OFFICIAL NEW FF EPISODE DISCUSSION: "Playtime's Over"
 

According to zap2it.com, the following will premiere next Saturday, 7Oct06. Marvel at how concise the description is. :roll: :

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
Playtime's Over
Mikey is excited when a video game sequel is released; the Turtles need a guide to navigate the mall. CC Stereo

...So....they get lost in the mall?

wow
that sounds

exciting

-.-

LAME @$$

For some reason, that description cracked me up.

OMFG Dead Rising'd

Goodness freakin' gracious! Is "jumped the shark" the proper phrase for this show?

... Serling?

wow. haven't even seen the episode yet and people are already spoutin the hate. :ohwell:

If you head over to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ard:_2006-2007, you'll see that this episode seems to be a filler before the main event like we've seen in countless TMNT seasons. This information was also posted in the 'Headlock Prime' thread, but it really should get people 'back' into the series. I won't give anything away but...this could be good.

Next week sounds lame. It's a battle with Jammerhead though. Still sounds kind of lame. They get lost in the mall!? What the shell is up with that!?

*Looks at what the episode after next week is about* Oh my gosh! Yes! Oh yeah! I can't wait for this episode!

I don't buy the descriptions for the episodes. They were made before final production, and as you could highly tell from headlock prime, they couldn't be farther from the truth. "Raphael joins a wrestling tournament..." I don't remember in any part of that episode where it was a tournament that you could join. It's utter shite.

However, I did make comment about next week's episode... I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT!!!

Wow, the one FF episode i think I actually will watch.

ep after sounds awesome, who is jammerhead?

Jammerhead is the leader of those guys from "Future Shellshock", the guy Mikey called butt ugly. The same guys that tried to capture Mikey, and they could go 'ghostal' on people.

Indeed, I may not tape this episode and wait for the next week, due to the fact that it has
*faints*

Me too...

I doubt it'll be that cool.

Granted, I'll reserve full judgement for when I see it (if I can force myself to)... But I seriously felt like crying when I saw this preview.

How can it be that they are happy putting this on the air? This is going to be what people remember of the TMNT's run. Are they proud of this? I really want to know... if this is how they want to be remembered, and not the intense, witty, dark beginning that was 2K3?

I'm typing as I watch...

So, it's been said to reserve judgement on this show until it actually 'starts' (though it started a good month or so ago... but whatever).

I agreed to give it a chance now that it's... 'started'.


This. Show. Sucks.

The jokes are forced and unfunny for even kids.

Jammerhead is a poor, POOR version of the 'Midnight Bomber what bombs at midnight' from The Tick.

What is that robe Raph is wearing?

Even if this show IS more for kids, what is the lesson here? Let's unfairly use our abilities to get ahead? When Mike cut in line, I was flabbergasted.

The characters are SO out of character, it boggles my mind. And I READ FANFICTION!!

Mike stole a car? Where's the talking to from Leo? Don? ANY of them??

That freakin' awful 'Ninja Time' wears on my nerves. Cody is such a liability, we're getting into the 'Damsel in Distress' mode that old April was. Actually, even worse.

Ok, I laughed once. When Don told Cody to 'jump' from the horribly named 'Turtle-X'... Because all I could think was 'Yes! Please! Off the chasm, please!'

I agree with Sterling. I don't like them, either.


Even with this awful 'jump the shark' manuever, there could have been some good storylines in there. But it seems they have opted to not do any of them, and take some easy way out. No emotions, out of character... it makes me sad that THIS is what they deem worthy of the TMNT. After those years of 2K3... this is what people will rmember from the show.

How completely saddening. I cannot fathom how they are proud of this; I'd love to know. We are missing everything that made the 2K3 series good. This is an embarassment.

Well, since knowing that Ninja Tribunal puts an end to some of the old storylines, I'm living up to my word in that I will give FF a chance.

Seeing as how Bishop is still around, he was probably one of the best bad guys the turtles ever faced, IMO. I remember thinking the start of the 2k3 series was kind of weak, but it picked up after all the fillers.

I think it's just history repeating itself, or want to believe that. I'm going to continue to watch, cause I feel the best is yet to come, again, after the fillers play out, like they did at the start of the 2k3 series.

-X-

The first season may be disliked now for some befuddling reason, but there were more fillers in season two than that one.


Helathy Atlernatives To Fast Forward:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlobFExM-UM

I cannot fathom how people thought the first season was weak. I stopped watching for a bit after all that time travel in 2 or 3 (not sure which). That stuff at the beginning was good, though.

