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Stranger Things: Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (2022)
Saved this season, and the show itself
Season 1 of Stranger Things is geuinely awesome, but seasons 2 and 3 ruin it. Season 2 is nothing but filler and half of season 3 is merely a goofy joke. The first few episodes of season 4 are unsurprisingly horrendous, but slowly the episodes get better and better. This episode was...something else. I thought that the show's descent into madness was permanent but I was wrong! Somehow, they made the show good again! The writing and action and acting is fantastic, however the unnessecary gore gets annoying a lot this episode to be honest. The last 5 minutes of this show were so good that for a moment I thought season 4 was the best season, but...it's not. Also there's that emotional scene with Hopper and Joyce right after the demogorgon fight which carried THAT storyline. Definitely not the best episode of this season, let alone the series, but it's still great.
The Flash (2014)
Started strong, ended badly
The Flash is a show that starts off very good. The first season was awesome. Great villain, great world building, great plot, great characters, great character development, and great emotional scenes. However, The Flash is connected to another show called Arrow, and I felt like season 1 of the flash was basically arrow season 1 in many ways. Season 2 is not as good as season 1 because the main villain in season 2 just copied what the main villain in season 1 did. Otherwise, season 2 really stood out with its dark tone. Season 3 is also great but that's where it went on the more "magical" side of the story. Everything else was still good though, I'd say that season 1 > season 2 > season 3.
I suppose season 4 is when the writing and the quality of the show started to actually drop. This is probably because Todd Helbing joined Andrew Kreisberg (showrunner of season 1-3) as showrunner for this season. At some points when the flash was running, it made me think that the people making the CGI thought that we, the audience, were all speedsters. The show started becoming more colorful and more into a romcom. An example of this is the episode called "Girls' night out" which was funny but filler. This season also didn't have that much of a good villain. As much as I like Devoe, he was so cliche, and boring. The episodes started getting more repetitive, as if the same episode was happening over and over again until the season finale, which was kinda wasted potential. Worst dialogue ever in the season was Iris telling Barry "We are the flash". The best episode this season was Lose Yourself, which actually had some good fights and Iris wasn't that boring and annoying like she was for most of this season. Despite all these problems, I still think season 4 is decent.
I do think that season 5 is better than season 4 but only by a little bit because season 5 has a lot of the problems season 4 had, but season 5 is still at least not as colorful. Yes, we are still treated as if we're speedsters, and yes, it sometimes gets very cringe, and yes, it's sometimes comedic, and yes, the main villain is insanely cliche. However season 5 has a lot of peak moments, like the episode "What's past is prologue" which is when Barry and Nora timetravel to important events in the show and there is also an awesome cliffhanger which really saved season 5 for me. The finale also carried this season because after so long we finally get a good speedster chase involving the Reverse Flash.
The first eight episodes of season 6 were really good, but everything after was utterly disappointing. The episode right after the Crisis crossover was so pointless, I was very sad with what they did. Barry did...nothing? Iris did things that..I don't care about? I suppose after Crisis there was a huge drop in quality and writing for this show, and it was just so sad to look at what season 6 had turned this show into. The worst part about season 6 was that the finale...didn't even feel like a finale. However season 7 picked up where season 6 left and the first episode was very emotional and awesome. Probably my favorite episode in season 7. Episode 2 was also pretty good but I also found Barry a bit annoying in that episode. Episode 3 (Mother) was when I got sad again. And that sadness continued all the way to the last episode of season 7. Somehow, the show started to focus on defeating every villain using thepower of love and a pep talk (Yes, EVERY VILLAIN IN THIS SEASON). And there's also an episode in this season without the flash in it. Yes, the show is called the flash, and the flash isn't in an episode. Another problem was the awful side characters. Killer Frost did become mediocre, Chester became a boring character (to be honest he was already kinda annoying in season 6), Allegra got boring as well, she had so much potential in the first eight episodes of season 6. Iris had completely fallen, and Cecile was falling in a downward spiral. Joe was...wait. Was Joe even in season 7? I can't remember. The worst part was that Cisco was gone. Cisco and Caitlin were the side characters I still cared about, and so it only became Caitlin. At that point, the only character I could still care about was Barry. I felt the same thing for season 8, however that season was better than season 7 and 6 because of the Reverse Flashpoint and Eobard Thawne's appearaces. By season 8, Cecile became a braindead character and the show overall became full-on Power Rangers.
Season 9 is easily one of the worst seasons, mostly because it had 4 filler episodes in a row. Three of them were horrendous and one of them was outstanding. The episode after the last (outstanding) filler was also amazing because that's when the show came full circle. Everything except for those two episodes were either bad, good or decent. The series finale was a joke, and I've learnt the moral of this show. Never have more than one showrunner for a show, because believe me, the quality of the show will otherwise become way too inconsistent for you to like the show anymore.
