Official Episode Discussion S4 Ep 6: Journey to the Center of Mikey's Brain
 

Season 4 episode 5 is starting just hours from now.

Plot: When microscopic aliens invade Mikey’s mind, the Turtles have to chase them through the strange world of Mikey’s subconscious.

So are we truely seeing the neutrinos that we've seen images of? What will the Turtles encounter in their younger brothers over active subconscious? And the question that is plaguing everyone's mind...will this episode somehow connect to the overall plot or will it (as the plot and everything about it suggests) be straight up filler.

We can only watch and find out...

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Its up early on I Tunes now so it's going to be another torture day with trying to avoid spoilers until it airs (Unless someone records and uploads it).

And it begins. :)

Was that a Pulp Fiction reference?

OMG Charlie Murthy!!

Funniest episode of the season so far, the writing quality just seems better this time around.

And Neutrinos finally show up.

The Neutrinos were not how I expected them.

Inside Out: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Edition.

Twin Peaks reference :lol:

Effing awful episode

I didn't expect to like this episode that much but it was actually really good, I love the "that's alien racism" by Casey, and the re uses of some CGI sets and models for this episode were grrat.

Awww that was such a cute episode :D

I'm surprised Splinter wasn't seen.

So Tiger Claw was there with the Mutanimals, Pigeon Pete, Leatherhead, Mondo Gecko in Mikey's imagination. Is this Foreshadowing that he could be leaving Shredder and join the Mutanimals.

This episode was anything but imaginative, even if there were some funny moments, such as Donatello stating the real life version of what a Neutrino is. Add the rather silly version of Jabba along with the been there, done that version of the different personifications of a character along with another forced bailout from danger, this just didn't feel very rewarding and is clearly filler. Very weak in the action/fighting department along with no references to advance the overall arc of the season.

Overall: 6/10

If someone doesn't mind, can you please write a quick summary of the episode?
I know the synopsis but something maybe a bit specific?

I thought it was a good episode, but the Neutrinos were not how I expected them, I was expecting this.

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Instead we get this

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It's probably because IDW are already using the 'proper' Neutrinos so Nick decide to do something different with them and use them as the bad guys.

Did you see the full episode? They got Triceraton schematics at the end, that's why they met with Belly Bomb in the first place.

..............

Second worst episode of the space arc by far. I swear, why can't Michelangelo get one solid outing for once? I hated The Croaking for good reason on screwing so many things up and being lackluster, but why do we need filler again? Now all of a sudden, let's cram as many references as possible into one episode.

Although Bellybomb was a nice addition and the scenario in Mikey's head, the rest is just..... I can't even describe it. The continuity in the memories I can praise, but other than that, it's just a pure acid trip of an episode. They rushed yet another episode with potential; even though I wasn't expecting much, I just can't see what they were going for the brain busters (no, I refuse to call them Neutrinos) or Mikey's portrayal. I know I said the same thing about The Creeping Doom was irritating, but why can't we go a cohesive development for the little runt? Mikey may be my least favorite Turtle personally, but it's discouraging. Let me ask a question, if Mikey has all these emotions, then why don't they use them more often?

If they didn't rush the memories out or Mikey's emotions and used them to triumph, I'd see a better episode. Instead, we have an inferior episode concept near identical to In Dreams only less creative and more of stuff of me facepalming. I had more fun watching Wyrm onscreen than the Brain Busters for sure; they are literally trying to tie the narrative together with Dregg too.

Maybe I'll look back on the episode but for the time being, I consider this and Mona to be the low point this season.

Sooooo, that was... interesting. Someone put something funny in the studio water cooler again, I see. lol

Although I kind of expected "little Mikey" to be representative of his inner child, that he's still in touch with, rather than just symbolizing the maturity level of the "real him."

It was kind of meh. Little Mikey was cute though.