And another thought... this week's ep... Mike STILL gets the game?! Whatever.
He didn't deserve it. What happened to Leo's discipline, by the way?

It's SO missing something... this series.


EDIT - By the way, the opening to that is cool, Zarius. Just goes to show that a 'kid's show' CAN be darker and have themes other than brightly colored characters with no personalities and bad senses of humor. Anyone who says a kid's show can't have edier themes is full of crap, and is just covering their butts because they've failed.

The sense of humor in FF is no better then all of the 2k3 series honestly.

The show has always relied on looking at Mikey for jokes, and plainly they fall flat most of the time. Most of the jokes my 4 year old son laughs at, while I'm like, bleh, could've been more unpredictable with that joke.

When you think of jokes that are funny, watch Samurai Tourist. That was probably one of the funniest episodes in all of the 2k3 series. It didn't try to be funny, but was. A guy staring down a walking rhino only to hit a parked car... That's funny. No silly one liners, or relying on one sole turtle to provide that joke was top notch.

So IMO, FF and 2k3 are one in the same, except now, like the old series, everyone tries to make jokes, which can mix things up better then what was displayed in 2k3. I've always said 2k3 does better action, whereas the old toon does better comedy, comedy that still holds up to this day and some of it can only be gotten by adults.

-X-

More "Golden Puck"/"Christmas Aliens"-esque funness... and I'm enjoying it. I'm not psychoanylizing anyone like I usually was, but it's still enjoyable. The Jammerhead guy gets on my nerves... actually, he reminds me so much of the big gangster's henchman from the second season, with the bad tie, whose name I can't remember at the moment, who also got on my nerves, and was supposed to. ;) And Biggles... was actually a bit more tolerable! The "less paperwork for me" line made me chuckle. The animation during the battle on the ship was excellent... I'm already getting used to the new style (or the animators are, one or the other, probably a bit of both), it doesn't bother me much anymore... except for the occasional wild 'toony take. Er, and Splinter's eyebrows got bigger in the last scene, and may have been the wrong color.

Nice touch with Mikey telling Cody "They're only games". Turtle's got priorities, when it comes down to the wire, he's not obsessed past the point of all sense. :p

(If anybody wonders why I'm not commenting as much as usual, it's not 'cuz I've lost interest in the show... I've been distracted lately by a new Transformers role-play community I found... the novelty will wear off eventually, and then I'll talk more :))

I thought it was cool how the game Mikey wanted was based on Halo 2. The character with the gun on the side of the truck, and on the game cover looks alot like, if not just like the hero from Halo. I have a picture of Master Chief as my avatar.

I really liked Jammerhead's invisible air ship, or whatever it was. It was cool how it looked like they were jumping through a portal.

Next week looks like it could be great.

nice atleast you guys on the east coast friggin get to see the damn show...it's suposed to come on at 11:00 here in LA I wait through all the bullcrap 4kids plays all morning and what comes on!! WHAT! stupid ass beakmans world!!
I'm so glad I got up for that.....:roll:

That is strange. Beakman's World should be on before the 4Kids line-up (as that's it's typical airing spot).

Wha??? Beakman's World??? That's odd...it airs at 7am here in Washington....L.A must have been the only area that did that...

Anyways... on to the review:

Ok this ep was...eh...about all we learned is that Cody's full name is Cody Augustus Jones...so he was named after Uncle Auggie. This was also an intro to Cody's new toy..the Turtle X.

This ep also proved that Starley has the hots for Cody (who likes her but appears to be rather uneasy about it..but what do you expect from a 14 year old).

Nice use of Gungala tho... but WTF was up with the chasm?? That was never explained... And WTF is up with Raphael wearing a bathrobe??? That was a bit out of character for him... Mike I can see wearing one but not Raph.

Can't wait for next week tho! WOOT... Bishop and Torbin Zixx!! :D

They are so different. For one, 2K3 was good. I disagree, also, with saying FF is like the old toon. Or maybe it is, and that's why I don't like it. Old toon jokes don't hold up. They didn't hold up then, in my opinion.

Better comedy was in the 2K3 series, though I aso thought that fell flat a bit, trying to be TOO silly, which I HATE. It's demeaning even to children to have to rely on childish humor and not smart, intelligent humor.

Constant comedy, with nothing smart to compare it against is awful. There's nothing 'smart' in the show anymore, it's all stupi-fied, like talking down to kids. I can't stand when shows don't TRY anymore.

