unpopular opinion
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Putting my two cents in because I can.
I’ve written so much about the Donnie issue I don’t think I can sum up the brain cells to respond to your lovely post in any kind of detail- here’s the summary?
Those are all awesome and valid points and I’d like to put in my thoughts as well.
Okay apparently my blog killed my post so let me make this quick. I won’t go into 2k12 Mikey here too much, because he mostly makes me sad, and I personally like how they handled Leo and Karai so far, and Raph is Raph wherever you are, so let’s go straight to Don and April.
And I am actually really disappointed with these characters, but up until an hour ago I wasn’t even too sure why. I think I know now, though. They lack character development, but most of all, they lack depht.
I think it is safe to say that 2k12 is based on the 80s cartoon far more than on 2k3, and that’s fine. I have never really watched the old toon, I’m a 90’s kid and that was not really my kind of thing, but from what I gather about Splinter’s background and all their personalities it looks like an educated guess.
However, None of this excuses what they have done to Don and April.
About, oh, almost ten episodes ago, Splinter declared his intention to train April as a kunoichi because of her special abilities. And it really irks me that we never actually see her train. At all. Like, the pulverizer got a whole episode of being trained by Donnie, and we never see April learn anything? That’s really bothering me. And as has already been stated, her character seems really… flat, somehow. Like jelly that filly any form whenever required. I think my point of no return was actually I, Monster when Splinter violently attacked April and almost killed her, and she gets away with nothing but a flat joke about her bangs. If that had been me, I would have freaked out. But it is never even mentioned, much less acknowledged ever again, and that’s not dramatic, that’s just… sad.
And Donnie… Oh, Donnie. Somehow I don’t get his character at all. He seems to be built up solely on broken bo staffs, an uncomfortable-to-watch crush and his annoyance with Mikey. All he does is flirt, yell, and screw up. Sure, he has his awesome moments, but I still miss something that is solely him, that puts him apart from his brothers. They don’t seem to need him overmuch. Even Raph’s vicious stabbing of things works better on doors than Donnie.
I really liked the Pulverizer episode not because he is training someone, which looked completely forced and out of character to me, but because he managed to create an antidote for Raph, which gives me something to like his character for. But even that was accompanied by yelling at everyone.
I think the only reason I haven’t yet given up on him is Fantasia’s writing which I have already firmly integrated into my 2k12 headcanon… which is troublesome indeed.