It was an okay episode. It could have done without the burp jokes, but since immature humor has been ramped up in the show for the past couple seasons, I wasn't surprised.
Had a couple funny moments, such as "alien racism". Seeing Mikey's memories and imagination was fun. Little Mikey was pretty cute. Seeing some old characters and even old cartoons they watched in Mikey's imagination was fun.
I feel like this episode didn't dumb down Mikey. They presented his angry side, his childish side, his lazy side, his annoying side, his weird side, and everything else, and it made all of them serve a purpose to the turtles on their adventure.
Overall, 6.5/10.
I think I've only liked one episode this season enough to rate it past a 7, and that's the Moons of Thalos 3.
I have to admit the writing and humor has noticeably gone downhill.

The bad breath jokes were a reference to Belly Bombs bad breath ability in the Archie Comics.

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IGN review up it scored 7.7

Interesting, the Cons were that it was filler to them.

That doesn't make them funny.

I saw them more of references to a characters abilities rather than jokes, I thought it was a nice call back.

Good episode but hated the Neutrino redesign.

I did not expect Mikey's angry side to be really big, I thought it was going to be small. I also thought his annoying side was going to be bigger than that.

I loved the Twin peaks reference when his wacky side was talking in backwards and also they were in the room with red cutains which is also part of the reference.

Eh, pretty cool. The animation was neat in Mikey’s imagination and lil' Mikey was pretty cute but, y’know, overall it was what I expected it to be- a funny, adorable little filler before things get serious.

Yeah it was just a break from the serious episodes and they had to keep the little kids happy.

Well....that episode was certainly a sugar rush on acid.

I like the idea of going into people's psyche. While overdone, it is one of my favorite tropes. Which is why I'm hoping we use it again when/if we get the "Dark April" saga or whichever character goes to the dark-side thanks to that crystal fragment. Just because April had the closing shot in that episode, doesn't necessarily mean SHE'LL go bad, but it is likely, I suppose.

Ok, while the rap was painful and the Yellow Submarine/Alice in Wonderland world was a bit trippy, it was cute to see a little Mikey. I know Greg Cipes is good at kid voices, but I really wanted to hear an actual KID voice a Turtle Tot. I still have audio nightmares of that episode from the 2k3 show where they were all facing that demon to save Splinter. Their voices were just...ugh.

Sorry, tangent.

OK, it's nice to see that Mikey DOES take things seriously when need be and he hates being used, despite being so distracted and innocent. I guess we all have our "happy place" we retreat to when real life gets a bit too much. Take me for example. I'm 32, work in retail, and have to deal with adult issues like bills, reducing clutter and stress from my life, and whatnot. Whenever I get a moment, I'll just go to my room and just daydream for stuff, normally geeky stuff. This world was just how Mikey copes with everything.

I really would've loved to have seen Splinter in one of the flashbacks, especially when Mikey was a kid. That'd have been both cute and tragic. Like Splinter telling him a bedtime story or comforting him from having a nightmare.

Other than that, the episode was harmless and did give us some character development for Mikey. I just hope we don't keep using Mikey for throwaway jokes. And I would LOVE to see what the other characters' psyches are like.

... Bellybomb? NINJARA CONFIRMED.

I don't see how Belly Bomb confirms anything.

And on a different note I just want the fillery episodes of the space arc to be over, they seem to rely to much on nostalgia and not on really good story telling.The episodes aren't god awful, and seeing some of the characters again is cool but these episodes aren't as impressive as the episodes from previous seasons.Hopefully the next few episodes will be better and we'll have the same thing we had with last season were the first few episodes weren't that good but the rest were great.

Was anyone disappointed with the Nick versions of the Neutrinos? they looked like Cylons.

Neutrinos aren't exactly the most interesting character so I didn't really care what they fid with them, I liked what IDW did but I wouldn't want Nick to copy them.

I admit, I was sort of expecting a rebel group fighting the Kraang and Triceratons and have them be the Neutrinos, but making them microscopic warriors does match their name a bit more. We might still get a Zac, Kala, and....whatever the third one was called in this series; they just won't be Neutrinos.

I really disliked that episode. It was a good opportunity for them to reuse a bunch of character models and sets though.

Uh oh, Lord Dregg is getting intrigued by generator fragments. That's going to make the main mission more difficult.

I always like the episodes that bring back familiar faces as cameos.