Official Ep Discussion #14 "New Girl in Town"
 

Greetings, All! There may be snow and blizzards where most of us are right now, but on this show, the twitterpation of Spring is in the air... :P





I kid, I kid.. but we have a new arrival of a longstanding favorite amongst the generations of fans.

Karai has been many things - Leader of the Japanese Foot clan stopping an out of control faction of the Elite Guard, the ever loyal daughter to Shredder, Granddaughter of the Shredder, even the Lady Shredder. She's fought everything from the turtles to Utroms to strange Aztec monsters. Now we have a fresh new glimpse of our anti-hero: A slightly older teenager, with one of those strange two-tone salad bowl haircuts... bored with life and listening to her 'father', the Shredder.

It seems Leonardo is in the same kind of rut as our new Karai. He's been enduring Raphael's constant criticisms and Splinter's scrutiny on his handling of his brothers in countless situations. So he's thrown in the towel, told Raph to try being in charge... basically, go sit and spin. Personally, I'd cheer for Leo if he Did. Taking on the job of new leader has put Leo through the ringer quite a bit. We've seen him flung around by both Father And Foot alike...

But now this mysterious new fighter has appeared... and Leo's not quite sure what to make of her. And she's all for shirking the responsibility of the adults to do whatever she wants. I'm sure she gives Shredder a run for his money. Which would be harder to keep control of - a clan or a teenage daughter?

A LOT of rumors and speculation going around the fandom is that Karai is actually the long lost daughter of Splinter, Hamato Miwa. Splinter had explained that Shen had died, and he had 'lost' his daughter during the major fire back in Japan. The bad blood between Yoshi and Saki had just gone too far... what a heart wrenching thing for Splinter to find out, that his daughter could be alive - but is now the daughter of his most hated rival? No doubt she's been taught that he's the worst piece of humanity in existence...

It sounds almost like parents poisoning kids against each other during a bad divorce. Everyone loses.



So, will our star-crossed lovers survive the hatred between the clans?
Is Karai going to be an enemy or an ally?
Will we learn more about the photograph, and what happened to create the rift?
And is Karai ever going to change that haircut?


STAY TUNED!

Ep Notes.

Snakeweed was back!

Karai was AWESOME!

And Shredder is not a nice dad. Like at all. He threatened to kill her.

Thought it was a good episode. Great intro for Karai. Still not a fan of the design (mainly her hair) but I can live with it as long as her character is interesting.

Great way to bring Snakeweed back into the mix without making him the primary focus of the episode.

Well, Snakeweed may be gone for good after he got frozen by Raph, but Snakeweed was as much as the focus of the episode as Karai was, who basically just retreated after Leo was tied up by Snakeweed. Karai is Shredder's daughter, and April looks good in her pajamas. It was a bit silly that people would be kidnapped by Snakeweed just because he would use them as fertilizer. Raphael shows that he isn't the best leader by being repetitive with decisions, even though he was the most potent in battle, even bailing out Donatello with an ailing Michelangelo. That said, I wish we got a bit more out of Karai, and the powerful ninja sword remains collected in dust. Don's relationship with April continues to ebb, even if he feels a bit cocky.

Overall: 8/10

Wow just wow that was a great episode. First of all, the return of snakeweed :tgrin: I thought he would never return! And his lair, future playset!!!! Next, I loved how karai and Leo were half-friends. And how the team can't survive broken up and now Mikey learned where fertilizer came from:o. I hope we see more Karai soon.sorry for the jumbled up review, I'm just so happy:tgrin:

A Great episode in my opinion.

What, he appeared !

Splinter was in the episode twice.

Glad to see Snakeweed back (didn't know when we'd see him again).

I'm a little confused on how his "tracking spores" worked. Was he able to sense Raphael's location on the roof and that made the spore start to ignite? And would he still be able to track Donatello and Mikey in the sewers or did their spores wear off?

Think he was after the first one he could find, or Mikey crushed his when he was laying on the couch, I don't know.

Snakeweed is back! :tsmile:

This was a great episode! I love Karai, she seems like she is going to be a fun character in the future. It was nice to see April's apartment again. Donnie's line about "April texted ME!" cracked me up.

Man, I love this show. :tgrin:

Yeah, that was great:tgrin::lol: I like Donny's thing with April a lot more then I thought I would.

Snakeweed is hard to kill. Even after shattering him his heart was still beating. Great episode. Karai is interesting dynamic for Leo. And nice to see the softer side of Raph. I loved when Donnie told Mikey what sewage is made and where it's from LOL.

Snakeweed is still alive, his heart began to beat again after it thawed out, which I might add was rather quick since it was seconds after he gets destroyed :tconfuse:

This is now my favorite episode so far. Here are some things I really liked.

-Snakeweed returning. I was very surprised that he came back and I really think he is a cool villain. I don't see how the turtles will ever defeat him though, as his heart is seen pumping yet again. I can't wait to see Snakeweed in even more future episodes.

-Karai. Karai seems like a very cool villain. I like how she's vey mysterious, and how you can't tell if she really wants to kill Leo or if she's doing it just because her father told her to. I really think she is Miwa, especially since Leo said he sensed some good in her.

-Raphael. For once, I actually liked Raph! Instead of just being mean to/bullying/hurting his brothers, we actually got to see Raphael strugling with the responsibilities of being a leader and worrying about his brothers. Even though I know this won't happen, I wish Raph would act like this in more episodes.

-April and Leo's scene. With this scene, I really felt like Leo was a true teenage boy (how he's supposed to feel, I'm looking at you 2003 series) with his first crush. I loved how April acted like a typical teenage girl ("Tell me everything!" *Nods at every thing Leo says*) and I really liked how she was worried about Leo and pretty much assumed Karai was evil since she was in the foot clan. I honestly thought April was funnier here then when she's a main character. I can't wait to see her in school with the turtles next week.

All in all this was a great episode that, again, leaves me wanting more and more. They really teased us a LOT here, with Shredder, Karai, Snakeweed still living, and Leo still having a crush on Karai. I cannot wait for next week (I say that in every discussion, don't I :tlol:).

Cool episode. I like that its on Friday now... my kids were all "Leooooos gooooot aaaa girrrrlfreind". Haha

Leo: But she's different!
April: She's the Foot!

LOL

Overall, awesome episode. Love how Leo and Karai interacted. Favorite lines:

Donnie: "April texted me. Wait, April texted me?! THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY...!" (Looks back at Mikey) "Oh, right."


Mikey: "Man, where does all his come from?"

Donnie: "Uh, Mikey...(Whispers)

Mikey: "Don't they know we live down here?!"


Mikey: Mmm, pepperoni.

Leo: Works everytime.

What are you talking about? Did you not see his heart start beating again? They had a close up of it and everything...

Exactly what I like about snakeweed now that he's escaped death twice, they could just bring him back and have him attack people, now for spider-bytes......