"Night of Sh'okanabo!": Discuss now or forever hold your peace.

The Big Bad · 10-21-2006, 07:06 PM

A good, althought not great episode. While none of the Fast Forward episodes shown so far have reached the previous series' season 4 peak, they do manage to compare quite favorably against it's first season--a much more appropiate comparison, I think.

Random thoughts:

Was it just me, or was this episode's "Danger Room" scenario based on the Ninja Tribunal's ship?

The show is slowly but surely integrating its cast into a coherent whole. Biggles appearance didn't seem contrived, and Serling finally gets some badass injected in him. Splinter, however, continues to be marginalized, and I'm left wondering what the point of bringing him along was.

Wuss Wrestling, horror movies as a very niche market--I wonder if the writers are going someplace specific with this, or if these developments are made randomly. Given the crew, I'd say a little bit from bucket A, a little bit from bucket B. In any case, the future seems to have struck a nice balance between "utopia" and "dystopia"--quite nice.

I'd considered the possibility that Sh'Okanabo could be a returned Shredder/Ch'rell, but it is now pretty clear that that isn't the case. In any case, while he's a pretty standard "take over the world" big bad, I remain intrigued. Plus, he's no slouch in a fight, either--I was pleasantly surprised when he continued to hold his own against Cody's armor, especially when devices of that type are usually used as deux ex machinas.

This episode's premise reminded me a bit of The Way of Invincibility; Sh'Okanabo's motivations this episode were almost exactly like Saki's determination to figure out wether the turtles were allied with his "enemies". Here, however, Sh'Okanabo gained nothing but increased attention from the turtles (althought fortunately, they have no leads due to the fact that he never mentioned his name--a stroke of good luck if I ever heard of one).

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10-21-2006, 07:06 PM	#29
The Big Bad Stone Warrior Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 653	A good, althought not great episode. While none of the Fast Forward episodes shown so far have reached the previous series' season 4 peak, they do manage to compare quite favorably against it's first season--a much more appropiate comparison, I think. Random thoughts: Was it just me, or was this episode's "Danger Room" scenario based on the Ninja Tribunal's ship? The show is slowly but surely integrating its cast into a coherent whole. Biggles appearance didn't seem contrived, and Serling finally gets some badass injected in him. Splinter, however, continues to be marginalized, and I'm left wondering what the point of bringing him along was. Wuss Wrestling, horror movies as a very niche market--I wonder if the writers are going someplace specific with this, or if these developments are made randomly. Given the crew, I'd say a little bit from bucket A, a little bit from bucket B. In any case, the future seems to have struck a nice balance between "utopia" and "dystopia"--quite nice. I'd considered the possibility that Sh'Okanabo could be a returned Shredder/Ch'rell, but it is now pretty clear that that isn't the case. In any case, while he's a pretty standard "take over the world" big bad, I remain intrigued. Plus, he's no slouch in a fight, either--I was pleasantly surprised when he continued to hold his own against Cody's armor, especially when devices of that type are usually used as deux ex machinas. This episode's premise reminded me a bit of The Way of Invincibility; Sh'Okanabo's motivations this episode were almost exactly like Saki's determination to figure out wether the turtles were allied with his "enemies". Here, however, Sh'Okanabo gained nothing but increased attention from the turtles (althought fortunately, they have no leads due to the fact that he never mentioned his name--a stroke of good luck if I ever heard of one).