How many non-filler OT eps? - Page 2

**Jester** · 09-09-2011, 09:35 PM

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Shoot, I'd do one tonight if you're up for it.

At work for the next 3 evenings.

*gobo* · 09-09-2011, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester

Gobo, wanna do some commentaries!?

Depends what's on the menu.

**Jester** · 09-09-2011, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by gobo

Depends what's on the menu.

Any 2 episodes you want...that we haven't previously touched.

*gobo* · 09-09-2011, 09:45 PM

Haven't been keeping up. Didn't you start jumping around?

**Jester** · 09-09-2011, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by gobo

Haven't been keeping up. Didn't you start jumping around?

Yes we have...

*Mr._Mutant_Man* · 09-10-2011, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

There is no such thing as filler in the OT. Every ep was just another adventure.

I know. It was a kids show with a bunch of wacky adventures each episode. It isn't like there was one main story arc going on throughout the series that we were waiting for a conclusion to.

I don't really like the dismissing of "filler" anyway, as if filler=bad story. When written well, "filler" provides character development or an interesting side story. If you want a concise overall story, watch a movie. A regular series is going to be drawn out.

*CyberCubed* · 09-10-2011, 10:14 AM

That's why this thread doesn't make much sense. You can cut out all the non-Shredder/Krang episodes....but yet many Shredder/Krang episodes themselves were just random plots that got foiled in every episode.

The OT never had any "this ep is more important than that ep" vibe to it.

Its like saying which Batman:TAS eps are filler. How does that make sense? Every episode was just Batman stopping a criminal.

~~ABrown~~ · 09-10-2011, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

That's why this thread doesn't make much sense. You can cut out all the non-Shredder/Krang episodes....but yet many Shredder/Krang episodes themselves were just random plots that got foiled in every episode. The OT never had any "this ep is more important than that ep" vibe to it.

Its like saying which Batman:TAS eps are filler. How does that make sense? Every episode was just Batman stopping a criminal.

But there are certain episodes that introduce characters that are featured again in later episodes. Using Batman:TAS as an example, you HAVE TO include "Nothing To Fear" and "Pretty Poison." Those episodes introduce the Scarecrow and Poison Ivy, they're essential to the show. However, "The Last Laugh" is just a random episode featuring the Joker. You could miss the episode, and it wouldn't take away anything from the show's overall story.

*CyberCubed* · 09-10-2011, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ABrown

But there are certain episodes that introduce characters that are featured again in later episodes. Using Batman:TAS as an example, you HAVE TO include "Nothing To Fear" and "Pretty Poison." Those episodes introduce the Scarecrow and Poison Ivy, they're essential to the show. However, "The Last Laugh" is just a random episode featuring the Joker. You could miss the episode, and it wouldn't take away anything from the show's overall story.

That's how American cartoons were written back then.

TMNT and B:TAS were aired in such a way that you could watch most episodes out of order, aside from introduction episodes, and it didn't matter.

I know when I was a kid I didn't see these shows in their proper order, and it didn't matter to me since every ep was just a new adventure.

However with shows like Justice League or TMNT 2k3, there it felt like you had to watch them in order.

~~ABrown~~ · 09-10-2011, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

That's how American cartoons were written back then. TMNT and B:TAS were aired in such a way that you could watch most episodes out of order, aside from introduction episodes, and it didn't matter.

Well the original five part mini-series, as well as the thirteen season two episodes weren't just random stories. In addition the final 24 episodes had a good deal of continuity in them as well. But seasons 3-7 did consist mostly of stand alone stories.

*CyberCubed* · 09-10-2011, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ABrown

Well the original five part mini-series, as well as the thirteen season two episodes weren't just random stories. In addition the final 24 episodes had a good deal of continuity in them as well. But seasons 3-7 did consist mostly of stand alone stories.

Agreed. But for the most part, it didn't really matter.

The continuity of the show was written in such a way that you could watch a Season 6 episodes after a Season 3 episode, and aside from the Technodrome being in a different location, it didn't matter.

Who here actually watched the OT in order when it aired on TV? We didn't even know the proper order of the show after the first season.

*gobo* · 09-10-2011, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Who here actually watched the OT in order when it aired on TV?

I watched religiously, so I can say I watched in broadcast order. But, even that order seemed awkward. I didn't see the ep where Raph and whoever were chasing a module and burned their feet after it went underground until after several other eps showing the Turtles observing these machiness and how they operate.

LeoNerdo · 09-10-2011, 03:42 PM

This is slightly off-topic, but I remember when I was a kid watching the show if an episode's story wasn't particularly compelling and then that was combined with one or more of the main voice actors being replaced by someone else for that show, it really felt like a filler episode even to a 5 year old kid.

At the time I was thinking, man this episode was so bad they couldn't even get all of the cast together to record the lines, they just slapped it together.

**Jester** · 09-10-2011, 04:01 PM

Am I alone in finding it ironic that CyberCubed is calling out a thread as ridiculous?

*CyberCubed* · 09-10-2011, 05:43 PM

If the OT had filler than I guess you can say the whole show was pointless. You can pretend the series ended after Season 1 for example.

*oldmanwinters* · 09-10-2011, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester

Am I alone in finding it ironic that CyberCubed is calling out a thread as ridiculous?

I think CC's been very well behaved since Season 9 came out on DVD!

**Jester** · 09-10-2011, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

If the OT had filler than I guess you can say the whole show was pointless. You can pretend the series ended after Season 1 for example.

Cubed, you're making a mountain out of a mole hill...

Gobo is just trying to pin down the episodes that advance the ongoing story and which episodes are pretty much stand alone stories.

*gobo* · 09-10-2011, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester

Cubed, you're making a mountain out of a mole hill...

That is what he does best.

**Jester** · 09-10-2011, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gobo

That is what he does best.

True...and I'm the grand stater of the obvious...explains my extreme post count.

*Coola Yagami* · 09-13-2011, 09:54 PM

IMO the non-filler eps, besides the first 5 and the Big trilogy, all of season 2, were any ep that introduced recurring characters, like the Frogs or whatever, and any ep referencing earlier eps. As well as any ep where the Technodrome changed locations. And all of Red Sky.

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09-10-2011, 10:14 AM	#27
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,881	That's why this thread doesn't make much sense. You can cut out all the non-Shredder/Krang episodes....but yet many Shredder/Krang episodes themselves were just random plots that got foiled in every episode. The OT never had any "this ep is more important than that ep" vibe to it. Its like saying which Batman:TAS eps are filler. How does that make sense? Every episode was just Batman stopping a criminal.

09-10-2011, 03:42 PM	#33
LeoNerdo Stone Warrior Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 872	This is slightly off-topic, but I remember when I was a kid watching the show if an episode's story wasn't particularly compelling and then that was combined with one or more of the main voice actors being replaced by someone else for that show, it really felt like a filler episode even to a 5 year old kid. At the time I was thinking, man this episode was so bad they couldn't even get all of the cast together to record the lines, they just slapped it together.

09-10-2011, 05:43 PM	#35
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,881	If the OT had filler than I guess you can say the whole show was pointless. You can pretend the series ended after Season 1 for example.