20 something years later, how do you feel about Utrom Shredder?

[Prowler]

I remember how, in season 1, Shredder looked unstoppable. Leonardo cutting his head off and then him getting up and picking his head up left my 13-14 year old self quite stunned.

Then came the Secret Origins 3-parter in season 2 where it gets revealed that Shredder was an Utrom all along...

It was disappointing because it made The Shredder an alien and also meant it wasn't a real martial arts master behind the armour, but some Utrom in an exosuit playing with joysticks and buttons. Later in the series they kind of rectified this by revealing that Oroku Saki was actually the original Shredder many years ago and that Chrell made an exosuit out of his dead body or something.

It ended up working fine for the series, even if I still believe that alien Shredder is not a good concept on paper. Quite an interesting contradiction, I must say. I've accepted a long long time ago that Shredder is an Utrom named Ch'rell in this series, so I'm not "bitter" about it or anything and haven't been so for many years now. So no, I wouldn't change his origin/background on this show.