Arrow: Unthinkable (2014)
The peak episode
So the season 1 finale was great but it was mostly focusing on trying to disarm the bomb and others trying to escape the earthquakes while Oliver only fought Merlyn for a few minutes. Even so that finale was great, but come on. This episode was just too good. For a finale it was so much. There was teo fights between team arrow vs team deathstroke. And then Arrow fought Deathstroke BY HIMSELF and the transitions between the present-time fight and the flashback oliver vs slade was epic. Also the ending scenes were not too bad and you can tell that the next season will be very different and even so, this episode was unexpected, especially when Sara decided to get Nyssa for help. I think another twist was that Slade didn't just kidnap Laurel, but Felicity as well. Another great part was when Diggle infiltrated ARGUS and released Deadshot and Tiger to convince Amanda Waller not to bomb Starling City. Deadshot is one of my favorite characters from Arrow, making this better than it should. I do feel like they should have left Moira's death for this episode, but that would just be a ripoff of Tommy's death. The flashbacks in this episode were still really good, I've always enjoyed them ever since season 1. This episode is a banger, and season 2 is already better than season 1.
The Flash: A New World, Part 3: Changes (2023)
An actually decent flash episode
So this episode is made up of two storylines. The first one is the unoriginal team flash (cecile, allegra, chester, khione and mark) trying to get cecile to take over 2049 cecile's body to find 2023 barry, who is stuck in 2049. This is sometimes a LITTLE cringe, and since it's character development for characters I don't even care about it's not really that good, but the idea of their plan is actually quite interesting.
And we have the second storyline. This is an extremely good storyline and I genuinely loved watching through all of it. It was basically Eddie asking Little Nora for help but Little Nora got possessed by the negative speed force but Barry came and had a speedster chase with Nora and then the two storylines in this episode intersected when Cecile and removed the negative speed force in Little Nora. Also, Barry and Eddie had an argument about the negative speed force and then Eddie decided to meet 2049 Iris and Eddie realized Iris loves Barry and the ending scene was literally Eddie deciding to become the avatar and on the blue crystal you could see Savitar, Zoom, Godspeed and the Reverse Flash.
Overall the CGI is not that bad in the speedster chase but some of the visual effects are absolutely outstanding especially when the timeline fractures and there was red lightning in the sky.
8.1/10 would be my exact rating for this episode, might decrease once I think harder.
The Flash: Mother (2021)
I think this is a romance story about to replace my favorite superhero show
So apparently the love between a married couple is compatible with a lightning bolt striking you? Also how the heck does iris have the speedforce in her. Another main problem is that the villains have started naming themselves, and naming the villains is CISCO's job! Eva just casually calling herself mirror monarch makes no sense at all. Also she was a boring villain who just wanted to kill her husband. She had nothing against barry and she didnt even do anything insufferable to barry. The og wells was pretty mediocre. He did nothing cool and i'd expect him to be like how Eobard Thawne pretended to be him. Not the crappy "run towards love" motvation. What the heck happened to "you are no longer you. You're part of something bigger now. Part of the speedforce. So run, BARRY, RUN!" and the worst thing was mirror monarch's defeat. She just became good through the "power of love". Yeah ok this episode has the worst scene in the flash, change my mind.
The Flash: Legacy (2019)
Great finale for an overall boring season!
The flash season 5's finale brought back the Reverse-Flash, the biggest rival of Barry. For a finale I thought it wasn't that bad, but the part with defeating Cicada wasn't really that good. I never really liked the Cicada storyline, and I found out that defeating this mediocre villain was what Thawne wanted all along! This literally proves that Thawne is the main villain in this season, even though Cicada appears more. And that was how Thawne saved this season from being worse than season 4 and season 8. The final final battle this season started off with Barry and Nora chasing Thawne, and then Thawne used speed mirages. I love the speed mirage thing, I always have since season 1. Later on, the whole of team Flash came to fight Thawne, which only reminded me of the fight in Season 1 Episode 22, when Firestorm, Arrow and Flash all fought Thawne. Ending scenes were a bit tragic, and it proved that stuff that comes after would be not as good. And then the ending scene told us that a timeline change affected on time event that meant that the Crisis which would make Barry disappear, come earlier than initially.
The Flash: Rogues of War (2023)
50 times better than the first two episodes!
