So according to TMNT's wiki, Chris Bradford is 33 years old.
That seems like a reasonable age for this martial arts celebrity, however when we get to season 4 we learn that Bradford had an action cartoon show in the 80's called Chris Bradford's 2 Ruff Krew. If he was still famous and also an adult in the 80's but is 33 in the series which takes place in the year 2012 (both airing and in universe), that would mean Bradford's show first aired in 1979, but that would also mean that was Bradford's birth year is 1979 because he's 33 (2012 - 33 = 1979)
So it's impossible for him to be 33 in the series and was a full grown man in the 80's when in truth he was a child during the 80's. Bradford would actually be in his 60's when he meets the Turtles!
1946 - birth year
1979 - 2 Ruff Crew first aired (33 years old)
2012 - Present day, fighting the Turtles (66 years old)
So with the writer's not thinking ahead and just making Mr T cartoon reference without thinking how this will affect the logic/timeline of the show, here's my headcanon! Bradford claims he's 33 when in truth he's actually 66. He's so in shape and healthy (also probably has done surgeries) that people don't question his age when he claims he's in his 30's, he doesn't want to lose his fame and career from old age so he is forever 33 and don't you dare tell him otherwise!
Bonus HC: Xever is the only one who knows Bradford's true age so he calls him "grandpa" whenever they're fighting as a form of blackmail. Like "yeah I know your dark secret and I'm gonna tell everyone if you don't shut up"
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If you ain't following his twitter I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a lack of Newbon on my feed ain't one <3
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SOMETIMES FANS COULD BE A LITTLE INCOVENIENT ALRIGHT... EP TREASURED THEM ANYWAYS.
To illustrate the story, pictures of Elvis with fans in 1957.
CONTEXT: Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee during Christmastime 1957 -- One day, Elvis and his gang were driving down the gates on their way to the Rainbow Skating Rink. Arlene Cogan was sitting on the passenger seat next to Elvis, who was driving his big black limousine while other friends were on the back seats and a few more on the line of cars following them close behind.
Elvis eased the long limousine into the swarm of fans around the front gate. He stopped directly by a girl in a wheelchair and rolled down his window. He reached out his hand to her and she touched it. "How you doin', darlin'?" he said with a big smile.
She said something but all the talking around her drowned it out.
People began shoving pieces of paper through the window at him. The caravan of his cars behind us stopped, headlights in a curving line down the hill.
Elvis didn't carry a pencil or a pen. People gave them to him and he wrote his name and handed them back. Every kind of piece of paper came through the window. Torn out pages of books. School notebook paper. Department store bills. Novels. Pictures. Candy wrappers. Autograph books.
And everybody was asking questions about Elvis' tours, his movies, his girlfriends, his Christmas plans - everything. Girls kept telling him how "gorgeous" he was.
Elvis looked across at me. He shook his head. "Can you believe all this?" he said.
Girls even stuck their arms through the window for him to write his name on.
Elvis was not annoyed in any way. He just loved it all.
"If it wasn't for these people," he said, "I wouldn't be where I am today. I'll never forget them."
A bare, dirty little foot came through the window. It nearly hit Elvis in the face. There was a pen stuck between two toes. Elvis took the pen, wrote his name on the bare leg and shoved the pen back between the toes. The leg withdrew through the window.
Elvis rolled up the window. "Thanks," he said. "Merry Christmas."
Fans stayed pressed up against the window. From the other side they stared curiously at me and tried to see who else was sitting in back.
Elvis eased the limousine forward through the crows and out on the highway and headed north. The caravan of headlights followed him.
"It's unbelievable," he said. "It never ceases to amaze me."
Excerpt "Elvis, This One's for You" by Arlene Cogan; Chapter 4: "A Call From Memphis"
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The real main reason that I don't think compulsion is gonna be the explanation for the Siuanraine confrontation/breakup is because making a change like that would create soooo many more problems for the writers down the line
Here's why:
Say Liandrin can move her plans forward by compelling Siuan, seemingly without too much difficulty, even though this is so high stakes (narratively and for Siuan)
That means that every. single. time. a Black Ajah (or any other darkfriends working closely enough with them!) encounters a problem in the future, the writers will have to figure out why they couldn't just use compulsion
Because:
Siuan is presumably more powerful than many or most of the Aes Sedai
Liandrin is the only Black Ajah that's been revealed at this point, meaning that narratively, she should ideally be a decent benchmark for a Black Ajah's capabilities
Narratively, you generally want villains to escalate as you get further into a show. It would be a problem for narrative tension if most of the other Black Ajah we meet all end up being less powerful then Liandrin
Therefore, narratively, you would have to go to some pains to explain why most of the Black Ajah aren't also capable of using compulsion at that level
If the Black Ajah could mostly all use compulsion at a similar level, then why don't they just use it to solve all their problems?
This is especially a writing complication if any of the Black Ajah end up caught out or captured at any point
Especially in a series as infamously and intricately plotty as Wheel of Time, this would all effectively mean that every single time there's a plot involving the Black Ajah, the writers would have to scrutinize every single plotline in every future season for plot holes opened up by "Well why don't the Black Ajah just use compulsion?"
Or change every single plotline involving the Black Ajah to include their new, more powerful compulsion capabilities
And that's just. So much extra work! So many potential plot holes! For the whole rest of the show!
So, it just feels really, really unlikely to me that the writers would want to open up that massive can of worms, tbh
(Also, not sure why Liandrin would compel Suian to take Rand back to the White Tower and lock him up there, when we already know that her bosses both want Rand in Thalme)
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