Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11469381-20150831022901/@comment-16581186-20150917121802

Oh that's a given. Of course they're going to ignore the Karai plotline, probably for the entire season. They have bigger problems to worry about. Not only is the Kraang back, but now they have a mass fleet of alien attack dinos coming to destroy earth. I think that is a "slightly" more urgent matter than the Karai situation. And the writers did say at Comic-con that the season will focus on the Triceratons as major villains. All Shredder (and brainwashed Karai I guess) want is to kill the Turtles and Splinter.

Which brings me to my next point. I 100% agree with you on this show not taking Shredder seriously. The writers have made him so 2-dimensional in this show. His one and only goal is to kill Splinter and the Turtles. That's it! He doesn't even care about the Foot Clan anymore, replacing them with robots. Like you said, so much wasted potential. He could've have large scale brain worm plan like Donatello teased at in Casey Jones VS. The Underworld, he could've tried to take over New York, and he could've even had some relevance in the space season but I doubt that will happen since he wasn't even mentioned to be part of it. The 2003 series did much better in the character development of Shredder. He was part of so many arcs, and he never limited his goal to just killing Slinter and the Turtle's.

In any case, I'm actually glad that they are straying away from the Karai story and focusing on SOME NEW MAJOR VILLAINS FOR ONCE! After watching crazy long Karai arc for two years only to see in The Fourfold Trap that it might take even longer just gave me a taste for this story. MAKE UP YOUR MIND KARAI! :] So this new season will be very refreshing.