Kel Varnsen

But if he is doing bare knuckle, no padding fighting competitions would it even be possible to do matches say every weekend? Even in the course of the show, over all 6 seasons there were only 3 tournaments (4 official competitions if you count the S-T tryouts). Plus Robby has to train somewhere so why not at his dad's dojo?

This episode was a bit of a dud for me. The idea of a ghost fraternity didn't really work. Although alive Issac pretending to not be gay in front of Ben Franklin was funny. As for the whole liquor license speak easy thing, it was ok but the line about how they wasted all that valuable liquor was dumb. Because even if you didn't know it was valuable, why would you bring out all the bottles? Plus if you are trying to hide things from the liquor inspector, moving one bottle of whiskey through the house would be a lot quieter than moving a while case.

Some more follow up to Tory and Robby's story would have been interesting. Since it could have been really messy. I mean their pro deals seem to have been based on the "I love you" moment and them being the karate couple. Which would be a ton of pressure, especially for two people that started dating when they were maybe 16. Especially when you throw in that they are travelling the world and have a bunch of their own money. Especially since the whole endorsement package might not be as good if they were to break up. And in Robby's case if they did break up, the endorsement companies might be more likely to stick with the pretty blonde girl with the nickname and the championship over him.

But even if he is a pro fighter it's not like a pro basketball player or something where you are doing 80+ fights a year. Not to mention you he would have to train somewhere. Mostly I would have liked a scene where Robby is also working alongside his dad in some capacity. Or even maybe a sign or a poster or something at Cobra Kai that it is the home dojo of pro fighters Robby and Tory

Winning with a "sweep the leg" was pretty cool. Although I totally thought at one point that Johnny was going to headbutt Wolf. Only thing I thought was missing was Robby working next to his dad at Cobra Kai. I mean I doubt that karate equipment spokesmodel is a full time job. Also was there some sort of significance to showing the exact date that drunk Johnny went to see his mom's grave at the beginning. That was a good scene though and I like how the talk about second chances kind of worked with William Zabka's career. I liked Dimitri and Hawk patching things up. Plus it's undergrad. I doubt that MIT is teaching things that you can't learn anywhere else.

As much as I make fun of this show that ending was pretty cool. And Chozen saying the heat thing isn't magic was funny. And I didn't even mind the fake Myagi. And I really liked how Daniel realized that Johnny's life and what he needs was way different than his and was ok with him being Cobra Kai again. Yea. Like even one of those elbows to the face that Robby took would probably have been an instant concussion. Also if there were only 4 teams left by that point did the other teams really spend what must be thousands of dollars to fly to California to watch.

That was so over the top that it was funny. Even if you aren't arrested, the logical response should be "you can't use our facility". And a logical response to that should be, "That's fine, I can take my business elsewhere, and there are probably 100's of facilities just in California that I could use".

This show has gotten so crazy that it's probably good they aren't trying to draw it out much more. Like how did Kreese get a knife that killed a kid back? And why is Robby surprised that he doesn't have a ton of options after high school. He is a teen with a record and we never got much indication that he was into school. Plus it's not like trade school is a bad thing.

I feel like even without revealing the existence of the actual ghosts they should definitely be playing up the spooky history of the property. Like in just the past 100 years or so two different women were murdered, a woman was killed by a bear, a guy was shot with an arrow and another guy was somehow decapitated. And before that a bunch of people died of cholera. I bet people would be into that.

I was off yesterday so I watched it. My only real complaint was that in Canada the only place to watch it is the global TV app. And there were so many commercials, and I swear every break had the same commercials. It was interesting though although I wish when they were talking about some of the surprising events they talked more about the aftermath. Like the picture thing was a huge hit to Sinead O'Connor's career which they didn't really mention, and what happened to Ashlee Simpson is she still even a singer. Although I don't think I have ever seen that full Sinead performance so that was cool. I loved that whole beginning mash up though that was amazing how well it was edited together. There was only thing really missing though, especially when talking about music and comedy. The reason that Weird Al Yankovic was able to get permission to do Smells Like Nirvana was because he heard that the bad was going to be on SNL in 1992, and he called Victoria Jackson (who he knew) and asked if he could speak to Kurt. Kurt obviously said yes and felt that he had made it because Weird Al was parodying him.

As far as the health insurance think, is there anything stopping musical artists from setting up their own union and providing health insurance that way? I mean actors had that figured out over 90 years ago.

I guess I was a little impressed that they didn't say that the radiation from the reactor killer the cancer cells. On the plus side, I was impressed by how infrequently they tried to do the crossover thing to boost ratings. Compared to pretty much every other franchise spinoff kind of thing the level of restraint was impressive. I don't know why they didn't just recast the role. This show was way closer to being a soap opera than it was some kind of prestige drama, so recasting a main character wouldn't have been too out of line.

There was a lot of stupid in this episode but that really bugged me for some reason. Like the reactor has a control system that is so advanced that it can knows when it is going to meltdown and can count it down to the second. And it's also tied into the 911 computer system. But it doesn't have any kind of automatic shut-off? My iron has an automatic shut-off. Also dumb was Mateo's comment about how Nancy wanted to get an expensive lawyer. Because I am pretty sure with his story about stopping a nuclear meltdown and almost dying, his deportation would be all over the news or at least social media and every lawyer in Texas would be camping outside of the courthouse to take his case for free. And I am not sure if it was dumb or not but I thought the ceremony where Judd became captain and how he had to be sworn like the president just to get a promotion was pretty funny.

