Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31255465-20170923034221/@comment-33336503-20171229143851

Asfaloth12 wrote: The Iconoclast wrote: Nangbaby wrote: . The mutagen bomb is definitely technology from The Kraang, although that doesn't mean they launched it. Triceratons, perhaps? They could have easily stolen and modified some Kraang technology.

I agree that, like "Same As It Never Was", this could be only a possible future. The secret to preventing the apocolypse must lie in one of Raph's lost memories, likely something that, at the time, seemed insignificant.

That's up to us to decide. What went wrong in this alternate dimension?

However, as Easol1 said,  The showrunners did originally intend this to be the true ending, despite the major continuity issues that prevent it from fitting into the canon timeline and for very dubious reasons. Thankfully, Nick overruled them :) They should've stood by their artists. They had guts to air this arc as well as some others like "Annihilation: Earth", the "Requiem" and "Owari" episodes, etc. but not standing by your artists in the press isn't something that a good entertainment company does. There still isn't enough to sell us on the idea that this isn't the series finale or if it's non-cannon (ex. the setting and plot of the arc, the fact that Nickelodeon has sucked at scheduling since "Parasitica"--everyone even caught that WWC happened after the Halloween arc despite the fact it aired first, it's the last episode in production order, the fact that none of the other arcs are considered non-cannon--the Kavaxas arc being the most notable, Ciro Nieli's rebuffs, the fact that there's no evidence within the episode to indicate that it was an AU--unlike SAINW and other episodes that let you know at some point that it was, the fact that it aired, the Chompy flashbacks straight out of S4, etc.) and if that was either the intent of Nickelodeon or the creators, they didn't do a very good job at all.