TMNT Season 2 Best Episode Tournament Round 2: Into Dimension X vs. Follow the Leader

[JTH]

Welcome everyone to the TMNT Season 2 Best Episode Tournament. It's Round 2, Match Number 4. Round 2 polls will be a 3 day and a private vote poll, unless you decide to post your choice of course. :D.

Last time, Baxter Stockman is truly lonely, for he goes to the back burner of the tournament while The Mahattan Project moves on.

Previous Poll & Thread here:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=49987


Here's the Official Updated Tournament Bracket:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=455365&tclass=

Want to see where your favorite episodes are, check the official rankings here:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showpost.php?p=1358753&postcount=19


Match number 4 involves the 4 vs. 13. Which features the episode after the season premiere taking on the episode before the season finale. Is your head spinning?

The episodes are...

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GO MIKEY GO MIKEY GO! vs. GO NINJA GO NINJA GO!



TALE OF THE TURTLE TAPE:

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Overall Seed - #4
Where JTH ranked this episode - #4
Official IGN rating - 9.0/10
Overall Episode TV.com Voter Rating - 9.3/10
How the episode got here - Recieved #4 Seed and First Round Bye

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Overall Seed - #13
Where JTH ranked this episode - #16
Official IGN rating - 8.3/10
Overall Episode TV.com Voter Rating - 8.8/10
How the episode got here - Defeated #20 Seed Mazes & Mutants in the First Round

Winner Faces: #5 Seed The Manhattan Project in Round 3

Cast your vote, and please remember...HAVE FUN!!!

[BubblyShell22]

Totally picking Follow the Leader here, but I'm a Leo fan, so I'm biased. Ha ha!

[Vicky82]

Both great episodes but has to be Into Dimension X, I just love this episode as it's my favourite Mikey centric episode :D

[Mukouno]

Definetely 'Into Dimension X', it's not only my favorite Mikey episode but also my favorite episode of the series so far.
They did so much good for him with that, I don't even know where to start. I simply love every second of it. :tlove:
Mop mop~ :anime:

'Follow the Leader' is still a really good episode, but didn't they focus on the whole 'not listening to Leo' stuff already in 'New Girl in Town'? Felt a bit repetitive but at least Leo owned Karai for real this time, was really awesome! :thyper:

[travelingcat]

Definitely Dimension X. Not just because of how awesome Mikey is, but the return of Leatherhead and seeing Dimension X.

[Gunpowder]

Dimension X was weird enough for me to love it. Follow the Leader was by no stretch of the imagination a bad episode, but I like weird more than I like action. And Dimension X had both.

[Shark_Blade]

"Mikey taking up the leadership mantle" VS "Leo facing difficulty as a leader".

Mikey wins obviously. And it's a big plus to see the big guy, Leatherhead again.

[JTH]

Wow.

Hard to believe looking at the score it was 3-1 Follow the Leader at one point. I.D.X! has rung off 12 unanswered since that point.

Follow the Leader may be down for the count after a lightning fast start.

[Electric]

I'm totally biased being a Leo fan, but I completely understand how fantastic into dimension x was for Mikey fans,

Butttttt

A Leo centered episode, antagonized by karai, with quite few epic moments for Donnie....yeah, it got my vote

[evan2000]

In terms of fresh ideas, Into Dimension X trumps Follow the Leader big time. The "new" thing in Follow the Leader was obviously the Foot-bots, which had the same basic design as regular Foot ninjas, only with robot AI and occasionally extra limbs and weapons.

In contrast, Nick's rendition of Dimension X is totally bizarre and a breath of fresh air from what we've seen before in the show (other than the brief preview of it in The Manhattan Project). Completely out-of-the-norm creatures and terrain, different laws of physics, plus Mikey being an absolute genius over there! Very surprised that Mikey was able to learn the new rules in Dimension X by himself so quickly, and figuring out that most things respond to sound over there. Kinda scientific if you think about it, and yet even Donnie couldn't figure it out right away. In fact, Donnie seems to be the most uncomfortable turtle while in Dimension X, everything that he tried to make sense of failed miserably, his computer skills doesn't apply there, and towards the end he kept asking the rest to leave the place instead of going down fighting the Kraang.

I believe the turtles will be returning to Dimension X for more adventures in the future, but nothing will be like the first time they're there. And this episode succeeded in keeping most of us excited for more to come (Triceratons anyone?), so it firmly got my vote.

[Aaronardo]

I loved Follow the Leader to death. It's an amazing Leo-centric episode and definitely the best of the series so far. We're also treated to some pretty sweet moments from the other Turtles. BUT...

Into Dimension X brought us the Mikey-centric episode we were all hoping for for a long time. Whereas most Mikey episodes are Mikey screws up but does something amazing in the end, this one is Mikey screws up, he's forced to survive in new surroundings, and teaches the others how to do such things. Couple that with how surreal Dimension X is, Leatherhead's return, and, again, some really nice Mikey development (that carries over into the next episode for once), Into Dimension X definitely gets my vote.

[Leo8414]

Another tough call here. I went with into dimension x because it was awesome how mikey shined in this one. Starting with ignoring his bro's and going through the portal to dimension x. The outfit he wore was awesome. Also with him kicking some major shell and figuring out dimension x. See what dimension x looked like was sick as well. Of course leatherhead coming back was nice. Follow the leader is an awesome as well. Saw the foot bots for the first time and splinter revealing to leo karai is his daughter. Playing king of the mountain was awesome. Unfortunately isn't good enough to win and move on.

[pannoni1]

On animation alone Into Dimension X takes this one and gets my vote. Just watch the scenes of the Turtles floating around; it feels like watching somebody playing Star Fox. It also features Leatherhead and Granitor. Follow the Leader may have the slightly better back story and is great for Leo's character, but just isn't quite as exciting as the former.