best worst seasons, comments on them

[fastforwarddregg]

what was your most fav and least fav seasons and your comments on each season.

[Scandia]

BEST

Old Toon- seasons 3 and 7 were great

New Toon- season 2, followed by lost season 5

WORST

Old Toon- season 9, then 5

New Toon- season 4 because they prolonged Leo's agony way too much

[Spitfire]

haha wow

I assume you mean old toon but I'll do both shows. In which case...

Old Toon
Seasons 8-10 were my favorites, yes Red Sky was awesome.

New Toon
Season 4 hands down. It had everything I wanted in it. The animation hit it's peak, the storylines were very gritty and they did some stuff that shocked me. Baxter's decaying body, that monster in "Dragon's Rising" crawling around with it's guts hanging out, the lizards that ate all those people to name a few.

And disliked
Old Toon
Season 3 just had some down right horrid episodes, some of them are just unwatchable.

New Toon
Season 2 to give season 2 credit it didn't get as boring in some parts as season 1 did but all in all the "Turtles In Space" arc totally killed it for me. And reading the comics really made those episodes hard to watch.

[fastforwarddregg]

My fav seasons are 2 and 3. 3 was full of fun fun fun fun fun stuff, but had a few goofy episodes (Like mr. ogg). I loved the 3 parter. One website of Turtles pointed out that "Shredder, Krang, bebop and rocksteady are pestering the turtles in nearly all the episodes and this is when some people might find their presenes tiring". SEASON 3 was just soo much fun and introduced many new characters. I saw season 2 a lot!!!!!!

Though I lost interest in the show in 1992 and stopped watching it the I have caught up with it on youtube.

Season 9 is my least fav and SEason 6 might be too.

HOW COME MOST OF SEASON 6 (1992) does not have Shredder, Krang bebop and rocksteady????

[Spitfire]

Because Shredder are Krang aren't the be all villains of TMNT and shouldn't have been to begin with.

It's nice you like repetition I don't.

[fastforwarddregg]

Originally Posted by Spitfire666xXxXx

Because Shredder are Krang aren't the be all villains of TMNT and shouldn't have been to begin with.

It's nice you like repetition I don't.

I half like repetition, I half dont. well sometimes its good to have something refreshing sometimes it isnt.

[Scandia]

I agree that the Turtles in Space arc was boring. But at least the NT introduced it after the Shredder and Return to NY. In the comic it comes in too early and can be confusing or a turn off. Plus Season 2 has A LOT of awesome episodes to balance it out- such as the Battle Nexus arc, City at War, Reflection, Ultimate Ninja, and Secret Origins.

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by Scandia

I agree that the Turtles in Space arc was boring. But at least the NT introduced it after the Shredder and Return to NY. In the comic it comes in too early and can be confusing or a turn off.

I can see this I guess, but RTNY was a joke in the new toon compared to it's comic counterpart as was "Turtles In Space".

Plus Season 2 has A LOT of awesome episodes to balance it out- such as the Battle Nexus arc, City at War, Reflection, Ultimate Ninja, and Secret Origins.

"Battle Nexus" was just okay to me. I wanted to like it alot but something about it didn't sit well with me.

"City At War" was another joke, instead of dragging a comic arc out to long they made it way to short and it needed to be alot longer for it to get the essence of what it was supposed to be. That should have been 8 parts not the space turtles ordeal*I'm counting Secret Origins*

"Reflections" I liked the intro for this but I didn't feel like seeing scenes I had already, it wasn't necessary.

"Ultimate Ninja" was indeed a bad ass episode, as UN was a bad ass character I agree with you on this one.

"Secret Origins" was another arc that bugged me, they took something that was one issue in the comic and drug it out three episodes. It was sort of neat but I didn't enjoy it to much. And the ending just ticked me off. Shredder obviously dies yet we see him again at the end of "City At War" and he's being "healed" by the "bio-cites". If he was being remade by worms that would make sense. But surviving an implosion is just to ridicious for me to buy even for a cartoon.

[fastforwarddregg]

I really should have made a best worst season for the new TMNT thread as this was in the old toon thread

how did you all like season 3. as I said before I liked it and it did have goofy episodes here and there and there was more character development between the bad guys here.

[Scandia]

Both OT and NT season 3 were fine. In the OT, I was still getting good laughs with every episode. And the NT one still had some good plotlines and episodes.

[MrPliggins]

old:
best: season 1. The shortest, but the best.
honorable mentions: season 2, season 8

worst: season 9; hard to sit through any of these eps.
honorable mentions: season 4, season 5

new:
best: season 3 & 4 (tie)..I can't decide, I love both of these seasons

worst: season 6....but besides FF, hard to pick one as I like them all...but probably season 1 as it had the most episodes I didn't like.

[jenna]

Old Toon

Best: Season 1 & Season 8
(also a bit of Season 3 for nostalgia value as it contains the only ones I can remember from being a kid)

Worst: Season 2 & European vacation

New Toon

Best: Season 1 (plus City at War from Season 2 )

Worst: Fast Forward

I haven't seen all of season 3 or any of the ninja tribunal so these 2 are excluded because I cannot compare.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Spitfire666xXxXx

And disliked
Old Toon
Season 3 just had some down right horrid episodes, some of them are just unwatchable.

I totally agree with you on those awfull episodes (Turtle Terminator and Mr. Ogg, just to name a few) I wish i could erase them from TMNT history. But that still dosen't make season 3 the worst season at all. While the season was mostly a bunch of a-bit-better-than-average episodes there were some gems: Turtles on Trial, both Usagi eps, Casey Jones, and certainly some more. Also, aside from the god awful ones, every episode is pretty funny. So if you would be so kind as to tell me how season 3 is worse than 2, 4, 5, 6, and Eurovacation I would be very happy.

