Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27062516-20151111223239/@comment-27062516-20151111235808

Jadepalacetrainee wrote: Wow man, that essay you just wrote gets an A+! I agree that both of these episodes are definitely on the dark side, and while SAINW was all just a big illusion, Annihilation Earth actually happened in real time. Fortunately, as it has already been explained in Beyond the Known Universe, there is a way to reverse or prevent the events of Annihilation Earth and save everyone and everything that was lost. Thanks for that! I really try to bring out as much as I can with regards to what I'm talking about, especially when an episode is really good or bad.

I just hope that the restoration of Earth follows the same time travel rules that "Tale of the Yokai" did or it'd be a bummer! I like the notion of time travel only as a way to make what you've already experienced in the future be a direct result of what you've experienced and/or did by going back in time in the first place. In other words, "Annihilation Earth" MUST happen again but with only slight differences so that the new outcome (in saving Earth) won't feel so much as a cheat. My hope is that the future turtles would try to stop Shredder, almost football like, from getting to Splinter and Tiger Claw, noticing what's going on, steps in the middle of it only to get stabbed! Hopefully this will lead to him becoming part of the Mutanimals down the road...the Old Hob of the series if you will.