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Love the inconsistency of Chozen miraculously being healed from what's effectively having his torso nearly split in half with a sword and yet Tory's hand is still bandaged from slamming her fist into a rock slab.
#cobra kai season 6#like...let him struggle with his recovery at least a teensy bit#just allow things to have SOME consequences for the protags too#but then again maybe he got some of that magical mr. miyagi healing powder available for usage or something ghsjss#ck negativity
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Hawks “redemption” remains one of the most unsatisfying parts of the series for me. That kid went so dark. He dislocated robbys shoulder and never felt remorse, went after demetri serial killer style in the school fight, broke demetri’s arm, led a gang assault against nate, he beat brucks into an unconscious bloody mess, and he most likely threw bert through a window. My point isn’t to hate on this character but like. He caused so much hurt to so many people, especially demetri, and was just forgiven in the blink of an eye. Even in season 4 after he was “redeemed” he still intimidated and antagonized kenny, a middle schooler. And then his arc culminates in him being assaulted himself and winning the tournament because the mohawk is what stored all the evil I guess? The whole thing is just such a disappointing and boring resolution to what was one of the most interesting character arcs in the show and its like. One of the ultimate examples of these writers either not being able to or just not caring enough to follow through with any of the more challenging aspects of the story
#like ive never pretended to like hawk in the way that i like daniel or johnny or sam or robby or miguel etc#but i loved his character and te stiry they were telling with him#and its all been such a let down#ck negativity#ck rewatch
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thinking about post TKK/CK lawrusso and the heart of their dynamic is Johnny knows Daniel is a good person and hates it because admitting that out loud means admitting he, Johnny, was not.
#anyway i'm here doing work things and having lawrusso feelings here months after that hideous thing they called season 5#chatter#cobra kai#johnny needs to do something for daniel because that's WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT#didnt give us that tho :')#ck negativity#even if its just me bitching in tags#lawrusso
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Robby Keene’s arc is the story of every kid with a neglectful, absent father who moved on to be everything he was never for you to some other teenager and family, and the only way you could hope to be in his new life is to concede to everything, swallow down a whole lot and become a pathological people pleaser who keeps apologizing for everything.
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I'll say it again the baby storyline pissed me off. They rushed and botched Johnny and robby relationship/arc.
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Ok, enough time has passed
Robby should've been the one in Tory's place and the first person who saw her after she broke her hand, not Sam.
Also, while we're on it, why did Tory let her in her place??? Like sure the plot needed that "reality check" but like when Kreese visited her in S3 she didn't even let him have a glance inside, and she trusted him WAY more than she ever trusted Sam??? Idk it doesn't really make sense to me
#plot has to plot I guess#it's just weird to me#tory nichols#robby keene#john kreese#ck negativity#(not joking if you see how many ck negativity posts are on my drafts you would think i hate the show
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ok i’m gonna do it. it’s just. i’m going to try and articulate this the best i can without rambling. (edit - yeah this is way longer than i meant it to be.) unbelievably long and jumbled j*rmen/baby thoughts incoming:
i’ll start off by saying this: maybe i’m dumb but i feel like any development of a genuine romantic relationship between johnny/carmen has been done off-camera and we have no indication they’ve even done that. there is like, below zero amounts of relational development whatsoever and then suddenly she’s pregnant and he buys her a ring (where did he get it?? with what money???). i literally didn’t even notice the ring until i saw some gifs of the lawrusso moment. to me that’s a…huge deal? johnny’s never been married before, he never married shannon, he’s never had a traditional family like that…it doesn’t seem like him to just go out and buy a ring because he found out his gf of approximately 2 weeks is pregnant??? like damn these are like Big Life Decisions and you’d think we’d get more screen time on it rather than “oh this is happening now.” like you think we’d actually see him propose and tell his thought process out loud when he does it if they wanted it to actually be a plot line or show any type of genuine character development on johnny’s part. it just seems so random to me, so out of touch, and OOC and just forced.
