How You Rank Each Episode of Season 4

[Aaronardo]

Originally Posted by GoldMutant

I would debate The Croaking being just as bad, if not the worst episode of the series. The same can be said for Evil of Dregg, I've wanted to quit at least three times this season, but man ELS is still unimpressive, even if I find a few more worse in the season.

Oh man, I completely forgot about The Croaking. I only bothered to watch that episode once and I don't really remember much about it, other than it being unimpressive. I guess it must be a contender. If I ever find the time, I'll see to suffering through it again

Originally Posted by TMNTInsighter

I wouldn't say they're inconsistencies, it's more like they broke the rules. I can't remember Peter DiCicco's tweet or quote from the ELS discussion, but some have argued (and he may have been one of them) that this was more of a blurring between time and reality like JL tried to do with "A Better World" up until "Divided We Fall"; so that it felt like it was more of creating a new reality than fixing a timeline. I myself don't see it so, yeah, I think Auman broke the rules he established in "Tale of the Yokai" more than anything else.

Even then, I would say that "Earth's Last Stand" is FAR from the worst episode of the series. It's got bigger problems than the whole time conundrum (Tiger Claw, the introduction of the devastator, etc.) IMO but it's not the worst episode we've had.

Yes, but when Justice League did it, they established that yes, those were the rules and the whole point of the plot was that they broke said rules. ELS just throws all kinds of paradoxes around and expects you to believe it. By all means, this universe should cave into itself and cease to exist due to the events of that episode.

Outside of the god-awful time-travel writing, everybody is out of character when character is something you need the most of (Raph isn't angry at Fugitoid for not telling them his secret, Donnie doesn't feel used or betrayed, etc), they reversed one of the gutsiest and best moments of the show, the Triceratons get a very small sendoff for being such big villains, and they give us the bullsh*t "oh, Fugitoid's alive!" thing at the end. And the plot is inconsistent. It can't keep itself from going from one different thing to the other.

Everything that's bad about the show is dialed up a couple notches plus all those ridiculous time-travel paradoxes and inconsistencies are present in ELS, which is definitely why it's my least-favorite episode in the show.