Official Episode Discussion S2 #17 "Newtralized!"

[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by BabyTurtles

The only thing I didn't like about the episode was how the other turtles (Mikey, Don, Leo) seemed fine around Slash. (and to an extent even Raph)

If Slash beat me to an inch of my life then I'd be avoiding him!! Or at least have my weapon in hand whenever he's around.

I mean one does not simply forget a brutal beat down.

I feel like it downplays Slash and Destroy a bit.

Originally Posted by Ramboraph4life aka Matt

But again, to go from giving Mikey the most severe beat down he's ever had (and almost murdering him in quite a few ways, you could say even the most severe beat down that Donnie might have had too if the bruises tell the whole story let alone Donnie's arm), to having a brutal fight with Raphael, and everything else in Slash & Destroy...and then in only his Second Appearance (not counting his cameo in another one) to pretty much become their Ally (set up for future episodes) is very, very weak as well as lame on the part of the writers. Way too quick and you could even say Anti-Climactic as well, since it's obvious that he'll be the ally that will come in once in a while to help out (if for nothing else but out of his Loyalty to Raphael).

Especially with all of the directions and things that you could have done with Slash after 'Slash & Destroy'. And instead they took the laziest and most easy way out. The only way it would have been 'even more lazier/easier' than this would have been if he had gotten turned back into Spike at the end.

Originally Posted by BabyTurtles

they don't need to attack Slash...but the boys could have at least been cautious around him. Noticeably cautious!

Going a step back....I don't think that cameo of him in Metalhead Rewired is enough buildup for him to turn good in the second episode featuring him.

You two are expecting too much from this show to be quite frank.

If they easily brushed aside Season 1's threat of the Kraang kidnapping April in season 2 (April attending school), and made the cliffhanger bombshell of Karai being Splinter's daughter ("Follow the Leader") irrelevant to when Leo was fighting Karai in "Target April O' Neil", then it comes as no surprise that the animosity between Slash and Raphael's brothers would be brushed aside as well in this episode.

...Yet another typical example of this show's selective plot amnesia folks. It starts off strong (April being forced in to stay in the sewers, the Karai bombshell, fallout between Raph's brothers and Slash), but is either ignored (April attending school), brushed aside (the animosity between Raph's brothers and Slash), or ill-timed to the character's logic or the show's suspense (Leo not even acknowledging Karai as Splinter's daughter when he fought her in "Target: April O' Neil").