The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a franchise that has spawned many animated TV series over the decades but none ae quite as popular as the one from 1987. However with high there most come a low and well then i've seen the episode that I believe marks the down fall for this particular incarnation of the turtles and so then join me as I review the episode that introduced a new sky color , new tone and whole host of new things into this series with the episode in question being called simply just "Get Shredder" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is the turtles are hunting down Shredder and Krang when a new villain emerges one that will test the brothers like they've never been tested before. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty decent at best since this episodes plot does somewhat explain the red sky in this episode and this episodes episodes plot is also somewhat epic as well but it's also clearly not the franchises best plot either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Cam Clarke as Leonardo and Rocksteady and Barry Gordon as Donatello and Bebop. Also starring in this episode is Townsend Coleman as Michelangelo and The Car Thief Boss , Rob Paulsen as Raphael and The First Thug , Peter Renaday as Splinter and Vernon Fenwick , Renae Jacobs as April O'Neil , Pat Fraley as Burne Thompson and Krang , Bill Martin as The Shredder and Jim Cummings as Drakus / Berserko.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Altho you can quite clearly tell that the actors have lost all passion for playing these characters and the actor that they got to play The Shredder is just up bad since it's a really bad voice and this kind character really did deserve alot better then this kind of performance.
Doing the actual animation for this episode is I think the legends and the greats that are currently over at Daewon Media and G & M Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good and is easily the best part of the episode however I really did notice some animation errors which really did bring down the overall quality of the animation that's in this very episode for me personally in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
For some strange reason the producers of this show chose to change this show from something that's more lighthearted to something that's more action heavy. With this new version of the show taking inspiration from both the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and Batman: The Animated Series amongst over things which isn't a bad idea except they've just spent several years just doing there own thing and not now there trying to copy something that's just as successful as this show once was and it just doesn't work.
Not only did this show change it's tone but it also changed it's theme song and intro which I actually didn't mind. Since the song itself isn't that bad but the intro itself is just lazy as all heck since it's just stock images from the show mixed in with scenes from the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action movie and nothing more then that to contrast this with the original intro which had original animation made just for that intro and it works so much better because it matches with the song alot better and it makes the show all the more fun to watch which just simply isn't the case with this intro at all.
From this episode all this episode all the way up until the shows final episode are known as the "Red Sky Seasons" because for some strange reason all of the outside scenes in these episodes now have a red sky instead of either blue or black. Which is something that was clearly taken from Batman: The Animated Series however in that show since it was a new show it didn't distract the viewer since that show was still creating it's tone where as here in this show it's distracting because the viewer just ONE episode ago had seen the sky as they were really used to on this show.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and thirty twos seconds. Which is far to long for a story like this one to last since at it's core this episode has enough story for roughly ten minuets fifteen minuets at a stretch but not a full twenty three minuets and not helping things is the fact that the main bad guy of this episode is introduced halfway into this episode and so he's not built up properly because there just simply isn't enough time to do his character any kind of justice whatsoever.
So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Since for the most part the action is genuinely entertaining and while the fight with The Shredder could have been better the ending explosion of the Channel 6 news building really more then makes up for it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall it really doesn't take much to see why this episode marks the downfall for this show since everything bout this episode is just lacking since even when this show had bad episodes it was still entertaining and that's just not the case with this episode at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page , the official Batman: The Animated Series fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.