#I also saw in “ fungus humungous”

[christeli4]

Her face is like: Ô_Ô

#I also saw in “ fungus humungous” #where she had hearts under #But here I like to see how April looks at Bigfoot's soup just opens her eyes for half a second #plus she didn't tell her like: how do you cook this stuff!? #She politely hinted that there was wool in the soup. #Although I don't like this episode #but I like how April treats Bigfoot well. #tmnt 2012 #tmnt april #a foot too big

[pumpkinpie59]

i love fungus humungous. it’s my favorite tmnt episode ever.

but i can admit that it could’ve been done better so here’s how i think it should’ve gone.

this will kinda be a character study thing.

leo’s fear was done pretty well i think. it had the funny addition of captain ryan, the personification of his want to be a good leader. but i would’ve loved some more horrifying hallucinations too. it would’ve probably pushed the y7 rating further, but seeing his family badly injured or even dead, and leo thinking it’s his fault would really show just how horrifying his fear of failing his team can be. he wants his family and friends to be healthy and safe, and if he’s a bad leader and fails them, what does he have left?

raphael is scared of bugs. it’s a known fact so i understand why they went that route, but i wish it wasn’t played off as comedy. insecta trifecta handled his fear really well, since it showed his fear includes his loved ones getting hurt too. but i wish fungus humungous would’ve mentioned that too.

but also i think his fear involves failing his family. throughout the show, he straight up gets panic attacks when his family gets hurt because of him (new girl in town anyone?). he honestly has a similar fear with leo minus the leader thing, i think. also he’s insecure about his place in the team, constantly thinking he will always be second to leo, even though that’s not true by any means.

but his greatest fear i think, is actually loneliness. sure, he goes off on his own a lot, but it never lasts. and did y’all ever notice he gets either quiet or snappy or changes the subject when someone makes a new friend? or a crush is brought up? or someone else goes off on their own (especially leo, since let’s face it, leo is his true best friend)?

it’s why i think his friendship with casey was so important to me. why slash’s betrayal hurt him so bad. why he’s so tough with leo’s rebellious side. why he needed a pet in the first place. he needs people in his life, even if he won’t admit it.

donnie’s fear might’ve looked like he feared april rejecting him, but i think it was more than that, and i wish the episode treated it more seriously. donnie is afraid he’ll never be accepted by others for being a mutant turtle, and april happens to add to that, because how could a beautiful human girl ever like him over a human boy?

at heart, donnie is a romantic, so april rejecting him is probably what he’s most worried about at that moment, plus he happened to be right next to her when he started hallucinating. he probably grew up thinking he’d never have a chance to fall in love, go on dates, or be loved in return since he’s not human. but think about it. he’s a scientist who might not ever be taken seriously by human scientists. got called a monstrosity to his face by dr falco (btw monkey brains is a great donnie episode). later in the series, he almost gets dissected just because of what he is, which clearly really messed him up.

on a side note, i wish that during the space arc, they would’ve mentioned that donnie was ecstatic to be around aliens who saw him as a person and not a monster, and then maybe april and casey are like “we don’t think you’re a monster”. that would’ve been really sweet, but heaven forbid this show talk about donnie’s insecurities outside of implications and subtext. well except for him thinking he wasn’t smart enough, but that’s not the insecurity that i’m talking about rn.

okay mikey’s fear doesn’t make sense. i never understood his fear of the squirrelanoids. not that they’re not scary. they are. but he’s been through worse imo? like the PARASITICA WASPS. like c’mon his brothers turned against him and donnie bit him. plus i have a fear of wasps and that was much scarier imo.

i think his fear should be his brothers turning against him and/or forgetting about him? and like his hallucination includes the others having black eyes like in the parasitica episode and them trying to chase him and bite him or something idk.

okay actually i like april’s fear because it’s directly connected to her trauma with her dad and perfectly understandable. and i appreciated that it wasn’t treated like a joke like the others’ fears were (except the part where she slapped donnie bc she thought he was a bat. rip). the whole time, everyone was worried about her and wanted to make sure she was okay. i just wish her fear lasted past this episode. because bats showed up in later episodes, and she didn’t react as badly. idk.

casey had just been introduced so it would’ve been hard to pinpoint a deep fear in his character. i don’t mind his fear of rats, but i wish that fear would’ve set up a connection with splinter, but the show missed that opportunity. sad times. anyway, since he hasn’t had as many bad experiences as the others, i think it makes sense that his worst fear is a more irrational fear.

the rest of the episode is fine, and i don’t have any nitpicks about it. i just have Thoughts about their fears that i wanted to share lol

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