I think this episode manages to be action packed and emotional, its great all the different things they decided to do with the characters were pretty cool.
I just can't get behind a couple of the choices here. First the choice to have the two characters finding Miguel in Mexico in FBI shirts was simply moronic. I suppose some stupid decisions have always been in the certain persons character (vague to avoid spoilers) but come on this is really just beyond stupid it can get you killed.
Also I have to say I hate the writers decision with the Hot Pepper scene. There was an earlier scene where Terry explains away the cheating from Season 4 as it being only necessary. So there is a character eating hot peppers in a competition for money (it was only necessary to get a car) but it turns out he only pretended to eat the final most hot pepper. What is the moral ethic here for kids? Just cheat at everything to succeed? Even the good guys are cheating? The adult in the pair says "this was the most badass thing ever" (pretending to eat the pepper so the dude who ate the pepper for real loses). I just think this is terrible.
They even wrote it in a way where Karate training (mental training) was the key to succeed at first before the "surprise" of the cheat. If they had just left it that way it would have been so much better for everyone involved, the characters and the viewers its just astonishing. Maybe it pays off somewhere else.
Besides that this episode kicks a lot of ass with some very cool Karate sequences and a lot of heart and soul with all characters getting some time to shine.
I just can't get behind a couple of the choices here. First the choice to have the two characters finding Miguel in Mexico in FBI shirts was simply moronic. I suppose some stupid decisions have always been in the certain persons character (vague to avoid spoilers) but come on this is really just beyond stupid it can get you killed.
Also I have to say I hate the writers decision with the Hot Pepper scene. There was an earlier scene where Terry explains away the cheating from Season 4 as it being only necessary. So there is a character eating hot peppers in a competition for money (it was only necessary to get a car) but it turns out he only pretended to eat the final most hot pepper. What is the moral ethic here for kids? Just cheat at everything to succeed? Even the good guys are cheating? The adult in the pair says "this was the most badass thing ever" (pretending to eat the pepper so the dude who ate the pepper for real loses). I just think this is terrible.
They even wrote it in a way where Karate training (mental training) was the key to succeed at first before the "surprise" of the cheat. If they had just left it that way it would have been so much better for everyone involved, the characters and the viewers its just astonishing. Maybe it pays off somewhere else.
Besides that this episode kicks a lot of ass with some very cool Karate sequences and a lot of heart and soul with all characters getting some time to shine.