Splinters name
 

Two things, why do the turtles call Yoshi Splinter, is there any reason for them to not just call him Yoshi. And how does shredder know about the name splinter?

In this series it seems like Splinter was Yoshi's codename much like Oroku Saki's was Shredder.

This isn't the OT where the Turtles nicknamed him Splinter.

Agree with cybercubed (:o) it's the only reasonable explanation.

I don't know.. my best guess which I wrote into my fanfic was that they nicknamed each other back when they were friends. Saki called Yoshi 'Splinter' due to his gift of Splintering boards as were they nothing, and Yoshi called Saki 'Shredder' cause he shreds things all the time, makes sense to me, and the names just ended up sticking to them.

But yeah, it was an explanation I made up because I did have to ask myself.
"Why on earth are Shredder calling Splinter by the name 'Splinter' all the time? how does he even know Hamato Yoshi calls himself that?"

I could imagine Splinter took the name upon himself when he mutated to mark a sort of 're-birth' of himself.

But that's honestly my best guess.

Mostly I just think the show didn't think that far at all, and I don't think any-one is ever going to explain it.

Of course the show is probably going to explain it, Yoshi didn't get his name Splinter from the turtles. They'll probably explain this later on when we find out Miwa is Karai.

Splinter also knows that Oroku Saki calls himself Shredder.

I really don't think they will.

All-though, admittedly, some-thing I would just love to see, would be a two-parter episode telling the story of what exactly happened back in Japan, it is very very vague, and I would love to see it.

Will that happen? I think not, that would require a huge budget as you would have to model so many new things.
New backgrounds, new characters whim will only be used that one time, entirely new settings, also only used that one time. I guess that's one of the draw-backs about the CGI. Normally with handrawn, it will cost the same no matter what you do or where you move things, with CGI, you want to re-use the same models over and over, cause those are the ones costing money :/

Maybe it'll happen in one of the official nick web comics? that would be sort of neat.

Or hopefully, we'll get some more flashbacks where they use the hand-drawn pictures, we havn't seen that many of those lately, which is a shame, I really like those, it's a nice pretty looking alternative way to do a flash-back.

.... wauw.. I never thought I would actually say. "I want more flash-backs."

Kudos to this show for making me say some-thing like that oO;

The show is designed in a way that we're slowly learned more about Splinter/Shredder's past and the Kraang. I don't understand why you think they don't plan to reveal all of this. What do you think this season is building towards?

Some things are better not fully explained to every last detail

Because the show is more focused about how the past affects the present and how the present turns out, instead of going into detail explaining the past.

The show is currently building towards two major things, a big confrontation between the turtles and the krangs, slowly we are learning more and more about what they want and why they are a threat.

And we are building towards a confrontation between Splinter and the Shredder, which I am going to guess, will first really happen in season two.

All the past is really good for, is explaining the present, explain character motivations in the present, and maybe it really is better to leave it unexsplained, because quite honestly, my imagination all-ready did run wild regarding what happened, I wrote an entire fanfiction about it, which is quite honestly one of my own works I like more.

We've been learning more and more about the past as the show progresses. The 2D style flashbacks showing Yoshi's older life will probably be used again in the future.

As for a big Splinter/Shredder fight, it'll probably happen in the final or right before it. There's no reason to not expect another Shredder confrontation before the season ends.

Well, I do think we are going to learn a few things more, but not that much really.
Because.. mostly it isn't that important.

Take one great example of how this works, in Star Wars, Obi Wan explained very little about Darth Vader.

"He is more machine than man now." that whole speech took.. around thirty seconds, and then we spend another thirty seconds later to explain a little more.
That was honestly all the background we needed in that movie, it was a past event that directly affected the present, and it was only brought up, because it affected the present.
That's how you do screen writing, only ever bring information up if it has any meaning to present or future actions in the movie/television show.

Then ten years later we had three whole movies expanding on that one minute worth of back-ground material and.. there was no way to make it any good, we actually didn't need any-more.
If they were going to do more Star Wars, they should have looked forwards not back-wards :ohwell:

That is not to say that I would become angry or any-thing if they decided to make a two-parter episode explaining Splinters and Shredders back-story, I would be really happy. Or if we get more flash-backs, I feel a genuine want of wanting to see it.
But I wont be dissapointed either if it doesnt happen, this show has thus far been very good at keeping its focus which is.. not with splinter, but with the turtles. And not in the past, but in the present.

I think the writers have done a good job moving the overall plot at a good pace while exploring the characters. I'm sure they can have a few more flashbacks without it being too distracting. As said its bound to happen around the time Karai is revealed to be Miwa anyway.

No matter the case, i'm sure the show will keep on being good.

So I am not really worried nor frustrated about any-thing, it's just an over-all good show, and I see now reason why that would stop.

They're probably nicknames they had in the military. That photo from the opening scene of "New Friend, Old Enemy" continues to intrigue me.

Well, they both were ninjas, which means "Profesional warriors." or "Profesional assasins."

Considering this is a kids show and we are bending the rules of what a ninja is, meaning Splinter is not an assasin, and doesn't train the turtles to be assasins, he is all about "All life is precious, and we never kill unless we have no other choice." and all that stuff, I am going to go with the notion that they were just profesional warriors for their clan.

Splinter all-ready said that they were old friends so well, that they would be send on ninja field missions together only makes sense to me.

Wasn't one explanation that he got his name from being able to chomp those karate boards into splinters? I think this was in the intro.

In the OT. This is a new continuity.

Well in that case, this version hasn't been given an explanation. Although I suspect, as others have, that it stems from being in the war.

Well they weren't in any war. Japan hasn't had a military conflict really since WWII. But they were still Army buddies, or something.