Sound observations and I guess if they make it explicit later on that Silver is sick that will explain / redeem the Daniel fight but it's asking quite a bit of the audience to keep track of their power bar and how tired they are from a previous fight...I mean Terry didn't have time to recover his cardio on the drive from his house to the dojo?
Not sure if you had an extra comment that got deleted but anyways to answer your question, Terry was under stress. So technically speaking, he had enough time to recover but he just had a fight to the death + in his mental state, he was under stress of being attacked in his own home and in his own dojo at the same time. Also he probably had to process the whole thing.
From Terry perspective, he is just trying to live his life by expanding cobra kai and he has bunch of bitter crazy assholes coming after him.
Man fuck both of you for getting me thinking about this series again when S6 is still 8 months away...
Good observations all around and interesting takes, but have to disagree on Silver being the uber big bad. He's a great character and his virally awesome performance in KK3 was solid, but Kreese is the canonical big bad. Founder of Cobra Kai and Silver was his right-hand man. If anything, Kreese was the emperor and Silver was Darth Vader. Now I'm not saying Silver wasn't the better martial artist - he's implied to be, but this is similar to an Anakin/Obi Wan dichotomy where the student may be objectively better but Obi Wan sons Anakin via big brother ownage. Agree Daniel beating Silver was a little sus but I'm with Ogata that Chozen had just beaten Silver within an inch of his life so he was tired. And given the series is told from Johnny's perspective, I also think they purposely had Daniel's annoying ass come in and take all the glory (after Johnny, Chozen and Barnes did all the dirty work and softening him up) like Steve Jennum in UFC 3.
Also disagree that Barnes should have been a bad guy. The way they played it was hilarious and perfect. All three kid antagonists from the movies teaming up to storm Silver's house, and ditching Daniel on the side of the road to do so lmfao. But agree would have been better had they featured more of Barnes and IIRC Sean Kanan suffered some kind of shoulder injury during filming which they worked into the script and had him KTFO during most of the fight at Silver's place.
Agree they need to do Kim Sung Yun some justice. His granddaughter is a tomato can and her character fell flat in S5. I think they're going to make that right in S6 and we're going to see some linkages to both Sung Yun and Miyagi-do via the international participants in the sekai taikai.
I actually agree with Terry not being the main bad guy. I am a fan of him because technically speaking, his acts of evil was motivated by a sense of deep love and friendship for Kreese albeit in a very twisted way.
In the series, Terry has shown to be a kind person helping Carla with the utensils while Kreese would not have unless Carla proved that she is cobra kai material. Terry offers a helping hand to those around him while Kreese`s kindness is revolved around conditions. Terry is much more benevolent and he realized his mistake over the years, went to therapy and did try to apologize to Daniel sincerely and when Daniel did go after him in season 5, Silver had the decency to tell him to cease fire and that there would not be any retaliation or repercussion.
Daniel did not stop and kept going after him. In the first fight, Silver said ```I was ready to let it go, but you kept getting in my way!``
After that, he never went after Daniel and just focused on his business. He also never went after Johnny either but said he would to Kreese to make Kreese upset but in reality, Terry kind of let the whole thing go and focused on the business.
His karate lessons were healthy, promoted team work, offered the students lots of senseis so that no one was getting neglected in training and kids were having fun and the students were nice to each other, no one was getting bullied and aside from Anthony, Kyler, Kenny and the other Cobras were not bothered anyone else besides Lapusso.
The only thing I agree is Barnes, Chozen and Lawrence who were all the enemy of Daniel teaming up and the whole `` I know Silvers address`` along with Johnnys `` he kicked your ass, he kicked my ass, in my case it was a sucker kick`` was incredible. That I agree with you in terms of that scene being one of the best scenes ever. That and realistically speaking, real life version of Mike Barnes in terms of a bad ass karate fighter or a kickboxer, they tend to fizzle out and get jobs in accounting, law or something while collar. I have seen lots of insanely talented karate fighters to kind of loses interest and completely move on. So that was a realistic take as well.
That being said, in my version, its also realistic on some occasions since Mike technically did say that without karate, he had no ways to make ends meet and he was pretty much an unskilled handyman just like Johnny but got lucky and found a mentor.
My main issue is with Mikes statement of ```after I got banned from karate, I was ruined, I was lost```like home boy acts like he got banned from pro boxing. Dude was a teen karate point fighter. Yet he is acting like he was some mega superstar. He could have easily went in to boxing, kickboxing or MMA since he had tons of aggression, he was still a young healthy teenager and they wouldn't give a shit about his karate nonsense and in fact, they would promote him as being too hard for karate.
I heard about the injury, its odd but he also injured himself in karate kid 3 as well when Miyagi went to save Daniel and threw Mike through the door.