Musings on Leonardo
Jan. 2nd, 2016 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatYesterday, I watched the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. It was pretty much eh, 5/10 at best. But there was one thing that I noticed: Leonardo is the resident Turtle in Distress (TM).
I mean, the movie featured the usual stuff: idiot Mikey, nerdy Donnie, and Raffie and Leo butting heads, as always. But the thing is, Leonardo, who's the leader and the most level-headed turtle, always ends up being the brother the others have to rescue. It was so in TMNT (2007) and here too. In the previous movie, Leonardo was kidnapped because of something that Rafael did - here, he was rendered unconscious after they escaped from captivity and the others had to jump to his rescue and protect him. For a leader, he tends to end up being the one who needs rescuing quite often...
I mean, the movie featured the usual stuff: idiot Mikey, nerdy Donnie, and Raffie and Leo butting heads, as always. But the thing is, Leonardo, who's the leader and the most level-headed turtle, always ends up being the brother the others have to rescue. It was so in TMNT (2007) and here too. In the previous movie, Leonardo was kidnapped because of something that Rafael did - here, he was rendered unconscious after they escaped from captivity and the others had to jump to his rescue and protect him. For a leader, he tends to end up being the one who needs rescuing quite often...
