Official Episode Discussion #22: "Parasitica"

[Machias Banshee]

Well... I don't know what just happened with my computer... I tried to merge some of the Parasitica episodes from the other UK threads to here and the entire bunch of stuff got deleted. sorry guys...

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[BabyTurtles]

yay :3 now we can talk about it~

okay....Well the episode wasn't as serious as I hoped it would be
it was a pretty creepy funny zombie episode XD

I liked the part when Mikey was falling on the ground over and over again XD

[Ninjinister]

So I'm guessing that there was no DJ Platypus or Fugitoid Wasps or any of the other bullroar that I'd been reading over the past month.

[BabyTurtles]

fav quote:

Raph:..but....thats... smart...........

Mikey: ヽ(๏∀๏ )ﾉ *gun pose* "Yea is is~ Just call me DR. Einstein----instein........."

LOL XDD

and

Mikey: I almost passed out like NINTEEN times bro!"

[NinjaMan]

Yeah when Mikey was forcing himself to not give in I was laughing lol. His character is so awesome. Loved the Space Heroes scene as well. Very solid episode.

[BabyTurtles]

Originally Posted by NinjaMan

Yeah when Mikey was forcing himself to not give in I was laughing lol. His character is so awesome. Loved the Space Heroes scene as well. Very solid episode.

lol his hyperactiveness saved the DAY!! XD

and it's official....Mikey would be the one to survive a zombie apocalypse~
....though keeping Donnie around for a while might help.

[turtletoons81]

a very solid episode ,i mean sure they're we're hiccups here and there mostly the ending,but i thought it was well structure for pete's first episode,8/10

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by turtletoons81

a very solid episode ,i mean sure they're we're hiccups here and there mostly the ending,but i thought it was well structure for pete's first episode,8/10

wait.. what the hell are you guys talking about? Today they just aired the Metalhead episode for the millionth time... what am I missing...?

[BabyTurtles]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

wait.. what the hell are you guys talking about? Today they just aired the Metalhead episode for the millionth time... what am I missing...?

.......they aired parsitica in U.K. for reals this time

....it's on the internet but we aren't permitted to link here



..see Nick this is what happens when you don't air episodes sooner!! XD LOL

[Machias Banshee]

I put up a poll, thanks to those who shared quotes with me. Hopefully they'll be showing this here in the states soon.

[CyberCubed]

Decent filler episode. Was fun but nothing that memorable.

[Ninjinister]

Crikey, do you people never learn?

[Zulithe]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Decent filler episode. Was fun but nothing that memorable.

It had some gross/creepy themes which was neat, but mostly I agree... a mutant wasp just isn't a very compelling adversary for the turtles, especially as portrayed. The episode could have really been improved if they'd cut to april and splinter once or twice to break up the wasp stuff a little bit. Give us a little character building instead of making it a total isolated episode.

I know they write episodes like this a lot because they can reair it anytime and it won't feel out of place, but we already have other episodes like that (for example the Rat King ep) that have done it way better.

It's fine but I think this might be my least favorite episode so far. I'm appreciating Turtle Temper a bit more after seeing it, which I'd previously felt was one of the weakest episodes.

[Teddy]

A little creepy with the turtle-wasp-zombies, but other than that...kind of a let down. Absolutely nothing to do with anything going on in the series, except that the mutant wasps were created by the Kraang, of course. But no actual Kraang in the episode, or further story development. This was what everyone was expecting though, just a filler episode. Just sucks we had to wait so long to see it.

Also, major cop out having April and Splinter "away at training" for the entire episode. Since when does Splinter ever leave the lair? Oh wait, when the entire episode takes place in the lair and it's easier to not write him in at all. That makes sense.

[ObiWanFan4life]

I really enjoyed the episode, though I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't so warn out by waiting. And as much as i enjoyed it, i'd like to get back to the actual story. 8/10

[marcelangelo]

okay, with most of our before made comments apparently gone and so much whining already I have to leave some stuff here what I felt about the episode.
I really enjoyed it!!that played entirely(well, apart from the very beginning of course) in the lair was great in my oppinion..it only added to the creepy atmosphere that found its way in pretty soon..it was also a michelangelo centered episode and that is surely a rocketlauncher in my book!
splinter and april being outside on ninja training could actually just mean as well that they are someplace else in the huge subterrainian field of the sewers, not necessarily topside..although I had assumed this all along(them being topside)..if they were topside, hey-thats incredible, splinter back with the humans?!?!?kicks off imagination...
their demon voices freaked me out which I really liked...the fighting choreography was pretty decent, too...especially some of the observational angles took us right into the action and this I love about the show, its when they use the camera(you can do this in cgi environment of course) and swirl it around to play with space....mikes lines were mucho fun.
don using a pimp slap several times?hahahah that was brilliant!
mike rubbing leo s space heroes comic on his butt(shell)?!?!?!hahahahaha
and that comic looked really nice!..I loved the return of space heroes tv show of coursethe alien licking cpt I dont know his name again was groce
oh, wanted to comment on the wasps:to me it looked like the kraang did not INVENT or CREATE those huge wasps, what they did was more like tinkering with the 'formula'..mutating their growth somehow..
THIS I think plays out in regards to the huge size kraang prime character which we'll be about to see....so, no relevance for the whole story is not an option in my point of view(that may count for all episodes so far)
one last comment:still find 'turtle temper' among my absolute favourites of this show, I cant understand peoples whines about that.
booyakashaaaa!

[Hero]

Thanks for the good work Machias Banshee.

I wondered what happened to that thread. Its all good.

[Martin]

The ep was great! I loved the zombie theme. My only complaint would be that we didn't get an explanation as to why april didn't show up in pulverizer returns (chronologically parasitica takes place before that ep). Splinter just casually not being in the lair also didn't sit well with me, but considering that he is the rat equivalent of superman and the master from karate kid, it made sense that he wasn't there. I'm starting to think that maybe they made him a bit too badass. Another thing that I noticed was that, in truth, donnie was the one who actually bailed them out... again. I wonder when the 'donnie is out, wtf do we do now?' ep is due.

Finally, I wanna comment on what's probably one of the greatest scenes of the series so far, which is when, at the end of the ep, Leo goes all big brother on mickey and confronts him about using his favorite comic book as toilet paper. That was just so great! They really managed to pull that 'older brother taking revenge on the little one' feel off ^^

PS: I think that after this ep, the butt wiggling quota of this season has been met

[Overlordofnobodies]

Originally Posted by Teddy

A little creepy with the turtle-wasp-zombies, but other than that...kind of a let down. Absolutely nothing to do with anything going on in the series, except that the mutant wasps were created by the Kraang, of course. But no actual Kraang in the episode, or further story development. This was what everyone was expecting though, just a filler episode. Just sucks we had to wait so long to see it.

Also, major cop out having April and Splinter "away at training" for the entire episode. Since when does Splinter ever leave the lair? Oh wait, when the entire episode takes place in the lair and it's easier to not write him in at all. That makes sense.

I agree. That had to be the worst part about the episode.At the very list they come up with a reason why she was not there.Unlike in the last one.Plus who nows. There is one more episode before the one hour final. So maybe it's about them and there training......I can dream.

[Hero]

It was nice bottle episode.