Badas$. Ok, for real, no over expressing, no judgement based purely by hype whatsoever letting it be the one clouding my judgement or making me choose in a lenient way all, like, as though I am just caught in some happiness bubble that'll wear off.. no.... this truly was the best episode of the season so far, and easily makes my top five of the entire series. Why does it do that? What could be so important and unbelievably meticulous about this episode? It comes 25 minutes in to the episode, and I'm not spoiling anything this time, all I am going to say is for most Cobra Kai fans, it's something we have been waiting on happening a long time. For the most part, in some ways it's the number one thing I've wanted to see happen since at least season 2. It involves two people. That's all I'm gonna say there. The episode is top notch quality, outstanding, when it comes down to being articulate, emotional, and just... whole. Things I will mention though, in some more detail hence spoiler tag. Well, Stingray returns. You either hate this fool or you love to hate him. Or you simply just can't stand him. It isn't so much comic relief as it is your cringe character type with this dude, one trying to find a place to I guess you'd say a place to belong, in a way it's kind of wholesome, but he can be simply unbearable at times, almost like the writers are trying to get you to hate this dude lmao. Anyway he comes to the Dojo, with his mouth sewn, completely 100% abiding of Silver. Remember Johnny's car he has in season 2? That he leaves at the beach? Silver.. has it.. and gives it to Stingray lmfao. Furthermore, he's all 'PIMPed' out with this pretty stylish and awesome apartment, courtesy of.... That's right, Terry Silver. I can't. I was laughing hard at this point. You'll see for yourself when you get to the scene. It's just hilarious. We have this continuous Johnny, Miguel, Robby stuff going on; we have a pretty down, fatigued, very hopeless Daniel all alone at this point-other than Chozen being there-as the rest of the family aren't there- where are they? They're with a familiar face and it unravels a cool piece of background we aren't aware of at this point which was cool and kind of works on its own, but as for placement in this part of the story and given its Karate Kid III callbacks works even better; Kreese, though? I'll just leave it at that. Put it this way it's a masterful episode, and the ending is simply just so good.
This review is one I've had such a pleasure in writing.
This review is one I've had such a pleasure in writing.