Karai=Miwa?

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Karai is Miwa, I suspected that all the way from Episode one, long before Karai had been introduced, and every-thing happening since then just seemed to confirm my suspecions further and further.


If we look at the first episode only. "The Turtles rising."
What made me suspect right there was very simply, Splinter telling he had a wife and daughter. And they both died.

Okay, I can see how the wife is an important plot point here, but why adding the daughter? Teng-shen in herself would be a strong enough point, you don't need any-thing else. Splinter never had a daughter before in any other incarnation, neither did Hamato Yoshi, and the only thing it really adds is more grusome.

Unless.. they intend to use her later. Which means she is still alive. But then, where is she? what character do we got whom is afflicted with the Shredder?
Well, Karai, boom, there ya go.

Also, an essential rule for screen-writing, especially in shows like this where you only have twenty minutes episode to tell a story each. You have to be very economic with what you tell, all must have some-thing to do with the story, no plot point is ever introduced if it doesn't come up later, and well, Splinter having a daughter now, that is a plot point! it will and shall come up later in the show.
Karai is Miwa.


Then Karai shows up, and it just becomes more and more obvious. her calling Shredder Father, her being a truth seaker, always searching for the higher truth while telling the truth herself, Shredder going all.
"Remember what he did to us!"
Meaning, Karai thinks Splinter killed her mother.. yeah, it's more and more obvious the more we move along.

Is it a bad thing that it's so obvious? no, no it isn't, it just means the show creators actually planned ahead and left clues for younger viewers to follow, there's nothing worse than a twist that comes out of no-where and thus makes no sense.
This twist will make sense, cause we all-ready saw it coming.

It is ofcause still a little medi-ocre when we did see it coming.

A perfect twist is any story is when the twist happens, and the entire audience goes. "Oh! that's what happened, now it makes perfect sense!"

Movie, the sixth sense, there were clues enough in it, and the entire movie were about the twist so when it happened, the audience really did go. "Oh now it makes sense, I see!"
J.K. Rowling is also a master of these twists in her potter books, it's always so when you reread the book, all twists were always present, you just were aware of them before you read the reveal, and then when re-reading it makes so much sense.