else his parents woulnt had let him go alone for a walk and create his lab and robots. His must be 16+ and he just looks like he is much younger. Many people look younger than they are. I know a man who is 39 years old but he looks like less than 30 years old. April must aso be 17-18 or else they wouldnt allow her to work.

Wow you are truly an idiot.

Did you ever watch Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter is under 10 years old, he had his own lab under his house and made stuff. and don't forget Stewie from Family Guy, he's under 2, i can't remember if he had a lab but he made stuff.

Eh...TMNT tends to be a little more realistic in terms of character age than those other shows, so it wouldn't really be one to have a toddler doing that sort of thing, but where 'Rise' Baxter is concerned I suppose they could go the child genius route with this one. Tends to be kind of an evil genius usually anyhow.


And yeah, this one is definitely a young kid. Esp with his parents showing up to yell at him that he was supposed to be home an hour before.

I... Really? He's a cartoon character! Him being too young to build a giant robot, for a Youtube scam of all things, is the joke here. It's not an indicator that he's older than he looks.

I just got to watch this one and I have to say that this series is either growing on me or this was one of the better episodes.

Sheesh, April really is the Scrappy-Doo of the series and this episode proves it.

Also, it's so sad when a kid is exposed to social media, in this manner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YYS5VTR9Xg

My review of The Gumbus...

I honestly enjoyed this episode more than all of those Halloween episodes from the 2012 series season 5. Those dragged on imo.

I loved Stockboy, you definitely get the sad loner vibe from him, which can lead to him becoming the Stockman we all know.

Baxter stockboy evolves into Baxter stockman.

Yes maybe he will do some crazy experiemnt with some weapon or soem chemical and he will grop up to an adult.

https://i.imgur.com/DIFHbPw.jpg?1

At the end of the Gumbus video "Stockboy" is seen snatched away by something unseen. But it isn't his last video, there is a newer, presumably can stacking video after it. Are these Turtles and April really lacking any small amount of reasoning skills whatsoever, at least enough for someone to question why, if the Gumbus was real, the kid's next video wasn't about what happened to him? Wow. lol


Now, about the levitating and flying food...