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KunokitaxD4:
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with tons of rural scenery or tons of advanced sci-fi in a TMNT story. It's been done well before. ...and it's also been done terribly before, such as recently.
But I do think City at War was one of the best story arcs because of its powerful page-by-page character development. Characters went through the wringer to really, truly, find out who they are and who they want (and need) to become. And it's one of my favorite kinds of TMNT story—lots and lots of thought, feeling and slice-of-life experience. It's the kind of story where you see characters hit rock bottom, or see them be bored out of their skulls for months on end, but it's in these moments that some people really stop and think about their purpose in life. And I was especially interested in the argument the turtles had together over whether to make a treaty with the Foot Clan, whether it was the right thing to do, what the implications of it were going to be; and then, when faced with Karai clutching her only daughter the Shredder Elites had just murdered...
...and Leonardo, as leader, made a decision. They weren't sure it would be the best decision, or even whether it was the right decision. But Leo made the decision for the team, and the team stood by it, and lived with the consequences. Those consequences would prove to be a final end of war with the Foot Clan. It's not like they believed the Foot were suddenly virtuous—they were still a criminal enterprise. But this was the turtles, as adults, picking their battles and deciding which battles they could no longer afford. And for all the things that could be said to describe Karai, she at least proved to be honorable with her agreements. ...at least until she had become old and senile in Silent Night, but by then she was more an object of pity than enmity.
Dude... What if they recreate that, but with the Foot Elite killing Shinigami instead :o
i think she is real in the episode The Wrath of Tiger Claw
Nope, when we met the Utrom council Rook stated that she had created the Irma suit.
But we still don't know who Dana DeLorenzo will be voicing in The Crypt of Dracula. Maybe this mystery character could be an inocent young woman who serves as victim to the king of vampires and, I guess, as April's psychic powers are getting too strong to be so easily manipulated this inocent young woman could be the real Irma. Dunno, but if I had to bet on something about Irma showing up as a real person I would put my money on that.
I don't think so, they just introduced Shinigami and they'll give us Alopex next. But If they ever give us new Venus (besides the painting on the Party Wagon) I think it would happen in season 6, or in the end season 5.
i think she is real in the episode The Wrath of Tiger Claw
Nope, when we met the Utrom council Rook stated that she had created the Irma suit.
I think it's unlikely, I believe they'll be too focused on Super Shredder's debut and how all that crime underworld conflict develops to give us a new human character that's neither a ninja nor a bad guy.
But we still don't know who Dana DeLorenzo will be voicing in The Crypt of Dracula. Maybe this mystery character could be an inocent young woman who serves as victim to the king of vampires and, I guess, as April's psychic powers are getting too strong to be so easily manipulated this inocent young woman could be the real Irma. Dunno, but if I had to bet on something about Irma showing up as a real person I would put my money on that.
i think she is real in the episode The Wrath of Tiger Claw
Nope, when we met the Utrom council Rook stated that she had created the Irma suit.
Well, not a real human named Irma who looks just like Rook's android body. But maybe they could come up with a whole new human character, this time fully named Irma Langistein, made to be an actual version of the '87 character instead of a Kraang :v
i think she is real in the episode The Wrath of Tiger Claw
Nope, when we met the Utrom council Rook stated that she had created the Irma suit.
Well, Tiger Claw was sent to the 80's dimension and came back, so I don't see why Kraang Subprime would have any problems to do the same, specially as there are Utroms in the Prime dimension with Trans-Mat tech... Subprime probably came back before Earth's Last Stand and all that stuff from Annihilation Earth repeated itself, the Triceratons killed Kraang Prime and Subprime by destroying the Technodrome thus releasing all remaining Kraang from the Kraang hive mind becoming Utroms once again.
I'm just gonna be that guy and point out that Spiser Bytes is actually an arachnid.
Yeah, but as Scumbug if half spider as well why not get all the arthropod characters together?
I think it would be amazing if Baxter had set up a bigger gang, counting with Spider Bytez and Cockroach Terminator (after all, they kinda left a loose end with this one).
Raphael's visions could've had more bugs cameos, like, less Dregg, more Vreen/Robugs and the Scorpinoid, as this last one was a bigger deal for Raph.
About Scumbug and Antrax's designs, I like it, but I wish I loved it. Antrax could have something reminiscent of his 80's executioner look to make it more distinct and make me want more a figure of it (I still want three of those though), Now about Scumbug, I like his new mold, but I do wish he had his classic color scheme, as you can see in the image I posted, it would make a much cooler looking figure and less shading and more basic colors would make it easier to Playmates Toys give us an accurate figure...
