Talk:The Big Blow-Out!/@comment-27929748-20171217034206/@comment-33378883-20171225191237

Gilgameshkun,

Thank you for being polite, but I'm afraid I have to respectfully disagree with you. I don't  have a problem with bittersweet endings, but here's the problem:  MA is simply not a good example of a bittersweet ending. At all. I would argue that it is an example of a nihilistic ending. There's a big difference there.

I get that it was meant to be a homage to the RPG you mentioned. But, they still needed to make a good story that made sense within the context of the series. They failed. MA is OK as an AU, but it would have been an utter failure as a series finale.

Now, Owari is a much better example of a bittersweet ending. The TMNT may have defeated Shredder, but Splinter is still dead and is never coming back. However, it did not make everything that came before it completely meaningless. That right there is a big difference between it and MA.