I heard about that and want to see it too. I mean as a kid who was a big fan, any suggestions of him being gay would have gone right over my head. But looking back now the Playhouse Christmas Special had k.d. Lang, Little Richard, Cher and Joan Rivers as guest stars. And regular episodes had Tito, the jacked, shirtless lifeguard. It couldn't have been more obvious. Although coming out as gay in the 80's would have probably been a career killer, especially once he started doing a kids show. I read somewhere once that he was also a heavy smoker and during the 80's he had someone on staff to make sure he was never smoking when kids were around or when there were photographers, because he thought that would hurt his image with the kids. I can imagine he would have felt the same about his sexuality.

For that matter if he needs Owen to live with him so he doesn't drink is that at all sustainable? I also wondered if when Grace called he actually told her how much he was struggling or if he kept a brave face for her. Because dealing with alcoholism seems like something you shouldn't hide from your partner, even if you are in recovery. Yea that seemed more like the magic of TV than an act of God. I used to be a lifeguard and I remember them telling us that at best CPR can delay death until the person gets actual medical attention. And although it was like 20 years ago surely CPR techniques haven't improved that much. Plus what was with just standing around once the guy came to. Surely they have oxygen tanks and other equipment in the house they could have brought to him. Also why was Judd wearing a bullet proof vest in the ammo building call? I don't think they ever commented on it and it seemed weird.

My interpretation of the show was that it was trying to make a statement more about corruption than about the dangers of nuclear power. There are other kinds of nuclear power plant designs that don't have the same built in danger as Chernobyl. But the problem here was way more about corruption and "the cost of lies".

Speaking of the fighters the only other thing that I thought should have been different (besides Wim using the force) was that when the fighters showed up instead of swooping in to save the day they should have used the come out of hyperspace effect where they appear out of nowhere. Because I love that visual and the associated sound effect.

I am way behind but I just watched this series this past week and it was amazing. Super hard to watch but amazing. I mean I figured that I was going to see stuff like cops beating on people, racial profiling and stealing from suspects. But I never even thought that arresting huge numbers of people and then making them sign a document that they won't sue in exchange for charges being dropped (without a lawyer present) was even a thing. Or the fact that so many people were affected by shitty police that they can't even put a jury together. Bernthal was pretty awesome. It was amazing how delusional he was the whole time about how he was untouchable because his work was so important. Even when he knew he was under federal investigation he didn't slow down because he thought he was protected. The Suiter stuff was interesting. I have the book requested from my local library and I am looking forward to reading it. Curious to see how many times he was actually shit since if you commit suicide how do you shoot yourself more than once in the head? The only thing that didn't work was when the Civil Rights lawyer met with the academy instructor guy. Like I agreed with what he was saying but it sounded like a super basic blog post it was so obvious.

Especially since we already know that Late Night has a massively long video of Trump pronouncing words.

I don't know, having the kids as basically hostages would probably make it easier to get the people of At Attin to do what you want when you get there. I also hope enough people eventually watch this for it to get a second season. I found it way more enjoyable than pretty much any of the other live action star wars shows (except probably Andor and the first season of Mandalorian). It was way better than Ahsoka though and I am happy that there was zero cross over with those Favreau/Filoni shows.

That was a hell of a lot of fun. I wish more Star Wars shows and more shows in general could be action packed like that. The hover bike chase was amazing and "trust KB" should be like the tagline for the show. Fern's speech about good people everywhere they went was also really well done. She is a talented actress. My only wish was that the previously recap didn't show the Owl lady, since you knew right away she would help. That was the only thing missing for me. When they were fighting over the barrier lever it would have been awesome if Wim had used the force to pull it. Hoping we get a season 2. It could be as simple as the parents exploring the galaxy with their kids. I mean if they can do Home Alone twice with the same kid why not two adventures with these kids. Not to mention it seems like the obvious trope for this type of story would be to have a 2 weeks later scene at the end. But they didn't.

Or he realizes that kids as hostages become a way better bargaining chip, when dealing with At Attin than dead kids. I am also curious to see where the last one goes. Did we ever get any actual confirmation that all the original pirates of the Onyx Cinder actually died?

Interesting, I had assumed they knew they were only getting 2 seasons at some point before S2 came out. Just because S1 was 10 episodes and S2 was only 7. Plus most of the first season episodes were around an hour while in 2 most were around 45 minutes. Plus if they didn't know from the start then the pacing is super weird. Like in season 1 the actual NBA season doesn't start until episode 5 and goes until the last episode. But then for season 2 they burn through 4 NBA seasons in 7 episodes. I would have thought if they thought they might have a chance they would have slowed it down and given each of those seasons a bit more attention. Like the Magic/Westhead thing seemed to come out of nowhere, and then is forgotten shortly after because each episode (which is now shorter) is covering months worth of time, if not more.

I finish the series tonight and it was weird. With how much things were rushed, and how the episodes were generally shorter I wondered if maybe they suspected they were going to be cancelled. But then they ended on the loss so maybe not? I did like the Magic/Westhead showdown although I could have used a bit more time explaining why Westhead turned into a jerk like he did. Although when Magic demanded the trade I really wondered if that was an option. Like they spent all that time talking about how Buss was giving guys way above average contract extensions and Magic's was the biggest contract in pro sports. With how little money the teams seemed to be able to generate (even the Lakers were staying in a Howard Johnson) how many other teams could take the risk of taking on that huge contract that was 25 years long? Also I would love to know how the show got What is and What Should Never Be by Led zeppelin for the final episode. Zeppelin are pretty notorious for not licensing their songs (unless you're Cameron Crowe) so that can't have been easy and must have cost a ton.

I watched this last night and it was good but not great. Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal are good actors but neither are early 2000's Russell Crowe. Although to be fair his run of great performances in the late 90's-early 2000's is pretty hard to beat. The action was good although the sharks were a bit corny. Reuse of some of the famous dialogue from the first movie was pretty corny too.