Nick TMNT Season 2 Best Episode Tournament: Mutagen Man U. vs. Chinatown Ghost Story - Page 2

*JTH* · 10-27-2014, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Warhorse

I'm just curious, and anyway, I did ask you on your private board, to keep this sh!t off the public boards, so who is having the issue now? Perhaps you should have just kept it PM like I started it? It was an honest question at how you were deciding to pit the episodes togethr.

You brought it up because you hate the love triangle, which is why you brought it up here and no time before it.

Then I explained to you why I do it in this format, and you didn't care. I know why you asked, you wanted to know why the two love triangle episodes are together, because you hate it. And that's why you put it on my profile, which people would have seen it anyway, so it wasn't even private. Anyone could have seen it.

So just say the reason you brought it up is because you hate the love triangle, I already know that and had already established that, and that is no reason to start asking why I do it in this format.

[You are officially ignored]

*Shark_Blade* · 10-27-2014, 11:38 PM

Both are great, but I choose Mutagen Man because it shows Timothy in his true ugly form.

Mukouno · 10-28-2014, 08:46 AM

Again two episodes I'm not very fond of...
Most annoying character vs most annoying love triangle ever.
I'll go with Timothy this time, at least that was the last episode he appeared in as an active character while we'll probably have to deal with Capriltello until the end of the series...

evan2000 · 10-28-2014, 09:00 AM

I voted for Mutagen Man Unleashed. His crush on April aside, Donnie actually showcased a lot of his technical expertise in this episode. His combined skills in biology, chemistry, mechanics and electronics allowed him to build all the life support equipment attached to Timothy's glass jar (heart rate monitor, voice amplifier box etc.) while at the same time experimenting to create retro-mutagen, although he end up unintentionally creating a freezing agent, which was used later on to save the day. In the background, we also saw Metalhead being fixed up (remember it was beheaded by one of the Squirrelanoids earlier), walking around on its own with some early form of A.I. sentience and was already "communicating" with Donnie via beep commands. I can relate to many of Donnie's technical traits myself and I'm really fond of those elements being portrayed in episodes like this one.

In A Chinatown Ghost Story there wasn't much of Donnie's technical side being showcased, if at all. What people remember are mostly concerning his rivalry with Casey to win April's heart. In fact Donnie didn't even seem very smart at all in this episode (his mind is probably clouded by the problem with April), the most "technical" thing he did was looking up "Ho Chan" on Infomania (Wikipedia look-alike). Pretty much anyone knows how to do that these days. Even the idea of using pizza to distract the possessed turtles came from Casey and not Donnie. I don't know, Casey and Donnie's intelligence seem to have swapped in this episode.

*Warhorse* · 10-28-2014, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by JTH

You brought it up because you hate the love triangle, which is why you brought it up here and no time before it.

Then I explained to you why I do it in this format, and you didn't care. I know why you asked, you wanted to know why the two love triangle episodes are together, because you hate it. And that's why you put it on my profile, which people would have seen it anyway, so it wasn't even private. Anyone could have seen it.

So just say the reason you brought it up is because you hate the love triangle, I already know that and had already established that, and that is no reason to start asking why I do it in this format.

[You are officially ignored]

Actually, I don't. Sometime I roll my eyes at it, but trust me, I am one of the last people here to have an issue with it. I was just curious because of a previous poll. It really had nothing to do with this one at all, which is again why I PM you the question. You seemed to pit up two Donnie episodes against eachother, but previous, you pit up Shellacne and Newtralized and I was just trying to figure out where you are coming up with your rivalries. Wouldn't Shellacne and Pizzaface been a better rivalry since they dealt with Mikey? And oh yeah, ignoring me for a simple question, totally classy and a way to blow things waaayyyyy out of proportion.

LeoRaph · 10-30-2014, 07:24 AM

Maybe I'm in the minority but I liked Chinatown Ghost Story. I love Big Trouble in Little China and thought that it was such a great homage to it that I wasn't even paying attention to the love triangle thing. I don't really care for it anyway, it'll never work. It doesn't really need to be in there. I mean they've never been like this romancewise in any other TMNT (sure the guys were attracted to April but they NEVER trod on Casey's shoes to get her affections) but then again this is also the most TEEN they've ever been.

Personally I prefer the more adult versions of the turtles from 2K3 and Mirage but the Nick series is still fun with good story lines. Still, it wouldn't really hurt if they were to drop the whole love triangle thing.

View Poll Results: Better Episode
#14 Mutagen Man Unleashed	28	71.79%
#19 A Chinatown Ghost Story	11	28.21%
Voters: 39. You may not vote on this poll

10-27-2014, 11:38 PM	#22
Shark_Blade Emperor Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,909	Both are great, but I choose Mutagen Man because it shows Timothy in his true ugly form.

10-28-2014, 08:46 AM	#23
Mukouno Foot Soldier Join Date: May 2014 Location: Germany Posts: 130	Again two episodes I'm not very fond of... Most annoying character vs most annoying love triangle ever. I'll go with Timothy this time, at least that was the last episode he appeared in as an active character while we'll probably have to deal with Capriltello until the end of the series...

10-28-2014, 09:00 AM	#24
evan2000 Stone Warrior Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Malaysia Posts: 858	I voted for Mutagen Man Unleashed. His crush on April aside, Donnie actually showcased a lot of his technical expertise in this episode. His combined skills in biology, chemistry, mechanics and electronics allowed him to build all the life support equipment attached to Timothy's glass jar (heart rate monitor, voice amplifier box etc.) while at the same time experimenting to create retro-mutagen, although he end up unintentionally creating a freezing agent, which was used later on to save the day. In the background, we also saw Metalhead being fixed up (remember it was beheaded by one of the Squirrelanoids earlier), walking around on its own with some early form of A.I. sentience and was already "communicating" with Donnie via beep commands. I can relate to many of Donnie's technical traits myself and I'm really fond of those elements being portrayed in episodes like this one. In A Chinatown Ghost Story there wasn't much of Donnie's technical side being showcased, if at all. What people remember are mostly concerning his rivalry with Casey to win April's heart. In fact Donnie didn't even seem very smart at all in this episode (his mind is probably clouded by the problem with April), the most "technical" thing he did was looking up "Ho Chan" on Infomania (Wikipedia look-alike). Pretty much anyone knows how to do that these days. Even the idea of using pizza to distract the possessed turtles came from Casey and not Donnie. I don't know, Casey and Donnie's intelligence seem to have swapped in this episode.

10-30-2014, 07:24 AM	#26
LeoRaph Hench Mutant Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Sydney Posts: 357	Maybe I'm in the minority but I liked Chinatown Ghost Story. I love Big Trouble in Little China and thought that it was such a great homage to it that I wasn't even paying attention to the love triangle thing. I don't really care for it anyway, it'll never work. It doesn't really need to be in there. I mean they've never been like this romancewise in any other TMNT (sure the guys were attracted to April but they NEVER trod on Casey's shoes to get her affections) but then again this is also the most TEEN they've ever been. Personally I prefer the more adult versions of the turtles from 2K3 and Mirage but the Nick series is still fun with good story lines. Still, it wouldn't really hurt if they were to drop the whole love triangle thing.