Dobian

Dom and Sharik are teaming up to do a motivational speaking series titled, The Power of Quitting!

After a season-long flesh-eating illness and getting sicklier in each episode as the years flew by, I finally was saying during the family dinner when Viserys was conking out, "Oh just die already!"

It didn't feel like a series finale to me. Besides Kreese on the loose, they did a setup for Chozen reuniting with Kumiko and declaring his love for her. Strong viewer numbers help too. (Number one when it debuted)

Phil: No non-elimination legs and we start the race already in Europe! Translation: We're cutting your episodes this season, Phil

Johnny going drunken master and then seeing the ultrasound pic on the floor and rising up to kick ass was my favorite part of the episode. Daniel finishing off Silver was the second best badass moment. Chozen defeating Silver before he got back-stabbed gets honorable mention. The irony for Kreese is that he would have been released after the truth came out about the frame job, but now he is a fugitive. Chozen drinks! And what does he order, sake? No...Long Island Iced Tea! Stingray had the best line with, "Get in if you want to live," harharhar! This started out as a disjointed season with them splitting the plot between what was going on in the valley and Johnny and Robbie running down to Mexico after Miguel. The whole side story about Miguel's drug cartel dad went nowhere and had nothing to do with the season plot. It also remained unresolved since Miguel simply returned home with Johnny and Robbie. Maybe it was just a setup for next season and they will bring Scarface back. But from episode 5 on, the show really focused in and the whole Terry Silver plot was fun. I'm not really sold on Kenny's change of heart at all. He has been a total dick for two seasons despite getting numerous opportunities to see the error of his ways. He needs to do some restitution before he gets a redemption arc. Looks like Kumiko will be coming back in season 6 so Chozen can have his happily ever after. Kudos to Terry Silver, an entertaining villain all season. Great finale.

Pretty dull filler episode at this point in the season. Kreese and Silver still looked the same age as in Vietnam even though this was around ten years later. This was only four years before Karate Kid and the Martin Kove Kreese. The other kids finally getting more screen time this season. Cobra Kai and Miyagi Chozen Fang ramping up for the big showdown.

I don't feel bad for Terry Silver, he deserves what he gets. But I can never hate Silver. I like Silver. He is such a fun villain.

First great episode this season. Johnny and Chozen teaming up, CGI Karate Kid Johnny, and then those villains. Kreese was badass. And Silver, what a terrific villain. I don't know whether to hate him or love him. I always enjoy his screen time. And the showdown I want to see at the end of the season isn't Daniel-Silver, it's Kreese-Silver. Everything going on in the present with Silver is really about the two of them. It needs to end with the two of them.

The "Top Gun" dream sequence is hilarious if you get the joke. I want Johnny to be my permanent Uber driver. I think the Valley is just about fed up with the Cobra Kai/Miyagi-Do feud and is ready to exile all of the brats to El Segundo. Yep, I kind of have to side with the wife on this one.

Even though Karate Kid was 1984 and Karate Kid 3 was 1989, KK3 takes place exactly one year after KK1 and Daniel is defending his title. So yeah, Daniel is still in high school in KK3.

It was kind of sad that everyone could see Hector's reveal as a violent criminal drug lord coming from a mile away. That trope is so old and so cliche. How many times have we seen the debonair Julio Iglesias guy who transforms into Scarface at the drop of a pin? Let's just look at recent examples like Javier in Ozark and Lalo in Better Call Saul. No more recycled plots, show. Sheesh. The one thing I did like about the episode was Terry Silver. He is such a good villain, and I almost like him at times. You know he's evil, but then you objectively look at his dojo that he wants to expand or franchise, and it's hardly the "threat" that Daniel calls it. So his big goal is to create the Crunch Gym of dojos. So what? Not like he's drug trafficking or anything. Miyagi-Do vs Cobra Kai is starting to look like Average Joe Gym vs Globo-Gym in Dodgeball. Except Dodgeball was funnier.

I think my favorite was when he leaped into a pianist in the encore of a concert. Talk about a predicament. he played Chopsticks hahaha.

A decent first episode. Props for making it a sequel and not a reboot. It was great that they not only mention Sam Beckett but show an image of Scott Bakula, and dedicate the episode to Dean Stockwell at the end. Cool that the big computer is still Ziggy. Different dynamic having the hologram guide being his fiance and not a comedic sidekick like Stockwell. So they are going for the unrequited love angle. Always good to see Bernie Hudson. That guy is 76, wow he looks great. Only negative was the promo where Ben leaps into Joe Montana, with the episode being set in 1985. Not fair. I suspected it was just a teaser, but held out hope that he was really going to be Joe in the episode! Oh well.

Kodvid has no friends. No one outside of his "wives" would want anything to do with him.

I was so sick of the entire focus last season being Covid, looked forward to something different this season but no, Kodvid is still yapping about Covid. It's his excuse for everything, being a shitty husband, a shitty dad. He complains about Christine taking Truely eight whole hours away (OMG a one day car ride!) when all through the pandemic he wouldn't even touch her. Meanwhile, Robyn lets a nanny in their house, who caught Covid at one point. Then of course Christine leaving has nothing to do with him, it's all her and her "issues." Mr. No Accountability strikes again.

"Sex, Lies, and Puppet Show"

One big problem is that the writers don't know how to build an emotional connection before defining moments. So we have Galadriel being all bitch face the whole time she is in Numenor and then asking the queen to aid her in battle in the Southlands, and the queen says no until a big tree starts shedding leaves and she sees the light and gives some generic boilerplate speech about doing the right thing or whatever, and all these dudes we never saw before start raising their hands to enlist in the war and we're all supposed to be moved by this powerful moment. Nope, it wasn't an earned moment. The only reason we're supposed to care is because Galadriel and Miriel are having visions that capital is going to be drowned in a tsunami. Which looked really cool btw.

He'll always be Dr. Who to me, had a terrific run in the role.

I don't have a lot to say about this show yet. Amazon doesn't have the rights to the books that are actually about the period this show is covering. Uhhh...don't have another hundred million or so to shell out, Jeff? Galadriel really is as terrible as they say. The plot is all over the place and it's hard to make a connection with most of the characters. And Elrond looks like Doogie Howser. But I do agree that the dwarf parts are really good, and I love Durin.

I'm generally not a fan of seasons where a show splits the action between two or more places (unless the whole show is designed that way like Game of Thrones). It can lead to the plots becoming disjointed and tedious as you wait and hope for everything to merge back together. But we'll see how this goes. I get the feeling that Hector is related to the cartel in Ozark. Run Miguel!

And together with "Squiggy" in Used Cars!

I also was fooled by Charles getting stabbed to death, but I redeemed myself by figuring out it was a ruse before the reveal. When they showed his body covered by the bloody sheet with Poppy comically stepping over it to talk to Oliver and Mabel, and nary a reaction or expression of grief from Mabel as she started to grill Poppy, I knew he was alive under the sheet. Great ending.

When you look at places like India and China with their billions of people and so many of them are outside of the major urban centers, I'm willing to bet there are millions of these "outliers" running around unaccounted for. Even if Halelores took out 99.9% of the human race, you would still have eight million or so people left.

Yes, she apparently forgot about the Outliers/Outcasts/Outlanders/Outlasters. And then there's the whole world beyond New York City. Halelores didn't seem to have any involvement in the affairs of Tokyo, Dubai, or London. My guess is Racko. This. And compounding this is the fact the host brains act exactly like whatever body they're in. Who cares that it's Dolores' brain inside William's body. It's William! I'm in Charlotte's body now, I want to bond with my family! Great writing.

Next season on Doloresworld…