TMNT Season 2 Best Episode Tournament Round 3: Into Dimension X vs. Manhattan Project

evan2000 · 11-30-2014, 12:52 AM

My first real tough call here. Both episodes were great! Finally went with The Manhattan Project due to the sheer intensity of the situation and the introduction of Tiger Claw as a formidable, recurring villain. At the same time, pretty much every recurring character in the show was involved in this episode, aside from the turtles there were April/Casey, Splinter (first major involvement since Showdown), Karai, Shredder (again, first major involvement since Showdown), Rahzar, Fishface, Baxter, Kraang, Kurtzman and the OT cameos!

Into Dimension X was also full of surprises, fresh new ideas and eye candies, but it was mainly a turtles and Leatherhead ep, and mostly a Mikey centric one at that. I admit some parts were even more interesting than The Manhattan Project but there's only so much you can put into a single episode instead of a double-length one. Of course its purpose was also to build up the suspense for The Invasion, which it did great. If Into Dimension X and The Invasion were made into a 3-parter instead, it would have trumped The Manhattan Project for sure. But being a single episode it still fell short of The Manhattan Project by a little.

View Poll Results: Better Episode
#4 Into Dimension X!	12	37.50%
#5 The Manhattan Project	20	62.50%
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11-30-2014, 12:52 AM	#3
evan2000 Stone Warrior Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Malaysia Posts: 858	My first real tough call here. Both episodes were great! Finally went with The Manhattan Project due to the sheer intensity of the situation and the introduction of Tiger Claw as a formidable, recurring villain. At the same time, pretty much every recurring character in the show was involved in this episode, aside from the turtles there were April/Casey, Splinter (first major involvement since Showdown), Karai, Shredder (again, first major involvement since Showdown), Rahzar, Fishface, Baxter, Kraang, Kurtzman and the OT cameos! Into Dimension X was also full of surprises, fresh new ideas and eye candies, but it was mainly a turtles and Leatherhead ep, and mostly a Mikey centric one at that. I admit some parts were even more interesting than The Manhattan Project but there's only so much you can put into a single episode instead of a double-length one. Of course its purpose was also to build up the suspense for The Invasion, which it did great. If Into Dimension X and The Invasion were made into a 3-parter instead, it would have trumped The Manhattan Project for sure. But being a single episode it still fell short of The Manhattan Project by a little.