Why do people obsess over "Same As It Never Was"?!

jestergoblin · 02-11-2015, 12:15 PM

I'd suggest reading the original reaction thread when the episode aired:

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=11953 (ignore single-minded posts... and the whole thing in middle)

Here's the big thing about the episode: we didn't know what was coming. We knew the general gist of the episode because of the previous ones, we knew it was Don's turn and the teaser from the previous week told us it was some kind of future where Shredder ruled.

That was all we knew.

There wasn't anything about it being a world without Don, or what happened to the other three. We basically went in blind, expecting something similar to Raph and Mikey's episodes and instead were blindsided by a dystopian story that ended with multiple deaths.

02-11-2015, 12:15 PM	#19
jestergoblin Mad Scientist Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,466	I'd suggest reading the original reaction thread when the episode aired: http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=11953 (ignore single-minded posts... and the whole thing in middle) Here's the big thing about the episode: we didn't know what was coming. We knew the general gist of the episode because of the previous ones, we knew it was Don's turn and the teaser from the previous week told us it was some kind of future where Shredder ruled. That was all we knew. There wasn't anything about it being a world without Don, or what happened to the other three. We basically went in blind, expecting something similar to Raph and Mikey's episodes and instead were blindsided by a dystopian story that ended with multiple deaths.