From the stuff I saw in the first two epiodes this season, I had no expectations for this episode. But, it was actually better than I thought! The "heist" thing with this episode was really good, otherwise it WAS pretty boring, so Barry's storyline really saved this episode. Because there a lot of cringe stuff going on, like the Chester and Allegra thing. Khione was also very bad, I can't believe what they're doing with Danielle Panabaker, she's such a good actress! Cecile didn't appear much, WHICH IS GOOD COMPARED TO THE OTHER EPISODES! I also liked some of the fight scenes this episode, and the first confrontation between Flash and Red Death was actually very good! Mark Blaine was done very good, I'm glad they weren't making him a main filler side protagonist like in seasons 7 and 8. However, I don't wanna talk about what I saw in the ending scene of this episode, and if you've already watched this episode, you know exactly what I mean. This is in my opinion the best episode in the Red Death arc, and a 7/10 for a rating.
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Very underrated movie
Jurassic World Dominion is a movie released in June 2022 and is about a bioengineering company called BioSyn kidnapping the human clone Maisie Lockwood because BioSyn wants to control their population of bioengineered locusts, which completely decimate crops. BioSyn overall wants to control the food population, but the locusts were eating too much crops so BioSyn needed Maisie to understand how to control the population of the locusts. Most people dislike this movie, and I personally don't think it's the best, but it's not the worst either!
The problems I had with this movie was the plot. BioSyn's thing with the locusts felt a bit dumb since this is a dinosaur franchise, and the dinosaurs don't have much of a role in this movie except for needlessly attacking the main characters, which are Ian Malcolm, Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Maisie Lockwood, Kayla Watts, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing. Also, this movie was horrendous at making villains. Dodgson was doing nothing most of the movie except for having an argument with Dr. Wu, being angry and slapping a chair and eating his food bar. I've heard that Dodgson was a ruthless man in the Jurassic Park novels, and Dodgson in Dominion was nothing like that. In fact, BioSyn wasn't much of an evil company, and they literally wanted to fix their mistake through kidnapping a girl. I suppose this movie would be much better if they did something bad to the dinosaurs or something like that. Also, I realized immediately that Dominion was trying to make the Giganotosaurus the dinosaur villain in this movie, and they did really bad with that. All they did was make the Giga attack the main characters more than the other dinosaurs, eg Pyroraptor, Dilophosaurus, Dimetrodon (not a dinosaur but still a threat), did. Also Giga appeared more. It was also there for quite an unneccesary final battle, and that battle was mediocre compared to the final battles in Jurassic World (2015) or Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Season 3 (2021) and Season 5 (2022).
Yeah these problems really brought down Dominion for me. However the nostalgia and the intense dinosaur chases made my experience watching the movie. I bet most people that were disappointed in the movie expected the movie to be about dinosaurs being free in the wild, but in my opinion that would make the plot very boring and stupid.
Overall I give this movie an 8.25/10.
Cobra Kai (2018)
Cobra Kai - The Best Show I've ever seen
Cobra Kai is hand down my favorite all-time show and is a spinoff to the Karate Kid movies from the 1980s. There are other Karate Kid shows and movies, but they aren't canon to the official timeline. But of course, no show is perfect, which is why I won't give it a 10/10.
Season 1 picks up 32.5 years after the end of the first Karate Kid movie in 1984. Runner-up Johnny Lawrence has hit rock bottom, compared to Daniel, who is an owner of a car dealership. The first few episodes are quite underwhelming, which is of course going to happen since it's the beginning of the show and they need to introduce all the characters and give them a good arc. In the end of episode 1, Johnny decides to become the sensei of the Cobra Kai dojo after standing up for a young teenager known as Miguel Diaz when he was getting bullied by some other kids, and the story of season 1 follows that. Season 1 has an insane amount of references to the first movie, and already in the second episode, Johnny reignites his rivalry with Daniel LaRusso. At one point, Miguel learns to stand up to the bullies that bullied him and became the reason for the insane amount of new students on the following episodes. Starting from episode 8, Johnny trains his students for the 50th All Valley, but, of course, the first four episodes of the sseason, and episode 9, and even episode 7, were quite underwhelming compared to the rest of the episodes, which was something I didn't like. Miguel's arc was awesome, but I definetely did not like his personality in the last two episodes of the season. However, as I said, his arc was amazing. But another problem was that they were giving more focus to Miguel and other characters, like Hawk or Aisha, were barely getting any screentime. Overall, I give this season an 8/10.
