Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20170707062639/@comment-33336503-20180225032459

This was a good batch of episodes, don't get me wrong; but it's not one of the overall best and it doesn't make great finale (as has been proposed around here) material. The pros, from minor to serious, include KMR slipping nicely into the shoes of the 1987 Shredder showing his range not only as two different Shredders but as a VA who can go from gravely serious to really funny almost effortlessly, Shinigami (who you could've cut from this series and lost nothing) and her Foot mercs finally displaying some competence, the overall interplay between the villains and heroes of these different dimensions, and the balance between the serious and (mostly) the non serious as the story moved along.

The major downside is that it largely felt incomplete. If they wanted to do more than be their own version of "Turtles Forever", they needed to get everyone involved in this. Where was Tiger Claw? Where was Xever? Why was even Rockwell missing? I couldn't stand the missing characters in "End Times" and I couldn't stand it here either. If they wanted to provide the closure to the Hamato vs. Foot rivalry that that episode failed to provide--and which would've really pumped up the proponents of this episode being the finale, then these batch of episodes didn't do the job. Plus, the doomsday scale in the final episode, in which the Technodrome starts to wreak havoc on the 2012 dimension doesn't reach the same scale as the great season finales of this series such as "The Invasion" and "Annihilation: Earth." Plus, there's also the fact that this season already tried to play with the doomsday scenario three times (the Kavaxas, WWC, and Halloween arcs) and they were all bad entries. So, from both a standard batch of episodes and a wishful finale standpoint, the episodes aren't as strong as they could've been. Like I said, don't get me wrong, these make a near 90 minute romp of fun but if there's one word I'd use to describe the "Wanted: Bebop and Rocksteady" arc, it'd be overrated.