Theories about the Green Oasis

[victory_angel]

The Green Oasis seems to come out of nowhere in the story. It just described as a place of legend, but I think the way the story was written, the art direction team wanted the audience to draw their own conclusions as to what the Oasis was.

I believe that the Green Oasis was the remains of the Northampton Farmhouse and here is why.

Early on, when the series was in production. Ciro had said he had planned on Splinter being dead shortly before the series begins. And I remember him saying in an interview that wherever Splinter was, was home.

When Splinter is murdered by the Shredder, the Turtles bury him at the farmhouse because:

1. That is a place that he would have enjoyed visiting in life. And if things hadn't been so hectic with the Shredder and the Kraang, and of course the Triceratons, they probably would have brought him with them if they had vacations from the city.

2. That was the safest place they could think of where his grave wouldn't be desecrated by the Shredder and his goons. Or unknowingly by the city.


Following Splinter's murder, the Turtles stay in their childhood home. But there is an air that even though they are safe and sheltered...the lair just doesn't feel like home anymore because Splinter is no longer there.

So the only thing they really have left is each other and their honorary family members. And that is what they desperately cling to.


When they reach the Oasis the things that keyed me into the possibility of the farmhouse is the pool elderly Mikey jumps into is a depression that looks as though it had once been the foundation of a building.

And given the passage of time, without anyone to keep the place maintained the surrounding forest would have certainly taken over the farmhouse and its grounds. Plus the last line Leo says in the show is "We're Home" and then pans to the sky and we see the flashback of the Turtles gathering together with Splinter for that family photo.

They may not have completely understood what was drawing him there, particularly since Splinter's grave marker also would have been claimed by the Earth.

Also it's pointed out that both Raph and Leo have significant memory loss, but it's slowly coming back to them. At least for Leo it's returning.

Mikey on the other hand, after spending years alone in the desert is a borderline Alzheimer's patient. I'm almost surprised he doesn't have type 2 diabetes due to all the Pizza he's been eating.

Donnie is the only one who has his memory completely intact, but even if he has memories of the farmhouse. The surrounding land has changed significantly over the past handful of decades, so it would no longer be the place he once knew.