5D's Episode 102

The whole episode was the end of the duel between Yusei and Jean, so that was good.

I don't want to type up the whole duel, so you should just watch it for yourselves if you care. It was pretty good, or cheesy, depending on how you see it.

But, Yusei does unnecessarily use Synchron Explorer to revive Junk Synchron and Synchro Summon Junk Warrior. It's unnecessary because he fused for Dragoequites. He could have left Synchron Explorer on the field as a shield, but he wasted it for dramatic effect.

So, the duel went on forever because Jean had a Trap called Thousand Cross, which would return his LP to 1000 when it changes up to three times.

In the end, Jean should have won. He could have ended his turn, letting Yusei deck out. But, he attacked Yusei's Defense Position Rapid Warrior (200 DEF) with this weird Breaker-wannabe sheep thing (1400 ATK). Yusei just happened to have a drop-hand effect waiting to use. He conveniently was able to use the effect of the last card in his hand to increase his Rapid Warrior's DEF by 1500, which was conveniently enough to kill Jean, who only had 300 LP left.

Why couldn't the writers have made Yusei win without having to rely on the stupidity of his opponents? Why couldn't he have just used a cool Trap to do something? At least if he had used Speed World 2's effect to win, it would have been a well-earned win...