Hmm. . . .

I keep meaning to post on this, but I keep not getting around to it. XD; Several weeks ago I had a conversation with Aubrie in which I mentioned how much I dislike any story about Original Characters that I come up with. The only explanation I could really give for why I disliked those fics was that I felt like I was the victim of whatever troubles befell the OC's, since I created them. o.o; It's amusing, though. . . . I really do try to put myself in the canon characters' shoes when I'm role-playing them and try to determine what they're thinking and feeling. Otherwise, the RPs wouldn't be much fun. XD; But I don't feel like what's happening to them is happening to me. It's hard to explain. And even with a select few OC's, it's not like I feel like that. I never feel like I'm being hurt if I get Runihura or Khu into trouble. But oh how I despise my original fictions. XD; Maybe I should try writing an original fiction on an OC I do like and feel comfortably "detached" from, like Runihura, and try to go from there. . . .

There was a really intriguing episode of TMNT last Saturday. The show's just been getting better and better. Right now each Turtle has been sent to a different dimension/alternate universe/other world and they're following each one's adventures in the episodes. Last Saturday they showed Donatello's experience. He wound up in an alternate universe where 30 years had passed after he had gone missing and the Shredder now ruled supreme. o.o Don met up with Mikey, who had lost part of his left arm and was no longer cheerful and somewhat immature, as he always has been on the shows. He had seen so much and had been so disillusioned by the events after Don's disappearance that he had finally been forced to grow up. He tells Don that Splinter is dead and that then Leo and Raph had a big falling out.

Don is determined for them to defeat the Shredder for good and restore the peace, so Mikey takes him to the underground resistance movement, led by April. She tells them that Casey died in a previous attempt to stop the Shredder. And Hun and Dr. Stockman are with the resistance movement. April says they rescued the two of them (or what's left of them, rather) from being executed and that's how they'd wound up there.

So anyway, April manages to get Leo and Raph contacted and they come. They're not happy to see each other and get into a big argument over what happened to Splinter. Leo believes they couldn't have saved him, while Raph believes otherwise. Then Don breaks up their fight and tells them what's going on. They're shocked to see him after all this time, but agree to be part of the final attack on Shredder.

So they all wind up at Shredder's new hideout and find that he's much more powerful. o.o He kills Hun and Stockman when Hun comes begging to be taken back again (dang, why he would keep wanting to be around that guy is beyond me, especially since Shredder had tried to kill him multiple times in the past. Maybe it's because, somehow, he felt useful when he was working for Shredder). Then Mikey also dies. o.o Leo winds up fighting Karai and tells her that she must make a final choice between fighting for what she truly believes or continuing with the Shredder, whom she considers as her father and can't bring herself to leave. I was expecting this to happen, but she chooses the Shredder and winds up killing Leo. ;__; Then Raph is all sad and comes running over to him and he winds up dying too, after being furious and charging at Karai, I think. He collapses over Leo's body. Then April kills Karai and Don manages to defeat the Shredder. She thanks him and there's a bittersweet ending as he fades out, presumeably being pulled back to his own dimension. April is left standing amid all the carnage.

I dunno why I actually liked the episode. XD; Maybe it was because instead of being something where Don actually went into his future, he went into an alternate universe. If Don had really been in his own future, it would have been extremely depressing and I probably wouldn't have liked it. But Don couldn't have been in his own future, simply because all the other Turtles (and Splinter, too, I think) each were sent away into other dimensions and they all have to get home, not just Don. Anyway, I really did like the episode in some bittersweet way. The part where Leo and then Raph die is so sad, but it shows what a strong bond they really did have, inspite of how they often argue.

I have a couple of picture ideas. Mom wants to see a movie, so maybe I can draw while that goes on. **cuddles Alister.**

As a parting note, thank goodness for bananas. XD;