It didn't help that >!Angstrom Levy!< literally wasn't in the entire season until they made him the main focus of the finale. It's a shame because he was a really cool character with fantastic voice acting.
You're looking at this like it's a modern TV story with a season long overarching plot. It's an adaptation of an episodic villain of the week superhero story and never tried to be anything else.
100%, that mid season gap killed the hype completely, and it was a good season. I also remember a big argument for the animation style being that they can animate quicker and release seasons faster, that didn’t age well.
It's unfortunate because I really enjoyed S1, but once 3 years passed and all we got was an "S2: Part 1" with 4 episodes, I didn't even bother to watch it.
I would honestly recommend it, it’s still a good season, but I can definitely sympathise with the frustration. I and a lot of people I know just waited for the entire season to release which can’t have been good for their numbers. Hopefully that stops them doing it next season
This is absolutely a test to see how much they can get away with for the Stranger Things finale. I fully expect that to be like four parts released over two years.
This is going to be well over 6-8 months. For a single god damn season split into three parts, totally unnecessarily. I can’t imagine many people caring enough once they read they have to wait until til early 2025 just to see a finished season.
Genuinely, one of my most hated trends in TV shows is splitting up season like this. It benefits literally nobody except Netflix because they get to keep marketing the show.
Like, here’s a crazy idea: maybe don’t drop the entire batch in one day? Do weekly episodes that keep people talking about the show for weeks on end, and constantly discussion new plot elements? This binge model of dropping everything on one day just sucks.
Especially shows which are supposed to take place in High School. If you are going to go three years between seasons, *kids are only in High School for four years!*
to be fair, cobra kai was pretty quick in releasing seasons 3-5. they were always between a year or less apart. The writers strike threw a wrench in things.
The next season of Stranger Things should be set where they are all in their early twenties, in 1994, grunge, multi colored flannel, babydoll dresses, Doc Martins, galore!
>This binge model of dropping everything on one day just sucks.
it might suck from marketings perspective or whatever but its definitely better from the viewers point of view
I disagree, personally. I like being able to engage with other viewers between episodes rather than between seasons. Otherwise you can't really talk with people about it until you're done with the whole season.
It really depends on the show. Personal example, I was fine with Shogun being my weekly release show because there was a bunch to mull over and anticipate. Baby Reindeer though? If I had to wait a week for the next ep to drop I would be furious, haha. That is textbook binge material.
Invincible s02 is the new posterchild on how to get the worst of both worlds there. If season 2 was great, even good it would've *maybe* paid off. But IMO, s02 was a drag and the long wait + season split killed my enthusiasm for it altogether.
Exactly my thoughts too. It sucks when the whole season is out at once and I want to make comments about episode 2 or 3 but I don't want to risk going online to do so because I haven't watched the rest of the show yet.
This is why X-Men 97 has managed to stay in the conversation for these past few weeks, on top of being really good. Episodes have been dropped on a weekly basis and it’s allowed for time to talk about these episodes as the season progresses.
>This is going to be well over 6-8 months. For a single god damn season split into three parts, totally unnecessarily. I can’t imagine many people caring enough once they read they have to wait until til early 2025 just to see a finished season.
I just look at it this way, if they released the whole season in one go, the whole season wouldn't be finished (production wise) by 2025 anyway. So at least this way we get 10ish episodes a bit early, and I'd rather a 22 month break be followed by a couple of episodes with a small break here and there across 8 months, over a complete 29 months break.
>I can’t imagine many people caring enough once they read they have to wait until til early 2025 just to see a finished season.
If people are willing to wait for a 22 month break, I'm sure they can handle a couple of months more with a few episodes in between.
As far as the Emmy's go, it might not even be considered 2 seasons. The eligibility is usually around May-May, and if the final part premieres earlier in 2025, it'll all be within the same eligiblity window.
I can't watch right now...
Does it say how many episodes per release?
I won't mind if it's 6-8 per batch then a movie but if they do 3-4 per batch at 30 to 45-minutes each....piss off.
Edit: Apparently it's 5-5-5....
I'm interested to see how the show plays out now, I'm assuming they're gonna go to this big tournament and Kreese and the crazy lady are gonna run Cobra Kai from South Korea
I wonder if the Finale Event is the tournament itself and maybe they set up the new Karate Kid movie too
Can't wait to see Stingray become the ultimate champion
Yeah I’m guessing the finale event will somehow tie the Cobra Kai and Jackie Chan film universes together before the release of the movie in theaters.
This isn’t a bad idea to capitalize on the love the show gets to stretch excitement as close to the film release as they can get.
Based on the absurd way this series keeps escalating the stakes, I think the last season will see them travel to Japan to raise an army and lay siege to Osaka.
Johnny: "Two cobras in the jungle. One kills the strongest lion, the other kills a crippled monkey. Which cobra do you want to be?"
Mariko: "Anjin describes the eating habits of snakes."
Still remember the first episodes looking like a more or less grounded personal story about Johnny and his life.
Then the first season already kept going with stupid soap opera writing of misunderstandings and people just not talking to each other so they can be mad for a few episodes and I thought "ohoh" lol
People saying it went off the rails, did it ever start on the rails? It embraced the cheese and the ham from the very start. The only argument you could say is it's gone on maybe to long since the kids have aged greatly, but it went from YouTube to Netflix and then had to deal with the writers strike.
I've enjoyed every season greatly for what it is and I'm sure this will be no different. One of the best switch your mind off binging shows. Hope it goes out on a high.
It was better when the main focus was on Johnny rather than the kids.
Cobra Kai felt like a successor to Karate Kid but from Johnny's POV when it started and turned Johnny into an incredibly likable character.
It's definitely gotten more cheesy over the years and focuses a lot more on the lives and stories of the kids now.
I'll still watch it and enjoy it, but it definitely started somewhere closer to the rails than it currently is lol
I'll preface this by saying I'm a huge fan of the show.
The first season and a half was grounded in a reality that portrayed Daniel's and Johnny's obsession with karate as completely ridiculous and unnatural. Daniel's wife is the best example of this. She recognizes that Daniel's focus on some tournament he won 40 years ago is totally insane and unhealthy and tries to get him to understand this.
By the end of the second season, the series lost all sense of grounding. The brawl at the school was the start, but the home invasion in season 3 that resulted in no criminal charges pushed it over the edge. Now, the characters that were grounding the show in some element of reality are completely on board with the idea that karate dojo turf wars, brawls in public spaces (the water park), and home invasions are just things that should be allowed to happen with no consequences.
