hurray, a new episode discussion after all this time
It's been so long since I participated in one of these. I just saw
Lap of the Gods (I taped since i had to work early on saturday) and I have to say that enjoyed it. Although I think half of my elation was the fact that I was seeing my turtles again restored to the orginal way they where with the same tone and animation style, that I haven't seen before.
Splinter was back to be being commanding and even a bit insolent as well, which I thought was pretty awsome considering how self important the tribunal members seemed. And speaking of the tribunal this was really the first time I was able to get to see them. They where...interesting. I liked their character designs and their powers, and how they each represented a skill/disipline of ninjitsu. You get to see the tribunal a bit more and learn more of their nuances, but over-all they seem pretty cool. I did however get a little annoyed with their constant insults of how pathatic the turtles and the other acolytes where and how they "don't have any clue about how great the evil is they are facing--you're worthless". So I was rather happy that Splinter came in unanounced and was like "that is because you haven't
told them anything, you assholes". And ooh, you could tell Splinter wasn't happy with the tribunal taking his sons, and he didn't care if they knew it. The fact that Splinter was like "screw you! Handle it your self--I'm taking my kids home", when the ancient one (Yoshi's father) was all scared and sheepish about being there, said alot about how intimidating the tribunal are. And Splinter didn't care! Go Splinter!
You don't get to know more about the acolytes yet in this episode or their personalites, which I was a little dissapointed at, I really hope we get to see more of them, as it is they just seemed like they where making up the numbers.
I enjoyed the Libary scene, since it was like Donatello acted like a kid in a candy store, and it was nice to see that Donatello figured out the chi summoning thing first.