Favourite Season

[Krangstein]

Now here is a thread thats seriously lacking originality. What is your favourite season?
Mine is sesaon 3. Perfect blend of action and humor.

Mine is the first one. Mainly because it was the most serious one of them all (excluding RedSky)... well as serious as they get. Also because it's the season I remember the best (thanks to the DVD).

[Sewer Bull]

Season One as well. Some serious fighting and a good story arc.

[Krangstein]

Originally Posted by Sewer Bull

Season One as well. Some serious fighting and a good story arc.

Do you know why there were only 5 episodes in the first season??

[Sewer Bull]

No, please do tell.

[Utrom]

Originally Posted by Krangstein

Do you know why there were only 5 episodes in the first season??

It was a pilot designed to see if the show would be successful. If it had received poor ratings, the show would have ended there. Fortunately, it did very well in the ratings, so a second season was made, then a third, then a fourth, and so forth.

Now, what is my favorite season? That would definately have to be season three. In 1989, the turtles were at the height of their popularity with 47 episodes being produced for the third season, a live action movie, and tons upon tons of merchandize. This season will always be my favorite as it was able to retain much of the serious tone of the previous two seasons, but also contained a great deal of humor. These episodes were a lot more "fun" and, while many episodes weren't as good as others, with 47 episodes, there were enough good ones in this season to outweigh the bad. Not to mention the three-part season finale that I personally feel was never topped.

And while I love the third season, I also greatly enjoyed the fourth and fifth despite their flaws. Season 6, however, was severely lacking in quality. David Wise finally brought season 7 back to basics and delivered some of the best episodes of the series. And he then took it a step further with season 8. Season 9 was kind of mediocre, but the best part of the Red Sky years came shortly after with the season 10 "Turtles in Time" arc that brought back Shredder and Krang.

All in all, I still feel that season 3 is the best season because it offered the best balance of action and humor. I really feel this is the season that most fans tend to remember from their childhood and with good reason.

[Krangstein]

Originally Posted by Utrom

It was a pilot designed to see if the show would be successful. If it had received poor ratings, the show would have ended there. Fortunately, it did very well in the ratings, so a second season was made, then a third, then a fourth, and so forth.

Now, what is my favorite season? That would definately have to be season three. In 1989, the turtles were at the height of their popularity with 47 episodes being produced for the third season, a live action movie, and tons upon tons of merchandize. This season will always be my favorite as it was able to retain much of the serious tone of the previous two seasons, but also contained a great deal of humor. These episodes were a lot more "fun" and, with 47 episodes, while many episodes weren't as good as others, with 47 episodes, there were enough good ones in this season to outweigh the bad. Not to mention the three-part season finale that I personally feel was never topped.

And while I love the third season, I also greatly enjoyed the fourth and fifth despite their flaws. Season 6, however, was severely lacking in quality. David Wise finally brought season 7 back to basics and delivered some of the best episodes of the series. And he then took it a step further with season 8. Season 9 was kind of mediocre, but the best part of the Red Sky years came shortly after with the season 10 "Turtles in Time" arc that brought back Shredder and Krang.

All in all, I still feel that season 3 is the best season because it offered the best balance of action and humor. I really feel this is the season that most fans tend to remember from their childhood and with good reason.

I agree the three part fine is fantastic. The best 3 episodes of the entire run. I also love season 3 for the great humor. Season 3 also intoduced many new characters, some from the original comis, like Letherhead, Rat King, Casy Jones and Usagi Yojimbo. The 2 Baxter Stockman episodes are also great. Did you notice that the best episodes of Season 3 were the ones that Michael Reeves and David Wise wrote? I just wish Michael Reeves had written more episodes.

[Space Lieutenant Josh]

The season I remember best from childhood was the first one, and I find myself thinking back to it all the time, so I'll have to go with season one.

I was too afraid as a child of the villains to watch it on tv... Rat King scared me especially, as did Baxter Stockman. Also I was scared of Casey Jones on that show, even though he was a good guy. I'd mostly watch the first episode over and over and just hide under a table when Krang came on.

I was one pathetic kid, huh?

[ZariusTwo]

Definatly the first three season. The show was just handled more professionally in syndication, continuity was given care, characters were pretty dark, Shredder was nowhere near the goof he became by the fourth season and onwards, and April at the least was'nt as shallow as she was in between and maybe even during Red Sky.

The fourth season I'm much kinder to now because of the early Wise episodes, "Plan 6 From Outer Space" takes place almost 24 hours after "Big Blow Out", giving us an immediate follow up on the fate of The Technodrome, which unfortunatly was'nt really topped for much of the season with the exception of the character heavy Turtle showcases like "Donatello's Degree" and selected episodes of the European Vacation, which did'nt know what to be other than educational programming.

