S5- The worst written show I've ever seen

I'd love to talk about some of the questionable writing this season. You're gonna have to start listing some examples.

I overall liked it, but there was some serious "are you kidding me?" moments for me.

The overall arc for the Cobra Kai dojo I thought was far fetched. The show is tap dancing between reality and full blown Van Damme.

It seems they decided that in order to keep the fire going, season 5 would have to outdo the previous seasons. How does one do that? Cobra Kai is set to take over the world! For a show which started out with the old rivalries of Johnny and Daniel, it's running out of sharks to jump, and sooner or later they will have to resort to space nazis or something. It was a lot more interesting when the stakes were small, and it was more about the characters.

Besides, what was Silver's "evil plan", anyway? He really did want to help kids realise their potential. We never really got to see the destructiveness of his training philosophy, it just happened that a couple of students were pricks - and that happened under Kreese.

And then there's this super-elite karate tournament, which the writers completely forgot about after episode 8. Not even going into how silly it is for a completely unofficial dojo to qualify, it was a complete red herring. I don't know if it was even mentioned in the last two episodes, which resolved everything in a way that might as well have happened in the first half of the season.

And now Silver is in prison, and Kreese has escaped from prison. Which means any way these two antagonists can play a part in a 6th season would be illicitly. They can't run Cobra Kai now, or any other dojo for that matter. And Johnny and Daniel have made up, and Chozen is on Team Daniel as well. So just what is S6 going to be about?

Besides, I really don't think Silver would have lost the support from all of his students just because they found out Tory's win was fixed. Cheating was always part of Cobra Kai's game, and everybody knew it. And that qualifying bout, for the super-elite karate tournament thingie, had a referee who was clearly bought and paid for. When Sam was deprived of a point because Devon was out of bounds (when she clearly wasn't), Devon said nothing. When Devon got a point for a punch (or kick - don't remember) that Sam clearly blocked, Devon again had no objection. So she's going to be disillusioned by that little footage of Silver saying he had paid the judge as a collateral? I wouldn't expect any Cobra-ka to leave on that account.

Don't get me wrong, though - I don't hate S5, it certainly had its moments. But it is the weakest one by far.

Just finished it. Thought it was terrific fun!

Pretty much the only thing missing was Chosen's (Daniel's ex) missus turning up at the end. She should have flown in after receiving his voice mail.

... And yes, I know there'd be literally no way she could have got the message and flown over in time but that would have made no difference. The cheese was otherwise fully flowing by that stage.

Awesome!

You speak as if this series was high art on par with The Godfather to begin with. I don't doubt you when say that this series has become nauseating, nonetheless this is tantamount to saying that Megan Fox has just gotten slutty these days, and pretending that she was a classy chick during her 15 minutes of fame

Agreed, it just keeps getting worse.

But at least it hasn't gotten as bad as S4 of Stranger Things. At least not yet.

It wouldn't surprise me if they bring in ninjas next.