Shredder meets Kraang (in TMNT: OotS Novelization)
 

I bought this book and one chapter struck me as very interesting:


And yes - the book is very different from the film.:P

How much else does it change from the final movie?

Jr. Novelizations aren't made with the shooting script but a near final script which is why there are changes.

Krang sound way more menacing than the stupid, over-the-top version we saw in OOTS

I've read this, too. The first big change is it states Shredder and Baxter knew of Krang's existance before the first meeting, due to baxter's research into their recovered artifact/the teleporter. (and I personally think they extracted the ooze that made the tmnt from said teleportation device after the foot clan found it) The second change is the book doesn't have the turtles beat krang, or Shredder getting frozen. The novelization ends on cliffhanger with the technodrome's arrival, and the turtles preparing to take on shredder, krang, rocksteady, bebop, and the rest of the foot clan.

Holy ****. Imagine being a kid, reading that up to the cliffhanger, then going to the movies just to see that crapsack anticlimactic ending...

Low blow Paramount.

The novelization doesn't finish the story? :tlol: I'm tempted to call BS... pictures, please.

Buy it on amazon :lol:

Bro. BRO. BRO.

I ain't giving this crap one red cent of my hard-earned, much-too-scarce currency.

Let one of the people who actually enjoy and support this "version" of TMNT post pictures and prove it's right.

I mean, I'm not calling anyone a liar; I've got no beef. My statement should be understood that I simply find this unbelievable. Such gross incompetence... I don't want it to be true.

So... I need pictures. :tlol:

So... What is Shredder's motivation to go along with Kra(a)ng's wannabe-Galactus-planetary-feast plan?

Not ending up a Krang tentacle victim? I dunno.

Shredder makes it clear that he believes Krang wants to conquer it's planet to drain it's resources, not destroy it entirely. He thinks they are a team, and will rule the planet together. Also, the betrayal of stockman isn't in the novelization.

The cliffhanger gives you the impression that the south America battle with bebop and rocksteady is the story's climax, and the technodrome's arrival is a cliffhanger to lead into the next movie, making the ending battle/betrayals feel kind of tacked on.

That's astonishing.

Yeah, but... The ninja master could just use some good old fashioned ninjutsu and lie his way out.

Seems like there's no reason for Shred-Head to stick with Kra(a)ng's plan as soon as he's teleported back to earth.

I like I just said in my last post, Shredder makes it clear that he believes Krang wants to conquer it's planet to drain it's resources, not destroy it entirely. He thinks they are a team, and will rule the planet together. The novel makes no indication Krang is going to betray shredder at all, nor does shredder betray baxter. The betrayals and shredder feezing is in the movie only, not the book.

Yeah, bought and read it after it came out in stores. Some things are better. But like the movie it's pretty noticeable that it starts to get rushed in the later portion of it.

I've posted bits and pieces of it on the forum previously as well.

Yes, it ends...



Seriously. That's where it stops, as if there was automatically supposed to be a sequel after it. I was dumbfounded that it stopped there.

I actually think many Jr. novelizations pull this little stunt. It's a nice way of telling kids "**** you for buying a book, go spend seven dollars on a movie ticket."

Although unlike the other movie-related books that don't give anything away, they did not release this one until after the film was out. The book for the previous film, though worse written (but in a way that turns it into a laughable guilty pleasure), didn't end in a weird spot like this one does.

Honestly it makes me wonder if the Krang fight was a late addition just to wrap up the film on the chance that a third didn't happen.

Wow. That's some advertising strategy. :tlol:

"Screw literacy, kiddo, go watch a movie." :trazz:

Whatever it takes to get one more ticket sale.

Huh, Krang is menacing and Shredder is mentioned as immortal, this is basically the IDW versions of them...

How about the tone of the book? This one part doesn't include the "tentacle mucus" line or Krang having trouble controling the body, so is the tone more serious?