also i can’t stand the way they had johnny “accidentally” ~spill the beans~ about the b*by to miguel and robby right after they beat the shit out of each other and were having their own moment, and now this is being dumped on them like? it is SO unrealistic that they’re both immediately happy like it’s just WEIRD? and it doesn’t even sound natural coming out of johnny’s mouth. he would never actually say that lmao. he’s dumb but he’s smarter than that? (i could write another essay on that). johnny’s face when they hug him and just his overall demeanor in that moment is so awkward and he genuinely is so weird about it. there’s no excitement, no joy, just??? weirdness??? isn’t that ‘supposed’ to be a happy moment??? coupled with the way he acts about it when the adults find out, and the way he tells shannon about carmen’s dream (not the fact that he tells her, the literal way that he tells her)…it’s just so insanely obvious.
another thing: there is a LOT of growing for johnny to do that can be done without having a newborn at this point in his life? it’s just such a stretch and so outrageous and yes i have a very strong opinion on this because it just doesn’t sit right with me at all for some reason. especially for robby’s sake. like in all seriousness an adult may be able to compartmentalize or like work through this, but robby has yet to work through the trauma he already has and yet i’m supposed to believe he’s gonna be chill watching his previously-absent father play super dad to this newborn? after he already has to watch him play super dad to miguel right in front of him (and continuously choose miguel over him?????) ????????? and is literally being forced to be okay with it and happy about it and get along with miguel???? like it’d be great if he and miguel could be friends because i do think they’d make great friends and get along, but that doesn’t mean robby has to like… feel good about the situation? just the whole thing is so wrong lmao.
also, why does carmen seem so happy and excited?? i could go on about it honestly, it’s so impractical and makes no sense and she is a very cautious and practical person every other moment of the show? but with this she’s just like “yay newborn with this 50 year old guy i met like a year or less ago, why the fuck isn’t he over the moon about this???????” also we’ve got no indication that she actually knows anything about him or his life or that there is any relationship outside of hooking up????? johnny actually confirms this when they tell miguel about their ‘relationship.’ he literally says they’re ‘hooking up’ and then carmen kinda gives him a look and he can’t even say it, MIGUEL has to say it and he’s like ‘uh yeah’ and literally looks like he’s going to throw up. the fact that carmen wasn’t like….upset about that is so strange because he never once alludes to wanting a relationship and she’s the one that’s pushing this like secular family weirdness, so for him to just be like ‘yeah we’re hookin’ up’ and not being able to even CHOKE out that they’re dating is so weird. it’s really, really weird considering we’re apparently supposed to believe that he’s now apparently ready to be married to her?? nothing is exactly wrong with either of them as people, but i just know for a fact they both want different things and are forcing themselves into boxes for each other.
the audacity of carmen to get upset at his trepidation about this is really irritating to me considering she clearly has no idea what’s gone on in his life, or maybe she doesn’t really care?? maybe she just wants to create this happy family bullshit????? idk before s5 i truly loved carmen so the way they’ve had her acting about this whole thing just doesn’t sit right with me and seems very OOC. also i don’t think real life johnny lawrence would be as calm as he was about it and like, not losing his shit at this point in his life. she’s actually lucky he didn’t freak the fuck out?? considering everything i think he was actually pretty damn supportive and cool about it. he literally could have actually lost his mind? all he did was look at the dad with the screaming baby in a carrier and look a little anxious about it? he’s not allowed to be……worried? nervous? intimidated? be so fucking for real right now.
AND ANOTHER MF THING. johnny literally made the same exact mistake in his mid-30s with shannon that he’s making in his mid-50s with carmen. he’s a grown-ass man and at this point knows how “protection” works etc, spent his whole life hooking up with girls and NOT getting them pregnant, like they make him look so damn stupid all the time and FOR WHAT? like i’ve said multiple times, yeah he’s a little ha-ha-dumb but he’s not actually genuinely stupid. they write him that way when it “benefits” their storyline, and literally change his character when it benefits other areas. it’s so inconsistent and frustrating. in what way, shape, or form is having him just repeat past mistakes (just on camera now) going to further his development as a person. if he didn’t know before he certainly knew after knocking up his girlfriend and having robby. like do you think he thinks that just….doesn’t happen?? carmen saying “these things happen johnny,” talking down to him like he’s a 12 year old, when yeah no shit he literally has a kid from the EXACT same fucking thing!!!!!!!!!!????????? likeeee uggghghghghhghhg PLEAAAAASE be so serious rn. they aren’t even really in a proper relationship!!! she knows nothing about him!!! nor has she ever seemed to care very much!!!!!!!! he literally told miguel they were “hooking up” and could NOT make himself say anything else!!!!!! because they AREN’T!!!!!!!!!!!! is the character development supposed to be him sticking around this time? even if the white-picket-fence life she’s pushing makes him miserable?? it’s clear that johnny cares about her like i’m not trying to say that he doesn’t, i think carmen just pities him and thinks she can “save” him by giving him a “real” life?? does that make sense??? like i just. idk idk idk.
