S06.E10: Eunjangdo

[BlueSkies]

7 hours ago, ChocButterfly said:

Well, I have an unpopular opinion: I hated the brawl. I thought it was stupid. In such an international tournament there must have been security everywhere close by. Specially after so many terrorists acts and shootings have happened. And the brawl seemed to go on forever without anyone showing up to stop it. Like another poster mentioned (forgot who, sorry) one shot fired as a warning would have shut these idiocy in a second.

Also, why was everyone so eager to fight everyone? Like, I get it, most of them resented the other dojos for losing or whatever, but it doesn't make sense that all the fighters would start randomely attacking others. Isn't karate suposed to teach you self control? All of these kids seemed to be on steroids, not only the Russian ones. And where were their senseis? Not one of them had a hold of their students?

And I really don't care that Kwon died. He kind of deserved it. Ok, he was just a teen, but he was willing to kill someone just because he lost. Boohoo. And the character had no redeeming qualities, he was a charicature. I hope he's really dead, and stays dead. He was a nuisance. Even Kreese has shown some depth. Not Silver, though. That one is a psycho.

I agree that some of the kids are more mature and have shown more growth than their senseis. And the most sensible character in the whole series is Daniel's wife.

By the way, isn't Kreese suposed to be a fugitive? How can he be out in the opening and traveling internationally all the time? How can he be one of the teams' senseis of the most important karate competition in the world? I think I may have missed an episode where they explained this.

Well said.

 

And yeah Amanda should just walk out on Daniel's ass at this point.  A very beautiful and level headed woman doesn't deserve all this nonsense.  Even if Daniel was to an extent justified in his hatred for Silver.  Daniel was the guy I was expecting during the whole brawl to try and get order but he's fighting everybody as well.  

 

A shit show where I knew it had to end with some kind of disaster happening like that.  And no I didn't feel any sorrow for that kid's fate.  

Edited December 4 by BlueSkies

[DoctorAtomic]

I'm not going to get on Daniel too much. The head guy got knocked out, and the Spanish sensei was looking to mop the floor with Johnny. Daniel went in to defend him. I don't think he was itching to fight. 

[Raja]

9 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:

I'm not going to get on Daniel too much. The head guy got knocked out, and the Spanish sensei was looking to mop the floor with Johnny. Daniel went in to defend him. I don't think he was itching to fight. 

It was weird with the international pro athletic teams compared to the Valley high kids of Miyagi-Do with some Eagle Fang, think Hunger Games. I guess I need to rewatch since even if Sensei Wolf corrected Johnny on Catalan and not Spanish being the local street language the Iron Dragons and Sensei Wolf represented China I think, like Tory and Kreese represented South Korea with Cobra Kai.

Now if it was another adult being reference in the melee a re-watch by me probably won't occur until well after Karate Kid: Legends is seen.

[DoctorAtomic]

Kim and Chozen were also fighting together in addition to the other senseis. Kreese didn't really fight more than make his way through the fracas to get to Silver. 

 

[Danny Franks]

Finally it happened. Karate manslaughter. How did it take six seasons? If Kwon didn't stab himself, I guess Kreese would have killed someone at some point. Because "this is war." This karate tournament for teenagers, full of silly gimmick matches, is war.

I guess maybe it war, is if teenagers are being encouraged to knock each other out to get higher scores.

I'm really not sure about CGI Pat Morita, as I'm never sure about any CGI used to recreate deceased actors. I guess this show can argue that the entire premise has been about honouring his most famous character.

But Daniel absolutely needs to get the fuck over the fact that his heroic father figure wasn't perfect.

Robby finally rising above the bait and not trying to fight Kwon? Well, that only took six seasons too. Of course, Tory then immediately does take the bait.

The Russians were doping? Finally, some realism in this show that doesn't involve Amanda despairing of all the lunacy. 

The brawl was ridiculous. Why were the Russian team even still there, if they'd been disqualified? Why does a random "Oirish" girl hate Sam? Why is a giant, robot Ivan Drago allowed to be in the tournament at all (and why does go all Lennie Small when it comes to Sam)? Why does the Iron Dragon sensei hate Johnny so much? Just because they argued at the buffet?

Also, Martin Kove is too old to be doing action scenes. They look really bad.

But now that a kid died on live television, apparently broadcast around the world, the tournament will be cancelled, right? Right?

Honestly, this show was a comedy in the early seasons, and still had some laughs littered in the melodrama in later seasons. But this episode was fucking hilarious, completely unintentionally. I was genuinely pissing myself with laughter for the whole last ten or twenty minutes.