This probably has the most troubled Leatherhead of all cartoon adaptations. We don't know why he was in the sewers before in the 2003 adaptation, and he was a regular gator in the 1984 series. Worse, The Utrons were far nicer to Leatherhead than the Kraang ever were. This one it's hard to tell his intelligence, but given that he recognized its power source, he at least knows about alien machinery, so whether he's as smart as donnie is to be seen. However, as an ally, they captured 2k3 leatherhead pretty well. An alligator with feral instincts the others must watch out for, but with a softer side as well. It's a great character. Aside from the gauntlet, this is by far the best episode to date. Sure hope we see LH again.
Lord Eric Wu, Grandmaster of the order of Troping.
Ok. I know a little bit more about Leatherhead now. Thanks.
To give you a little more information, in the original comics, Leatherhead didn't hate the Utroms. In fact it was the opposite: He loved the Utroms. They raised and took care of him instead of torturing him(the Utroms were actually quite peaceful unlike the evil Kraang). When we first meet him, he's trying to build a transporter so he can go back to them. I'm pretty sure the 2k3 series was the same deal. So yeah, this Leatherhead is a lot darker than the original comics version(I don't think that's saying much. Those comics are a lot less dark than people say it is)
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It Came from the Depths
This episode was awesome. Mikey's thoughts about Leatherhead was really interesting to watch, and the jokes always made me laugh. From everybody being surprized about Splinter saying Mikey made a wise choice, to Don's constant bad luck. This is also the first episode where I didn't hate or even dislike Mikey. His perspective of giving Leatherhead a chance was a great way to move the plot, and Leatherhead was a really interesting character, being abused by the Kraang to the point where he goes into a rage at the mention of their name.
The plot isn't to complicated, but not that basic either. Raphael, Leo, and Don are trying to find a power source that the mutant alligator Leatherhead was keeping from the Krang, while Mikey communicates with said mutant. When the older three come back, and Mikey tells them he released Leatherhead from his chains, their reactions are hilarious. Soon, Leatherhead flies into a rage when seeing the power source. Splinter saves the turtles, and forces Leatherhead to leave. Mikey follows him, so his older brothers try to save him where we find out about a pretty sympathetic backstory from Leatherhead, being forced to be flushed down the toiet by his owners' parents, and tortured by the Kraang. It's not super deep, but it was a good way to develop his character further
Then the Kraang come, Leatherhead says he trusts Mikey, gives Mikey the power source to protect, and he holds off the alien robots while the turtles escape. Leatherhead beating down the Krang droids after hearing his backstory was definitely one of the coolest scenes in the adaptation so far. Especially in the end with the last two Krang droids.
This is my favorite episode so far. The humor was great, Leatherhead in a very interesting character, the fight scenes were pretty good, and the plot was well written with relation to the characters, and some just plain awesome moments.
Characters:A
Plot:B
Writing:B+
Delivery:A+
Overall:A