i could scream about all of this for days but ANYWAYS tl;dr: johnny and carmen want very different things in life and have no romantic relationship established outside of hooking up and the whole thing is extremely weird
#i could literally go on#it’s bad#this is all i think about#i feel like i shouldn’t tag this. it’ll find its target audience :)#i censored j*rmen in hopes it won’t show up in the tag i don’t want anyone getting mad lmao#ck negativity
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Johnny may be a betrayal of character arc, but Daniel is a betrayal of themes
Okay, first thing here is that I said before that it was going to be hard for me to explain why I have such mixed feelings about Daniel’s arc in s5, because there’s so much tying into his story, and that’s sort of it, right? back to basics, this is Daniel’s story, because everything connects to him in the end -- which means that anything else that doesn’t work ties back to what I struggle with in his story.
So I will make the choice here to try and leave the other characters (except for Miyagi a bit) out of it as far as is possible for someone like me. Because otherwise this would end up becoming an essay about the whole flipping show and how all the characters mirror back at Daniel, who is the carrier of the Legacy (both in-show and out-of-show)
Secondly, apologies to @gjdraws I can no longer tell what you said and what I said, but just assume that these are not all entirely my words -- there is probably also a bunch I read on others’ posts, apologies for the repetition you’re very smart people! -- generally apologies for the repetition in the text, I try my best, I’m not being graded on this
Third thing is that while I may occasionally be talking character arc, a lot of what I’m speaking to here is what I think about theme. Technically there are character beats that on their own could be cool, but as a whole are incoherent, because they haven’t been earned and/or are couched in Cobra Kai’s issues with Theme
Fourth thing is to acknowledge (speaking of themes) that some people in this fandom called that the show doesn’t like Miyagi season/s ago, and I in my sweet naivety internally went “no, surely not – they may not completely understand the ethos that created Miyagi’s character, but they’re trying to grapple with it. Daniel’s whole story after all is figuring out how to handle the enormity of Miyagi’s legacy passed onto him and how to honour it and what his philosophy of pacifism and non-violence means for his own life, especially now he’s faced with a recurrence of the stories that led him to Miyagi in the first place” *takes deep breath*
So, at this point, I concede… the show really doesn’t like Miyagi, in the sense that it thinks his philosophy and the narrative that led to that philosophy is quaint and naive and silly (and not cool) at best... and I think once I get this out of my system, maybe I’ll be able to get back into the bits of it that I like playing with, the stuff it promised and set-up -- a lack of pay-off doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of interesting Stuff.
SO LET’S GET INTO SOME STUFF:
I’ve started calling it “The Tension of Daniel” – namely, how do white straight cis men of a certain Type who love the sports drama coming-of-age movie The Karate Kid come to terms with their main character being a skinny little mouthy kid who isn’t like Rocky or all those other guys who deserve to win because… well, look at those muscles! (Shhh, never mind that Rocky is about love, it’s his muscles!)
That Tension exists aaaaall the way through Cobra Kai, as many of us have called on numerous occasions. Daniel inhabits a role often given to female leads. His emotions are denied or made out to be ridiculous or hysterical. He “pretends” to have the moral high-ground, but he’s actually hypocritical as compared to the salt-of-the-earth direct talks-with-his-fists Johnny Lawrence. He’s just not quite as “cool” in his messiness and feelings. He is simply not as much of A Man in the “heroic lead of an American franchise type” as is comfortable. But of course he’s also not a woman (somethingsomething witness gender-essentialism in action).
Now the problem with Daniel not being as cool as Johnny (who has the decency to at least get blackout drunk and punch things when he feels things), is that he’s also one of the two heroes and he and Johnny are meant to find common ground. He’s the person with the most story backing him up (which means that in earlier seasons when his POV isn’t being respected by other characters we can fall back on the movies and remind ourselves why he’s reacting in xyz ways, even if the show itself doesn’t grace the audience with that perspective).
