TMNT: Don's staff
Jun. 14th, 2013 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwaterspark"I notice you mention the idea of a telescoping staff for Don in the trailer breakdown as well. I have to tell you that this is an idea which I have thought about and which has been proposed a number of times, and -- even given how much I love tech stuff and gadgets -- I've never loved it, for a few reasons.
First, of all the Turtles' weapons, Don's is the simplest and most "honest", if you will -- in fact, it's really just a stick! (Albeit one which has been carefully shaped, sanded, balanced, etc..) As such, its very simplicity emphasizes exactly how good Don is at being a ninja -- look at the marvelous things he can do with just a stick! (And as a stick, it is supremely reliable -- it's always just as it is, you don't have to worry that it has an expanding mechanism which could get jammed at a critical moment in battle, and so on.)"
I wanted to quote this because I loved this explanation from Peter Laird's blog. My headcanon has always been that the turtles chose their weapons and they reflect their wielder's personalities; also, Don's choice of a simple staff has always been an interesting counterpoint to his general interest in science and high-tech stuff, showing that he's as much of a combat pragmatist as a scientist/tech geek.
First, of all the Turtles' weapons, Don's is the simplest and most "honest", if you will -- in fact, it's really just a stick! (Albeit one which has been carefully shaped, sanded, balanced, etc..) As such, its very simplicity emphasizes exactly how good Don is at being a ninja -- look at the marvelous things he can do with just a stick! (And as a stick, it is supremely reliable -- it's always just as it is, you don't have to worry that it has an expanding mechanism which could get jammed at a critical moment in battle, and so on.)"
I wanted to quote this because I loved this explanation from Peter Laird's blog. My headcanon has always been that the turtles chose their weapons and they reflect their wielder's personalities; also, Don's choice of a simple staff has always been an interesting counterpoint to his general interest in science and high-tech stuff, showing that he's as much of a combat pragmatist as a scientist/tech geek.
