I’m an episode in so far snd really laughed when a guy yelled that Daniel was the bully at the PTA meeting. First episode, otherwise, was pretty dull.

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Haven’t seen any trannies yet. Great so far.

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Was surprised, but there’s literally no woke bs in the whole season.

The season is great and adds some great nostalgia and unknown history, while advancing good current storylines w the adults and the kids. The show is just so well done

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The season is great and adds some great nostalgia and unknown history, while advancing good current storylines w the adults and the kids. The show is just so well done

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It’s still the best thing out there, but I do think it’s behind the first two in terms of story.

This season had a few really good episodes, but 40-50 percent of it felt repetitive and a bit of filler where they were batting like 80-90 percent in S1 and 2.

It almost felt like season 2 and 3 could have been combined into like a 15-16 ep season to make it tighter because this finale is where we all knew we needed to get to once Kreese showed up.


And as great as the S2 finale was, it kind of stalled the beginning of this season out with Miguel’s rehab story. Having a serious injury like that in a huge school brawl was always going to break this out of the simple rivalry story that made it so great and thrust it into the real world, where there are real consequences.

And that made some of this feel forced and not as organic to the heart of the story imo.


It’s always been Daniel and Johnny, and their relationship didn’t change at all this season until the finale, which was outstanding.


The buddy cop stuff early on was fun, but ultimately amounted to nothing. Just like the rehab stuff for Miguel and juvi for Robby. Even Hawk just kept circling the same Demitri angle until the end, which again was awesome. But it just didn’t need to be rehashed again and again.


Also, while the Kreese backstory was really well done, I’m not sure it’s really relevant to this story. Kreese is who he is. He’s done evolving, and it doesn’t really matter why he is the way he is like it does for Johnny because there is still hope for Johnny. It’s his story.

Kreese is almost more worthy of a spin-off rather than something that needed to be squeezed in here. It just seemed like a lot of time taken away from the main story.


But the Okinawa storyline and those characters were great (and they worked it into the story very well too). And the Ali episode was outstanding. So well done and worth the payoff. Elizabeth Shue is a damn fine wine


Also, I actually think they salvaged Tory’s character a bit and made her more interesting. I like that her and Robby are now allies and Sam and Miguel have reunited. That seems more the way it’s supposed to be. The meeting between Daniel and Miguel was great and long overdue


Reintroducing Kyler was also a great move and sets up for a great S4 now that it’s all coming to a head.

Enter Terry Silver


Just wanted to hear them say “Welcome to Miyagi-Kai Karate”. It’s coming





ETA: Really thought we’d see Dutch in the yard when they went to prison

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I’m an episode in so far snd really laughed when a guy yelled that Daniel was the bully at the PTA meeting

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Same, laughed out loud. So good.

I hope Demitri gets his arse kicked this season.

Yeah that was my biggest worry when they bought it.

It takes it from whatever the original outline of the story was to probably an extra two seasons. I love this world and want to see more of it, but I also prefer the vision they had stay in place because it was damn near perfect the first two seasons. This will change it at least somewhat.

But still really well done and can’t wait for S4.

Hopefully it will be here in spring/summer which is when this was originally scheduled so we don’t have to wait as long.

the kreese flashbacks are money

Kreese is such an awesome bad guy.

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Ali is back

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The way they brought her back was so well done and they used her character perfectly to both look backwards and also advance the current storyline w Johnny and Daniel.

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Demitri

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He's 100% there so they can check the box for having someone on the autism spectrum.

He's not super likable. If I'm right about his unstated diagnosis, I understand that means he's lacking in social awareness/the ability to distinguish social cues. That being said, him being a smug, cocky little shite at the beginning of this season is a bit much.

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Also, while the Kreese backstory was really well done, I’m not sure it’s really relevant to this story. Kreese is who he is. He’s done evolving, and it doesn’t really matter why he is the way he is like it does for Johnny because there is still hope for Johnny. It’s his story. Kreese is almost more worthy of a spin-off rather than something that needed to be squeezed in here. It just seemed like a lot of time taken away from the main story.

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This is why it's relevant

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Enter Terry Silver

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Setting it up for Season 4