THE WRITERS DON’T LIKE DANIEL (YEAH YEAH WE KNOW):
-- Here’s where, instead of writing another 2000 words, I would redirect you to multiple posts written about how while Johnny’s narrative went from trying to deconstruct his story, Cobra Kai instead fell for how cool it was for everything to be solved with violence, provided it was at the right moment. (I have written several and I warrant you currently can’t spit in the Johnny Lawrence tag without coming across many more).
That ethos is the same for Daniel now, except rather than thinking he’s cool (they don’t) and that being the flaw in their writing him, they’re trying to “fix” him, to make him a more comfortable character for them.
Which means that by the end of this story Daniel isn’t trying to do what he seems to have been trying to do for the entire rest of it (including much of season 5!!!!) -- trying to understand Miyagi’s philosophy and reconstruct it for his own understanding of the world, while grieving him and honouring him, while also having the pain of the events that initially brought him to Miyagi dredged up, except this time without his help – it’s to see that what he really needs to solve his issues is to finally be a fucking man about them.
And for much of season five, this isn’t even the case: For the first half Terry Silver stalks and terrifies Daniel on multiple occasions. Several people have talked about the ways it appears sexual, like an abusive ex, like Daniel is framed in a way women often are – physically completely overwhelmed and disbelieved and/or minimized almost regardless of whom he goes to, and unable to speak about what he’s going through (almost like a survivor). @jenpsaki and @bobakick and @youandthemountains and @deputychairman (I’m sure there are others).
The difference between Daniel-now and Daniel-of-previous-seasons is that much of the menace is being shown onscreen (at last!) so Daniel is seemingly being validated by the narrative (at last!) -- here the obvious point that never is Daniel given the opportunity to really... talk about it. And he likely never will, because it’s all handled now, right?
Please let me know who pointed out the fascinating gendered role-reversal of Amanda disbelieving Daniel until Jessica backs up his narrative + actually gets to say a hell of a lot more than Daniel ever does.
But at the end of the story he wins against Terry in a fight, total role-reversal of episode 5, his wife and kids (family) watching on – no Johnny of course, not even Chozen. They weren’t important to Daniel’s journey I guess. They’re not “really” family in this context.
He’s risen above his original writing where he was wishy-washy and annoying and cared about complex conflict resolutions and he’s met Johnny halfway (which would be idk… still an alcoholic who’s trying to make it work I guess, but crucially correct when he thought that violence was the answer all along, even though that was what his story was meant to be deconstructing).
COOL DANIEL
I think this Very Cool Scene of Daniel finally winning comes at the cost of everything that makes him interesting to fans like us to begin with – all the unpalatably non-traditional-masculine traits that have made him up since day one: His pursuit of non-violence even when that’s a struggle, his complicated way of expressing his emotions, his lack of need to prove his masculinity in order to be worthy, and his past as a victim of others’ needs to prove the same, and a man who made him believe for a brief moment that he was special and how dealing with the aftermath of that + return of that man has sent him to some bad places that he’s trying to be honest about himself with. If anything he’s the character who is most self-aware (and most hyper-critical) of his own ability to make bad choices sometimes.
And despite Daniel’s new upgrade into masculinity-a-dude-audience-can-finally-root-for, the initial Tension is still there throughout most of the season: in the way that he’s never ever given a scene to properly talk about any of it in his own words (well, in s4 I guess but we never saw it so RIP -- sidenote I do want to know how many monologues Johnny gets vs Daniel) and in the way he doesn’t have the power to tell the story on his terms/drive the narrative (in the first half this makes sense – he’s on the back-foot, he doesn’t know how to defeat Silver, he wants to be protected, but in the last episode???):
In the last episode, Mike, Chozen, and Johnny decide to randomly attack Silver without Daniel’s consent (and don’t even end up bringing Daniel along). They set in motion the events that lead to the fight, not Daniel, not even Silver. There’s nothing that has happened thus far that suggests Daniel has recovered from what’s happened to him -- I acknowledge here the callback to Miyagi scene and getting to train with Johnny and Chozen, but none of that is about facing his fear. It’s a good step to something that could pay-off later, but it never does because Johnny and Chozen aren’t there in the final episode -- never mind come to the conclusion that the way to really take down Silver is to beat him up. He doesn’t have a say over where that confrontation happens.
On the surface he’s victorious, but narratively he’s really just following the beats set out by everyone else, right up until the last Moment when he magically defeats Terry, because now it’s decided he’s allowed to.
