Karai, the focus of episodes like City At War and Broken Foot, is attempting to restore the Foot Clan to its honourable origins. Seeing the episodes together draws out the parallels in various story elements. It’s only when the episodes are watched in order at regular intervals (if you’re anything like Den of Geek, those intervals are short) that this storytelling element is revealed. These episodes provide breaks from the main story that are used to heighten tension, to make appearances by nemesis Shredder an event and to explain in-story recovery time for the injured, changing Shredder. Every few episodes, though, we get a show like Bat In The Belfry (a tribute to Batman ’66) or Tokka Vs The World (a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Godzilla movie). It’s a problem with no easy solution, and one that has impacted on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Įpisodes Broken Foot, Super Shredder and Darkest Plight charge forward in the series long story of the Shredder’s quest to destroy the Turtles, which reaches its conclusion at the end of the run, and set all the characters in place for the season finale. Similarly, Breaking Bad didn’t have to worry about a generation of its audience potentially outgrowing the show each year. Children are obviously discouraged from television marathons.

In modern binge watching culture, that poses less of a problem for dramas like Breaking Bad or Game Of Thrones, where viewers can be relied on to marathon past episodes in order to catch up. The comedy shows, they’ll take a half hour show and split it into two stories.”Īny show that leans heavily on serialization faces the problem of potentially becoming impenetrable to new viewers. “You’ve got to understand, Nickelodeon has its bread and butter in making stories that are 11 minutes.

In the past we’ve done two-parters and unfortunately when we marry them together, those two part specials, they’ll only play those the one time, or the initial release that weekend, and then they have to live later on on DVD.”įor network Nickelodeon, they have scheduling and international distribution concerns to consider. “If we had a story we wanted to make three episodes long we have no control over how they’re going to air. In the same interview, showrunner Ciro Nieli explained the difficulties of producing multipart episodes.

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