Turtles to be in space for 13 episodes
 

So according to a new interview with Rob Paulsen season 4's first half will be in spaaaaace with David Tennant as Fugitoid. So we'll probably be getting 13 eps of Doctor Who references. Weee!!

Season 4 starts in October, which is normal for the show.



http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2015...les-david.html

What if the space episodes while be season 4's equivalent of the Northampton arc?
Where's your god now?

I wonder how they going to handle the multiple locations aspect of it. I really hope that they don't go the route of recycling some places so that the locations remain unique and almost a character in of itself. I would rather have some bottle episodes so that they can save the budget for the sets.

Interesting, which means, the Nick version of Mona Lisa will be in more then one episode? who knows.

I don't know how I feel about this.
On one hand, if they don't do it like Northampton, I'm so okay with this.

On the other hand... What the guy above me said. They really need to do new locations and not have too many filler episodes. 2003 pulled off 5 episodes of Turtles in Space, and it worked really well because they were continuations of one another. If this show can do that, and make this space-arc feel very bridged together rather than 13 distinct episodes, then go for it.

Actually, season 4 is only 20 episodes. So the Turtles will be in space for 10 episodes.

Yes. Please god, if you writers really want us to be invested then do this or else the emotions felt in the season 3 finale would feel meaningless if the characters themselves are not continuously effected by it.

It was my biggest problem with North Hampton and for the long term, it was a poor decision.

Season 4 is also only 20 episodes, so 13 episodes is literally more than half the season. That means there will only be 7 episodes back on Earth.

Shame, I wish they stuck with 26 episode seasons. That way even with 13 eps in space we'd still have 13 in NY.

If you see the link and video, it's actually 13.

I was never a fan of Turtles in Space in the 2K3 show, but I'm not going to judge this until I see how it's handled. I do wish it would be less than that since Northampton wasn't even thirteen episodes long. Ah well, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

The season is already shorter, 20 episodes overall correct? That would be 7 episodes of Shredder, his henchmutant army and New York.

I really hope the shows crew has learned from the Northhampton

It depends how low the ratings were during that time.

edit: Nope. I don't think so.:ohwell:

Maybe this thread could be the jumping off point for the Official Season 4 information thread?

Oh God I hope not. I want to be able to keep watching this show.

Haha, I'm with you on that one.

There's probably going to be a lot of minor Doctor Who references ( probably just a line or two per episode ) so I doubt it'll make the show any worse.

I wonder what role Lucy Lawless will be playing on the show.

Speaking personally here, as someone who likes "Turtles in Space" arcs so long as they're temporary, finite, and done well, and someone who's a massive Doctor Who fan, and someone who watches this show with his wife (who is also a massive Doctor Who fan and particularly loves David Tennant)... I'm gonna enjoy this. :tgrin:

I had no major issues with the Northampton arc, either. It dragged on a bit too long, but I'm also a bit of an old-school horror fan and I both "got" and enjoyed all the references there. I get why other folks might not have enjoyed it as much, but I was thoroughly entertained for the most part.

But... the "Turtles in Space" stuff has a strong basis in the original comics, and as long as they're keeping true to that I've got a lot of confidence. My main concern if that they'll go "full goofy" and forget the emotional stakes, which is the only real issue I've had with the show. Their formula for this stuff seems to be "adapt something from the comics, but inject a bunch of pop culture parody/homage stuff and put our own spin on it". And for me, that works. Just... don't forget the overall plot and the characters' growth.

They have a lot of material to cover so I can see why its a seasons worth:

- Triceraton homeworlds will likely be explored, they'll probably do the tournament where the Turtles are prisoners and forced to fight in the arena

- Lord Dregg will be introduced so he'll likely get a number of episodes

- The Kraang will almost definitely be focused on maybe with a huge fight with The Kraang

- Fugitoid stuff on D'hoonib...possible Neutrinos or Federation?

- Wingnut and Screwloose for a filler ep, maybe?

Cubed's right. In fact, I'm surprised they're not setting the whole season in space. If you know what happens in the finale, you know what the finale of the space arc is likely to be:



However, I don't think it'll be 13 episodes and here's why: The producers said that Northampton was going to be about 10 to 13 episodes, and it was basically 8. They could still actually be giving 10 or so episodes instead of a full 13.

Wonder what happen to those missing Northampton episodes? Missing somewhere on the cutting room floor next to Mutagen Man?

What? They never scripted any episodes that didn't air. They probably always planned Northampton to be 8 episodes. The 13 episode thing was just guesswork from the forums, nobody ever officially said that who works on the show.

Does anyone know if April, Casey and Master Splinter be in the space episodes?

I'm not going to spoil anything. But don't count on Splinter being there.

They said they cut an episode from Northhampton because it was too dark. The premise was about a kid who went trick or treating and visited thE turtles home and didn't leave, I think the kid might have been a mutant. If I recall correctly this was said at 2015 SDCC.

April and Casey will be, and Splinter will be the reason why they're in space.

No, that was the Dream Beavers episode.

No it wasn't , the description was nothing like the dream beavers episode. I remember Ciro said he cut it because it was too dark.

Ninturtlr is right. As per usual, cubed has no idea what he's talking about.

What about Buried Secrets? That is a dark episode.

12:08-12:13
"So we've got 13 story arc out of 26 with David Tennant"
Did he mean to say 13 story arc out of 20?

Episodes are incredibly expensive to produce. If there was any episode they canned it obviously never got past the script phrase. There are probably tons of unused scripts from episodes they decided to never put forward. That's how it is for every cartoon.

It would be so much fun to have the '87 cartoon's unused scripts to see the light of day on the internet not just the rumored but never proven to exist Shredder In Love script but what else was thrown out. Same with Batman:TAS and see all those Riddler scripts that did not work out.

I asked Brandon Aumon if the turtles in space arc would be a bunch of standalone episodes with a big of story progress or if it would be very story based and he said
" It will be story based, more of an arc. Each story connects and progresses the plot.. "

That's good to know.

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/ab/abba...916b1a41c6.jpg

But okay. I almost want to make a bet on this.

How is that "too dark" for this show? Unless they planned on killing or mutilating the kid near the end.

I had a feeling it would be an arc, so I'm excited about this.

Honestly, they shouldn't have THAT many episodes in space.