What's your favourite season of TMNT?
 

Yeah, I know some of them are hard to tell apart from the other, but nevertheless, there are differences between how things were. I guess this is basically a "what are your favourite episodes poll" more or less. My favourite season of the show is probably the first one, since well, it had the best plots, pretty good animation and more violence than usual. I mean, Shredder actually fights the turtles and Splinter here! Later on, he seems quite incompetent to put up a good fight for some reason. Anyway, I'm curious to the outcome of this poll. And yes, I know it's a rather large sized poll.

....large and pretty much repeated poll, too.

I picked Season 7, 1993. BTW, you should really fix that poll so people can see which year they're choosing.

Season 1...No contest....

Oh, I forgot... I picked Season 1 (Of course :roll: )

I nearly chose season 1, but I ended up choosing season 3. Season 1 was much more serious, and Shredder was much more competant in it, but overal I think season 3 was much more entertaining. Plus, several of my favorite eps are in this season - Big Blow Out, Big Break In, and Big something or other that I don' remember.

Hmm... im only 16 now so i watched the show when i was like real young...so i wouldnt really remember any particular seasons i liked, but ill go with season 1 cause the first 2 episodes are great.

More easy questions... Season one natrually.

Since I haven't seen many episodes (and most of them 10 years ago), what's the diferences between all the seasons? I know that the first was more "mature" than the following, and that the Red Sky was different, but what about the rest?

Actually, that's a good idea. Problem is, according to the rules of this board, only administrators can do that now. So I don't think it's possible to get the years to appear now.

On another note, it certainly does seem like season 1 is winning so far. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, it was the best one after all. But as Morp said, the season 3 finale was pretty good too.

Well as the show progressed, it went more and more to comedy. After season 2 it went in to real mass production, dozens of writers, and almost total lack of continuity and animation became much less detailed.

Seasons 3, 4, 5 and 6 had mostly Shredder looking for batteries plot, spiced with few mad scientist episodes. Season 7 was a turn into the right direction, good animation, one writing team, good plots and even continuity.

Seasons 8, 9 and 10 are called the redsky episodes, it totally revamped the series. Probably the best animation after season one, much more serious character desings and more serious feeling overall. Some people don't like seasons 9 and 10 though, mostly because lack of Shredder and Krang, or stupid new mutations.

Presto! It is done! 1987 for me by the way...

Good stuff. Thanks for putting the years in.

Big Rip Off

I'm pretty sure if you were stranded in some far-off place miles and miles away from civilization with no means of power to fuel your only way of getting anywhere, I'm pretty sure YOU'D want to look for every available power source and get it given the chance...

Sorry, I'll be blunt, I'm finally getting tired of your "no continuity, Shredder only looking for fuel, too many mad scientists, new mutant every other episode, more humor/less action, Krang and Shredder acting like a married couple, too goofy etc." BS complaints! You, my fellow forum-goer, fit the term of "tightwad" quite well.

Your problem is that you never praise anything for what it's worth; you're almost as bad as the movie critics that Leo656 despises IMO. I wouldn't be surprised if Krang made it an official rule never to ridicule the old series in the way that you're doing right now soley because he got more tired of this bitching you make all the time as you're doing right now.

Now please, keep the cross-examination to yourself and just stick to simply answering the question of the thread.

ON TOPIC: It's a tough choice between seasons 1 and 3 for me...I just only wish this forum software had the option to have multiple choice (as in, you get to pick more than one choice) polls...

Interesting points, Rez.
At times I do tend to think there's some logic to Karpo's rants, but then I realize that this is a cartoon show we're talking about. To try and analyze a cartoon show is just plain pointless, and it tends to ruin the wonderous childlike state it leaves you in when you watch old video copies of the series.

Well to me this is the biggest no brainer in the history of no brainers. I loved all the season pretty much but season 1 is always going to be the best.

Why?

Solid script, fantastic animation style for all but two of the episodes, terrific voice work (Leo was manly for one thing), memorable jokes, one liners, and other humourous moments, plenty of action, Bebop and Rocksteady weren't complete morons, Vern wasn't as annoying, each episode kept you begging for more. That AND I can watch every single episode of it over and over and over and... well you get the point. It just never gets old to me. Now that's some fine cartooning if do say so myself.

And Im getting pretty tired of your arguments Rez. Sparvid asked what old show was like, should I lie to him? You think that there should be a rule against talking how the plots were in the old show? Or finding anything negative from it? Maybe there should be a rule that we can only praise it, that would probably make you happy.

Jeph, it's true it was children's show, and was never meant to have deep plots like Batman TAS for example, but if someone asks how the other season were like, thats how to put it short. And it doesn't limit to TMNT, other cartoons like Old[and New!] He-man were the same way.

And another thing that I loved about the first season was the helmet thing that Rocksteady wore :D no idea why, but I have always thought it was really cool.

Yeah, I too wonder why he didn't have it on later seasons... And even if Rocksteady and Bepop were as stupid in the first season, they could still fight. After that they were pretty much only a comic relief.

I always liked season 2 best. I liked Krang always harassing Shredder about how there was no way he was going to accomplish what his goal was and the action wasn't toned down as much as the other seasons after season 1. Season 1 for me was just too short and I didn't like ep 3 & 4 that much.

Yeah, if I recall right it's mstly written by David Wise. Altough I'm not too fond of some of season 2 episodes, Eye of Zarnoth and Return of the Technodrome are very good episodes.

We're not starting that argument again, are we?

I don't know what the correct spelling is, but thats how my episode are named.

Another vote for season one. :D