Me and my fiancee both noticed they made Terry Silver a pisstake of WEF globalists. He directly quotes them this season, then there's his whole obsession with grooming kids and turning kids into "young leaders" because Cobra Kai is going "global". Pretty blatant stuff to me. My fiancee was the first to point it out and now I see it in a lot of stuff in this series. I still don't know how the series manages to get away with taking the piss out of People of Gender so often. Then there was that bit with the Jewish sensei. I'm very surprised the usual suspects aren't going on about antisemitism.
Because the Jewish sensei was a victim of Terry Silver's duplicity. So if anything, they're portraying a Jew as a victim of Cobra Kai's dojo expansionism.
"You're replacing me, Terry? This wasn't the deal we made at Shabbat Services!"
And as much of a "globalist" Silver is, he's still a warrior at heart, a Vietnam Veteran who, like Kreese, despised the civilian public who saw them as monsters and war criminals when they came back from Vietnam. When Chozen had him dead to rights, he tells the Okinawan assassin to finish the job. "I was meant to die on the battlefield" he says, clearly showing the kind of person he really is. Not one of those Illuminati reptile-men, but an old-school daimyo who wants to die in battle. He was at the same hospital as Johnny and Carmen were, probably because he had some terminal illness and he wanted to pass down his legacy to someone, which explains why he taught Kenny one of his secret techniques. You only start passing down the real secrets of your dojo when you have little time left and you need a successor.
Not to mention that whole thing about Cobra Kai turning kids into "leaders" is decided through hardcore, might-makes-right karate matches. Kenny gets to be the alpha monster because he scored a point against a superior foe when their champion couldn't. Sensei Kim is considering replacing Tory with Devon because Tory seems to hesitate, while Devon doesn't. Cobra Kai under Terry Silver is still based on might-makes-right, which is obviously far from any SJW/leftist routine of appealing to social justice or globalist ideology.
I think one of my main issues is that the show basically turned Terry Silver into Saturday morning cartoon villain in order to make our heroes look more...well, heroic, instead of it basically seeming like Daniel completely lost his goddamn mind trying to nail Silver for basically just existing. Anything remotely interesting like how Amanda finally snapped and Daniel's stunts backfired on him for once are resolved in basically one scene.
This is still a series meant to be viewed by both adults and kids. You won't have depressing shit like someone dying from Miguel's criminal father or Daniel getting depressed because his obsession with Silver destroyed his marriage. This is still an 80s-style series where good wins and evil is punished in the end.
Miguel's Mexico trip was completely pointless and kind of a waste of two episodes and the resolution of his and Robby's rivalry wasn't satisfying in the slightest. Mike Barnes just seemed to be in this just because they got everybody else so might as well get Mike Barnes. And the ending was Season 2 levels of retarded, literally everybody involved with Miyagi-Do should be in prison or on trial right now.
Considering that Silver committed arson, I'm sure the Miyagi-Do senseis can get away with claiming that they tried to pull a citizen's arrest against Silver for burning down Mike Barnes' store. And Silver can't well report that stolen Rembrandt painting considering that it's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, a stolen painting. Silver can't complain about Barnes stealing it without confessing to buying stolen art.
Johnny essentially going from being the main character of the show to becoming kind of one-dimensional, Samantha STILL not getting her fucking comeuppance for everything she's responsible for (seriously, her and Miguel getting back together majorly pissed me off) or how all of this bullshit started ramping up once Ralph Macchio got more involved in the writing but I don't care nearly enough to keep ranting.
Johnny Lawrence at most had his character go full-circle in the last three seasons. He went from a bum, to a sensei, to a responsible man, and now we're seeing the last bits of that fall in. Also, Sam is one of the good guys from the perspective of the show, so no, she will keep getting it good as the next season rolls by. Also, Danny's shenanigans are key to the show. It was him who inadvertently pushed Johnny to revive Cobra Kai in the first place, so it makes sense his continued attempts to smother it will drive the plot of the show.
