Finished S4 today, well technically I didn't watch the last episode but I remember it was awesome and deals more with the next season than this one. S4 was the only season I had already completely seen, I remembered it was amazing and I was afraid after having watched S1-3 that it wasn't going to be as good as I remembered it, I mean I used to compare 2k3 with Batman TAS and I no longer felt that was good comparison. I was pleasantly surprised that I was wrong and S4 was still as good as I remembered, its so far easily the best season the show has had and based on the opinion of the later seasons I'm assuming this is where the show peaked. This season definitely felt a lot like BTAS to me, the earlier seasons where much more actiony and sci-fiish in their story telling, not to say this season didn't have action or sci-fi since it had plenty of it. It also makes me wish S1-3 could have been done this style instead not to say I didn't enjoy S1-3 since I did but they weren't as enjoyable. Even the updated intro is much better and original intro had already grown on me quite a bit.
Characters this season and I'm skipping the turtles well except Leo, he was definitely a bit too angsty, when I first saw S4 I didn't know what had happened with the Shredder so I just imagined it was much more epic than what actually happened so his angstyness made sense. However knowing what actually happened his angst did feel a bit over the top though I was very glad it was acknowledged by him that they did not defeat the Shredder because its true, they were defeated by him basically and it had been something that had bothered me so I'm happy it was mentioned. While his angst was a bit over the top it wasn't as much of a complain as many point out that "Leo went emo". Karai was excellent this season as well, she won me over after not having liked her much before. Same with Agent Bishop I felt he wasn't portrayed as only a villain like last season but he just does things in a shady way. Baxter was also made better though I always liked him anyways. I also really enjoyed how Hun worked this season, when I first saw S4 I didn't like Hun working without the Shredder but now that I saw more of their history it makes perfect sense, though I had thought that Hun knew Shredder was an Utrom since the start of the second season. Only character I didn't like much was the Ratking, I didn't like that he was just a the Bishop clone/monster from last season not familiar with the Mirage Ratking but I wish he had been different. I know based on Cybercubed's comments that he never appears again and I don't mind it because of his weak appearance though maybe his next appearance would have redeemed him.
My questions for this season are mostly about next season. Did Season 5 have its own intro or did it use the same Karai as Shredder from S4? Can someone tell me more of the story of S5? I didn't quite follow it except that Fast Forward was done first and that Laird apparently made S5 out of his pocket, which doesn't make sense since 4Kids DID have a say since they cancel the Nightmares Recycled episode. Also was S5 always 13 episodes? its odd they went for a 13 episode season and then 26 again for FF, it only makes sense if Laird did indeed make the season out of his pocket and he could only afford 13 which I already said I don't believe Laird did it all out of his pocket. I'm also still confused about the whole multiverse, it was also mentioned a few times this season but its definitely not used in the same way as the Turtles Forever multiverse.
Looking forward to S5, I am pretty hyped about it since the story arc setting up S5 was awesome so HYPE HYPE HYPE. I already know S5 isn't liked by many and I already know a few spoilers of it that I've accidentally read or some spoilers that people used as a signature
I know its anime inspired which is fine by me I like Anime so I'll see how I like it, I'm definitely hyped about it and have high expectations regardless.