Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151023223507/@comment-24058209-20151026235806

Gilgameshkun wrote: Okay, finally saw the episode. You know, they really spent a lot of effort on action scenes, but they spent precious little effort on any interesting writing or characterization. But let's see...some good things to say about the episode... Some of this is just nitpicking in my books... Its still a ninja turtles show man, suspend your disbeleif a little bit... The writing has had some very bad moments, I can totally agree... this episode wasn't the greatest but it definately didn't feel like one of the worst ones, if anything this was presenting, what I thought, was a pretty cool new change that no turtle show has really tried (to my knowledge). As for the suits in space thing, again, you need to suspend your disbeleif a bit, I "rationalize" it as being advanced sci fi tech that keeps the body protected... I dunno... overally if you're as unhappy with turtles as you come off, just let it go and stop watching... AS I said, it just feels like you're REALLY nitpicking for things... in fact Yoshi's explenation for the turtles acting so uncaracteristically on the alien world, culture shock is a perfect way of looking at it... anyways... IF you're really so fed up with the show stop watching. I was ready to do that in Season 3, I stopped watching it for a month or so, then went back and finished the season... now I'm interested in seeing where this could go.
 * Nowhere did it explain in-story why Honeycutt is called "Fugitoid." Other versions of TMNT had explanations for this. But this time, the episode jumps in with Leo calling him "Fugitoid" for apparently no reason.
 * Donnie and Casey both having unrequited crushes on April is a tired gag that has long since worn out any welcome it might have had.
 * Turtle space suits that leave the skin exposed to the vacuum, radiation and extreme temperature variations of space. I know the writers wanted to leave more of their body immediately visible to the audience, but this was just ridiculous.
 * Raph and Casey being Too Dumb To Live (TM) at the weapons kiosk. I can almost understand Casey doing this, but Raph is usually more concerned about threats and dangers to act so uncharacteristically stupid.
 * Dregg being the most uninteresting new villain to date. I was tired of him within a minute of his first appearance.
 * Not letting Dregg just eat Casey and get it over with. XD
 * The turtles still generally being incompetent. It's not even funny anymore, it's just annoying and pathetic. I know they're immature teenagers, and that worked well in season 1. But they're also supposedly highly-trained and highly-disciplined ninja and should have better battlefield instincts. Even in North Hampton when they were on their own without Splinter, they still acted with more responsibility. But now, they act like complete and utter dumbasses.
 * And yes, this show has turned into Dragon Ball GT. It's not that I actually disliked all of GT (I enjoyed the Zoonama episode), but this comparison is still not one TMNT should be eager to invite.
 * The action sequences had some good composition, but it was harder for them to feel engaging when it's harder to care about characters who are increasingly derailed one-dimensional dumbasses. Preferring Casey get eaten instead of being saved is a part of this.
 * This Honeycutt is rather more interesting than the 2K3 version, and his vocalization actually isn't annoying.