Fifth season has rare classics, if any, "Mutagen Man" "The Ice Creature Cometh", and "Planet of the Turtloids" were all Wise episodes, and hence were flowers in a dustbin. Season Six had the first three episodes, and nothing else. And I should also note Wise wrote all three of them.

[Krangstein]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Definatly the first three season. The show was just handled more professionally in syndication, continuity was given care, characters were pretty dark, Shredder was nowhere near the goof he became by the fourth season and onwards, and April at the least was'nt as shallow as she was in between and maybe even during Red Sky.

The fourth season I'm much kinder to now because of the early Wise episodes, "Plan 6 From Outer Space" takes place almost 24 hours after "Big Blow Out", giving us an immediate follow up on the fate of The Technodrome, which unfortunatly was'nt really topped for much of the season with the exception of the character heavy Turtle showcases like "Donatello's Degree" and selected episodes of the European Vacation, which did'nt know what to be other than educational programming.

Fifth season has rare classics, if any, "Mutagen Man" "The Ice Creature Cometh", and "Planet of the Turtloids" were all Wise episodes, and hence were flowers in a dustbin. Season Six had the first three episodes, and nothing else. And I should also note Wise wrote all three of them.

I must say I like season 4 very much especially the episodes that Davis Wise and Michael Reeves wrote. This season was so funny. In fact it some times reminds me of Futurma in some episodes. Funny aliens and creatures and silly stories with funny characters.

In my opinion Michael Reeves wrote the best episodes though.Followed closely by David Wise who also wrote great episodes, especially for the first four seasons. He kinda was out of ideas after that. He did make a come back in the Seventh season though.

David Wise co-wrote the first 5 episodes. I'm wondering,since he wrote the episodes, and most of the series, did he create Rocksteady and Bebop, and Krang, or was it the producers, Frank Wolf (the creator of the show) who created those new characters? Does any one know?

[Lady Venus]

Mine is the very first Season cuz it was very funny.

[ZariusTwo]

Eastman and Laird created Rocksteady and Bebop, and their variation shines right through in the first season, then Wise and Reaves toned them down. As for Krang, they probably did develop his character's concept, but Wise gave Krang his characteristics.

[Krangstein]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Eastman and Laird created Rocksteady and Bebop, and their variation shines right through in the first season, then Wise and Reaves toned them down. As for Krang, they probably did develop his character's concept, but Wise gave Krang his characteristics.

Are you sure Eastman and Laird created Rocksteady and Bebop and Krang? I always thought it was F.Wolf and Wise. I kinda got the idea that Laird thought Krang was an Utrom rip-off and that Rocksteady and Bebop were silly. Thats why he was so passionate about creating the new series. Also, who decided to make April a reporter and to have Shredder and Krang living in the Technodrome??

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Krangstein

Are you sure Eastman and Laird created Rocksteady and Bebop and Krang? I always thought it was F.Wolf and Wise. I kinda got the idea that Laird thought Krang was an Utrom rip-off and that Rocksteady and Bebop were silly. Thats why he was so passionate about creating the new series.

True, but if you watch the first season, Rocksteady and Bebop were close to what Eastman and Laird envisioned them to be, then were gradually reduced to bumbling goofs, the kind of goofs that FOX wanted to use in the second movie which they fought against.

Laird's more of an in-closet original series fan than he cares to admit, it amuses me how so many readers have told him to stop "picking on it" when so many references, homages, and in-jokes he's personally made show otherwise.

[Sakirules]

As I thought. some chose the 1st as their number one season while others chose the 3rd season as their number 1 season.

[Krangstein]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

True, but if you watch the first season, Rocksteady and Bebop were close to what Eastman and Laird envisioned them to be, then were gradually reduced to bumbling goofs, the kind of goofs that FOX wanted to use in the second movie which they fought against.

Laird's more of an in-closet original series fan than he cares to admit, it amuses me how so many readers have told him to stop "picking on it" when so many references, homages, and in-jokes he's personally made show otherwise.

But why did they create R&B and Krang? Were they asked to help create new characters for the cartoon? I thought Laird and Eastman didn't have any thing to do with the old cartoon??

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Krangstein

But why did they create R&B and Krang? Were they asked to help create new characters for the cartoon? I thought Laird and Eastman didn't have any thing to do with the old cartoon??

They created Krang, Rocksteady and Bebop because the studios insisted on giving Shredder some alien and mutant allies, Laird and Eastman did'nt want the Utroms to be seen as anything other than benevolant at the time (something that Laird has since gone back on, incorporating evil Utroms into the comics and modern series) so they refused to make Krang a Utrom and made him the brain of an alien warlord.

[Krangstein]

But who created the Technodrome??

[ZariusTwo]

Your mom.

And maybe Drakus.

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Your mom.

And maybe Drakus.

you know it was Drakus aka Bazerko! *shakes fist at the trator Krang!*