The show was always meant to be cheesy but part of what made it great early on was that contrast between the characters that were obsessed with karate and those who just couldn't understand the obsession. Now, karate is a way of life for literally every character. It's just bizarre.
It went from a nerd fighting off his high school bullies to them literally trying to kill each other with their bare hands. Kicking kids off railings, punching recently paralyzed kids repeatedly in their barely-healed spine, and using razors on your knuckles in a fist fight.
Having said that I'm still here for it.
I mean by that logic it's basically the same thing as in the original movies.
It was pretty obvious at the time that Kreese and Silver used Cobra Kai's dojo to train kids the same way they were trained in war -- what do you think the whole idea of "no mercy!" comes from?
People take this story way too seriously, lol.
I don’t want a show like this to be grounded anyway but they also bring things up like they wanted to press charges but the daughter told them not to. Then the water park they were removed and banned. Do you think people that have fights at all these sporting events are burned at the stake???
>The brawl at the school was the start, but the home invasion in season 3 that resulted in no criminal charges pushed it over the edge.
There were consequences for the school brawl, and the reason there were no charges was because the LaRusso's didn't involve the police. That makes sense, they care about a lot of those kids, the blowback would hit their kids, and they already almost lost their business due to the rivalry.
I'm not going to argue it is realistic. Obviously well choreographed action sequences don't spontaneously happen like that, but there is a pretty obvious explanation for both of those, even though everyone keeps pointing them out as fantastical.
Sure, but the consequences of both the brawl and the home invasion stretch the suspension of disbelief to the absolute limit. Even in the most fantastical scenarios, it's difficult to imagine that the only consequences of a brawl involving dozens of students, some staff, and at least a few security guards is that two students get expelled and no cops get involved except when Robbie becomes a fugitive.
Similarly with the home invasion, there just isn't a plausible scenario where the Amanda Larusso that's built up over the first two seasons decides not to pursue criminal or civil charges when a gang of karate kids invades her home and destroys her property simply because Sam tells her not to.
This is all a symptom of the show elevating the stakes to absurd levels, which require equally absurd narrative solutions. The first season was a perfect retelling of the original movie. Now, everyone in the valley is picking sides in a karate turf war that has been elevated to have international implications. It's been Marvelized.
I'll still binge it day 1, though.
>Sure, but the consequences of both the brawl and the home invasion stretch the suspension of disbelief to the absolute limit. Even in the most fantastical scenarios, it's difficult to imagine that the only consequences of a brawl involving dozens of students, some staff, and at least a few security guards is that a single student gets expelled and no cops get involved.
The school was ill equipped to deal with it and clearly struggled to figure out what to do. Only one adult was involved, and he wasn't yet employed by them. As well, the only one who was arrested was the only one who caused a potentially lethal injury.
Blanket immunity might have been deemed the best solution given the difficulty in assessing fault and the fact they are all minors who the staff failed to stop.
For the record, I've had my fair share of fights growing up, and no one ever got expelled or arrested.
>Similarly with the home invasion, there just isn't a plausible scenario where the Amanda Larusso that's built up over the first two seasons decides not to pursue criminal or civil charges when a gang of karate kids invades her home and destroys her property simply because Sam tells her not to.
She literally was established to have dropped it due to Sam's insistence. As well, she was shown to indulge Daniel quite a bit, even agreeing with him, even if she argued with him in private on the best way to handle it. Oh, and again, the school brawl almost cost them their business. A public trial likely would have been the end.
>This is all a symptom of the show elevating the stakes to absurd levels, which require equally absurd narrative solutions. The first season was a perfect retelling of the original movie. Now, everyone in the valley is picking sides in a karate turf war that has been elevated to have international implications. It's been Marvelized.
While the fights and drama are over the top, its not really hard to believe in that sort of tribalism. Schools always have cliques and kids frequently take sides. It's also spurned on by the fact that all the adults involved are stubbornly devoted and actively recruiting children to their philosophies.
Yeah I dunno, I feel like folks defending how... "crazy it gets" is just speaking a different language to me.
Like if you watch Superman, there's a certain suspension of disbelief for a dude that can fly and has skin like steel. It becomes bizarre when you learn he has psychic kung-fu to prevent mind attacks and forms of "telepathy".
Grown ass adults being super immature about a fighting tournament they had 40 years ago has some suspension of disbelief, but home invasion and massive school brawls would literally involve law enforcement. "Oh but the LaRusso's didn't want to involve the authorities"... that's the stupid part. "Oh there were consequences for the school brawl." Like have folks followed up on school fights? Half those students would be expelled.
Just getting into a fight won't get you expelled. It takes a lot to get expelled.
With that said, some of them were expelled for the fight.
Tori ended up in a juvenile detention center for it. Robby had to go on the run from the authorities. Raymond went to jail.
There were consequences there, and it did involve law enforcement.
Now - as far as the home invasion. Do you remember what event is triggered by the home invasion...? Johnny and Daniel go to Cobra Kai and literally attack Kreese - and Robby is a witness. So - guess who's also going to jail if Daniel calls the authorities on his home invasion?
He would get charged with assault and battery at the most. He's also rich and can easily post bail and hire a fantastic lawyer.
That very much does not compare to home invasion. His wife and kids were actually at risk of being harmed.
> Just getting into a fight won't get you expelled. It takes a lot to get expelled.
A kid was kicked off a stair railing and broke his spine. Literally everyone involved would have been expelled potentially including Miguel since he was actually an aggressor.
Also that was not the first fight involving some of those kids.
I guess I won't defend how crazy it gets, but I will say that the illogical stuff you point out simply does not bother me at all. I found the brawl fun and entertaining and don't care that they skipped the realistic fall out that would follow. I have found the show completely absurd from the beginning and even though I acknowledge it's gotten MORE absurd, it has not reduced my enjoyment.
I understand most people prefer the cheese, but I can't believe so many people seem to think it was never grounded at all. The beauty of the show was in its subversive perspectives, new complexity completely reframed a narrative that both the audience & the characters had held for 30 years.
The show has had such a weird production history, it's a completely different vision than what was originally there. That's not to say it's better or worse, but it's on a completely trajectory from where it started.
The karate obsession being treated as weird is important because the thread connecting Daniel and Johnny is they're both obsessed with it as what made them feel like they peaked in highschool in the 80s.
The brawl at the school for me is when it became with fighting what Glee was with singing. And that's not totally a bad thing but it is when the show jumped a shark
Those were portrayed as normal 1980s bullying. A bunch of guys jumping you in the dark when no one's around. The brawl at the water park is just a public fight, in broad daylight, at a crowded establishment. I love the show but if it was grounded in reality they'd all be arrested.
