TMNT Season 3 Best Episode Tournament: Clash of the Mutanimals vs. Within the Woods

[JTH]

ROUND 1

It's time to begin the Season 3 Best Episode Tournament. We kick off with the 16 vs. 17 match, and in the previous two tournaments, this match ended a tie each time. With the 16 & 17 seed winning in tiebreakers in each respective season tournament. Will we see another? Could very well as this match features two episodes that are ranked even all the way through.

Round 1 Polls will last 3 days and will be private polls, but of course you can still discuss who you voted for and your reasoning why.

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

With all that said, let's take a look at the "Tale of the Turtle Tape"!

Official Seed: #16
Where JTH seeded this episode: #12
Total Points Received: 20
Official IGN Review: 8.4/10
Current TV.com Rating: 9.1/10
Highest Rating Episode Received: #4 (Foombamaroom)

Official Seed: #17
Where JTH seeded this episode: #11
Total Points Received: 18
Official IGN Review: 8.5/10
Current TV.com Rating: 9.2/10
Highest Rating Episode Received: #8 (evan2000)

Winner Faces: #1 Seed Annihilation: Earth in Round 2

JTH's Prediction:

Spoiler:

Well, your classic 16 vs. 17, everything as you see is virtually even on the ratings scale. But there is one big difference. Foombamaroom's #4 rank for Clash of the Mutanimals accounted for nearly half of the episode's point total, while Within the Woods received a more balanced continuation of lower ranks, which would lead that while it is unanimously agreed upon that Within the Woods is not a top tier episode, it is a balanced mid-tier episode, so IMO despite being the lower seed, I believe Within the Woods is a slight favorite here. Clash o.t. Mutanimals' point total may be a bit skewed by the one #4 ranking, and was deemed by many as a hit or miss episode that didn't really deliver in the hype that it built, and there may be still some sour grapes towards that episode.

So for that, I'm picking #17 Within the Woods to get the clean win.

#17 Within the Woods - 18
#16 Clash of the Mutanimals - 14

Which episodes wins in your mind, vote away. Remember...HAVE FUN!!!

[Vicky82]

Both great episodes but I have to go with Clash of The Mutanimals.

[Tarris Vaal]

This is a genuinely tough one I think. They're both episodes with significant flaws and both quite well matched for action and suspense.

I guess it boils down to whether you think Plant Raph and his convenient revival or Dark Raph...and his convenient revival... was the most misused plot point.

[GoldMutant]

So, the episodes where Raph suffered heavily...

Easily Within the Woods for me. Might have lost an opportunity with plant Raph, but honestly I loved the episode. Creep was an interesting mutant and it does remain one of the highlights of the Northampton arc for me personally.

Best not to even mention Clash to me, I still find it one of the worst episodes of the show overall. Meh, a topic for another day, I'm curious on what is going to happen.

[The Happy One]

Gotta go with...Clash of the Mutanimals! But this one was a toughy....both were pretty epic episodes but Clash's fight scenes were AWESOME!

[JTH]

It was a tough one for me too, they were 12 & 11 on my lists, both had cool homages.

For me, I'm a huge sucker for April's narration in the beginning of Within the Woods, right out of the 1990 movie. To me, having Season 3 open with that was pure gold.

[Luigiperps]

Really liked Clash of the Mutanimals, but seeing I loved seeing Leo's recovery in Within the Woods, so I have to give it to that one.

[GoldMutant]

I actually did have a question JTH, what happens if both the episodes tie by the end of the voting?

[JTH]

Originally Posted by GoldMutant

I actually did have a question JTH, what happens if both the episodes tie by the end of the voting?

I've decided to change it up this year after some people complained, so I'm going to make sure nothing else can be made of it.

I'll put the two episodes that tie up in the following match and turn the poll into a multiple choice poll, so people can pick the current poll and the previous tied poll at the same time.

[JTH]

24 hours to vote.

Please, no tie...please?