Official Ep Discussion: S3 Ep1: "Within the Woods"

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Originally Posted by Gorilla Grodd

At the risk of getting a sai in the neck from rabid Raphael fans, the complaints about Raph getting shafted seem like a little bit of an overreaction to me. After two seasons I've never felt like Raph was singled out for neglection. Sure he hasn't received a ton of focus in the more recent episodes but that's just the way things go sometimes. When i think back on season 1 it felt like he got just as much if not more focus than anyone else, so I don't mind at all that season 2 spent a little more time on other characters. Personally I feel like he's gotten so much of the spotlight throughout the history of the Turtles that it's kind of refreshing seeing other turtles getting more of an equal push. I read a lot of these posts and think, "Yeah, now you know what it's been like for fans of Donnie/Mikey over the years."

I guess if I was to complain about something in the episode it's that with the move to North Hampton I was hoping to see Nick's spin on The River. Which I suppose is what this episode was, just in a very different form and I think it insures that we won't be seeing a more faithful adaptation of that story. Unless they change which turtle gets leeched by Bloodsucker. I just don't think the Raph fans could handle seeing him get reduced to a weakling twice.
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Problem with your logic, is that it is 100% false. It is very much a fact that Raphael has gotten the shaft in pretty much every single thing to do with TMNT, either be it the 80's toon, 2k3, comics and when it came to most of the movies, he shared the spot light with either of the other brothers. 1990 might be the only one he shined, but the SOTO-Donnie, TMNT 3-Mikey, TMNT 4-Leo, TMNT crap-Mikey.

I even decided to actually do some math to back up Raph claims, and really, it's so sad that nobody can't rebut my claims either, probably because they are true. Raphael very well may the fan favorite, but except for the first movie and 2007, he pretty much never really got to shine, and if he did, it was rare.

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