As usual when returning from a hiatus, today's new episode of NTMNT was a little bland in terms of extras. It was a solid episode in that it had a cool monster and explored a bit of April's non-human nature a little further, plus setting up Leonardo's recovery. I expect Leo's improvement to help the group make their decision to finally remember Master Splinter and head back to the city for another full scale kraang confrontation. Wouldn't it be cool if they arrived there only to find the kraang already locked in combat with the triceratons? Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing their upcoming new wardrobe experiments, and hoping for a new set of variant action figures based on that look. The episode felt like it was almost trying to draw on the likes of Dragonslayer, especially with the dramatic orchestral style remix of the theme music during April and Leo's ride on the chimera. There was even a hint of Game of Thrones (or at least Beastmaster) with April seeing through the eyes of the creature. I mention possible references like that because the show usually borrows so liberally from classic sources like that, but this time there wasn't much that I noticed. There was a scene early on with Donnie testing April's psychic abilities on some make-shift neuro instruments, though, and it reminded me a bit of Ghostbusters. Oh! And the chimera itself struck me as conspicuously similar to "The Giant Claw". It's just so good to sit back and soak up a new episode with some frozen pizza. It didn't have to be a legendary episode. It did its job. I rate (season 3, episode 7) "Eyes of the Chimera" as an easy 384 chicken-geniuses out of a possible 511 absent-ice-cream-kitties. Notable weirdness: April tried to eat Leo.