One last thing about Scumbug. Instead of making him a random business man they could've had Baxter call Jonesy Kitty, that pest control guy that has billboards spread all over town, saying he had some pests he wanted to get rid off and then kidnapping him to turn him into Scumbug. I think that would be a nice way to give this version of Scubug his "exterminator gun" , which by the way he could use instead of doing that weird butt thing...
Oh, one last thing I loved, the turtles new gears looks like a nod to the zip-lining backpack some of the Mega Bloks turtles have, as both have that round metalic design to them. And am I the only one who feels like that was the Z-Line Ninjas Construction Crane Cascade Playset at that construction site? I really hope that means Playmates is considering bring the Z-Line Ninjas back, I love those and I always wanted that Crane set.
I known it's a long shot, but what if they bring in Pimiko as replacement for Karai in the Foot?
Super Shredder gets no love, always the last one to show up in the 1991 movie, the last one to show up in the video games, and he only shows up to be defeated...
I bet they'll present Super Shredder just so they can kill him and end the series XD
This makes Casey, Kurtzman, Bernie, Hun, the Purple Dragons, Don Vizioso and his Henchmen the only human characters left without going mutant (besides future people like Lord Simultaneous and Renet).
And I believe Hun and Don Vizioso won't stay human for much longer, as both have a lot of potential to become giant turtles and friends with Bradford (winks at the audience).
Am I the only one who's impressed by how this series went from zero real deaths to billions of alien lifes beign wiped out by a reality bending creature? Seriously, let's take a moment to reflect.
- Parasitica - A few wasps were squashed, pff.
- Operation: Break Out -A Kraang gets eaten, no biggie.
- Vision Quest - The turtles fight spiritual versions of their enemies, but still, they go for the killing.
- Return to New York - Splinter kills the entire Shredder Elite.
- Serpent Hunt - Leonardo threatens to kill everyone if they don't release Karai.
- Clash of the Mutanimals - Raphael fights Shredder going fot the killing.
- Tale of the Yokai - Tang Shen gets killed, THAT was something.
- Annihilation Earth! - Krang Prime and Sub-Prime? Dead. Splinter? Dead. The rest of the planet? Dead.
- Beyond The Known Universe - The turtles don't care if those Vreen are robots or alien insect lives, they're going for the killing.
- The Moons of Thalos 3 - Killing Ice Dragons as if they weren't animals, cuz' as long as there is no blood you can show a living creature getting half of it's face ripped off.
- The Weird World of Wyrm - It didn't work, but Leonardo tried to decapitate Wyrm and it was kinda shocking. By the way, Earth wasn't enough? Let's blow up the rest of the universe!
Seriuosly, I'm loving this "more mature" take on the series. It's good to see the turtles not having to hold themselves back anymore as it was with the Foot Soldiers or by only slicing Kraangdroids and Foot-bots.
So in "Dinosaur Seen in Sewers!" the turtles watched the last episode of Crognard the barbarian, where their hero died at the end and the only way to save him was rewinding the tape...
As we know the cartoons foreshadow the events of the show I think we can say someone (probably Splinter) will be defeated for once and for all and the only way to save him will be "rewinding" time itself. As the turtles said, this will be very anticlimating... I mean... Anticlimactic...
Funny you mentioned Slash, cuz there was somethg very familiar in this episode.
In "Slash and Destroy" Raph gets a new huge spiked partner to take down the Kraang but that eventually betrays him and fells off a construction as Raph watches trying to reach for him and disapears.
In "Dinosaur Seen in Sewers!" Raph gets a new huge spiked partner to take down the Kraang but that eventually betrays him and fells off a construction as Raph watches trying to reach for him and disapears.
See what I mean?
Here are more detailed descriptions of the episodes:
Annihilation Earth, Part 1:
http://mikeyandpizza.tumblr.com/post/126685927038/official-tmnt-annihilation-earth-full
Annihilation Earth, Part 1:
http://mikeyandpizza.tumblr.com/post/126833339978/spoilers-annihilation-earth-part-2
The description posted by MarioLuigi made it look like sh*t, but after reading a more detailed version of the episode's descriptions I can say it sounds pretty awesome!
Note: These posts are from before the Attack of the Mega Shredder, so there is that...