WHICH BRINGS ME TO MIYAGI:
I know some people made their peace seasons ago that whatever Miyagi mattered to the original narrative is almost entirely absent from this one, and maybe that’s what I need to do to start the process of doing surgery on this show to make it work for me.
But before I can do that, I have to ask what the hell is the point of Daniel’s journey? If it’s not about finding his way to Miyagi’s lessons? If it’s not to find a way to face the fears that have been haunting him for 35 years, which Miyagi was trying to help him with? If it’s not for Miyagi’s legacy to influence the whole darn narrative from beyond the grave, but most strongly through Daniel, his adopted son?
Taking the idea that “one day Daniel will do karate his way” is one thing, but it doesn’t apply to what’s happening in the final fight, because Daniel isn’t fighting to understand himself or what Miyagi meant or anything Miyagi-related. The story isn’t answering this conceit, it’s talking about something completely different with the fight, Miyagi-as-theme has looong abandoned the building.
So why does Daniel have to solve his problems this way? What is it thematically (not “deservedly” not “coolness-factor” but simply what questions does it answer?)
Is Miyagi-do too weak a philosophy for Daniel to find himself in? Is violence to solve your problems only wrong if it’s the bad guys doing it, but fine if practically the exact same things are done by the good guys at the right time? – and especially LaRusso who before this came off as a bit as a pansy, despite his (much more thematically interesting) fight against Kreese, but now he’s proved he’s just as good a fighter as Terry Silver, which was what he really always needed to get over his fear
At the end neither Johnny nor Chozen (and I would say it ought to have been Johnny, but I would have taken Chozen) were even there to support him in any meaningful way, so it’s not really about the family you make and their helping you stand up on your feet.
Nobody’s honking anyone’s noses anymore.
Nobody’s stepping out of the way to let the aggressor punch the glass in their own blind rage.
No mercy was in fact the correct philosophy, Kreese was right from the get-go, his problem was just that he was the bad guy. Thank goodness now the good guys are enacting it -- violence, if done by the right people, is good after all
CONCLUSION:
Daniel, to me, is the most embedded example of what Cobra Kai does over and over, which is taking a narrative that’s thematically pointing in a particular direction, and then veering last minute into a completely different conclusion, usually what they consider more visually spectacular – that is to say, a fight
Daniel was given so much to work with this season and the conclusion of his arc: beat the other man until he can’t get up again.
If anything this show is an ouroboros. It started eating its own themes in sacrifice of “badass fight scene after badass fight scene” until it could no longer write characters who don’t solve their problems with violence, because then it would have to admit that its growing reliance of violence as a tool to show any character growth was in direct opposition to its original themes of exploring and deconstructing the very violence it now presents without question… until all you’re left with is Daniel, who completes his character arc through violence
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1. there’s also a separate thing pointed out to me by GJdraws, where Carmen is the only character who never enacts violence and is weak and Daniel is weak until he enacts violence, at which point he becomes badass
2. another point I loosely made about Sam on her post, which was that she wants to “leave karate” to find herself but the narrative pulls her back in, because if Sam wasn’t doing karate it wouldn’t be able to think of something for her to do at all (one symptom of the ouroboros).
3. funnily enough, despite overall hating far more of Johnny’s arc this season, he actually got to have the catharsis I was hoping for Daniel and for him: when he fought Kreese in s3 he did it out of rage and fear and oh so many mixed emotions and he lost (he lost because Robby was following right in his footsteps and he accidentally hurt him), and then later on he got beaten up again by Terry, in front of Kreese. His winning moment is telling Kreese in prison that he’s going to erase everything about him – and at that moment he’s supported by Daniel, just like he was during his fight with him – that’s some good subversion of the roles the two of them play
4. amazingly, I managed to stick to my guns and not bring Terry into this beyond certain bits, but it’s not lost on me that after episode five he does... basically nothing. He opens some dojos and hires a strict sensei and trains some kids, but he doesn’t actually enact any massively evil plans, he just waits around until some drunk guys break into his home. it would have been easy to run with what’s already there and have him spiral into his own maw (was that not what ouroboros was meant to be about????? violence eventually eats itself). Terry is ultimately self-destructive, just like Kreese when he punched the glass all those years ago. That’s... the themes are right there??????? Terry’s kind of flipping tragic, why not let him be that (at least TIG knows)
5. and I didn’t really speak to the pacing, because I was talking about themes, but while I can forgive rushed pacing if one isn’t sure of a renewal, why start introducing new characters and half-assed racist lore in the back-half of the season instead of concentrating all your energy on the core of the characters arcs?
sure, maybe Daniel could have fought Terry again and there be emotional resonance, I’m not saying the ability to write that didn’t exist, but there was no narrative build-up to it, which adds to the disconnectedness of it all. Why is he fighting Terry now? I don’t know. Was it a fight that made sense for either of their characters? No.
