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View Poll Results: What one thing needs to be changed (removed or improved) THE MOST in the Nick series?
The Kraang Invasion Plot 1 1.52%
April's Backstory involving the Kraang 3 4.55%
The Shredder-Karai-Splinter Plot 0 0%
The Shipping and Love Triangle(s) 24 36.36%
Depiction of the Characters, or lack of screen time for one/some of them 7 10.61%
Abundance of Mutants and/or the Type of Mutants 5 7.58%
Plot/Arc Amnesia (Forgetting/Ignoring the storywriting details) 7 10.61%
Type of Comedy 2 3.03%
Overall Tone, Direction, or Pacing of the Series 3 4.55%
Voice Acting 1 1.52%
The CGI Animation 1 1.52%
Other (Explain in Post) 8 12.12%
Minimal to no complaints/suggestions, it's ALL great! 4 6.06%
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Old 10-12-2014, 12:01 AM   #1
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If you could only change one aspect of the Nick series, what would it be?

So we've all voiced and read each others' complaints, disappointments and suggestions with the Nick series, but let's try to determine exactly what they are, and add up (the poll) which aspect of the series everyone would want to improve the most.

Edit: You can talk about more than one topic on this thread, but this thread and, more specifically, the poll above were designated to narrow in on an individual's foremost wanted change for the series.

Edit 2: Just for clarification, in case if some of you were wondering what the "Type of Comedy" poll option means, it refers to the type of comedic material being used for the show.

Edit 3: Okay, so to be technically correct here. The option "The Shipping and Love Triangle(s)" is "The Crushes and Love Triangle(s)", but you all can understand to what I'm referring to here.

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Old 10-12-2014, 12:08 AM   #2
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I would let Dominic continue voicing as Leo (I'm still trying to get used to Seth's voice though).

I would delete Timothy's existence from ever happening. They could just like found Mutagen Man already mutated and that's good enough.

I would show human Irma being captured and hidden by Kraangs.


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Oh, you mean only one?

.... Irma then. I want that girl back with the gang.
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Old 10-12-2014, 12:23 AM   #3
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Have Jess Harnell on the show to voice a character to work with Greg Cipes and Rob Paulsen!

Ok seriously, tea time girl!
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Old 10-12-2014, 12:23 AM   #4
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Xever still being a human. He hasn't really done anything mutanty since his mutation unlike Bradford(aside from biting Raph) and I liked his human design.
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Old 10-12-2014, 12:42 AM   #5
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Bring in da humans! Less mutants.
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Old 10-12-2014, 12:49 AM   #6
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'Major plot point is dropped' (Splinter revealing to Leo that Karai is his daughter, Karai getting mutated, etc.)

'Major plot point is completely dropped off the face of the earth for 1/3rd of the season'.

So frustrating. Part of what made The Invasion so grand was that it immediately followed Into Dimension X!
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Old 10-12-2014, 12:56 AM   #7
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This is so hard....

I was stuck between changing April's story/changing up some of the characters/and shipping

...but shipping won XD....I would love the shipping to be totally gone from this show~
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Old 10-12-2014, 01:04 AM   #8
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I didn't even see a poll when this thread started, it's literally not there!

*reads options*
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Old 10-12-2014, 01:04 AM   #9
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Hmm, so many good choices to pick from, my main beef with the series is all this romance stories they keep adding

I'd like to add in skipping around with major arcs going on, one moment we are dealing with personal issues like Karai's secret than oohs filler sorry, couple of episodes later " By the way, she's our sister folks! " No reactions either, you would have thought of all plot twists that'd have affected them emotionally the most, nothing
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Old 10-12-2014, 01:09 AM   #10
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I didn't even see a poll when this thread started, it's literally not there!

*reads options*
I was taking my time reading over and thinking of the options when it came poll choices, and to my surprise, it already posted the thread before I finished creating the poll! Whoops...

Sorry about that...

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Hmm, so many good choices to pick from, my main beef with the series is all this romance stories they keep adding

I'd like to add in skipping around with major arcs going on, one moment we are dealing with personal issues like Karai's secret than oohs filler sorry, couple of episodes later " By the way, she's our sister folks! " No reactions either, you would have thought of all plot twists that'd have affected them emotionally the most, nothing
That would fit into the "Plot/Arc Amnesia" option too, where these storywriting details are not actively addressed in subsequent episodes.

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Old 10-12-2014, 01:12 AM   #11
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As of this moment after the most recent episode... The show wants you to want one of the guys, just pick a damn boyfriend already. I. Don't. Even. Care. if you want to be young and experimental and try being with a talking turtle person.. either just choose, or I bludgeon you to death with a foam Nerf bat. And that will take a while. It will soon be to the point that an awkward human/turtle-person pairing will be less painful than an continuing triangle. (Or is that what the show has been waiting for, to be tired of it long enough that people give up and are fine with it.)
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Old 10-12-2014, 01:30 AM   #12
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I didn't vote for this, but Plot/Arc Amnesia is something IMO that can cause problems for the long term.
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Glad to see my term plot amnesia caught on. Here's hoping it gets its own page at TVTropes. lol although this is the only show I ever seen that did something like this.

But yeah that's the thing I would change. The plot amnesia.

And btw... this show has no shipping. The show actually does have a Don/April/Casey love triangle. It wasn't made up by the fans. Shipping is stuff like fans making up stuff not in the show, like Raph/Karai and Mikey/April.
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I didn't vote for this, but Plot/Arc Amnesia is something IMO that can cause problems for the long term.
yea thinking about it...maybe I should have picked that...plot Amnesia is so annoying....and lots of things would have been solved if they just remember what happened last episode XD
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Okay, I finally have a serious answer that goes under "other". So far, I would change how season 3 started. I would've preferred it if we would've seen the other five adjusting to this life they have for a while with Leo still being out instead of starting after his coma. At least a couple of episodes.

