Max Alfred

I'd give it no stars if possible, because it is ultra violence that portrays martial arts in an absolutely disgraceful light. It is a discipline, not a tool of extreme violence like some wild animal. It's not bad enough that they turn kids into black belts in about a month of training (I could of shaved off a few years if I went there to train. Heck, I'd be about a 1000 degree blackbelt by now), but it teaches them to abuse it and have no regard for others. I thought after first seeing the first season, that this could be a real great show to teach valuable lessons, but its just another exploitation show that employs teenagers, in a time where we have a serious issue of violence in our schools and so much anger. It stokes those fires, and offers nothing to even attempt to balance out all the violence, bad lessons, disregard for others, the law, or integrity. As if making a mockery of martial arts was not bad enough, the newest season offers a psycho who is out of control and a total maniac, because the villain of the show manipulates him, through the PTSD he apparently suffered in Vietnam. Oh, that is such a great way to portray the soldiers who suffered from PTSD in Nam, like my father. Make them look like unstable crazy psychos who are just one bad dream away from becoming assaulting maniacs who try to commit attempted murder to bully others into doing their bidding. This show is rated for children? It would have been lucky to have been given an R rating, when the original Karate Kid came out. There is nothing redeeming about this show and the fact that they exploit highschool kids in this manner just establishes what I've said for years. The left poisons kids minds and the right arms them up. Garbage like this disgusts me. But, by all means hollywood. Send these kids into the dojos across America with the wrong idea of what martial arts is, and what to do with it, then blame the otherside for the violence that occurs because of it, almost daily.