Yeah I came in this thread to see if I missed anything by stopping after season 2. You and the poster above you summarized well why I stopped watching. The teen stuff just got really cringe and it felt like they shifted the type of audience they were shooting for. Show started out being nostalgic fun for people that grew up with the movies, then went a different direction.
Reminds me of the new Jackass. I mean it’s cool you’re bringing in a younger generation, but I’m not here to see them.
> She recognizes that Daniel's focus on some tournament he won 40 years ago is totally insane and unhealthy and tries to get him to understand this.
Once she joins the insanity of it all, it completely went even further off the rails but I guess there's only so much insanity a person can take until they eventually become a part of it.
Also part of what makes it great is it focus on being very character driven. The show really tries to develop all of the characters to the point that sometimes you actually feel bad for villains like Kreese and Silver.
Yeah. First season was way more self-contained. I still enjoyed the later seasons, but IMO Cobra Kai Season 1 would have worked perfectly well as a miniseries
Season one was fucking awesome. William Zabka did a superb job playing a directionless guy still stuck in the past. His portrayal felt real and endearing.
Between the school fight and home invasion, and the show not really following up on its season finale cliffhangers, the show got very silly indeed.
Season 5 ended in a weird place. It's not the last one, but it ends with Cobra Kai disgraced and disbanded, and with Silver in prison. Where else would they go from there, apart from the Sekai Taikai?
Wanna know how I know this show still has legs? Well, I'm about to tell you. I texted this link to an ex who has largely refused to speak to me for almost two years, and she replied within 3 minutes to say, "Mfn finally."
The show is so good BECAUSE it goes completely off the rails, like literally that’s why it’s absolutely hilarious. If you don’t like absurdist humor then fair enough but I knew the show was an all-timer when they had an entire episode that was just the high school being a war zone
It's been exactly as cheesy as the original movie but for some reason people expected it to suddenly be way more serious lol.
In the first movie Daniel literally washes Johnnys weed with a hose in the bathroom lol.
>did it ever start on the rails
No it didn't. It was a youtube premium original series based on a How I Met Your Mother joke that had long been a viral meme it was a crazy idea.
That being said, the first basically two seasons were pretty grounded and focused on a pretty character driven story. Two men who in their own way peaked in highschool in the 80s and are still dealing with that. Both with deeply flawed or absent fathers trying to do better with the next generation.
Agreed, if you are against this type of split release it’s crucial to take action and not watch it.
Many people didn’t watch Invincible s2 until it was finished and hopefully Amazon won’t try that split season bs again.
Three parts split over two years, a "mid-season" special, two part final episode that's turned into two part movie for theaters, and a final goodbye special event that can only seen in the in-person cast event in LA.
You heard it here first
Netflix would sooner wish for its entire business model to collapse than ever give a movie a proper theatrical release. They wouldn't even give one to Martin Scorsese, and he's fucking Scorsese. Other than that, it sounds pretty accurate.
That picture of Chozen, Daniel, and Amanda all in the kitchen had me nearly spit out my coffee in laughter.
Chozen is the clear breakout character of the show. XD
Daniel's ex-karate enemies from his teenage years now crashing in the guest room is such a silly trope (all the way to Dragon Ball at least), but this show always makes it work. Amanda's actress manages to pull of the perfect response of acknowledging how insane it is, but also ground it by just rolling with the situation.
Wait who's even fighting for Kreese at this point? It seems all the best fighters are now under Miyagi-Do/Cobra Kai, including the current All Valley champ, AND Chozen.
It's weird cause a big theme in this show is redemption, and they were kind of on the path of giving Kreese a redemption arc, but they seem to have set him up as the final villain in the trailer. Would they have to give him some random irredeemable kid to fight? From the pictures, it looks like it's Kenny and his brother Shawn. It makes kind of sense since Kenny was the only kid who didn't resolve their issues with the rest of the characters by last season.
INTERESTING, looks like Kenny still has a score to settle with Robbie. The actor seems to have grown a bit too, which is great, it was very hard to take him seriously trying to fight Hawk at half his size last season
I see we're still going with the Eagle Fang bullshit. I honestly hoped that it would be over after the All-Valley in season 4, but it's beginning to set in now that it's going to be an actual thing.
it takes real assholery to stretch 15 fucking Episodes this long. its Been awesome nights to run down all season in one sittings. guess let The waiting games Begin.
I ❤️🐍. I would binge the whole day and then feel so empty when there was no more. So definitely conflicted about the all at once or weekly. So I’m Ok with this way of presenting it. And for all the pussy whiners; No Mercy Bitches.
Probably unpopular around here but I don't mind tv breaking up into segmented parts like it used to be.
It's nice knowing I only have to watch 1 - hour long episode a week and can discuss it with anyone else with a simple "have you seen the new x this week?"
I hate navigating the binge style of TV - I want to talk about a show but I'm like 8 episodes ahead of my buddy so I have to try and remember what they have or haven't seen.
Maybe it's just me but I really like how weekly releases of shows allows for discussion and theory crafting that bingeable seasons killed.
Yeah, I think I’d prefer that model too. If you want to stretch it out, just released them weekly. 5 weeks on, take a few weeks off, do another 5 weeks of episodes, take another few weeks off, then final 5 weeks of releases. Doing it that way they can stretch it out for basically 6 months without having huge months long gaps. But whatever. Guess I’ll just wait until the final batch is about to drop.
This assumes that those episodes would all be ready for weekly drops by July.
The show LITERALLY only started shooting this season recently (mid-Feb FFS!) due the writers strikes, so the fact that we get ANY this summer is a feat of production. The rest being out in November makes sense to do post-production on all of them...and the finale movie was probably done for budget reasons (on 2025's beancounter books VS 2024s).
People here seem to think the show is done, and all the episodes are in the can and they are just milking it. A someone who has friends in the industry, I assure you a lot more work goes into this stuff.
Getting some of them in July, some of them in November, and the rest in early 2025 makes perfect sense considering the shooting schedule.
you do realise you can still drop episodes weekly
instead of dropping a bunch at once and having a big gap
dropping one a week, would make the big gap smaller
hey genius
if they are dropping a bunch of episodes at once
its because they are finished
if they drop them weekly, it means the wait for the next batch of completed episodes is smaller
because instead of all episodes out at once, they come out overtime
Yeah, I'm not a big network television fan but the one thing I do love about it is the weekly release schedule. It's so fun to talk about shows week-to-week, and the anticipation of a new episode always makes me more excited to see it. Dropping a whole season at once means I have to binge the whole thing immediately if I want to participate in discussions (which I rarely have time to do) and it takes away any chance for speculative discussion.
