#I gave up on GOT in season 3? whichever one tyrion murdered shae at the end

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Is the Kobra Kai fandom okay???? I don't watch the show and only know bits and pieces of what's happening because of your blog and people don't seem happy with Kobra Kai's canon.

It seems fanfics are being spitefully written in response and people are so much happier for it.

Is it bad or is it Game of Thrones season 8 bad?

I dunno?

Are we okay, CK fam?

Reactions to the 4 season are...mixed to say the least. It's definitely the weakest season out of all 4. It has some lovely moments and some interesting ideas, but it feels... like a third/fourth draft to me. I feel like they needed to go over it once or twice more, to really iron out some of the iffy bits.

Season 4 is really polarising in how people feel about certain characters/themes. (and to be fair, Season 4 reduced a complex ethical and philosophical difference down to simplistic defence vs offence nonsense with bonus pettiness, so the parts of the fandom that skew younger having reductive arguments about characters, eg character A is special and precious and character B sucks, is something that follows from that).

So season 4 being a weaker season probably explains the explosion of fix-it fics. (I have even written one myself. And I certainly feel better for having got it out of my system. Hawk Deserved Better, and So Did Johnny.)

I still don't know how I feel about season 4 - but I am actually cautiously hopeful that season 5 will be a stronger season. Season 4 definitely feels more like a 'set-up' season, if that makes sense. So I will reserve judgement until season 5 - after I know the end point of all these storylines, it will be easier to tell if the nonsense was worth it or not. (Eg, I loved Robby's plotline this season and it makes more more forgiving of the plot contrivances in season 2/3 to get him to CK, because the story did pay off well).

But that said, CK, even at it's worst, is miles and miles superior to the unending pile of suck and misery that GOT became.

CK is better written, more co-herent, much more fun and has something really interesting to say about the human condition, intergenerational trauma, conflict, mercy and healing - all without gross glorification of sexual assault.

In fact, refreshingly, female characters are very rarely sexualised. I can only think of 1 instance, (Johnny's dream of Carmen), and it was played for laughs, rather than titilation.

Cobra Kai has endearing and entertaining characters, even the evil ones are entertaining in a delightfully fun way. It is a show with huge heart (and campy karate ridiculousness), while GOT only had gritty, grimdark childish cynicism.

So, yeah, CK will never be as bad as GOT.