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| Episode 3 |
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| Mousers aren't so tough. |
I’ve written so highly of the pilot series but now come to a
point where I find myself putting a stop to that. This episode is a step back from the two we’ve
seen so far. What we have here is Shredder
trying to use small robot “mousers” to destroy the turtles, Splinter and April. The mousers are a neat little invention by
Baxter Stockman who makes his debut on the show. If I’m Shredder though, I make these mousers
much bigger in size at the very least. I
think I could take out a handful of these pesky little robots, the turtles
basically annihilate them. This is the
first time Shredder disappoints me in his desire to defeat the turtles. He previously stated in Turtle Tracks he
never should have sent a punk to do a ninja’s job so he thinks mousers should
get a crack at it? Why mousers? Why?? Shredder has technology from dimension X and
goes with mousers created by an inventor that can’t even sell a robot rat
catcher to a pest control company. That
scene is great though as the guy boots Stockman and says he’d be out of
business if all the rats were gone. The
idea of the mousers is interesting but they’re just too tiny.
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| Can we trash your apartment? |
The
turtles go to Aprils apartment and basically act like 5 year olds for some
reason as they mess up the place by either flooding the bathroom or setting
fire to the kitchen. I don’t understand
why they become so unaware of modern conveniences. They have those things in their sewer lair do
they act like idiots at home too? It was
mildly funny.
The
turtles get the tip on Stockman and go to pay him a visit. By the way, Shredder created 100’s of mousers
overnight which is so unbelievable; why not create 100’s of foot soldiers
instead to defeat the turtles? That
seems more likely to do the job than mousers.
Taking a bit more time to make the mousers would be more interesting but
of course could not fit into a single episode I suppose. The turtles defeat four foot soldiers easy as
can be since they failed to put up any resistance whatsoever. They were like crash dummies. Stockman squeals as to where Shredder is
hiding so the turtles promptly steal Stockman’s van while leaving him tied up
to a light pole. I’d be pissed at the
turtles for that wouldn’t you? Stockman
has clear motive to hate them at this point.
To Stockman’s defense he didn’t know Shredder was going to use his
mousers for anything other than rats initially.
He just thought Shredder has a thing about rats, ha-ha.
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| How desperate are you Baxter? |
Michelangelo
decides to go solo into Shredder’s hideout and gets caught fairly easy at gun
point by Shredder. Shredder should have
blown Michelangelo’s head right off but he only ties him up instead. You do want to destroy the turtle’s
right? I hate when a show puts the evil
character in that position then refuses to go through with what said character
would do. How about at least blasting
him with the gun into unconsciousness?
Show some brass that you mean business about eradicating them. Krang unties Michelangelo and tells him where
the master controls are for the mousers.
It’s so funny to see Krang and Shredder so hateful of one another that
they want the other to fail to meet their own ends. Michelangelo dances and makes a fool of him
so as to coax Shredder into blasting his own machine. Why won’t Shredder fight hand to hand? He has the blades on his arms for a reason
right? He could take Michelangelo one on
one. Shredder of course is a ninja so he
can’t hit the broad side of a barn with his high tech laser rifle. He misses everything except the master
controls. Shredder is showing signs of being
an impatient man and somewhat incompetent character.
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| My Precious... |
Now
with the master controls destroyed I’d imagine the mousers going offline? No, Donatello stole Stockman’s mini-remote
control, another reason for Stockman to hate the turtles, and programs them to
eat Shredders hideout. Speaking of
which, the mousers ate Aprils building incredibly fast and it crumbled to
ruins. How many people died tragically
in that event? Was April alone in that
huge building, probably not, kudos to the writer for mass unreported death? End result is Shredder gets foiled as he
should have killed Michelangelo when he had the chance but instead gets beaten
by that same turtle. The jokes are not
bad overall in this one. It’s a weaker
pilot episode in retrospect.
Rating: 5 of 10
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