season seven & eight thoughts

[Sage Ninja]

I just finished watching season seven all the way through today after putting it off for a while or only watching an episode of two every so often. And I have to say that it wasn't a bad season at all. It wasn't as hard hitting on me than when I first saw it as a kid but I still think it was a pretty solid season. Things that I noticed about this season was the episodes seemed to take place at night more often and there more actually "fighting" in this season rather than improb antics like in previous seasons. The turtles seem to go back to facing actual issues and the episode plots where more...I don't think serious is the right word but plots more hard hitting than normal.

It was on the one hand more sci fi than ever before but also a bit more urban as well, like white belt black heart and Dirk Savage episode.

One thing I notived about this season was the that it seemed that Leonardo and Mike where put out of commission alot, or kidnapped and Raphael and Donatello had to save the day. I wonder if this was intentional or the luck of the draw?

I think a real turnijg point for the seseason that things wheren't going to be the same as previous seasons was Night of the Dark Turtle boy Donatello certainly got alot of glory in this episode. It was pretty much shown that he can function just fine and compentently with out the turtles but not the other way around. :o

season eight for sone reason I think I might have enjoyed a bit more than season seven. :o:o the surprised me because traditionally didn't care for them. Leonardo impressed me in this season by acting more like a leader and and tough and the turtles went through some serious issues and some of the plots where broke away from the status quo which was amazing. April breifly turns against the turtles and they lose trust in each other. They split up breifly with differing opionions on mutants. And they acvtually fight among then selves at some points. And Burns actively trys to turn the city against them. I only ish the Sci aspecvts where tuned down.

Did you guys feel the sane about the seasons seven and eight? Did any one find them selves liking one more than the other?

[CyberCubed]

Seasons 7 and 8 are two of the best seasons of the show.

Season 6 is also just as good as Season 7. I have no clue why Season 6 is overlooked. It had tons of great episodes and it felt almost the same as Season 7 to me.

[Icebot]

What I really enjoyed is how after the technodrome was pulled to Dimension X without Shredder, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady at the end of season 7, how it lead to them using the Hall of Science as their new headquarters. When I first saw the red sky episodes, the first time I saw one it was at the end of the Wrath of The Rat King, then all of State of Shock, then the 3 Titanis episodes, then Cyber Turtles. After all that, I realized one day that the technodrome was not seen or mentioned at all in the episodes I saw.

Eventually when I saw Turtle Trek, I finally saw the technodrome, and I'll never forget how awesome it was to see it in a red sky episode. Later, I saw "Get Shredder" and how often they talked about the technodrome being pulled to Dimension X. This experience really taught me to enjoy season 7, seeing the last of the technodrome before it was pulled to Dimension X.

[NameGoesHere1066]

One thing I noticed about this season was the that it seemed that Leonardo and Mike where put out of commission alot, or kidnapped and Raphael and Donatello had to save the day. I wonder if this was intentional or the luck of the draw?

I hadn't noticed that. But now that you mention it you are right. Raph and Don where alot more competent in this season than Leo and Mike.

April breifly turns against the turtles and they lose trust in each other.

I think this should of been explored more. It was such a balls out move on the writers to have their closest friend and defender suddenly not trust them. Not even in mirage or 2k3 has this been tried before.