This is why people need to read arguments and reasons instead of generalizing.
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Its just fairly obvious. When you're introduced to a show and its characters for the first time, of course everything is going to feel new and fresh.
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Incorrect, the reason people look back at this season is because of consistency. Besides the fillers and the Pulverizer episodes, the majority of the season was primarily good to excellent. Like I said earlier, balance of interactions, comedy and action between characters we don't see often. Even if something doesn't stand out, it's writing was superior overall, though seasons 2 and 3 had some shining examples. Overall though, the quality was better in season 1; it wasn't because of freshness, it's because the writers told a strong narrative which disintegrated later on.
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A lot of the Season 1 episodes were typical mutant of the week or Kraang episodes that if they came in any later season people would have just saw them as run of the mill episodes. But since they came first it was a bigger deal.
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Look through the list again Cube, that's false.
- Rise of the Turtles- Kraang and Snake
- Turtle Temper- minor on Kraang, primarily Spider Bytez
- New Friend Old Enemy- Bradford
- I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman- (obvious on who)
- Metalhead- Kraang
- Monkey Brains- Rockwell (misinformed) and Falco (prior to his change)
- Never Say Xever- (obvious once more)
- The Gauntlet- a little bit of everything: Kraang, the henchmen, and Shredder
- Panic in the Sewers- Bradford/Dogpound
- Mousers Attack!- The Purple Dragons, Baxter, and Dogpound
- It Came From the Depths- Leatherhead (originally misinformed) and Kraang
- I, Monster- Falco/Rat King
- New Girl in Town- Karai's debut and Snakeweed
- The Alien Agenda- a mixture of Kraang and Foot
- The Pulverizer- more focused on Tim, some on Kraang for plot and Foot
- TCRI- Kraang
- Cockroach Terminator- The filler mutant itself, Kraang as a cameo
- Baxter's Gambit- Baxter once more
- Enemy of My Enemy- Kraang and Shredder
- Karai's Vendetta- On April's side, Karai; Turtles' perspective- Kraang though Karai dominated the episode
- The Pulverizer Returns!- The Foot
- Parasitica- The wasps
- Operation: Break Out- Newtrailizer and Kraang
- Showdown- Everything once again
There was more variety in the episodes between the major villains and mutants. After
Turtle Temper there was no new mutants not withstanding Rockwell in
Monkey Brains until we reached
The Gauntlet where Bradford and Xever finally mutated into Dogpound and Fishface respectively. Then, more established veterans in TMNT enter after
Mousers Attack1 with Leatherhead, Rat King as Falco, and Karai in that order of release. There were no new mutants after that until
Cockroach Terminator and the final three episodes between
Enemy of My Enemy and
Showdown, though Newtrailizer is an alien so he doesn't count.
There was more variety; sure, the Kraang and Foot Clan dominated but they also took time to sprinkle in the mutants and not shoehorn as many as possible. It's a problem that happened in Northampton during season 3, forcing in way too much to sell action figures instead of giving them a plot. With the exception of the wasps and roach, every mutant had some sort of meaning or relevance.
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You really think Spiderbitez, Cockroach, Timmy, Parasitic Wasps, etc. weren't all typical character of the week episodes like they had in Seasons 2-3?
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Ironically, the ones you mentioned outside Tim prior to his change are the mutants of the week you mentioned. That's three of the 26 episodes outside of establishing the series' identity. Tim is the only one who was an actual character as was Rockwell later on and Falco as the Rat King.
I do not get what you're trying to achieve Cubed.