Season 2 is my least favorite season. I found it incredibly boring and stupid and it compares nowhere towards the movies or the other seasons of Cobra Kai. The characters were boring, no one had any arc, Miguel didn't do much except cry over his breakup with Sam. The new character, Tory, is an absolute mess. She is a character who in one scene seems to have the saddest backstory, and in the other scene she's someone trying to kill the girl that kissed her boyfriend with spiked bracelets. Her character had no consistency at all. It was the same with Sam. She wasn't as incosistent with her character, she was more of a hypocrite. She got together with Robby, and complains to her ex that he's dating someone else. This show also had a lot of filler storylines and romantic stuff in it, which was quite boring. The final battle wasn't too bad, but sometimes it looked quite cringe, especially in the rematch between Miguel and Robby. I like the idea of a school fight, but the one we got in Cobra Kai was an absolute mess. Episode 8 didn't have a single fight, and was about Sam and Robby's date and Johnny trying a dating app and Daniel trying to rebuild his relationship with Amanda. The episode literally ends with Johnny trying to ask Carmen out. This season had some really bad episode endings, probably the worst episode endings in the show. However, in episode 6 Tommy, Bobby and Jimmy returned and hung out with Johnny, which was the best scene in the season. I give this season a 6/10.
Season 3 was a bit different from season 2, and a huge improvement. I really liked how it gave a much more sad side to Kreese, and the final fight in this season was just amazing. Like, we didn't get a finale like this in season 1 or 2. The fights in this season overall were pretty good, and there was way more nostalgia in this season than any other. Seriously, this season gave me the most nostalgia. Kumiko returned, Chozen returned, Bobby kinda returned, Ali returned, even Terry silver was hinted! A honorable mention should be Yuna, who in KK2 was saved by Daniel in a typhoon. Even Kyler from season 1 came back, and had a rematch with Miguel. I like how they took a break from Robby and Miguel's rivalry, and gave more focus to the characters' conflitcs that aren't with each other. I definetely liked the darker nature of Robby this season, he was done so well. A lot of people dislike this season mainly because of Miguel's injury. I see no problem with this. Miguel is actually my favorite character in season 3 and I like him best this season. I really enjoyed how Daniel gave Miguel HIS side of the story of his rivalry with Johnny. Ali's return also kind of ended the rivalry between Daniel and Johnny, and was involved in paving the way for the alliance of Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang. Of course. Sam was a big part of this, since the alliance was her suggestion. The two main problems I had with this season was mainly that this season didn't have much of a plot. It was the same with season and maybe a little bit with season 1 as well. Because season 3 doesn't really have a clear plot. Another problem was the two characters Tory and Sam. Tory's inconsistency got even worse, and Sam was still a bit of a hypocrite this season. Otherwise, I had no problem with this season. I give it an 8.5/10.
Season 4 was released exactly one year after season 3, and had a clear plot. The main antagonist of KK3, Terry Silver, came back to serve as a side antagonist in this season! Some insane references to KK3, but season 4 wasn't as good as I thought it would be. A main cause to that is the amount of spoilers we were getting. But also, the season wasn't as intense as it was in season 3. Johnny didn't have much of an arc, Miguel did have character development but I didn't like his personality that much. I really missed his connection to Johnny, and of course, there are more issues I had with this season that I want to cover. Sam. She defintely had character development, but most of the season she was an annoying character that only had a good relationship with Johnny, and became more aggressive towards Tory, who was slowly becoming a better character. Kreese was the main antagonist, but he wasn't doing much as an antagonist. It made me think that he could actually serve as a protagonist in the future of Cobra Kai. However, this season gave a lot of development to the chcracters and I felt that there wasn't really a main chcracter in this show anymore. Robby had an amazing arc, Miguel had some development, but the highlight of this season for me was Hawk. He had the most development this season, and was very well done. He needed a redemption arc to pay for what he did in seasons 2 and 3, and he got one. If he didn't win the all valley for Miyagi-Do, his arc would never have been completed. But I wish that it was Demetri that would fully get Hawk's confidence back, not Moon. I overall rate this season 8.1/10.
Season 5 is my favorite season. It has a fight in every episode and is the most intense season. It has a clear plot, and a lot of characters that were done dirty in season 4 got a chance to rise and shine in this season. Including Daniel LaRusso, Terry Silver and Miguel Diaz. Daniel had an amazing arc, Terry was such a good villain, and Miguel won some fights again! Even so, he had a great personality and it was a great season! Even Sam LaRusso had a massive upgrade this season, you could understand her much better than in the other seasons. Every rivalry ended at the end of the season, and I only had one problem. The Mexico storyline was a bit filler and there was a bit of cringe stuff in episodes 3 and 4. Johnny's storyline with the baby developed him, but it was also kinda cringe. Otherwise, this season is an absolute banger. The final battle is phenomenal, and I don't have to say anything about this. This season is a 9.1/10 for me.
And this is why I love Cobra Kai but it's not perfect.