Watching through the OT completely for the first time

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Finished S7 today and I have mixed feelings about it even though I did like it, at first I was a bit disappointed since I had very high expectations and it wasn't delivering to it, since I heard so much praise towards this season through out the years and it wasn't quite what I was expecting. Some episodes just aren't as memorable even though they are all clearly much better written than previous seasons, but it does pick up.

One thing I noticed even since S6 they've made Shredder a threat again, what I liked in early seasons was no matter what Shredder was always a threat and better than the turtles in hand to hand combat, but in S4 and even in some of S3 but specially S4 is when he gets defeated by getting a Pizza thrown at him or throwing barrels etc. Though technically he wasn't defeated in hand to hand combat either it still cheapened him as a villain. I also liked that he had a lot of solo missions with no Krang or little Krang involvement. To be honest after all his defeats and whining it's still hard to take him 100% serious but they did a great job.

The episode with Dirk Savage was neat though what a goofy name he had, which in the OT would fit him perfectly but not so much with the more serious tone they were going for. It reminded me of the "Mutant Police" that appeared only in one episode in S2, I would've liked to have seen that mutant police being used again. So I liked how they retconned that now there's a bunch of mutants, which is neat, though instead of seeing generic mutants it would've been better to see some of the mutants we knew and love cameo in the cages instead of new generic ones, heck even ones that never appeared. I did like Tokka and Rahzar, they were handled well and could've made interesting antagonists. The triceratons were cool, and man did Rocksteady and Beebop really outsmarted Vernon? Wow! Speaking of Vernon, what a dick he is he isn't just a coward two face person but an actual dick. Also about Krangs body, it's never explicitly stated by him he was a reptile, it's just a theory by Donatello, which could be wrong since his clining just may have been altered by some variable, so the theory of Krang being only an alien brain can still hold as his references of having a body can still be interpreted as an android body. I just like the idea of imagining Krang really being an Utrom in the OT. Not to mention he calls the turtles reptiles in diminishing way which he wouldn't if he really was a reptile. I also really enjoyed seeing the turtles use guns, it was refreshing to see it.

One thing I noticed and kind of saddened me was the mood of S7, it seems they were trying to go for a darker route. However the two styles didn't mesh very well, you had the turtles acting a bit more serious with the still goofy dialog and/or plots, their reactions just seem off and the whole show seems to be having an identity crisis not sure of what exactly it wants to be. It was also sad to see how the turltes we loved were slowly not being them anymore, not the ones we knew and almost if they were trying too hard to fit with the cartoons at the time. Great season, but very different from S1 and I wouldn't compare it to it, just another evolution that the show went through. Glad there was a finale again and it was quite enjoyable, wait was it explained why Irma became such a badass that last episdoe? that was out of character but I don't think I saw anyone mention it or even make a comment about it.

I should finish the entire series by next friday.