City at War in the classic cartoon

[Sage Ninja]

Does any one here think that the old toon could have pulled off a City at War story arc? I've just been watching my episodes from volume five of season three and episodes like Uasgi Yojimbo, Beware the Lotus, and Usagi Come Home and I saw how awsome and semi-epic these episodes where in terms of fighting suspence, agnst and over-all plot. Especially in the Lotus episode, where Lotus breifly over threw Shredder and took his place in command and Shredder's bitter rivalry and resentment at being replaced by her, and his way of making it seem she had betrayed Krang. How easy could it have been for this conflict to have accumulated into a City at War type story arc in the old toon with Lotus and Shredder battling it out for supremacy and it being taken to the streets of New York and the turtles getting swept up in the middle of the conflict, whitsle all the gangs in the city taken advantage of the chaos to run wild. Plus the added bonus of the wary respect Leoanrdo and Lotus had for one another to add agnst to to the whole conflict.

Do you think the old toon could have pulled off its own version of a City at War-esch type story line and done it justice? Or do you think a City at War story arc just wouldn't have worked in the old toon at all/