Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11469381-20150831022901/@comment-27062516-20151010164317

DPfanboy wrote: No, Gilgameshan is right. Shredder only sees Miwa as a trophy, he just wants to keep her to himself, use her anyway he wants, and to make sure Splinter doesn't have her. He's reluctant to let her go, because he knows she'll go back to Splinter, and that would make Splinter happy, and the one thing he doesn't want is for Splinter to be happy.

Shredder only cares about his own self interests, and therefore he doesn't actually love her.

Plus, I'll say this again. If Shredder actually loved Tang Shen, then he would have just let her go and move on. And as we can see in Tales of the Yokai, he was still reluctant to let her go. He even tried to persuade her into leaving Yoshi and going with him! He didn't love her, he was obsessed with her! Like I said, "Annihilation Earth" took all that away after "Tales of the Yokai" had given him the backstory and development he deserved--it's strange that both those episodes were written by the same guy in Brandon Auman.

Besides, if you ACTUALLY paid attention to Yoshi in "TotY", he didn't want to leave the dojo! Shen wanted him to leave and ultimately left him with the choice of her and Miwa or the dojo. How could you forget that? Saki, more or less, wasn't persuading her to take him or force himself upon her; he was merely offering to fill the void that Yoshi was pretty much refusing to take. And when the "tragedy" that the "Yokai" are known to bring happened, the problems amongst this love triangle became exacerbated and the situation snowballed out of control the way it did.