Official Episode Discussion S5 Ep 08: Osoroshi no Tabi

[Vicky82]

Usagi leads the Turtles through a haunted forest where they encounter mischievous and dangerous spirits.

The episode is up on ITunes

Discuss away

[Redworld96]

Saw it. This episode is better than the last one for me

Spoiler:

The Giant Spider took Raph and start to tying his full body with her spiderweb while he was saying: DEJA VUU!! Totally a reference of TLOTR

That was the best part lol

The final scene with Donnie Mikey and Raph "dying" (really they are not dead of course) was surprising and the battle of Jei VS Leo was intense.

[Vicky82]

Great episode, it was strange at first with those trickster bears but then the episode became more and more serious.

That last part, even though it was a dream, totally freaked me out

Leo crying and holding Mikey, got me teared up.

[Ninjinister]

"Trickster bears"

Tanuki :/

[Vicky82]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

"Trickster bears"

Tanuki :/

Thanks, I couldn't spell it, that's why I put trickster bears, maybe I could of put trickster raccoons instead

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Vicky82

Thanks, I couldn't spell it, that's why I put trickster bears, maybe I could of put trickster raccoons instead

Well, they're dogs, so....

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Vicky82

Great episode, it was strange at first with those trickster bears but then the episode became more and more serious.

That last part, even though it was a dream, totally freaked me out

Leo crying and holding Mikey, got me teared up.

Great ending, dissapointed it was just a dream.

[VaughnMichael]

For whatever reason my dvr didn't record the episode today.....

[matteso586]

I don't know why Raph said deja vu, that spider monster only made me think of the video game, Brother.

Did they say that it was Usagi that knocked out Raph, Mikey, and Donnie in the ending?

From the looks of things, Leo might be put under full control of Jei in the next episode.

I bet Sumo Kuma thinks that the Turtles, and Usagi are dead.

[neatoman]

That's weird, I watched the episode like 30 minutes ago and forgot I did until I saw this thread...

[Vegita-San]

went from a pretty cool stan saki written episode, with lots of neat visuals not really seen before in TMNT......to another boring horror like episode that seemed rather out of place.

I guess a bunch of talking animal warriors wasn't enough to keep ones interest.

i don't know about this season so far.

Zombie shredder arc was rather forgettable.

The Return of the Nuetrlizer was rather interesting, although I wish they had kept Dregg and the worlds shortest invasion out of it. it would have worked much better focusing it on the Nuetralizers race.

the first usagi ep was pretty cool, second one lost my interest fast.

[Ninjinister]

As a fan of Japanese mythology and mythology in general, I liked it. The dream-fight with Jei was also pretty intense.

Joroguma gave Akemi reason to have even existed in the show in the first place, since she did absolutely f**k all in Yojimbo.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

I just saw the episode, and I enjoyed it overall.

Although I thought the first episode was done much better (it was written by Usagi's creator after all), this episode was still good overall, but not great in my opinion. I rate it 7.5/10 while the first Usagi episode is a solid 10/10.

I liked the episode's focus on expanding Usagi's world by showing the racoons/spiders and little moments like Usagi/Kintaro bowing down to a shrine but the turtles not created a nice contrast. The fight scenes were also done well and I especially liked the dream sequence at the end which prevented the episode from being complete filler.

on the negatives though, I didn't like the episode not advancing the story much beside building up how powerful Gei was and I thought some of the turtles' behaviour (although necessary to advance the plot) wasn't the best thing to see, especially Leo who I thought would be much more mature now as the sensei.

I felt like this episode didn't advance the story in Usagi's world much because it tried to slow down and let audience know more about his world. The first episode is the introduction, this episode is the expansion and the third will be the epic finale that wrap things up.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

much beside building up how powerful Gei was.

His name is Jei, not Gei. Just a quick correction.

[Allio]

Needed Sasuke to drive Usagi to true suffering

[Shark_Blade]

[PApagreg]

You know its actually amazing how the quality dropped between episodes, we go from what was basically an Akira Kurosawa film with anthropomorphic animals to an unfunny episode about Yokai with dumb horror elements. The sad part is that we could gotten some decent interaction between the turtles and Miyamoto but instead we get a reminder that Leo has bad pattern recognition.

[Vegita-San]

pretty much it. if this creative team does not create some new exclusive horror series, i'd be shocked. seems like they'd much rather be working on that.

there is way too much of it where it doesn't really belong in this show.

[Glitter Wand]

I didn't like Leo's arrogance. He wanted to act like a super hero, instead of listening to Usagi. At least he realized his mistake in the end. I imagine he's still adjusting to being the new sensei. Plus, the dream Jei put them through was fairly intense.

[Aaronardo]

This episode is a shining example in why I don't like Auman's writing. There's a lot of good stuff in this episode, but there are plenty of awkward bits of dialogue and a couple things that definitely could have been handled better that keep showing up. It all balances out, and it makes for an episode I feel overall indifferent toward. I guess that's better than an episode I really don't like, because like I said, there is some good stuff in this ep. But this also makes it a bit more difficult to talk about. So, I'm just going to talk about my favorite and least favorite parts of the episode, nothing in between.

I loved the yokai, particularly the tanooki. I thought it was a nice twist at the end of the episode to have the tanooki save Usagi and the Turtles, something I legitimately did not see coming. It was fun to watch them all in action, there was some great off-putting motion in their movements, they were just a lot of fun to see.

For a bit, I liked Leo's dream sequence. But then the point of the scene came across and I thought "really? We're doing this again?" Other than Leo putting up a bit more of a fight, there wasn't much of a difference between this and Splinter's dream sequence in Panic in the Sewers, an episode that aired five years ago. The fear is that typical "oh no the villain is too powerful for us to handle" stuff we've already seen handled much better previously in the series. If the show was more intelligent than it is, I would've said the similarities in the dream sequences would have signified Leo's new role as sensei. Only, that's proving to not be an overarching theme in this season in general, so that's out. Strangely, they bark up a better tree when Jei told Leo that he senses the evil inside him. It could've been an interesting delve into Leo's morality if the dream went on with Leo killing Jei, creating internal conflict, but despite the tone of the dream, this never happened, and that bit of dialogue comes off as completely awkward, unneeded, and out of nowhere. Much like many bits of dialogue in the ep. Not most, but many.

Overall, I'm indifferent toward the episode. I'm in no hurry to see it again unlike last week's stellar "Yojimbo," but it's no Heart of Evil. The good stuff is still pretty good, and it being a Usagi episode is always a plus. There's just some awkward dumb moments here and there, the typical Auman shtick.