Aspects of Splinter in the old toon i wished they focused more on...

jignat · 03-16-2007, 08:27 PM

Unlike the other incarnations of tmnt, Splinter is a human mutated into a rat.
In the first season, the tmnt are focused toward stopping shredder, and in "shredder and splintered", they actually want to help revert Splinter back to Yoshi.

Now I know this was a kids cartoon, but other than 1 episode, where don altered the mutagen to make Splinter human temporarily, the cartoon almost rarely showed splinter feeling depressed about his condition, or encountering anyone from his human past (that i recall) or dealing with his banishment from the foot clan or personal issues. Also, Splinter's enmity towards Shredder is not really acknowledged much after a couple of season. I mean, he usually tells the turtles to stop shreds evil scheme dui jour, but not much more than that.

I guess i came up w/this topic, b/c ep 5 was my favorite episode of the old toon, b/c the shredder/splinter feud was handled well, and one of the few times they fought seriously (i like the dialogue also)..

thoughts?

03-16-2007, 08:27 PM	#1
jignat Foot Soldier Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 161	Aspects of Splinter in the old toon i wished they focused more on... Unlike the other incarnations of tmnt, Splinter is a human mutated into a rat. In the first season, the tmnt are focused toward stopping shredder, and in "shredder and splintered", they actually want to help revert Splinter back to Yoshi. Now I know this was a kids cartoon, but other than 1 episode, where don altered the mutagen to make Splinter human temporarily, the cartoon almost rarely showed splinter feeling depressed about his condition, or encountering anyone from his human past (that i recall) or dealing with his banishment from the foot clan or personal issues. Also, Splinter's enmity towards Shredder is not really acknowledged much after a couple of season. I mean, he usually tells the turtles to stop shreds evil scheme dui jour, but not much more than that. I guess i came up w/this topic, b/c ep 5 was my favorite episode of the old toon, b/c the shredder/splinter feud was handled well, and one of the few times they fought seriously (i like the dialogue also).. thoughts?