I have contact with tons of kids, and they don't like this, either.

I still want to know why they had to go down to this level.

Ugh, I'm so annoyed at this show, I can't even think of what I want to say. I'll have to ponder and come back later.

Um, the turtles have always been like this, at least in this incarnation; they've never had any problems with stealing or playing fast and loose with the law when it benefitted them. Remember the truck that became the Battle Shell? The Foot helicopter? Bishop's? Plus, they have definitively stolen the city's electricity and cable--cutting in line would be right up their alley.

Except for the first few episodes, the previous series was never a moralistic show. While the turtles have never commited any despicable acts, they were never boy scouts, either: they killed, stole, and always looked out for themselves first, (at least until the turning point in Exodus, where they decided they would rather give their lives than let the Shredder rule the world). To complain about this now seems very dishonest.

They do hold up. Though nice attempt at saving grace by admitting you never liked them. Always the sensible route if you ask me.:)

GOD do I disagree with that one. The new series could never hope to do comedy, it can't translate that portion to the audience because the writers don't want to bother with it.

I agree with everything else you have to say regarding this pile of s*it though.

As quoted by the comic book guy on the Simpsons "Worst episode ever!"

Yea... but Mikey stole a cop car.... Look at all the crimes he commited just in this episode!

Resisting arrest...assault on officers... and theft of a police car... But...he got away with it because Jammerhead stole a truck..... :roll:

Too early to say it's the worst ever until the season is done .....

This episode was okay IMHO. It felt kinda below average for me...:( It was cool seeing Jammerhead again, though. I forgot who he was and what he did, so this episode reminded me.

I feel Cody needs lessons in flirting, no matter his age. He's not gonna be much of a ladies techie if he keeps it up. I liked his Casey Jones mech type o' deal; it would be cool to see that made into a toy.


I'm glad Mikey finally got his video game -- it's encouraging to see me favorite Turtle in a happy mood.

I hope next week's episode will be better cuz it looks like it will. I'm excited to see Bishop again and Torbin Zixx for the first time!

so whens it suppose to air in Socal? TIVO didnt pick it up all it says "there is one upcoming episode"

Actually, FF comedy I likened to the old toon only because everyones attempting jokes rather then just looking at Mikey to impersonate AHNOLD, or ask if he looks fat in a dress.

When it comes to comedy in turtles however, nothing beats the old toon. Who can forget lines like.

Turtles and April are running up numerous flights of stairs avoiding a building filling with water.

April: I don't know how much more I can take of this.
Raph: Look on the bright side, at least it's not raining.

Yoshi pulls a knife out from his back.

Odd looking ninja dude: So you plot to kill our honorable sensei?
Other odd looking ninja dude: Disgraceful, for this misdeed you should be banished from the Foot Clan altogether.
Odd looking ninja dude: What say you, old wise, honorable sensei?
Sensei: *Speaks japanese* Then in english: Throw the bum out.

I can name SOOOOOOO many more lines from the original show that would smoke the comedy in 2k3/FF, but at least now, all peeps are looking to tell jokes that will either be hit or miss, instead of relying on Mikey for a quick chuckle. I still like how the comedy was presented in Samurai Tourist, it seemed more natural.

I really wanna say that it's a case of Comedy (new show) VS. Slapstick (old toon,) and clearly, in my eyes, nothing beats good slapstick. Plus David Wise writing was superb on the old show.

-X-

what did it pick up beakmans world?
man fox is seriously so stupid...thats a great way to get people to watch a new show...shows how much they care...
I wonder if it's gonna be on at like 4am again :roll:

Well... I figure if you liked those kinda jokes and comedy then, ya probably will now. I just always DISliked it greatly. ;)



Well, though note that I DID say that I didn't like 2K3 humor, either. I said it was lacking. But, for me, it was better than the old toon, or FF. Again, for me.

:)

Ok.. this is wierd... It aired in Washington State but not California???

And Incidentally up here the ep started airing at around 10:50 so my VCR missed the first 5 min (I record the eps even if I am up and I have the VCR set to start recording at 10:55). Double weird.

Probably would have missed the first 5 min if Batman hadn't ended. :ohwell:

I can't seem to remember this show is on... and I was awake too! TV is way low on my list of priorities these days. :ohwell:

So, were there previews? Bishop next week? (I'm a little trepidatious about seeing what they do with Bishop, at this point.)

Next week is Bishop AND Torbin Zixx. So we find out how they're connected.

Bishop narrated the previews actually