Take Me To Your Leader

[ZariusTwo]

I went into Wednesday wanting to watch three FW TMNT episodes, none of which were going to be this, but I did'nt have much time after playing a couple of matches from the WWE MITB event for my pal, (trying to gradually get her into wrestling), so we settled on this one episode on a random whim.

My first exposure to this story came from the book adaptation, which was called "Follow the Leader"

If I had to pick apart one part of the story, it's that Leonardo's' crisis of confidence is void of any real motivation other than a bad dream. Outside of that one extra scene where he hits himself on the head with the Bo staff, it's very rushed. I think it'd have been better if Leo's dream had been motivated by an actual battle. I think this element was just a victim of time constraints because it packed a lot in otherwise, and it also has a pretty rushed conclusion, with Leo suddenly snapping out of his funk once the bridge collapses.

I liked how resourceful Donatello was in the leadership role, and he only really relinquishes it just so he can nip back to the lair to fetch another device. Raph's problems with leadership were interesting, but before you have time to think about them, it's dropped as soon as he hands over the role to Donny. If they did this in a modern show now, this would be a whole arc for Raph, choking in the face of a real position of responsibility and realising he has very little answers to solutions.