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Northampton Arc | 19 | 40.43% | |
Space Arc | 28 | 59.57% | |
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02-26-2017, 07:43 PM | #21 |
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Neither though I guess you can count Transdimensional Turtles as part of the space arc... then space arc.
I get the horror parody thing with Northampton, but making EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE like that was stupid and monotonous. Both arcs dragged on larger than they should.
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02-26-2017, 08:39 PM | #22 |
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It wasn't every single episode. The Bigfoot ep, Punk Frogs, giant bird, the training ep with the visions of the villains, and the one with the car weren't horror oriented.
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02-26-2017, 08:51 PM | #23 | ||
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The giant bird, Eyes of the Chimera, resembles the monster called The Giant Claw and can appear as a total monster depending on what a chimera is made of in mythology. The Bigfoot episode, Foot Too Big, wasn't horror but did have a reference with Finger talking to his dead mother like Norman Bates from Psycho. Vision Quest and The Croaking weren't horror at all to my knowledge. That's still a majority of episodes with horror elements with five in total, but four of the eight which were full on tributes (Within the Woods, Buried Secrets, In Dreams, and Race with the Demon) and the other four either had a reference depending on mileage (Eyes of the Chimera) or did not (the remaining three episodes). It's not every episode Coola, but Cubed it's still a half to a majority.
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02-26-2017, 08:55 PM | #24 |
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Well the arc overall was definitely horror themed of course, but not every episode was horror.
The space arc was all sci-fi, for the obvious reason that they were in space. |
02-26-2017, 08:59 PM | #25 |
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Still, it's a large percentage and can turn some people off. Then again, I am more of a horror enthusiast than a sci-fi nut.
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03-04-2017, 10:38 AM | #26 |
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Northampton was an absolute waste of time. The series slowed down to an absolute crawl.
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03-04-2017, 02:13 PM | #27 | |
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Horror is fine and all, but not back to back to back. The Northampton arc felt more like the horror in the woods arc which ruined the point. Imagine a season where half was back to back time travel or back to back 80s crossover or back to back 'Mikey does something stupid and must fix it' episodes. All those kinds of episodes work and can add variety to the show but not if they're done 5 episodes or so in a row.
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03-05-2017, 09:18 PM | #28 |
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Northampton for the Dream Beavers.
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05-27-2017, 06:59 PM | #29 |
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This. Plus I loved all of the horror movie references as well the references to the Mirage comic and 1990 film.
Nevertheless, I really loved the space arc as well.
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05-28-2017, 03:03 AM | #30 |
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Let's see here...
Northampton, eight episodes. Upsides: Homages to Elm Street, Friday 13 and Big Daddy Roth. Spirit World episode (even if done in a cheap way), flleshing out April's powers and origin. Downsides: Punk Frogs episode kinda sucked and A Foot Too Big might be the worst episode in the entire show. Space, 14 episodes (really? Over half the season?) Upsides: David Tennant as the Fugitoid, Triceraton Gladiators, Full retcon of the Kraang. Downsides: Wasting time on another damn asset recycle episode, David Wise levels of shameless writing on one episode, pointless inferior remake of Turtles Forever, nonsensical set-up, forcing drama based around Splinter we knew was going to be rendered pointless and a lot of it feels like filler (14 episodes on this? I mean really?). So yeah, there are positives to both and both kind of overstay their welcome but one is signifigantly longer, leads in from nonsense, is full of nonsense and leads to nonsense. Northampton is better. |
05-28-2017, 03:15 AM | #31 |
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05-28-2017, 06:11 AM | #32 |
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Northampton for me because I really enjoyed it and how some of the episodes focused on Leo too. Space arc wasn't too bad for me and I prefer it over 2K3's handling of it myself, but I voted for Northampton.
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05-28-2017, 06:45 AM | #33 |
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That space arc was too short. The turtles could've visited some more planets, but I guess the writers wanted it to stay closer to the Mirage Comics as the series in general was intended for.
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05-29-2017, 09:56 AM | #34 |
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The Northampton arc was terrible, for me at least. I was disappointed with the "Punk" Frogs, and the mutant car thing was utterly atrocious. That car episode alone killed the entire arc for me, and is by far the worst episode of TMNT 2012, and up there as being one of the worst of any series.
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05-29-2017, 03:35 PM | #35 | |
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05-29-2017, 06:19 PM | #36 |
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I thought both were horrible.
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05-30-2017, 02:25 AM | #37 |
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Like straight up horrible? Not just overstaying their welcome or having a few bad episodes in them?
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05-30-2017, 02:54 AM | #38 |
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I voted the Space Arc but its largely due to specific episodes like TransDimensional Turtles and the Area of Carnage although I prefer the setting of the Northampton Arc and would choose Horror over Sci-Fi anyday.
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05-30-2017, 08:11 AM | #39 |
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05-30-2017, 08:19 AM | #40 |
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Riddle of the Ancient Aeons
If you like both mystic and science fiction, why not "Riddle of the Ancient Aeons"?
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