Talk:The Big Blow-Out!/@comment-27929748-20171217034206/@comment-33378883-20171225164441

Cashmoney123,

Nick actually made the right decision here. Mutant Apocalypse would have made a terrible finale. It's nihilistic;  if it had been the official finale it would have made everything that came before it meaningless. The ending doesn't have to be super-happy, but it needs to have a good story and it needs to make sense within the context of the series;  MA epically failed at that. Seriously, the story wasn't even that good;  it was basically a Mad Max rip-off, with an attempt to stuff in the TMNT. If you think about it, it doesn't even fit into the canon timeline (see Renet's description of the future she comes from in Turtles in Time). Then you have majorly OOC behavior (especially from Leo), nonsensical behavior (see Leo's flashback where he's just standing like an idiot on the rooftop instead of jumping off with his brothers;  plus the fact that the others had to be pushed in the first place instead of having the brains to jump off on their own) and the fridging of the main female characters. Oh, and don't forget the Mutagen bomb that came out of nowhere. And the fact that one of the turtles was absent for the majority of the special. Truly a "polished turd". It's OK as an alternate reality story; though it never would have been one of my favorites (sort of like Pizza Face or A Foot Too Big--> OK with a re-watch, but definitely not on my top episode list;  however, thanks to Ciro's attitude, it will likely be the only arc I never re-watch). It would never have worked as a series finale.

Personally, I view Owari/Kavaxas arc as the true ending to the main canon storyline (Owari is technically the last episode of TMNT, before it became "Tales"). But, to each their own. The Crossover does make a much, much better series finale for Tales of the TMNT than MA ever would have. It's funny, it pays tribute to the original series (which many fans grew up with), it doesn't completely fridge the female characters, and it doesn't make everything that came before it meaningless. Nick partially redeemed themselves with this decision.