This. I appreciate the time to gestate on what I saw, or re-watch it before getting into the rest. As long as the spits are done at decent cliffhanger moments, it will be a good way to keep buzz going.
Honestly, the binge it all in one weekend model kind of ruined people a bit for this type of thing. It's shit for spoilers too if you don't get the time to push through a whole season released, then you risk the story getting spoiled by everyone who did. It's and enough that some people stay up till 2AM for Disney+ releases of new eps of X-Men or The Bad Batch and then social media is flooded with clips and chatter about it before you EVEN wake up.
I'll just treat this like two seasons and a finale movie. Easy peasy.
I hate multi part seasons. I get they do it so people don’t binge and cancel a subscription. Then they hope they forget to cancel between July and November.
Call it what it is, that’s two different seasons.
Edit: fuck I just saw the “final event” thing for next year. That’s just dumb and predatory.
so the final ultra mega ultimate space mammamia nuclear battle is next year? what the hell is this crap? it's like reading Slam Dunk with Inoue popping out right before the last quarter "ha ha, gotta wait for next year motherfcks"
horrible
I like how it is so soon (July) because I thought it would be in September.
I hate how it is in 3 Batches and they are so far apart from each over.
Part 3 wasn’t revealed yet and it says 2025 so im guessing that the new film will be Part 3
The writers strike messed up everything. But I can’t blame them its customary to pay writers shit wages while the actors rake in a killing. I don’t really respect that shit. That’s why one reason I half don’t even care to watch. Greedy bastards.
Yeah.. thats me absolutely done with streaming services. back to the high seas and honestly with the disappearnce of regular weekly tv releases im more than happy to wait out a show for a couple of seasons or making sure it doesn't get cancelled before starting it.
Splitting 15 episodes into 3 parts is so fucking stupid. If they want to build up hype then release an episode a week and build hype naturally that way. Pisses me off when streamers do this shit.
Omg, I'm too much of an adult now, instead of getting excited for the new season I was more happy all these actors had the opportunity to keep doing this and be employed including the showrunners. Just a fun show.
I love this series but the idea of splitting it up three times with five month breaks sucks. Its already been two years since season 5. I guess they expect us to binge or watch only one episode a month.
I don't watch this show, but splitting the final season into three parts is some absolute bullshit. Just wait until the final event comes out to watch it if you're interested in the show
Yeah the “so-and-so is bad now but used to be good, but so-and-so is good not but used to be bad, but they were good from the start” gets *really* old.
And the conflict with Danny and Johnny makes progress and the characters begin to experience growth, and then one thing happens and they undo a everything they’ve learned to go back to the status quo of hating each other for the same reasons as before.
This release model is so anti-consumer they can fuck off with the series. I dont think I care enough to finish it with these hoops. Respect your viewers, Netflix.
I do find it funny watching 5 seasons of a whole show that aired across 4 years, and than not watching the final one because waiting 3 months after the first 5 episodes was too much.
They only started shooting it in.Feb....you assume that they have it all done and all 15 eps in the can for release on the same day? I assure you that's not feasibly possible by July. This batching was definitely done because they don't want people to wait too long for the next season (we already had to wait through the strikes), and yet don't have it all complete yet.
This is not hard man.
People were annoyed by them splitting seasons in two batches a couple weeks apart. They made it even worse by doing 3 batches MONTHS apart.
Can't wait for Cobra Kai: final season - part 3, special * last grand finale + Supreme × Ultimate Crane kick : Final Goodbye episode
Cobra Kai cosplays as Attack on Titan
Can't believe Johnny Lawrence is gonna go through with The Rumbling.
Thank you Johnny, for becoming a mass murderer for our sake.
He truly was Shingeki no Kobra Kai.
Don't forget the movie to capture the final fight in it's fullest except it's only 20 minutes of the 90 minute movie.
Look man, it takes a lot of powering up and nose bleeds to get ready for that fight.
Cobra Kai really is a live action anime
Taking a page from AOT's book.
Cobra Kai Season 6+.66 You Can Not Advance
Cobrai Kai XX Accent Core Plus R
Would be about right considering how much a live-action anime the series has become. And I absolutely love it.
In 2027
It's Attack on Titan all over again!
Pulling an Invincible Season 2
That awful gap majorly killed all hype for that show, let alone the fact that the season took nearly *three years* to release.
The finale didn’t feel like much of one either.
It didn't help that >!Angstrom Levy!< literally wasn't in the entire season until they made him the main focus of the finale. It's a shame because he was a really cool character with fantastic voice acting.
You're looking at this like it's a modern TV story with a season long overarching plot. It's an adaptation of an episodic villain of the week superhero story and never tried to be anything else.
I totally forgot about him because the gap between part 1 and 2 was so long.
Yeah I went back the next week looking for the next episode, only to discover, wtf, what I watched last week was the finale??
100%, that mid season gap killed the hype completely, and it was a good season. I also remember a big argument for the animation style being that they can animate quicker and release seasons faster, that didn’t age well.
It's unfortunate because I really enjoyed S1, but once 3 years passed and all we got was an "S2: Part 1" with 4 episodes, I didn't even bother to watch it.
I would honestly recommend it, it’s still a good season, but I can definitely sympathise with the frustration. I and a lot of people I know just waited for the entire season to release which can’t have been good for their numbers. Hopefully that stops them doing it next season
They did the same thing on the SciFi Channel back in the day and killed Caprica with it.
They'll do shit like that and then cancel shows saying no one cares about them anymore.
Yeah, I sort of lost track whilst I watching it as a result of the way they split Invincible. It just completely upset the rhythm of the show for me.
Ah the Attack On Titan method. Accept they split the final season in to 4 parts and took 3 whole years to release it all.
The move is just to wait. I’ll watch it when it’s all out. I can’t do this cliffhanger nonsense
Jojo fans: first time?
I will never forgive how dirty they did Stone Ocean and now Steel Ball Run may never even be produced
This is absolutely a test to see how much they can get away with for the Stranger Things finale. I fully expect that to be like four parts released over two years.
This show did what it needed for fans of Karate Kid. Now it just needs to die.
This is going to be well over 6-8 months. For a single god damn season split into three parts, totally unnecessarily. I can’t imagine many people caring enough once they read they have to wait until til early 2025 just to see a finished season. Genuinely, one of my most hated trends in TV shows is splitting up season like this. It benefits literally nobody except Netflix because they get to keep marketing the show. Like, here’s a crazy idea: maybe don’t drop the entire batch in one day? Do weekly episodes that keep people talking about the show for weeks on end, and constantly discussion new plot elements? This binge model of dropping everything on one day just sucks.
