Nick Shows Out of Order?
 

This has been mentioned before, but after watching this week's "Metalhead" episode (which was great), it very much seems that the episodes are being shown out of order. To me, it seems as if this episode should/could have fallen in place immediately after the Krang/April debut episode.

Any confirmation of this? If so, hopefully any dvd release will include them in the correct sequence.

If we hadn't run Ciro off, we could have asked him.

Ah, what the hey. Hey, Ciro! Are these episodes in the correct order, or are they being released in production order?

It'll be easier to piece together a more continuity friendly episode guide once the season finishes, that is if there are more inconsistencies or if we get someone to say that it is being aired out of order.

If it was up to me:
Rise of the Turtles
Old Friend, New Enemy
Metalhead
I think his name is Baxter Stockman
Turtle Temper

Sounds good to me!

I find it a bit bizarre the Kraang are getting so much more screentime than the Foot Clan.

We've just barely seen the Foot in 1 episode so far.

I actually think it's brilliant. Dangle bits and pieces of Foot lore on front of us building anticipation while developing the universe then BAM hit us with something awesome later in the season.

I also mean that its getting a little stale. As much as I like the Kraang so far, their interactions with the Turtles have been pretty much the same in every episode so far.

So if it was the Foot having the same thing happen week after week it wouldn't be boring?

Anyway I was kind of thinking the same thing, the show seems to be a little mixed up. Yet at the same time it seems the show is more self contained each episode.

Woah, I had no idea that happened! A pity...

Got a link to the thread where the deed went down?

I think the purpose of the Kraang is also to give the turtles a recurring enemy while the foot can remain the main enemy and not suffer from villain decay and remain a threat.

Also... the TMNT really get to sink their weapons into the Kraang-droids since robots are fair game for extreme violence! :tlol:

I think the kraang are there so the Turtles can slice them up. They can't really do that with human enemies.

I dunno. This show just doesn't have a super-tight continuity is all.

That makes sense to me. I'll have to scrutinize that list further and see if there's any contradiction's in it.

Yeah. If anyone can do it, you can.

I doubt it's out of order, though. I just think it's intentionally kept loose.

It can be kept loose now, but as the series progresses obvious story elements will arise making the show seem wrong if its out of order.

Totally agree with you here, FL. Give them time to flesh out the Foot and give us a good fight later. I'm going to predict that "Never Say Xever" is when we'll get to see them again.

I've been kind of getting the feeling that the episodes are being aired out of order a bit too. 'Turtle Temper' seemed like a REALLY weird episode 3 for some reason. When I look back on it, it feels like a decent enough episode on it's own, but it's just...not a very good episode 3.

Also, the stuff with April seems kind of weird too. She seems to come and go in weird ways, and we still haven't seen her meeting Splinter, despite her having been in the lair a few times now. And her dialogue along the lines of 'Think like a ninja' when she was trying to hide out seems to me to indicate she's started training with Splinter...which we again, haven't seen a bit of.

Then there's Donnie's bo, the blade that can pop out of it. He randomly used it in one of the episodes before the last one, but he didn't use it even once in 'Metalhead' despite his constant complaints about his 'stick' being too basic. That just seemed odd to me.

So yeah, there's a good chunk of evidence to show that these episodes seem to be airing out of order.

Also, the way things are looking right now, it seems like we might be getting two Don-centric episodes in a row. Not that I'm complaining, but it does seem a bit odd. Makes me wonder if there isn't something to this whole aired-out-of-order theory.

They may not be out of order, but it sure seems that way.

The next few episodes can't be switched around though, as its the second meeting of Xever, Chris, and eventually Baxter and Shredder.