Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160509012936/@comment-29910143-20160908004006

DarknessBoy98 wrote: Yeah, the show is beginning to slip for me.

In the first half of season 3, the turtles spend quite a while at April's farm and go through a bunch of episodes that take after classic horror movies, like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Thing. While I enjoyed them for being campy, I will admit that they came at a poor time, considering that they just barely escaped the Kraang Invasion at the end of season 2 and it's suddenly resolved near the start of the second half of the season. Granted, it was done in a two-part special and action was fun... but even then, it felt underwhelming and diminished the threat of the Kraang greatly.

Speaking of the cabin stuff, compare this to the 2003 series. After Leonardo gets his ass handed to him by the Foot, the turtles flee New York, spend about two episodes there--one for developing Leo's past with his brothers and another involving a monster hunter--then go back to New York to take on Shredder. Two episodes, that's it. How many episodes did we spend here? Almost half the damn season. I may have enjoyed the episodes, but I think that's really pushing it when over HALF THE SEASON consist of filler.

Then we had the end of the third season, which has Splinter KILLED and Earth is pretty much wiped out... this is an even bigger impact from the end of season 2 and they go on a space adventure to undo the Triceraton invasion before it even begins. It had a Star Trek feel to it and I think it was better handled than season 3 because at least some episodes advanced the plot, in regards to the Triceratons. Lord Dregg, while cool to see, ultimately didn't do much in the long run, nor did Armaggon.

And now we're suddenly thrusted into the City at War arc? I honestly feel like this should have happened sooner or much later down the line because we go from space adventure to a city diving into a war. Despite Raph claiming that gangs will be moving on Shredder's turf, we see remarkably little gang activity, aside from Karai's faction. I'm beginning to lose interest, and since this is an adaptation of a critically claimed story arc from the original comics--that Eastman and Laird got back together to write and illustrate, mind you--that is NOT a good sign AT ALL.

And when they introduced the Elite Foot Bots, I thought that we'd have a small squadron of robots that become a threat for the heroes and we'd get some cool fight scenes where they remain a consistent threat...

Nnnnnope! They give the turtles a hard time for about two minutes, then the factory is destroyed. The Foot Elite were essentially the bigger evil of all the warring factions in the comics and this is how they're going to be treated? We can't even get four tough Chrome Dome-esque Foot Bots that act like the 2003 Foot Elite? Poor adaptation choice, if you ask me. YES! THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT!!! this show is getting dumb now. right after season 2 for me it went down hill. The writers have no clue what theyre doing anymore. One min Raphael is afriad of cockroaches, then he's afraid of ALL bugs, he's a punk now cause he LOVES mona to the point where she's pretty much the man in this relationship and it destroyed his character. April please she's a fave. This show might as well be called the april show. Too much fillers, they don't follow up on anything they say from the past episodes, Donnie is CAPITAL USELESS now. He gets beat up or blown up and is the FIRST one down. The turtles are getting weaker and weaker every season. They can't fight tiger claw but april can by just one kick?! huh? the mighty mutanimals are a waste, the casey april couple thing is destroyed because like all adaptaions they SHOULD'VE been already together but no they love the donnie april nonsense. casey does nothing, and he used to be a good part of the team. he barely says anything at all! by every season, it's either the characters get more out of character, they get weaker, the plots are literally all over the place now. and oooo they wanna get darker now i mean really? this is city at war we're supposed to see gangs and stuff what's up? season 4 to me was FILLER. the tricertrons were a big blockage. because hey at the end, none of it ever happened. they went bacl in time 6 months before the earth went kaboom to prevent it from blowing up so technically half of season 4 never happened. the only people who know are the future turtles.

so where are the past turtles that went with fugitoid for fun in space writers? are we just going to forget about that? To me the writing is wack. it wasnt as solid as season 1 and partially season 2 after that, they're taking plots from other adaptations that handled TMNT BETTER and making it into sci fi washed up nonsense.