Talk:The Impossible Desert/@comment-3395234-20170926024949/@comment-33378883-20171025221918

No, thank God. It is the last arc made for Tales of the TMNT, nothing more. Ciro Nieli wanted it to be the true ending, despite the massive continuity errors, in a lame attempt to prevent people from touching his stuff, basically. But, Nickelodeon made the Crossover arc the finale instead, and, if you look at the official twitter feed, they are treating it as non-canon. Rightfully so. There are multiple posts on Tumblr with screencaps supporing this. Also, one of the character designers referred to the arc as "this reality", instead of saying "in the future".

The main canon timeline technically ended with Owari + the Kavaxas arc. Season 5, you can take or leave the arcs as you choose. Personally, I like most of them. I would have like this arc more if certain folks had not tried to force it down our throats and make us accept it as the "true"ending. It's not quite so bad as an alternate reality, though SAINW is better.