Official Episode Discussion: "Virtual Reality Check"

[Machias Banshee]

Originally Posted by Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press, 2005

Reality• noun (pl. realities): 1. The state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. 2. A thing that is actually experienced or seen. 3. The quality of being lifelike. 4 the state or quality of having existence or substance."

Truth. Fact. Axiom.


Truth: We want this season to go well
Fact: Many are not happy with this season
Axiom: The fandom is entering a recession, and a subpar Anniversary.


In this week's episode, we find out that the boys have been taken over by the Shredder. They live in what they Think is reality, not knowing the truth.

The question I ask is this: How long have they been under this control? One day? One week? Ever since their first run in with Shredder? For all we know, they may Not have fought the Foot, may Not have found as much of Splinter's data as they thought...

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I know many of you have been losing your enthusiasm over this season, with the storylines (or lack thereof). But after this episode, we get the final arc, and then *maybe* the mini-movie that will tie things up. I hate to see the end of this series, after meeting so many people Because of getting together to watch this show.

One of the issues I see is that we *know* what is going to happen in the episodes. Who here Hasn't read the leaked summaries? It takes away the intrigue of "What if?" and all we get is an anticlimactic disappointment. No suspense. I know that if I hadn't seen the summary for this week, It would have been much more interesting. No pre-conceived info that everything's fake, no hindsight, so to speak. The same thing happened with 'Bad Day', plot-wise... BUT, we didn't Know. We assumed it to be truth, making it much more dramatic to us the viewers.

We are unfortunately a jaded audience, with expectations of what an episode *should* be. What we consider should be Reality.

But the truth is.. well, you decide what Your truth is.

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And even though the FF and BttS factions break out into war when I say it...


Hang in there and Stay Tuned.


((Thanks to Jester for helping me kill my writer's block ))