President Bishop

[The Terror of Death]

Originally Posted by odupianist

did I miss something? how did it become official? and we all have to remember, if we follow the Back to the Future thought on time, this can all still change. The TMNT can go back with their knowledge of the future and Bishop can remain a bad guy and not change.

No. Thats just plain horrible thinking. Why would the 2k3 writers have to follow the time theory of a movie that came out years ago? If they were going to make him a bad guy in season 7 there would be no reason to put him in Fast Forward. He doesnt really play a big part in FF so they could have easily made different storys if they wanted him to remain a villian. We might see him a few times in season 7 and he will probably still be a bad guy (according to Bishop to Knight) but he wont be posing the same threat he has in previous seasons.

And I want to put in some input about the "safe" thing. I think we can all agree that FF is slightly "safer" than 2k3 due to Playmates telling the guys to make it "lighter and funnier" but it too has some dark themes from to time. But the kind of "safe" Zarius is talking about is a ignorant view on things. Even before Playmates intervened with the "lighter and funnier thing" who is to say the writers had not always planned to make Bishop a good guy?
Playmates did not force them to put Bishop in FF. He could have remained in the present like all the other villians.

I will say that the writers might be playing it safe a little because not many human villians die. We see alot of aliens, monsters, and demons die but I dont think they have ever shown a recurring human foe die. I am not saying it needs to happen but it would be nice to see the turtles kill someone like Hun onscreen. (Well, it would be nice for me anyway)