Yesterday, I finally got my copy of the 2nd Season of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series (which ran from 1987 through 1996 with a few changes throughout). Season 1 was more like a movie that was spliced into 5 seperate episodes in continuation fassion, but still, I guess that's how things go.
Season 2 ends up being more like a series' Season 1, containing 13 first run episodes instead of the tradional number of somewhere between 22 and 25 (depending on the series, mainly if it's a drama, animated, comedy, etc. etc.). I'm horribly disapointed though to begin with, as the DVD comes without the outer case that Season 1 had. Not too big of a problem... then I open the case, and there's no chapter/episode list insert. OK, minor detail. Then to really annoy me, all 13 episodes (nearly 5 hours long) is on 1 Disc!
Now, although the packaging is a major flaw, the episodes are still quite good. For the unenlightend, here are the episodes from Season 2...
(Season 1 is episodes 1-5)
6. Return of the Shredder
7. The Incredible Shrinking Turtles (Part 1 of Eye of Zarnoth storyline)
8. It Came From Beneath The Sewers (Part II)
9. The Mean Machines (Part III)
10. Curse of the Evil Eye (Part IV)
11. The Case of the Killer Pizzas
12. Enter: The Fly (the debut of Baxter Stockman as a fly; Rocksteady & Bebop finally return to Shredders side)
13. Splinter No More (Splinter turns human... for only so long)
14. Teenagers From Dimension X (The Nutrinos return... blech)
15. Invasion of the Punk Frogs (Debut of Atilla the Frog, Ghengis Frog, Napoleon Bonafrog, and Rasputin Frog)
16. New Yorks Shiniest
17. The Cat Woman of Channel Six (April turns into a cat creature)
18. Return of the Technodrome (season finale)
The only episode I found to be bad was the Mean Machines, which just seemed completely flat. Also, the Case of the Killer Pizzas (featuring creatures that look like the thing in "Alien" at full growth) was a lot more boring than I remember it being as a little kid.
Season 2 continues going in a chronoligical order for the most part, as the storylines didn't take focus away from Shredder until later in the series, and kept it simple for the most part without needing 495 different characters that were turned into action figures.
For $11.24 though, this DVD is just asking to be bought from any TMNT fan around.
I fucking love the Ninja Turtles
I'm gonna get me that DVD soon.