Venus: The Unwanted "Child" that ruined the "marriage" of Eastman and Laird?

[Jester]

In his most recent "Ask PL" blog post, Peter was asked about Venus. Here is the back and forth:

1) Venus - How did this character come into existence?"

If memory serves, some people from Playmates and Saban brought the idea of doing a "girl Turtle" to us when we were discussing doing the live-action show and the toys to go with it. Kevin was not at that meeting, which was held at Mirage's offices in Northampton, and when they brought up the idea, I immediately shot it down… figuring that given Kevin and I had ALWAYS hated the idea of a "girl Turtle" and had always rejected it when it was brought up in any context, I was on solid ground.

It was an unpleasant surprise when I learned a short while later that Kevin had changed his long-held position and wanted to let them do this "girl Turtle" character.

"Considering you don't like the character, couldn't you have veto'ed this idea if you disliked her so much?"

I won't go into all the particulars of what happened next, because I don't really feel comfortable at this time talking about it, but suffice it to say that I VERY reluctantly agreed to allow this thing to proceed.

And it turned out to be just as stupid and awful as I had imagined. Maybe more so, even.

Could this back track, be the rift that broke up the dream team of Kevin and Peter?