TMNT Season 3 Best Episode Tournament Round 2: Dinosaur in Sewers! vs. Mega Shredder
 

Let's start off with saying that what a way to have my 1500th comment!



Okay, moving on. :D

We're on to match 3 of Round 2. Let's see how this on unfolds, it's 5 vs. 12. Will the streak of top seed advances continue, or will the streak finally end?




Round 2 Polls will last 5 days and will be private polls, but of course you can still discuss who you voted for and your reasoning why.

Note: All Round 2 Matches will begin on Tuesdays. Going to keep it uniform, so always be tuned in this time each Tuesday.

To check out the complete up to date bracket, the link is here:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cf...Best%20Episode

Now with that said and done, it's time to take a look at the "Tale of the Turtle Tape"!

Official Seed: #5
Where JTH seeded this episode: #9
Total Points Received: 108
Official IGN Review: 8.5/10
Current TV.com Rating: 9.9/10
Highest Rating Episode Received: #2 (2 Times)
How did it get here?: Recieved Bye

Official Seed: #12
Where JTH seeded this episode: #18
Total Points Received: 29
Official IGN Review: 8.2/10
Current TV.com Rating: 9.3/10
Highest Rating Episode Received: #6 (GoldMutant)
How did it get here?: Defeated Eyes of the Chimera in Round 1

Winner faces winner of #4 Vision Quest/#13 Buried Secrets in Round 3


JTH's Prediction:


Which episode wins in your mind, vote away. Remember...HAVE FUN!!! :D

Though not to say that dinosaur was in any way a bad episode (because it wasn't) I am going to throw my vote in with Mega Shredder.

Reason is - while Dinosaur was a solid episode for advancing the plot, it didn't quite have the character moments that Mega Shredder put forward.

Don't get me wrong, MS is not a flawless episode by any stretch. I really didnt like the design of the Mega shredder itself (but then I'm not overly fond of the Triceraton design either), but MS as an episode was probably one of the best Mikey episodes of Season 3. It offered a great little dynamic between two brothers we rarely see work together (Leo/Mikey) and there are some genuinely quite touching moments in the episode (Leo's wordless look at Mikey's grappling gun jumps to mind).

Though there is the impact of Zog's death on Raph, the moment feels a lot like a revamp of Slash's fall in Slash and Destroy. It is a bit 'by the numbers' by comparison.

So for its originality, humour, dynamic and better pacing and more impactful character moments, my vote would have to go to Mega Shredder