TMNT Season 3 Best Episode Tournament: Buried Secrets vs. The Creeping Doom

[JTH]

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ROUND 1

We're back with match four and the match that will lead us into the Season 4 Premiere. Not much longer kiddies, hold on a little bit more. :P

The Chimera may still be out there, but it's not in this tournament as it was ousted by The Mega Shredder.

Now it's the 13 vs. 20 match. This match has seen an upset in the past, will we get one here also?

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Round 1 Polls will last 3 days and will be private polls, but of course you can still discuss who you voted for and your reasoning why.

To check out the complete up to date bracket, the link is here:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=460628&tclass=TMNT%20Season%203%20Best%20Episode

With all that said, it's time to take a look at the "Tale of the Turtle Tape"!

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Official Seed: #13
Where JTH seeded this episode: #8
Total Points Received: 26
Official IGN Review: 7.8/10
Current TV.com Rating: 9.5/10
Highest Rating Episode Received: #2 (Tarris Vaal)

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Official Seed: #20
Where JTH seeded this episode: #10
Total Points Received: 11
Official IGN Review: 8.2/10
Current TV.com Rating: 8.0/10
Highest Rating Episode Received: #6 (TurtleTron)

Winner Faces: #4 Vision Quest in Round 2

JTH's Prediction:
I'm in the vast minority on Creeping Doom I know. I laughed a lot in it, and that's all I ask from an episode like that. Plus I was one of a select few that contributed points to the episode, but I still had Buried Secrets higher, which stinks because I wanted to vote for Doom, but now I can't. Buried Secrets meanwhile was one of the in many people "the few highlights of Northampton", so I'm sure it will be a heavy favorite here. Secrets gets the win here.

But hey, at least Max liked Creeping Doom more...happy for small merices right? :D

#13 Buried Secrets - 20
#20 The Creeping Doom - 5

Which episodes wins in your mind, vote away. Remember...please...HAVE FUN!!! :D

[kelligrafie]

This could really have gone either way for me.

I think I chose Creeping Doom marginally because Rob/Donatello was so funny in this.

But I genuinely love both episodes.

With Buried Secrets we got the Renae cameo, the whole horror thing (which wasn't to everyones' taste, but I loved it), Mom Thing was a fantastic alien/horror villain. There's the backstory to April and her family.

Creeping Doom brought back Snakeweed, not my personal favourite villain, but one of their first enemies, so there's that little nod to season one. Plus we got the Creep, who I love as a bad guy. I initially thought it was an odd combination, but they both just keep coming back to haunt the turtles don't they? A combo-villain who just won't (doubly) die.

[Tarris Vaal]

Its a shame really to have these two against each other as I enjoyed both a lot. Creeping doom has some excellent scenes, and the final fight with Creepweed is one of their most atmospheric fights.

I did feel that the Donatello arc in that episode was a little underused though - and could have been explored a little more in depth rather than just played for laughs.

Buried on the other hand, I genuinely think is one of the strongest episodes of Nick Turtles. It opens a lot of background, has good - and genuinely tense -action sequences, plenty of honest scary moments and doesn't really have any particular weaknesses. If anything, a lot of what could be argued as problems for this episode are actually a result of other episodes not following from it (April's mother being prime example here) - although at least the Kraang tech was used again in Speed Demon.
Maybe not a perfect episode, but certainly one of the most consistently good.