Shredder's inability to find the Turtles Lair

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

You'd think with all the random cameras Shredder had monitoring the streets and the sewers of the city, that he'd have been able to triangulate the most likely locations!

This is the sh*t, man. It's like how in some of the old He-Man cartoons, the bad guys have their magic portal thing that lets them just spy on whatever the heroes are doing... and conveniently, they never catch Adam changing into He-Man at any of those moments. Just for example.

Thundercats did that sh*t too. Lots of shows. The bad guys need to be omniscient so they can "make up" a brilliant plan on the spot by watching what the good guys are up to, but are also conveniently ignorant, blind, or stupid whenever the plot demands it.

Part of it is kinda forgivable, in that "Hey man, it's for little kids and they're not gonna think about that." On the other hand, watching some of this stuff as an adult can be tooth-grinding.