About Carter, the kid from seasons 9 and 10

[neatoman]

So I decided to marathon seasons 9 and 10 because they were rather short and I had some time on my hands.

So a lot about Carter raised some questions. I had never watched those two seasons in order or even all of it before, so when I got to see things happpen in the correct order I got a bit confused about Carter, how did the Turtles feel about him?

It seems rather unclear as their opinion of him keeps changing constantly. Sometimes they think he's arrogant, sometimes they think he's pretty cool, sometimes they think he's a liability, sometimes they think he's a great asset and so on and so forth. I wouldn't mind it so much if there was a constant change in one direction, like if they hated him at the start of season 9 and then grew to like him but it really does seem like they just get back to thinking negatively of him the episode right after they got along with him, it's pretty bizarre.

Another thing is mutation, aside from the clothes morphing alongside his body, there's some weirdness on how he relates to it. Again, they really go back and forth on this. At first it's simple, he just wants a cure like the turtles, but after he cures the mutation he regrets it even right after when he proved himself useful without it (seriously, he saved a bus and immedietly whines about how useless he is without the mutant powers). Later on he discovered that he wasn't cured but rather gained the ability to transform at will... At which point he decides he wants to be cured again despite having spent sereval episodes regretting the decision to get cured...

So yeah, it's not very hard to see why people didn't react well to this character. It's not necessarily that he's a super-genius and self-taught ninja mutant who wants to be the very like no one ever was, it's probably the inconsistancies that ticks people off the most.