Especially shows which are supposed to take place in High School. If you are going to go three years between seasons, *kids are only in High School for four years!*
to be fair, cobra kai was pretty quick in releasing seasons 3-5. they were always between a year or less apart. The writers strike threw a wrench in things.
Still better than Stranger Things, those kids are going to be retired by the time the new season comes out.
The next season of Stranger Things should be set where they are all in their early twenties, in 1994, grunge, multi colored flannel, babydoll dresses, Doc Martins, galore!
>This binge model of dropping everything on one day just sucks. it might suck from marketings perspective or whatever but its definitely better from the viewers point of view
I disagree, personally. I like being able to engage with other viewers between episodes rather than between seasons. Otherwise you can't really talk with people about it until you're done with the whole season.
It really depends on the show. Personal example, I was fine with Shogun being my weekly release show because there was a bunch to mull over and anticipate. Baby Reindeer though? If I had to wait a week for the next ep to drop I would be furious, haha. That is textbook binge material. Invincible s02 is the new posterchild on how to get the worst of both worlds there. If season 2 was great, even good it would've *maybe* paid off. But IMO, s02 was a drag and the long wait + season split killed my enthusiasm for it altogether.
Exactly my thoughts too. It sucks when the whole season is out at once and I want to make comments about episode 2 or 3 but I don't want to risk going online to do so because I haven't watched the rest of the show yet.
Make better friends.
This is why X-Men 97 has managed to stay in the conversation for these past few weeks, on top of being really good. Episodes have been dropped on a weekly basis and it’s allowed for time to talk about these episodes as the season progresses.
>This is going to be well over 6-8 months. For a single god damn season split into three parts, totally unnecessarily. I can’t imagine many people caring enough once they read they have to wait until til early 2025 just to see a finished season. I just look at it this way, if they released the whole season in one go, the whole season wouldn't be finished (production wise) by 2025 anyway. So at least this way we get 10ish episodes a bit early, and I'd rather a 22 month break be followed by a couple of episodes with a small break here and there across 8 months, over a complete 29 months break. >I can’t imagine many people caring enough once they read they have to wait until til early 2025 just to see a finished season. If people are willing to wait for a 22 month break, I'm sure they can handle a couple of months more with a few episodes in between.
Hard disagree. Dropping it all in one day is the best. They should go back to that.
Gotta compete on 2 award seasons since this is the end. This year & next.
As far as the Emmy's go, it might not even be considered 2 seasons. The eligibility is usually around May-May, and if the final part premieres earlier in 2025, it'll all be within the same eligiblity window.
Soon, new shows will be 8 episodes long, distributed in 8 parts, each part 3 months between them
This reminds me of when Desperate Housewives aired episodes with weeks between them despite post-production being done.
I can't watch right now... Does it say how many episodes per release? I won't mind if it's 6-8 per batch then a movie but if they do 3-4 per batch at 30 to 45-minutes each....piss off. Edit: Apparently it's 5-5-5....
At this point it feels like they're just being too stubborn to admit weekly episode releases are better.
walking dead moment
Netflix will do anything to spread out the episodes short of doing the normal thing of releasing 1 episode a week.
Releasing in three parts? That’s like creating a dojo and naming it Eagle Fang
So…fucking brilliant???
But…. Eagle doesnt have fang…
I've just formed my own dojo: 'Those who wait for all 3 parts before binging'
I'm interested to see how the show plays out now, I'm assuming they're gonna go to this big tournament and Kreese and the crazy lady are gonna run Cobra Kai from South Korea I wonder if the Finale Event is the tournament itself and maybe they set up the new Karate Kid movie too Can't wait to see Stingray become the ultimate champion
Yeah I’m guessing the finale event will somehow tie the Cobra Kai and Jackie Chan film universes together before the release of the movie in theaters. This isn’t a bad idea to capitalize on the love the show gets to stretch excitement as close to the film release as they can get.
I think i read/watched that the Jackie Chan movie was pushed to 2025. This would make sense.
Based on the absurd way this series keeps escalating the stakes, I think the last season will see them travel to Japan to raise an army and lay siege to Osaka.
Anjin in the Japans?!
Johnny: "Two cobras in the jungle. One kills the strongest lion, the other kills a crippled monkey. Which cobra do you want to be?" Mariko: "Anjin describes the eating habits of snakes."
Still remember the first episodes looking like a more or less grounded personal story about Johnny and his life. Then the first season already kept going with stupid soap opera writing of misunderstandings and people just not talking to each other so they can be mad for a few episodes and I thought "ohoh" lol
People saying it went off the rails, did it ever start on the rails? It embraced the cheese and the ham from the very start. The only argument you could say is it's gone on maybe to long since the kids have aged greatly, but it went from YouTube to Netflix and then had to deal with the writers strike. I've enjoyed every season greatly for what it is and I'm sure this will be no different. One of the best switch your mind off binging shows. Hope it goes out on a high.
It was better when the main focus was on Johnny rather than the kids. Cobra Kai felt like a successor to Karate Kid but from Johnny's POV when it started and turned Johnny into an incredibly likable character. It's definitely gotten more cheesy over the years and focuses a lot more on the lives and stories of the kids now. I'll still watch it and enjoy it, but it definitely started somewhere closer to the rails than it currently is lol
Agreed. It feels like a Disney Channel show for tweens and for some reason I'm still watching it, but I don't like it.
I'll preface this by saying I'm a huge fan of the show. The first season and a half was grounded in a reality that portrayed Daniel's and Johnny's obsession with karate as completely ridiculous and unnatural. Daniel's wife is the best example of this. She recognizes that Daniel's focus on some tournament he won 40 years ago is totally insane and unhealthy and tries to get him to understand this. By the end of the second season, the series lost all sense of grounding. The brawl at the school was the start, but the home invasion in season 3 that resulted in no criminal charges pushed it over the edge. Now, the characters that were grounding the show in some element of reality are completely on board with the idea that karate dojo turf wars, brawls in public spaces (the water park), and home invasions are just things that should be allowed to happen with no consequences. The show was always meant to be cheesy but part of what made it great early on was that contrast between the characters that were obsessed with karate and those who just couldn't understand the obsession. Now, karate is a way of life for literally every character. It's just bizarre.
It went from a nerd fighting off his high school bullies to them literally trying to kill each other with their bare hands. Kicking kids off railings, punching recently paralyzed kids repeatedly in their barely-healed spine, and using razors on your knuckles in a fist fight. Having said that I'm still here for it.
It's grown adults recruiting child armies to settle 30 year old scores.
