TMNT: Back to the Sewer Talkback: Episode 7.09: "Superquest"

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Episode 7.09 SuperQuest
Original air date: November 15, 2008
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Previously on Back to the Sewer: With the Foot army nearly rebuilt, the Shredder attempts to use a cyber-portal of his own devising in order to return to the real world. After being foiled by the turtles, however, he vows to take them into account for his next attempt.


This week, on Back to the Sewer: The search for Master Splinter takes the turtles inside SuperQuest, the hugely popular Massive Multiplayer Online RPG hosting millions of players. Can their previous experience with the Cyber Shredder prepare them for...Leeroy Jenkins?
 
I went into this episode with my expectations very low, and I have to say, it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be.

Its not an episode I would recommend to anyone who isn't a TMNT fan, and it can easily be skipped, but some parts were ok.

It did seem like a FF episode though.
 
The ending had me rolling. I haven't laughed that hard at a moment of TMNT in a very long time. I wont spoil it but I'll say it's rather ironic.
 
So, I caught an episode of this last week and the opening didn't seem to be the one that won the contest. I thought that rap song won? Why aren't they using that as the opening?
 
Agreed...and I've NEVER laughed out loud at any Turtle Moment. Giggled and Chuckled, but that almost knocked me out of my chair :).

At first I was wondering if they where going to show who it was in the real world. But there are so many other questions that moment poses that I don't want to spoil it :)
 
And thank goodness for that. If that Christina Agulara sounding hip hop thing HAD won, I would have had to rip my ears off and ban the turtle toon from my tube ;)..

About the only thing I didn't care for was the stereotypical nerds playing the game in this episode......but with games like those, you'd REALLY have to have no life to live in a game world. So this time it's forgiven :).
 
Well Hun was added it as the "none stareotipical" gamer.

Anyway OMG Raph was given a musical number to destract the 'Ultimate Gamer' Man I don't think I ever laughed this hard watching this show.
 
I actually the Ultimate Gamer was going to turn out to be The Shredder. Its to bad it wasn't, would've been a lot better than what we got.

While, Hunn being the elf was funny, I don't think it was necessarily. How could he not know he was playing against the turtles. Why would he let the turtles take what they want first, even if they did earn it, it just felt out of character.

I gotta say, this season has not at all turned out like I thought it was going to be. Thats not really bad and its not a good thing either. The season still feels like FF just set in present day, the dark stories we got from pre-FF haven't really returned like they said was going to happen. Next weeks episode looks promising, but its 10 episodes too late for a season that only has 13 episodes.
 
Kind of an okay episode that is intruiging because of the surprise ending that the ally the Turtles met in the game is unbeknownst to either side actually Hun. This is one of the cleverest twists the show has ever done but I'm not really on-board with the revelation. Why? It humanizes Hun too much. Now normally humanizing villains is the mark of a good show and a good villain but I don't think it works for a character like Hun. He's a bad cat precisely because we don't know where he came from or what makes him tick. He was previously a complete mystery and he works better that way. I don't think this twist actually ruined his character's appeal or anything but it certainly didn't help. ***1/2.
 
I'd have to disagree. To me, Hun's appeal doesn't lie in his lack of history, but in the simple fact that he's far more competent that one would expect him to be, given the usual Dragon archetype; I've always imagined his off-screen personal life to be mundane in a somewhat Sopranos-ish manner--that he's got a woman that we don't know of, and stuff like that. While I could take or leave the revelation of Hun as a closet computer geek, I don't think it hurt. Then again, this kind of thing is the very definition of "your mileage may vary", so yeah...

As for the episode itself, I liked it more than the past couple of "arc" episodes; while those have a dissapointing lack of impact--you could eliminate them without affecting the overall arc too much--these at least have some freedom to be fun, do their own thing, and introduce their own concepts (something this season has severely lacked, which puts it below Fast Forward in my book). Even so, I wish the WoW/EverQuest parody had been more accurate instead of general.
 
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