This episode was great... and wow not people touched the Mikey flash back.
I kind of felt the journal was off when everything that was put in there was ONLY stuff that the Turtles learned from the future. Though the first two story lines seemed like something that could of really happened, by time we got to the part with Don as a brain, things seemed very off. But let me work my way to that part
I loved the beginning of Mike with his toys... getting out of chores. That is so Mikey. It's surprising that Cody let's him do chores with the stuff he use to pull to get out of stuff at April's
Everyone remember the line "Can I help?" and April yelling to keep him away from the dishes from Season 1. So yes I was very happy with the opening, and the curious turtles about their future. (Come on, who wouldn't want to read it?
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Oh and I truly LOVED Michelangelo's Box Turtle joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was funny he was the only one that Leo didn't catch by seeing, but by calling him out of hiding. Way to be a ninja Mike!
Once we got into Michelangelo's story, I liked how they worked the future thing into there by having Mike get a reminder, not like he was watching for it before hand. Almost as it was like a slap... 'remember reading about this in the journal?'. I thought that was the most creative since the others were going places for a reason. I was surprised that Splinter let the Turtles come back to the past with their future weapons. And I really had a feeling Mike was going to mess up in the fight to teach him he shouldn't have read the journal... though his friends being turned into babies wasn't the worse that could of happened. Anyone else find it ODD that "Nobody" was there?
Leonardo's story kind of upset me... not upset me in the way that I was disappointed with it... but upset me in the fact that if people were not lucky enough to have Comcast on demand, or have someone nice enough to send the file of the few episodes that aired on there.... they wouldn't know anything about who the tribunal group is! And that isn't even coming out on DVD in most countries! It was kind of stepping on an open wound with the fans saying 'Oh yeah, we're not keeping them in order... but here let's give ya a show and tell that it was suppose to happen before this trip'. And a nice little SPOILER on top of it, with Karai being good and giving up the road of the Shredder! Man do I still wanna bap 4Kids for that.
Though I found it written well, I think Leo would of learned about jumping the gun. I also find it odd that if Leo read it in the journal why he wouldn't have had enough info to know who the traitor is. Wouldn't that have been written about too, just like how Mike knew what was going to happen to his friends, and Raph knew where that fight with the Purple Dragons were going to be... as Raph said the Journal said the "Who, where & when" So why didn't it do the same with Leo's part of the story. So that kind of had me thinking for a bit there. So I just went with it... guessing that April just didn't find it important to put that info in the journal (even though she Knows that Leo reads it in the future). Being kicked out of there may been a blow to Leo, though it wasn't as bad as what was to come for Donny.
Donatello's story sounded real enough. O'Neil Tech getting started up, than to go on that space trip. I blinked a few times when the ship blew up. When the show came back from the ads, I was even more confused about Donny being a brain with a purple mask on??? Why would they leave that on him. When I saw the body coming towards the screen I was thinking of a cyborg type body too. Though about died laughing when they uncovered it! Esp since they were caught while reading that story, by the punchline himself! That was a nice touch!
Things really did start to get weird when Raph story started... esp after he beat the Purple Dragons and appeared on that island naked with Casey. Though Casey naked was very funny!! Though I don't see April giving up that easy on Casey and getting re married that fast! She would be one to keep an eye out for them and have as much help as she could from Leo and Mike to try and find Raph and Casey. Though this causing people to move underground and mole people.... Right..... we believed that, hehehe
I like how the guys all started to catch on with Raph's story only for Cody & Splinter to come out and laugh at them about it. Splinter admitting about Raph's story line was great too. Gotta love that question to Cody about how he doesn't talk about it.
Though I want my hands on that real journal that Cody had at the very end
*Goes off to be ninja like to try and get it*