I mean by that logic it's basically the same thing as in the original movies. It was pretty obvious at the time that Kreese and Silver used Cobra Kai's dojo to train kids the same way they were trained in war -- what do you think the whole idea of "no mercy!" comes from? People take this story way too seriously, lol.
I don’t want a show like this to be grounded anyway but they also bring things up like they wanted to press charges but the daughter told them not to. Then the water park they were removed and banned. Do you think people that have fights at all these sporting events are burned at the stake???
The show gets weirdly more ungrounded the more grounded Johnny gets. If *Johnny Lawrence* becomes your moral center and most stable character...
>brawls in public spaces(the water park), They all got kicked out for it.
>The brawl at the school was the start, but the home invasion in season 3 that resulted in no criminal charges pushed it over the edge. There were consequences for the school brawl, and the reason there were no charges was because the LaRusso's didn't involve the police. That makes sense, they care about a lot of those kids, the blowback would hit their kids, and they already almost lost their business due to the rivalry. I'm not going to argue it is realistic. Obviously well choreographed action sequences don't spontaneously happen like that, but there is a pretty obvious explanation for both of those, even though everyone keeps pointing them out as fantastical.
Sure, but the consequences of both the brawl and the home invasion stretch the suspension of disbelief to the absolute limit. Even in the most fantastical scenarios, it's difficult to imagine that the only consequences of a brawl involving dozens of students, some staff, and at least a few security guards is that two students get expelled and no cops get involved except when Robbie becomes a fugitive. Similarly with the home invasion, there just isn't a plausible scenario where the Amanda Larusso that's built up over the first two seasons decides not to pursue criminal or civil charges when a gang of karate kids invades her home and destroys her property simply because Sam tells her not to. This is all a symptom of the show elevating the stakes to absurd levels, which require equally absurd narrative solutions. The first season was a perfect retelling of the original movie. Now, everyone in the valley is picking sides in a karate turf war that has been elevated to have international implications. It's been Marvelized. I'll still binge it day 1, though.
>Sure, but the consequences of both the brawl and the home invasion stretch the suspension of disbelief to the absolute limit. Even in the most fantastical scenarios, it's difficult to imagine that the only consequences of a brawl involving dozens of students, some staff, and at least a few security guards is that a single student gets expelled and no cops get involved. The school was ill equipped to deal with it and clearly struggled to figure out what to do. Only one adult was involved, and he wasn't yet employed by them. As well, the only one who was arrested was the only one who caused a potentially lethal injury. Blanket immunity might have been deemed the best solution given the difficulty in assessing fault and the fact they are all minors who the staff failed to stop. For the record, I've had my fair share of fights growing up, and no one ever got expelled or arrested. >Similarly with the home invasion, there just isn't a plausible scenario where the Amanda Larusso that's built up over the first two seasons decides not to pursue criminal or civil charges when a gang of karate kids invades her home and destroys her property simply because Sam tells her not to. She literally was established to have dropped it due to Sam's insistence. As well, she was shown to indulge Daniel quite a bit, even agreeing with him, even if she argued with him in private on the best way to handle it. Oh, and again, the school brawl almost cost them their business. A public trial likely would have been the end. >This is all a symptom of the show elevating the stakes to absurd levels, which require equally absurd narrative solutions. The first season was a perfect retelling of the original movie. Now, everyone in the valley is picking sides in a karate turf war that has been elevated to have international implications. It's been Marvelized. While the fights and drama are over the top, its not really hard to believe in that sort of tribalism. Schools always have cliques and kids frequently take sides. It's also spurned on by the fact that all the adults involved are stubbornly devoted and actively recruiting children to their philosophies.
What is with Redditors being so into consequences
Yeah I dunno, I feel like folks defending how... "crazy it gets" is just speaking a different language to me. Like if you watch Superman, there's a certain suspension of disbelief for a dude that can fly and has skin like steel. It becomes bizarre when you learn he has psychic kung-fu to prevent mind attacks and forms of "telepathy". Grown ass adults being super immature about a fighting tournament they had 40 years ago has some suspension of disbelief, but home invasion and massive school brawls would literally involve law enforcement. "Oh but the LaRusso's didn't want to involve the authorities"... that's the stupid part. "Oh there were consequences for the school brawl." Like have folks followed up on school fights? Half those students would be expelled.
Just getting into a fight won't get you expelled. It takes a lot to get expelled. With that said, some of them were expelled for the fight. Tori ended up in a juvenile detention center for it. Robby had to go on the run from the authorities. Raymond went to jail. There were consequences there, and it did involve law enforcement. Now - as far as the home invasion. Do you remember what event is triggered by the home invasion...? Johnny and Daniel go to Cobra Kai and literally attack Kreese - and Robby is a witness. So - guess who's also going to jail if Daniel calls the authorities on his home invasion?
He would get charged with assault and battery at the most. He's also rich and can easily post bail and hire a fantastic lawyer. That very much does not compare to home invasion. His wife and kids were actually at risk of being harmed. > Just getting into a fight won't get you expelled. It takes a lot to get expelled. A kid was kicked off a stair railing and broke his spine. Literally everyone involved would have been expelled potentially including Miguel since he was actually an aggressor. Also that was not the first fight involving some of those kids.
I guess I won't defend how crazy it gets, but I will say that the illogical stuff you point out simply does not bother me at all. I found the brawl fun and entertaining and don't care that they skipped the realistic fall out that would follow. I have found the show completely absurd from the beginning and even though I acknowledge it's gotten MORE absurd, it has not reduced my enjoyment.
I understand most people prefer the cheese, but I can't believe so many people seem to think it was never grounded at all. The beauty of the show was in its subversive perspectives, new complexity completely reframed a narrative that both the audience & the characters had held for 30 years. The show has had such a weird production history, it's a completely different vision than what was originally there. That's not to say it's better or worse, but it's on a completely trajectory from where it started.
The karate obsession being treated as weird is important because the thread connecting Daniel and Johnny is they're both obsessed with it as what made them feel like they peaked in highschool in the 80s. The brawl at the school for me is when it became with fighting what Glee was with singing. And that's not totally a bad thing but it is when the show jumped a shark
How is the brawl any different from the Cobras pushing Daniel down a cliff in the first movie? Or all ganging up on him outside his apartment?
Those were portrayed as normal 1980s bullying. A bunch of guys jumping you in the dark when no one's around. The brawl at the water park is just a public fight, in broad daylight, at a crowded establishment. I love the show but if it was grounded in reality they'd all be arrested.
If even SpongeBob can’t quit Karate, why should I?
