Official Episode Discussion: S2 #6 "Target: April O'Neil"

[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

I agree that many plots are ignored and only rehashed when an episode calls for it, but maybe they do that so it's not confusing for people who may not have seen the series yet and may only be looking at certain episodes. If plots are brought up each episode, people might be confused and say, "I don't get what's going on." So maybe Nick is doing this as a way to get people to watch the series and if they tune in late, they won't be as confused if they see a certain episode and won't wonder what's going on. That's my take on it anyway.

Originally Posted by Luckyday

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The problem with this series that it's afraid to be consistent with itself regarding information. It's done on purpose so that you can watch one episode randomly without having watch it in a certain order. This show already a lot of moments of willing suspension of disbelief with the Kraang fighting in the middle of street so I wasn't surprise that Casey came out unscathed. Although I wonder if that has to do with more the parental rating? I don't think it does since Adventure has the same parental rating and Finn gets hurt way more often with bruises and nasty cuts but no blood. (I think)

The way how I'm seeing it is that I can understand, the "Mutagen Man Unleashed" and "Mikey Gets Shellacne" episodes, not discussing about the whole bombshell of Splinter revealing Karai is his daughter since she's not there. But when Karai is back in the series in "Target: April O'Neil" and with Leo fighting her again, one would think that the past developments of "Follow the Leader" would come back up. Now I'm not expecting a huge scene or anything, but like a 30 second conversation near the end of "Target: April O'Neil" before April returns to the lair to keep things moving a bit, or at least some cognitive awareness from the characters (rather then selective awareness with the Turtles remembering the Foot-bots):

Leo takes Splinter to the side after they fought Karai, and starts explaining his dilemma, "Sensei... I don't know what to do here. I mean with the Foot-bots, Karai was going to try to kidnap or kill April, and us! What are we to do now since she's your daughter?" Leo ponders the depth of Karai's vendetta against all of them with knowing that Karai thinks Splinter killed her mother.

Splinter asks with concern, "Did you tell your brothers about it yet?"

Leo responds, "No sensei... I still haven't grasped it. What should we do about her?" April suddenly arrives in the lair and their conversation ends.

Originally Posted by FoxZerro

The thing with two teenagers being able to defeat the footbots can be explained away by their fighting styles. April as a novice is more defensive driven so they wouldn't really have anything to adapt to, and even if they did since she is intent on defending herself not attacking it would be easier for her to adapt to their adaptations.

Casey is a bit more of a stretch, but having almost 18 years of Hockey under my own belt I can say that if you are in a fight and play hockey that you are mostly a brawler, which means to say you don't have any real style you just do what you can to do as much damage as possible while avoiding getting damaged yourself. In addition to being a fighting style which has no real structure it is also much more adaptive to the situation which again would be one of the better ways to fight the footbots based upon what we know about them up to this point.

The Turtles being meticulously trained have predictable ways of fighting so that the footbots would have an easier time learning and assimilating their style. While if they are fighting two individuals who are doing whatever it takes to survive the fight they are being offered such a large amount of data to input that rather they get caught up in the adaptation they would more than likely revert to the original objective which was to target April.

Even with that explanation one can make the argument that their programming was just to get April to the rendezvous with Chrome Dome and as such not to use lethal force. Which would also mean that since April and Casey are not held back by that same restriction they would most certainly have an edge.

Hey I'm open for anything I guess at this point. It's just really hard to believe that these quick adapting robots would find these two teenagers just as troublesome as the Turtles. **shrug**