At this point, everyone seems too well-adjusted. Why did Raph decide to be vigilant to watch over Leo (aside from its being in the comic)? How did Donnie cope or act since he blamed himself for Leo's condition? Is Casey's goofiness a front over worrying over his father and sister? How did April cope since bringing Irma to the lair jump-started everything? How did Mikey cope? Did he act the way he did at the end of the finale? With Raph trying to console and comfort him? Was he like this for a while before trying to be optimistic about everything again and quoting Splinter?

This was something I was hoping to see after the season finale. After the heavy, then the lightheartedness of like A Foot too Big (still thought that episode was hilarious).

I guess more emotional moments after a tragic situation or a heavy situation.
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Old 10-12-2014, 01:58 AM   #16
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Okay, I finally have a serious answer that goes under "other". So far, I would change how season 3 started. I would've preferred it if we would've seen the other five adjusting to this life they have for a while with Leo still being out instead of starting after his coma. At least a couple of episodes.

At this point, everyone seems too well-adjusted. Why did Raph decide to be vigilant to watch over Leo (aside from its being in the comic)? How did Donnie cope or act since he blamed himself for Leo's condition? Is Casey's goofiness a front over worrying over his father and sister? How did April cope since bringing Irma to the lair jump-started everything? How did Mikey cope? Did he act the way he did at the end of the finale? With Raph trying to console and comfort him? Was he like this for a while before trying to be optimistic about everything again and quoting Splinter?

This was something I was hoping to see after the season finale. After the heavy, then the lightheartedness of like A Foot too Big (still thought that episode was hilarious).

I guess more emotional moments after a tragic situation or a heavy situation.
For me, I would classify that under the "Plot/Arc Amnesia" option, because those details of the characters/story are not addressed in the show.


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And btw... this show has no shipping. The show actually does have a Don/April/Casey love triangle. It wasn't made up by the fans. Shipping is stuff like fans making up stuff not in the show, like Raph/Karai and Mikey/April.
Technically, that is correct that the show doesn't have "shipping" since there are no official couples yet in the show, but the fact the show is so strongly leaning toward April/Donatello, April/Casey, and Leo/Karai made me choose the broad term. **shrug** Nevertheless though for this particular case, I think most of the users understand how that term is being applied in the poll option.

As for your "plot amnesia" term, thanks Coola Yagami! It was the best term ("amnesia") to articulate what was occurring with those plotlines!

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Okay, I finally have a serious answer that goes under "other". So far, I would change how season 3 started. I would've preferred it if we would've seen the other five adjusting to this life they have for a while with Leo still being out instead of starting after his coma. At least a couple of episodes.

At this point, everyone seems too well-adjusted. Why did Raph decide to be vigilant to watch over Leo (aside from its being in the comic)? How did Donnie cope or act since he blamed himself for Leo's condition? Is Casey's goofiness a front over worrying over his father and sister? How did April cope since bringing Irma to the lair jump-started everything? How did Mikey cope? Did he act the way he did at the end of the finale? With Raph trying to console and comfort him? Was he like this for a while before trying to be optimistic about everything again and quoting Splinter?

This was something I was hoping to see after the season finale. After the heavy, then the lightheartedness of like A Foot too Big (still thought that episode was hilarious).

I guess more emotional moments after a tragic situation or a heavy situation.
yes yes yes.... I was so hoping for this....missed opportunity...
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I chose the depiction of characters, lack of some, too much of others. There just isn't enough Raph for me. Too many times has he been sidelined for some reason or another, and too much focus on the other Turtles. Like I said, I feel April gets better story arcs, and has had more screen time in the second half of season 2 and already in the first two episodes of season 3. Enough already, it's supposed to be about the 4 brothers. Not just two of them, April, Casey, and then when they feel they are needed, then go ahead and give Mikey and Raph some character development, but then go back to concentrating on the new team, Don, Leo, April and Casey. Because that's what I feel it is.
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Technically, that is correct that the show doesn't have "shipping" since there are no official couples yet in the show, but the fact the show is so strongly leaning toward April/Donatello, April/Casey, and Leo/Karai made me choose the broad term.
That's what I mean. The show DOES have the April/Don, Casey/April and Leo/Karai thing going on. It's not a made-up thing the fans made up.

Shipping is stuff NOT in the show that fans made up. Like whoa, Raph called Karai hot so there must be a Raph/Karai thing. Or hey, April said more than two words to Leo, so there must be a Leo/April thing going on. Slash/Karai, Tiger Claw/Karai, Raph/random blonde woman we see running around the city sometimes, April/pizza boy. etc
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That's what I mean. The show DOES have the April/Don, Casey/April and Leo/Karai thing going on. It's not a made-up thing the fans made up.

Shipping is stuff NOT in the show that fans made up. Like whoa, Raph called Karai hot so there must be a Raph/Karai thing. Or hey, April said more than two words to Leo, so there must be a Leo/April thing going on. Slash/Karai, Tiger Claw/Karai, Raph/random blonde woman we see running around the city sometimes, April/pizza boy. etc
And we mustn't forget about Casey x Donnie. That whole Ho Chan ep was just a front. That hug they were going for was supposed to be for each other, but it would be strange for them to hug one another so they had to get April in the middle.
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