[fastforwarddregg]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

I totally agree with you on those awfull episodes (Turtle Terminator and Mr. Ogg, just to name a few) I wish i could erase them from TMNT history. But that still dosen't make season 3 the worst season at all. While the season was mostly a bunch of a-bit-better-than-average episodes there were some gems: Turtles on Trial, both Usagi eps, Casey Jones, and certainly some more. Also, aside from the god awful ones, every episode is pretty funny. So if you would be so kind as to tell me how season 3 is worse than 2, 4, 5, 6, and Eurovacation I would be very happy.

in season 3 they kept reusing the plot of having a robot seek out and destroy the turtles.

turtle terminator was funny with irma's klutzyness and shredder saying what humiliation the future ruler of the world reduced to eating chinese takeout.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by fastforwarddregg

in season 3 they kept reusing the plot of having a robot seek out and destroy the turtles.

turtle terminator was funny with irma's klutzyness and shredder saying what humiliation the future ruler of the world reduced to eating chinese takeout.

That is a definant lie, robots did chase the turtles in multiple eps, but it was always a different robot so it never got repetitive. And yes, there was some funny stuff in Turtle Terminator, but its still garbage: the ****ed animation + TWO alternate turtle voices.

[fastforwarddregg]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

That is a definant lie, robots did chase the turtles in multiple eps, but it was always a different robot so it never got repetitive. And yes, there was some funny stuff in Turtle Terminator, but its still garbage: the ****ed animation + TWO alternate turtle voices.

it was never really repetitve as there were different reasons for robots. they just seemed to love Robots plotlines. NOTICE how SEason 5 (1991) has so many plots of mutants! Like Joe eyeball and Muckaman, Napoloen turning into a hulk, and Mutagen Man, Mondo Ghecko and had Wingnut and Screwloose try to rule the World (But they were aliens). In one episode in this Season Rocksteady broke the 4th wall by saying not another mutant story, isnt everyone sick of them. What did you think of the episode of Donatello causing the van to get stolen by a hillbilly crime clan. And people start to say the episodes in SEason 5 have lower quality. But season 5 had the prime time 2 parter.

What was the weakest season? For me SEason 9 (1995) and maybe Season 6 (1992, when the Turtles was waning) as Season 6 quality drops and Shredder and Krang are only in the first eps of Season 6 (They are only in 40 percent of the Season 6 episodes). Leonardo's Missing was an episode that should have been in season 5. my fav episodes in Season 6 is Rock Around the Block (But its the weakest Technodrome changes location episode), Krangenstien Lives and Shreeka's Revenge and Snakes Alive.

[Anarchistguy]

My turn

Old toon

Best: Seasons 1 (DUH), 8, 9, 10
Worst:Seasons 4 to 6

New toon

Best: Seasons 3 and 4
Worst: Can't choose, but to me, season 2 was more of an exploration of the TMNT's everyday lives. Still, I can't choose.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Spitfire666xXxXx

Because Shredder are Krang aren't the be all villains of TMNT and shouldn't have been to begin with.

It's nice you like repetition I don't.

If you could condense season three to thirteen episodes, which ones would you pick?

Anyhoo

Original Series

Best

Season One, Season Two, Three, Seven were the show done properly, and without the risk of overindulging. Sure Three, being the first of the vastly longer runs, is the most tolerable and enjoyable of them. Four has great moments, but not enough, plus they stopped giving the show definitive finales at this point knowing they were guranteed renewal

Worst

The "indulgent" seasons like five and six. Couldnt stand them, they knew the show was losing steam and tried to minimise Shredder and Krang. This was prior of course, to creating a villain like Dregg, and therfore the replacement villains were not as then very beleivable. They also had the stereotype of being mob bosses and mad scientists. They were afraid to take risks with them, which at least with Dregg, they did.


New Series

Best

Seasons One, Three, Four, and Five. Three is enjoyable, but its there because they started getting back to the roots of the series, not neccersarily for consistency. The darker quality of what would be found in the next two seasons could slowly be seen developing here, and it had a storyline that played off off every other arc that season, leading to the final fateful duel between the Turtles and Ch'rell that would provide much bigger shake ups. It also established Bishop as the best alternate adversary the franchise has had.

The fourth and Lost seasons are the realization of the series potential. Darker than before, changing characters to tremendous levels, bringing back The Shredder in a satisfying and original way that served to only strengthen the mantle's influence, and some of the most violent battles and storylines to ever come out of the series. Too bad Yost is working on that s*itty Fantastic Four cartoon, because he remains one of the most refined writers the show had


Worst


Season two hands down. It had no direction despite providing some of the series biggest revelations. Heck, the closest they got to a tight arc was the superb "City At War" and Karai's early doubts about following her dark path. They should have ended the season with "Rouge In The House", which pulled together all the plotlines of the season and put them in one big brawling showdown. Intense TMNT at its best. Instead, we got more useless fillers and a near-plotless, and overrated, season finale.

Fast Forward also. Started out with nobody giving a damn, and even when they did, they pulled back too much, as if hesitant and paranoid to try something bigger with the ideas they were using. This could have been TMNT's answer to Batman Beyond and Phantom 2040, and instead it was just The Jetsons

Originally Posted by jenna

Worst: Season 2 & European vacation

...Season TWO? That season had Micheal Reaves as the head writer, the Eye of Zarnoth arc, "Enter: The Fly", "Splinter No More", "Catwoman of Channel Six", and "Return of the Technodrome", thsoe episodes are considered the best of any TMNT series, original or otherwise and with good reason. Funny, dark, solid stuff. Arguably one of the most popular. The European Vacation I can understand, but TWO?