Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I also agree that they should end it at Season 4.
This is partially where "Silicon Valley" went wrong. Season 1 was brilliant, but the subsequent seasons were just different rehashings of Season 1, and it went for 6 seasons, which became painful.
There's only so many ways they can tell the story of, "Grown-up Daniel and Johnny try to mentor teenagers, who then use karate to violently fight out their teen angst problems, and everyone tries to teach them it's very bad and they need self-control."
They've done a great job with character development, for the most part. As I mentioned during Season 1, all of the characters are flawed, yet none are outright bad -- not even Kreese, who is somewhat humanized at the beginning of Season 3. The only unrealistic character is Daniel's perfect wife.
But yeah, they're also going to run out of original movie characters to bring back. Also, let's not pretend we want to see them all back. The Karate Kid Part 3 was an abomination. They even screwed up the casting of that one, where they hired an actual 17-year-old to play Daniel's love interest, then had to do a rewrite because Ralph Macchio (28 at the time) felt creepy kissing a 17-year-old. She was turned into a friend, instead. LOL. Then the Terry Silver character was played by a guy much too young to have known Kreese in Vietnam. Whole move was awful.