Top 10 Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Episodes - Page 2

*Prowler* · 08-13-2014, 03:41 AM

As nostalgic as I am for the first 30-40 TMNT episodes, season 2 nowadays gives me the feeling that the show still wasn't sure what direction to take. You had episodes with silly concepts such as the pizza alien creatures and April turning into a cat, and also had the 4 episode story arc of Eye of Sarnath. Also, why did they just keep Bebop and Rocksteady in Dimension X for half of the season?

I do like how the show, despite its goofy nature, still had some serious and tense feeling to it until the end of the 3rd season. Season 4 onward it became even goofier and the action didn't bring much tension to the table again until season 7 or red sky.

*CyberCubed* · 08-13-2014, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Prowler

As nostalgic as I am for the first 30-40 TMNT episodes, season 2 nowadays gives me the feeling that the show still wasn't sure what direction to take. You had episodes with silly concepts such as the pizza alien creatures and April turning into a cat, and also had the 4 episode story arc of Eye of Sarnath. Also, why did they just keep Bebop and Rocksteady in Dimension X for half of the season?

I didn't think those were silly concepts. Pizza Monsters and Cat April were actually played up seriously. The silly episode from Season 2 was the Rex-1 episode, especially the climax when he started doing excercise videos to defeat the evil robots.

Also Bebop/Rocksteady staying behind made sense because otherwise you wouldn't know why Baxter was kept along. Obviously looking back on it now its a bit refreshing since Bebop/Rocksteady always went with Shredder for the rest of the series.

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I do like how the show, despite its goofy nature, still had some serious and tense feeling to it until the end of the 3rd season. Season 4 onward it became even goofier and the action didn't bring much tension to the table again until season 7 or red sky.

Season 6 was just as serious as the other seasons. Also select Season 4 and 5 episodes were excellent.

"My brother, the bad guy," "Donatello's Duplicate," "The Ice Creature Cometh," "Mutagen Man," etc. are examples of great Season 5 episodes.

turtle1237 · 08-13-2014, 11:14 AM

Will shock the 5th Turtle got number 1 though. Mime would be turtle tracks.

us_sofcskey · 08-13-2014, 12:21 PM

Finally got around and picked up all the ten seasons of the FW series.
I have only watched through season 6 so far… so no 7 or the red sky episodes yet so instead of 10 I will list my 5 favorite so far.
Excluding season 1 since it’s only 5 episodes and I couldn’t tell you how many times I watched it when I was little on a VHS copy so needless to say season 1 is very nostalgic.
#5 Foot Soldiers are revolting
#4 The Case of the Killer Pizzas
#3 Sky Turtles
#2 Nightmare in the Lair (Huge elm street fan is probably why)
#1 Leo vs Tempestra

*Prowler* · 08-13-2014, 12:49 PM

If I had to make a list of the 10 best FW series episodes:

Turtle Tracks
Enter The Shredder
Cowabunga, Shredhead
Turtle Trek
The Big Blowout
Return of the Technodrome
Get Shredder
Planet of the Turtleoids
The Legend of Koji
Divide and Conquer

They're in no order, btw.

us_sofcskey · 08-14-2014, 08:53 AM

Just watched the first 6 episodes of European vacation overall kind of bland episodes… I did like some of the gladiator fighting in the episode “artless” and the whole renaissance namesake gimmick that was kind of neat so far my favorite of the 6 episodes.
The last episode I watched was the lost queen of Atlantis…. Kind of weird that it’s out of order on the discs but o well.
Something I did notice in the episode that was cool is that Leo actually stabs an enemy that’s not a robot. Granted it was the giant octopus but he still stabbed it… unique it actually had the gashing noise and blood poured out…. Was kind of surprised to see that in the FW series.

08-13-2014, 03:41 AM	#21
Prowler Emperor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,998	As nostalgic as I am for the first 30-40 TMNT episodes, season 2 nowadays gives me the feeling that the show still wasn't sure what direction to take. You had episodes with silly concepts such as the pizza alien creatures and April turning into a cat, and also had the 4 episode story arc of Eye of Sarnath. Also, why did they just keep Bebop and Rocksteady in Dimension X for half of the season? I do like how the show, despite its goofy nature, still had some serious and tense feeling to it until the end of the 3rd season. Season 4 onward it became even goofier and the action didn't bring much tension to the table again until season 7 or red sky.

08-13-2014, 11:14 AM	#23
turtle1237 Stone Warrior Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 986	Will shock the 5th Turtle got number 1 though. Mime would be turtle tracks.

08-13-2014, 12:21 PM	#24
us_sofcskey Random Punk Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: US Posts: 38	Finally got around and picked up all the ten seasons of the FW series. I have only watched through season 6 so far… so no 7 or the red sky episodes yet so instead of 10 I will list my 5 favorite so far. Excluding season 1 since it’s only 5 episodes and I couldn’t tell you how many times I watched it when I was little on a VHS copy so needless to say season 1 is very nostalgic. #5 Foot Soldiers are revolting #4 The Case of the Killer Pizzas #3 Sky Turtles #2 Nightmare in the Lair (Huge elm street fan is probably why) #1 Leo vs Tempestra

08-13-2014, 12:49 PM	#25
Prowler Emperor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,998	If I had to make a list of the 10 best FW series episodes: Turtle Tracks Enter The Shredder Cowabunga, Shredhead Turtle Trek The Big Blowout Return of the Technodrome Get Shredder Planet of the Turtleoids The Legend of Koji Divide and Conquer They're in no order, btw.

08-14-2014, 08:53 AM	#26
us_sofcskey Random Punk Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: US Posts: 38	Just watched the first 6 episodes of European vacation overall kind of bland episodes… I did like some of the gladiator fighting in the episode “artless” and the whole renaissance namesake gimmick that was kind of neat so far my favorite of the 6 episodes. The last episode I watched was the lost queen of Atlantis…. Kind of weird that it’s out of order on the discs but o well. Something I did notice in the episode that was cool is that Leo actually stabs an enemy that’s not a robot. Granted it was the giant octopus but he still stabbed it… unique it actually had the gashing noise and blood poured out…. Was kind of surprised to see that in the FW series.