TMNT Season Finale
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He's done animation voices before. On Dreamworks Dragons (the TV series based on the How to Train Your Dragon films), he plays the father of one of the lead characters, reprising his role from the films. It's a tiny side role, a character who's only appeared a couple of times, and all the other supporting characters from the films are recast in the show (e.g. Nolan North replaces Gerard Butler as Stoick), and yet Tennant still finds the time to do it.
It's pretty typical of English actors not to discriminate about what kind of work they do, and readily cross over among film, TV, stage, radio, and animation. Animated shows have rarely had trouble securing talents like David Warner, Malcolm McDowell, Tim Curry, John Rhys-Davies, Patrick Stewart, etc.
Looks like I got my wish. Nicktoons has been re-rerunning the first two seasons of the '03 TMNT in marathons last weekend and this weekend, but starting next weekend, they'll be continuing on to season 3, and hopefully beyond. They're also showing episodes overnight on weekdays, but only ones they've already marathoned on the weekends.
Oh yeah. I know he's done voice over's but to get David Tennant is a major win.
"Actually I'm not a Doctor I'm more like a Professor"
Clip of David Tennant as the Fugitoid made specifically for Comic Con.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1mmsp8HsU
Clip of David Tennant as the Fugitoid made specifically for Comic Con.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1mmsp8HsU
That's a link to the beginning of a 44-minute video. Where does the clip fall within it?
Oh here
[YT]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7snWptj-N9Q[/YT]
[YT]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7snWptj-N9Q[/YT]
Anyone else been watching the new episodes over the last few weeks? The first time-travel episode with Renet was okay, but nothing special. The most interesting thing about it is that, by coincidence, I happened to watch the first Renet episode from the 2003 series on my DVR less than an hour before watching the new Renet episode, and I was struck by how many plot beats they shared. Nice to hear Ashley Johnson again, though.
But last week's "Tales of the Yokai" was amazing. We actually got to see the tragic backstory of Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki, their falling out and the death of Tang Shen. It went much darker than I would've expected from this show. There were some powerful moments. And I like the way they handled Tang Shen. In the '03 series' flashback episode, she was basically just a trophy for the male characters and got fridged to motivate Yoshi's arc. Here, though her fate remained intact, the story gave the character a lot more personality and agency. She was the one who interacted with the Turtles, and it was her own brave act, her attempt to end the fight between Yoshi and Saki, that led to her demise.
I also liked how well the episode handled Japanese culture and language, certainly an improvement over the previous two shows (neither of which seemed to understand Japanese name order, let alone other things). And it was unusual seeing an episode that focused so heavily on adult human characters. I've gotten so used to mutants and teenagers being the focal characters that it gave the episode a very distinct look.
Today's episode was back to the usual silliness and gross monster weirdness. I liked the pastiche of the Godzilla theme accompanying the "Mega-Shredder"'s appearance. Otherwise, I mainly just wondered why there were no camera crews or police helicopters watching this battle going down in the streets.
I got to wondering something just now. The first season had Space Heroes, a visually dead-on parody of Star Trek: TAS. The second season had Super Robo Mecha Force Five, parodying Voltron. The current season has Crognard the Barbarian, a parody of Thundarr the Barbarian with elements of He-Man. You can see where I'm going: What would you like the parody cartoon for season 4 to be? I think it'd be gloriously meta if it were a parody of the original TMNT cartoon itself.
But last week's "Tales of the Yokai" was amazing. We actually got to see the tragic backstory of Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki, their falling out and the death of Tang Shen. It went much darker than I would've expected from this show. There were some powerful moments. And I like the way they handled Tang Shen. In the '03 series' flashback episode, she was basically just a trophy for the male characters and got fridged to motivate Yoshi's arc. Here, though her fate remained intact, the story gave the character a lot more personality and agency. She was the one who interacted with the Turtles, and it was her own brave act, her attempt to end the fight between Yoshi and Saki, that led to her demise.
I also liked how well the episode handled Japanese culture and language, certainly an improvement over the previous two shows (neither of which seemed to understand Japanese name order, let alone other things). And it was unusual seeing an episode that focused so heavily on adult human characters. I've gotten so used to mutants and teenagers being the focal characters that it gave the episode a very distinct look.
Today's episode was back to the usual silliness and gross monster weirdness. I liked the pastiche of the Godzilla theme accompanying the "Mega-Shredder"'s appearance. Otherwise, I mainly just wondered why there were no camera crews or police helicopters watching this battle going down in the streets.
I got to wondering something just now. The first season had Space Heroes, a visually dead-on parody of Star Trek: TAS. The second season had Super Robo Mecha Force Five, parodying Voltron. The current season has Crognard the Barbarian, a parody of Thundarr the Barbarian with elements of He-Man. You can see where I'm going: What would you like the parody cartoon for season 4 to be? I think it'd be gloriously meta if it were a parody of the original TMNT cartoon itself.
Super-Friends. 
i liked the time travel episodes. i kinda hoped they would extent the story to three or four episodes. the Mega Shredder episode was just ok till the end. liked the kaiju bit. and it was nice to see Leo in his 'mystic' gear. i was wondering if those would show up again.
Super-Friends.
That'd be two Hanna-Barbera shows in a row -- not different enough. If not TMNT itself, maybe they could do something like G.I. Joe or MASK. Or maybe Thundercats, but there's already a bit of that in Crognard the Barbarian (the Spooch character talks like Snarf from Thundercats).
Imagine if they did a parody of a live-action '70s show like Land of the Lost or Shazam -- and imagine if they actually shot it in live action!
We'll see if any of these developments stay permanent (I seriously doubt it and there'll be a reset button)
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no doubt everything will be undone. the question is, how?
Hopefully it involves the firing of the main story editor. The previous team must have crossed Nick execs to lose their job after one season.
I winced in the Zog episode when they said he was sick because he needed nitrogen to breathe. Four-fifths of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen!!! I know not to expect much plausibility from a show about pubescent teratogenic shinobi terrapins, but that's a grade-school mistake.
Two "Ghostbusters 2" references in episode 24