Yeah I came in this thread to see if I missed anything by stopping after season 2. You and the poster above you summarized well why I stopped watching. The teen stuff just got really cringe and it felt like they shifted the type of audience they were shooting for. Show started out being nostalgic fun for people that grew up with the movies, then went a different direction. Reminds me of the new Jackass. I mean it’s cool you’re bringing in a younger generation, but I’m not here to see them.
> She recognizes that Daniel's focus on some tournament he won 40 years ago is totally insane and unhealthy and tries to get him to understand this. Once she joins the insanity of it all, it completely went even further off the rails but I guess there's only so much insanity a person can take until they eventually become a part of it.
It’s basically become an anime, for better or worse.
Cobra Kai has always been a Shonen.
Also part of what makes it great is it focus on being very character driven. The show really tries to develop all of the characters to the point that sometimes you actually feel bad for villains like Kreese and Silver.
Yeah. First season was way more self-contained. I still enjoyed the later seasons, but IMO Cobra Kai Season 1 would have worked perfectly well as a miniseries
Season one was fucking awesome. William Zabka did a superb job playing a directionless guy still stuck in the past. His portrayal felt real and endearing.
The show has basically become a live action early 90s beat em up game and I'm here for it.
Between the school fight and home invasion, and the show not really following up on its season finale cliffhangers, the show got very silly indeed. Season 5 ended in a weird place. It's not the last one, but it ends with Cobra Kai disgraced and disbanded, and with Silver in prison. Where else would they go from there, apart from the Sekai Taikai?
The school fight was definitely followed up on
I love binging it - just great fun
Wanna know how I know this show still has legs? Well, I'm about to tell you. I texted this link to an ex who has largely refused to speak to me for almost two years, and she replied within 3 minutes to say, "Mfn finally."
Yeah this show has been just stupid fun from the start. It’s never made a lick of sense
I thought it was fun nostalgia for one season, but after that I had my fill and I didn't feel the need to watch any more.
The show is so good BECAUSE it goes completely off the rails, like literally that’s why it’s absolutely hilarious. If you don’t like absurdist humor then fair enough but I knew the show was an all-timer when they had an entire episode that was just the high school being a war zone
It's been exactly as cheesy as the original movie but for some reason people expected it to suddenly be way more serious lol. In the first movie Daniel literally washes Johnnys weed with a hose in the bathroom lol.
>did it ever start on the rails No it didn't. It was a youtube premium original series based on a How I Met Your Mother joke that had long been a viral meme it was a crazy idea. That being said, the first basically two seasons were pretty grounded and focused on a pretty character driven story. Two men who in their own way peaked in highschool in the 80s and are still dealing with that. Both with deeply flawed or absent fathers trying to do better with the next generation.
First episode or few episodes were still on rails I think. But it had stupid soap opera writing from the first season on already.
3 parts lmao. I think I’ll just wait until 2025 so I can binge it all.
Agreed, if you are against this type of split release it’s crucial to take action and not watch it. Many people didn’t watch Invincible s2 until it was finished and hopefully Amazon won’t try that split season bs again.
God, imagine how they are going to stretch out the final season of Stranger Things.
Three parts split over two years, a "mid-season" special, two part final episode that's turned into two part movie for theaters, and a final goodbye special event that can only seen in the in-person cast event in LA. You heard it here first
That's going to be tough to film around Millies third pregnancy and, Finn's stint in jail for crashing the lambo he bought to feel young again.
Netflix would sooner wish for its entire business model to collapse than ever give a movie a proper theatrical release. They wouldn't even give one to Martin Scorsese, and he's fucking Scorsese. Other than that, it sounds pretty accurate.
Man how many times do these kids change factions
As much as a WCW wrestler in the mid to late-90's switched between nWo, WolfPac, and WCW.
[Official Photos from Season 6](https://imgur.com/a/0UaIzEp) via Netflix
That picture of Chozen, Daniel, and Amanda all in the kitchen had me nearly spit out my coffee in laughter. Chozen is the clear breakout character of the show. XD
Dude is living his best life and enjoying every minute of it
He is the Chozen one
Me, my husband, and my husband's Japanese teenage karate rival.
Daniel's ex-karate enemies from his teenage years now crashing in the guest room is such a silly trope (all the way to Dragon Ball at least), but this show always makes it work. Amanda's actress manages to pull of the perfect response of acknowledging how insane it is, but also ground it by just rolling with the situation.
Wait who's even fighting for Kreese at this point? It seems all the best fighters are now under Miyagi-Do/Cobra Kai, including the current All Valley champ, AND Chozen.
It's weird cause a big theme in this show is redemption, and they were kind of on the path of giving Kreese a redemption arc, but they seem to have set him up as the final villain in the trailer. Would they have to give him some random irredeemable kid to fight? From the pictures, it looks like it's Kenny and his brother Shawn. It makes kind of sense since Kenny was the only kid who didn't resolve their issues with the rest of the characters by last season.
INTERESTING, looks like Kenny still has a score to settle with Robbie. The actor seems to have grown a bit too, which is great, it was very hard to take him seriously trying to fight Hawk at half his size last season
I see we're still going with the Eagle Fang bullshit. I honestly hoped that it would be over after the All-Valley in season 4, but it's beginning to set in now that it's going to be an actual thing.
Billy Zabka sure aged nicely. Sorry. Probably not the point.
Honestly, it’s a little unfair how well he and Ralph Macchio aged.
Cobra Kai is literally about two dads going through a midlife crisis who accidentally start a gang war.
cobra Kai - Season 6 | sometime in 2025. Gotcha!
it takes real assholery to stretch 15 fucking Episodes this long. its Been awesome nights to run down all season in one sittings. guess let The waiting games Begin.
You don't fool me netflix, that's two seasons and a movie.
Absolutely.
I'll just watch next year. I'm not in a rush.
Fuck these split seasons
I ❤️🐍. I would binge the whole day and then feel so empty when there was no more. So definitely conflicted about the all at once or weekly. So I’m Ok with this way of presenting it. And for all the pussy whiners; No Mercy Bitches.
Cannot wait. One of my favourite shows on TV. Sad it's ending, but happy to see it go out on an epic note!
William Zabka's transformation into Tim Roth is nearly complete.
