Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Season 8

From this season on, everything you know about your favorite TV show will be changed. Taking the show in a new direction after 7 seasons of wacky, fun loving, silly, party time, type fun. This isn't the same Turtles you grew up with, but at the same time it is.This whole season is only 8 episodes and was part of the CBS Saturday morning line up in 1994. It was an attempt to make things darker, more mature and cater to an older male audience that had grown past the kinder gentler turtles and maybe were looking for something a bit more extreme.Some of the things to take note of are: The nice clear blue sky's are gone for dark and dreary red colored ones. Buildings will be destroyed in almost every episode. Almost every moment is a battle or fight that the Turtles are involved in. The overall look of the characters has changed like April O'Neil now wearing a jacket over her usual yellow jump suit and the turtles masks allowing more of the turtles eyes to be seen through them. Even Shredder is more evil taking great pride in destroying buildings and just being more of the bad guy the Turtles should have. They also won't be doing any "Pizza Time" during any of these episodes either. In fact I don't think they eat at all during any episode.But in all these changes, the show is still really just the same show, just more extreme. The good guys always win. The same supporting cast is found within with cameos from some favorites of previous seasons. Like Casey Jones, Rat King, Irma, Vernon, Bern, and of course Master Splinter. And it's non stop fighting back and forth just with more explosions and destruction mixed in. There is even some moments when they break the 4th wall as per the old episodes and talking to the viewers at home. But that has been toned down a lot and will be few and far in between.The problem with the season is that it was all written by the same person. So there are a lot of common themes through a lot of the episodes here. Fighting electric or energy based creatures that suddenly show up. A machine that can make mutants out of people suddenly and the various mutants that are now just more of the same after a few moments. Krang and Shredder wanting to do something in relation to Dimension X in every episode they do appear in. And the writer really seemed to be into destroying random buildings as stated earlier. Even the Channel 6 building gets leveled here. An episode with robot cyborgs seems to have said cyborgs just leveling rows of the city as if it were nothing. Also every episode seemed to have some "science lab" building some great device that enemies couldn't wait to exploit. So lets just say the fresh and new approach on the series became 8 very similar based episodes that are different in that it was cool to see the Turtles and their foes (both new and old) in these type of situations, when push comes to shove its really all the same stuff due to the one track minded writer handling this season.Overall though its still a fun entry into the Turtles saga. Lets face it, after 7 seasons, things were getting a bit stale. You can only fight weird creatures, foil Shredders crazy ideas and eat pizza and make jokes for so long before it grows tired. This was a good attempt to keep the show running for another few seasons and there is nothing wrong with it in that aspect. It's a good watch and good price as well for the 8 episodes you get. The episodes will definitely be darker and cater to an older audience but it isn't anything we really haven't seen before. They have fought many mutants in the past and foiled many of Krang and Shredder's plans in before, they do more of the same here. And honestly, it's actually a lot of fun.New opening credits, new attitude but same ol Turtles mixed in. I say check it out. No it won't be the same as when the show started, but after 7 seasons things do tend to change no matter what show you are watching. And the cosmetic and minor changes are really just that. It's still the same ol Turtles that we are watching here and since I hardly watched the CBS episodes, this was a lost treasure to me to find out what happened next with my one time favorite heroes.Check these out, you won't be sorry you did. Just put the past behind you and get ready to move forward. If you like explosions, mutant creatures and science labs, have I got the season for you...

If your trying to get the original series of Ninja Turtles this is a must get. Better then the last 2 seasons 9 and 10.

Who doesn’t live ninja turtles?

I cant beleave how many seasons of TMNT there r. But man is season 8 one of the most crazy seasons. This vis when all the bad stuff happens. The beging of the end of the trutles. Getting u ready for season 9 and 10. With the new boss of shedder and krang. He is lord dregg. And is he so cool. Man does he put the trutles though hell and back!!!

Granddaughter likes it better than the newest version of TMNT. Actually, I do, too.

What can I say, the cartoons today suck. And the new TMNT is pathetic at best. These are the original turtles that we grew up watching back in the '80s. I still enjoy watching them with the kids and sadly I still remember most of these episodes from when I was a youngen. Major win dudes. COWABUNGA!!!!

I ordered this for my grandson who is a TMNT fan! He watched it repeatedly like he could not get enough of it! He wants me to download more and I probably will as a reward for doing well in school, doing his chores and listening to his parents!

I was happy with this order. The complete season 8 of the teenage mutant ninja turtles was at a good price, especially now, since I can't find these in stores anymore. It was brand new and it shipped and arrived when Amazon said it would.

If you're reading this review, it's likely you've bought the other 7 seasons so I won't tell you what to expect other than more of the same. This season and the two that follow it are darker in storyline and animation but the story gets better. Excellent picture and sound.I STILL want to know where our three missing episodes are from previous seasons. I keep hoping we'll see them listed as bonus content, but no luck so far. Let's hope they're saving them for season 10 just to make people who gave up part way through, reason to buy it.

Grew up watching theses just class series

Top notch.

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looks great. cool intro song. I grew up watching the classic teenage mutant ninja turtles. it was a cool show