Official Ep Discussion: S3 Ep21: "Attack of the MegaShredder!"
 

Okay, so everyone is still reeling from last week's revelation that they HAD to go back into time to save Yoshi in order for their lives to happen as they did. Essentially vilifying Oroku Saki (or Hamato Saki until he found out the truth?) to the point that Shen rejects him and he starts his "screw the world" campaign in bringing back the Foot Clan. There was so much off-screen head-canon I could go into, I could turn last week's episode into a two hour special...

So after Renet conveniently drops them back off in present time (or so we think?), and somehow the turtles find out that Karai's been captured by Shredder, and he's using brainworms on her. Who knew that Shredder had connections with Botany Bay and the Planet Mongo? (some of you are probably too young to know those references... jeez I'm getting old...)

So, I'm sure we'll have the usual formula: Turtles go in, Shredder defeats and/or captures all but Leo, Leo goes to Splinter, Splinter says 'go save them yourself, you were in charge stupid', Leo goes back and magically defeats Shredder by himself when the four of them together were useless.

With Karai, it depends on the brain worms - if she's still got it when he goes in to save everyone, maybe she'll attack him. Maybe she'll flee. Maybe Leo's magic healing hands will get rid of the brainworm, and he'll cure her so that they can use their super-ninja-bobsie-twin powers to defeat the giant lump of shredder (clone?) flesh.

I'm skeptical that this episode will be anything beyond a space holder while other items are developing. Maybe it's just a test run of soem new toys for the figures line? Who knows...

We've got just a couple days to go, so hang in there and

STAY TUNED!!

And here we go!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS MESSED UP, WTF!!!!!!!! :o

What did i miss pre credits

Did RockSteady just gore Raph up the butt?

So Mega Shredder is just the three Shredder clones mutated into one.

Somehow that should've been easy to guess in retrospect.

Is it me or did the score pay homage to the Godzilla theme when Super Shredder emerged from the sewer?

I knew it was Mikey that sneaked up on Leo and I knew that Mega Shredder was the mutant Shredder Clones. I totally called it. :D

^This

Called it on Mikey too. :) Now, Godzilla like proportion battle anyone?

We interrupt this episode to bring you Attack on Titan.

They brought back the turtle mech....yay

OMG!!!!!! That was an awesome episode :D I did not expect to see the turtle mech in this.

This was cool. I liked Leonardo going all Attack on Titan on thing.

i liked it. the only thing that even pissed me off was the sudden commercial interruptions.

Yeah, I think it did, Sounded kind of familiar.

Awesome episode!

I thought it was a good episode, The whole Turtle Mech vs the Mega Shredder was kind of like a homage to Pacific Rim, The whole Giant Robot vs Kaiju thing.

I thought I just watched an Ultraman episode :tlol:

Actually I do miss watching Ultraman episodes :trazz:

so kind of... weird..this episode
Raph leg is injured :tsad:
and I did not notice the Mega Shredder
Is it double mutanted from three mutant shredder only?

Why in the world was there a normal looking Oroku Saki tongue brain in it's belly mouth?

Just to hammer in how "freaky" and "disturbing" the thing was.

Godzilla References? *Girlish Screams* And Donnie even said Kaiju even better!!! Also another note was the mutated Turtles the Bay Turtles?

I NOTICED THAT, TOO!
Also, I'm so so happy they didn't mutate Shredder.

The Attack on Titan references are real... Mikey is such a badass in this episode... Turtle-Mech is back... Mega-Shredder is NOT mutated Shredder (thank god)...
GREAT episode! :D

What I also liked about this episode?

They actually succeeded in what they were trying to get. No bulls*it with losing the brain-worm during the fight or having to give it up to the bad guys at the end. Nothing to delay the 'save Karai' sub-plot. They said they're going to save her, and they're already a few steps closer to getting there.

Though given what's going to happen to Donnie next episode, he might not have that much time to do what they'd say he'll do. Bring on Dumb Donnie!

No, Pacific Rim was an homage to the same material this episode was an homage to. Kaiju flicks, Ultraman, etc.

Saki's DNA is the basis for their existence.

Cool episode.

lol everyone was worried over nothing

^^^^^^^^^^ This

Anyway IGN review up.

8.2 :ohwell:

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/08/1...hredder-review

They liked everything else except for Leo always going alone.

Loved this episode! Can't wait to rewatch it :D

i liked how it was a Leo/Mikey episode too, maybe we'll get a Donnie/Raph team up eventually. Also enjoyed April and Casey joining in this time around.

Is it ever stated why Master Splinter does not go help find Karai?

when April was taken by the shredder he risked his life to go save her, why doesn't he do the same with his daughter?

I know that, but the Shredder clones have mutated DNA of him. It couldn't have a human Shredder tongue if it was mostly human, but what do I know? Rahzar went from a giant mutant Akita to a way smaller and skinnier werewolf skeleton thing. :lol:

I don't understand the beef of Leo going alone, he's got personal issues with Shredder than any one else does. His connections with Karai for one thing, he's trying to save her as much as possible and Shredder keeps adding situations. Than that beat down he got in the season two final, so I don't get it.

I love that Leo wears his Spirit Quest outfit :D

Leo / Mikey team work.

Though I would have preferred if it was human Shredder they faught against but oh well :roll:

What was everyone worried about? I missed it.

I'm assuming Shredder being the guy being the mutant blob instead of the Shredder Elite.

Probably has something to do with some fearing Mega-Shredder would be the actual Shredder getting mutated as part of an anticlimactic way of the final battle the Turtles would have with him.

EDIT: Ninja'd.

Good episode, loved the Godzilla reference and the use of the word Kaiju. Also that cartoon Mikey likes is becoming more disturbing with each episode.:lol:

Ah, thanks for the answers, guys.

I really liked the creatures design and the Saki tongue was nasty.:lol:
But this episode kind of fell flat for me.
It's not that it was bad but it seems like there was more commercial than show with this one. Did anyone else feel that way?
I also kind of felt that while it was progressing the story slightly it lacked compared to the other episodes of this season.
I do love the Rockstedies ;), the cuddle joke with Rahzar, & the end with Tigerclaw.
But poor Fishface is left out again, they really should just demutate the guy and have him go his own way.
Of course at least he got screen time, that's more than we can say for old Baxter.
Speaking of Baxter I do like the helmet thing on Karai since it looked like a Mouser, have we seen that before?
I do like that the turtle robot is back but it seems to be put back together awful quickly just to move the plot along and fight the robot.
Oh yes the spirit quest outfits really need to get used more often as it's a nice change for the guys and they're not too silly like their L.A.R.P. outfits.
Over all I'd give this episode 3 out of 5 pizza slices.:tpizza:

What happened with April and Casey this episode?