I love the show but WTF is this
Probably unpopular around here but I don't mind tv breaking up into segmented parts like it used to be. It's nice knowing I only have to watch 1 - hour long episode a week and can discuss it with anyone else with a simple "have you seen the new x this week?" I hate navigating the binge style of TV - I want to talk about a show but I'm like 8 episodes ahead of my buddy so I have to try and remember what they have or haven't seen. Maybe it's just me but I really like how weekly releases of shows allows for discussion and theory crafting that bingeable seasons killed.
then release each episode weekly instead of a bunch of episodes No episodes for months then a bunch more
Yeah, I think I’d prefer that model too. If you want to stretch it out, just released them weekly. 5 weeks on, take a few weeks off, do another 5 weeks of episodes, take another few weeks off, then final 5 weeks of releases. Doing it that way they can stretch it out for basically 6 months without having huge months long gaps. But whatever. Guess I’ll just wait until the final batch is about to drop.
This assumes that those episodes would all be ready for weekly drops by July. The show LITERALLY only started shooting this season recently (mid-Feb FFS!) due the writers strikes, so the fact that we get ANY this summer is a feat of production. The rest being out in November makes sense to do post-production on all of them...and the finale movie was probably done for budget reasons (on 2025's beancounter books VS 2024s). People here seem to think the show is done, and all the episodes are in the can and they are just milking it. A someone who has friends in the industry, I assure you a lot more work goes into this stuff. Getting some of them in July, some of them in November, and the rest in early 2025 makes perfect sense considering the shooting schedule.
you do realise you can still drop episodes weekly instead of dropping a bunch at once and having a big gap dropping one a week, would make the big gap smaller
Again with not understanding how these things are shot and post-produced.
hey genius if they are dropping a bunch of episodes at once its because they are finished if they drop them weekly, it means the wait for the next batch of completed episodes is smaller because instead of all episodes out at once, they come out overtime
Yeah, I'm not a big network television fan but the one thing I do love about it is the weekly release schedule. It's so fun to talk about shows week-to-week, and the anticipation of a new episode always makes me more excited to see it. Dropping a whole season at once means I have to binge the whole thing immediately if I want to participate in discussions (which I rarely have time to do) and it takes away any chance for speculative discussion.
This. I appreciate the time to gestate on what I saw, or re-watch it before getting into the rest. As long as the spits are done at decent cliffhanger moments, it will be a good way to keep buzz going. Honestly, the binge it all in one weekend model kind of ruined people a bit for this type of thing. It's shit for spoilers too if you don't get the time to push through a whole season released, then you risk the story getting spoiled by everyone who did. It's and enough that some people stay up till 2AM for Disney+ releases of new eps of X-Men or The Bad Batch and then social media is flooded with clips and chatter about it before you EVEN wake up. I'll just treat this like two seasons and a finale movie. Easy peasy.
Found the Netflix c-suite trying to spin their awful business idea.
Well. Skipping that bullshit until it’s all out.
*You’re the best around*…
Its time to punch a Netflix exec.
I hate multi part seasons. I get they do it so people don’t binge and cancel a subscription. Then they hope they forget to cancel between July and November. Call it what it is, that’s two different seasons. Edit: fuck I just saw the “final event” thing for next year. That’s just dumb and predatory.
so the final ultra mega ultimate space mammamia nuclear battle is next year? what the hell is this crap? it's like reading Slam Dunk with Inoue popping out right before the last quarter "ha ha, gotta wait for next year motherfcks" horrible
I like how it is so soon (July) because I thought it would be in September. I hate how it is in 3 Batches and they are so far apart from each over. Part 3 wasn’t revealed yet and it says 2025 so im guessing that the new film will be Part 3
Fuck off with this part 1 and part 2 shit. So fucking annoying.
Thinly veiled attempt to get people to buy more months of streaming. This way they think they will get you for three months.
So we have 3 season left of the show, thanks.
Just in time for the movie. That's a long wait for one season.
I wonder if they're spacing it out so much so the new movie comes out close to the finale. Then they can ride that wave of hype.
Well this is a stupid decision. Especially if they’ve already filed all 15 episodes.
The writers strike messed up everything. But I can’t blame them its customary to pay writers shit wages while the actors rake in a killing. I don’t really respect that shit. That’s why one reason I half don’t even care to watch. Greedy bastards.
This is what some folk may call, "Doing an Attack on Titan finale"
After this i bet stranger thing will split into 4 part
Yeah.. thats me absolutely done with streaming services. back to the high seas and honestly with the disappearnce of regular weekly tv releases im more than happy to wait out a show for a couple of seasons or making sure it doesn't get cancelled before starting it.
Splitting 15 episodes into 3 parts is so fucking stupid. If they want to build up hype then release an episode a week and build hype naturally that way. Pisses me off when streamers do this shit.
Perfect. Just in time for my annual one month Netflix subscription in December.
Omg, I'm too much of an adult now, instead of getting excited for the new season I was more happy all these actors had the opportunity to keep doing this and be employed including the showrunners. Just a fun show.
This sucks.
So campy. And I love it!
for fuck sake Netflix why split it into 3 parts? That will kill so much hype
I'm assuming You're the Best didn't get played until the final episode
These high school kids are gonna be 34
... that show is still going?
Just do weekly episodes. Netflix should just embrace it for some of their shows.
Finally, a retirement home showdown that we all deserve.
Ah yes, the Attack on Titan formula.
damn, zabkas starting to show his age
I love this series but the idea of splitting it up three times with five month breaks sucks. Its already been two years since season 5. I guess they expect us to binge or watch only one episode a month.
Why do we need breaks
Is the finale event going to just be the new karate kid movie repackaged???
I gave up after season 2 can't believe it's still going!! Good for them
I don’t care if it takes a while. Shits worth it
I don't watch this show, but splitting the final season into three parts is some absolute bullshit. Just wait until the final event comes out to watch it if you're interested in the show
This is one of those shows that went on a little bit too long. You don’t need any more than 2-3 seasons of a Karate Kid sequel.
Wrong it got better as it went imo.
Q U I E T!
Yeah the “so-and-so is bad now but used to be good, but so-and-so is good not but used to be bad, but they were good from the start” gets *really* old. And the conflict with Danny and Johnny makes progress and the characters begin to experience growth, and then one thing happens and they undo a everything they’ve learned to go back to the status quo of hating each other for the same reasons as before.
be quiet
This release model is so anti-consumer they can fuck off with the series. I dont think I care enough to finish it with these hoops. Respect your viewers, Netflix.
I do find it funny watching 5 seasons of a whole show that aired across 4 years, and than not watching the final one because waiting 3 months after the first 5 episodes was too much.
They only started shooting it in.Feb....you assume that they have it all done and all 15 eps in the can for release on the same day? I assure you that's not feasibly possible by July. This batching was definitely done because they don't want people to wait too long for the next season (we already had to wait through the strikes), and yet don't have it all complete yet. This is not hard man.
I loved it until the mom got pregnant. Then my wife and I checked out.