6. I think where I’m at is beginning to find the bits of shiny stuff that I want to play with -- if I know why something didn’t work for me, I can reconstruct it in a way that it does. the absence of something is what I want to make present. the flawed enacting of a genuinely intended theme is still giving the tools to continue to play with said theme.
The Tension of Daniel still remains in full force and that is interesting to work with
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I am a hater when I say side characters in Cobra Kai who barely have two scenes per season get more show promo than the main and final villain.
#ck negativity#terry silver#cobra kai season 6#man how's demetri more important than terry silver i'm sorry sghsjks#dude has like two to three five second gag scenes once in five episodes#personal thoughts
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Like. The baby could’ve just been a scare. Could’ve been a moment where Johnny was like, shit, how can I do this, only to realize he can do this. Have those exact same montages we saw this season. They could’ve had Carmen seem more conflicted about whether or not she even wanted a baby. Whether or not this was a good thing. And then, after all that, they could’ve revealed she’s not pregnant. Miguel just really is that bad of a cook. And that could’ve then turned into a kind of come-to-jesus moment where Johnny realizes, shit, I can do this. I can be a parent to Robby, I can be a parent to Miguel. It could’ve been a moment of growth for his character. But instead it was just. Well. That.
And the thing is, even if it had just been a pregnancy scare, I still would’ve had criticisms. Like, why was it the idea of a new baby that forced him into a wake-up call? Why couldn’t he look at the kid—kids, plural—right in front of him and realize that he needs to pull his shit together? But still, it would’ve been so much better. Carmen wouldn’t be reduced down to nothing but a baby incubator, for starters. Robby and Miguel wouldn’t be forced into happily and excitedly accepting the pregnancy, having their personalities and feelings completely ignored by the narrative and looking like they were possessed by some all-obedient being that exists only to serve Johnny Lawrence. And we, as the audience, wouldn’t be forced to swallow down this unquestionable belief that for some reason, without any real proof, Johnny will get it right this time with a new kid. That, against all evidence, he won’t repeat the mistakes of his past. So while a pregnancy scare would still have it’s fair share of narrative problems, it would be the normal kind for Cobra Kai. The kind where they don’t quite grasp the implications of what they’re saying, but at the end of the day, it’s not a big deal. It wouldn’t be like this. It wouldn’t feel as offensive and malicious as this did. It wouldn’t be so completely and utterly degrading towards women, in such a casually cruel and thoughtless way.
#s5 spoilers#cobra kai season 5#johnny lawrence#carmen diaz#cobra kai#ck negativity#except almost everyone in the fandom hates this too so like. is it really negativity lol or is it just the truth
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sometimes I think about a different ck s5 where Robby and Miguel are prickly with each other, and insult the other but also don't get into fights directly bc of their shared beloved trashfire dad.
and then that turns into stopping each other from getting into other fights, and that turns into having each other's backs in fights until they suddenly wake up one day to find out that they are sorta maybe kinda friends who say they hate each other but they're the only ones allowed to call the other one stupid
anyway that's what I was hoping for with the boys and I was vaguely disappointed I will tell you
#where was my prickly pseudosibling BFF growth where T_T#ck negativity#cobra kai season 5#cobra kai#ck meta#but mostly its just#robby keene#and#miguel diaz#feelings#starting to mellow about this show might start drawing again
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Terry polluted the planet, illegally dumped toxic materials in developing Third World Countries and profited off of it, broke in, assaulted people on several occasions, bought off judges to the point they knew each other on a first name basis, did cocaine, had a group of enforcers who literally nearly threw Daniel off of a cliff (the same Daniel he very much groomed) had a stolen Rembrandt in his mansion, but my god, bribing a referee for a local tournament for eighteen year olds is what is treated as the crime of the ages.
#i'm gonna say it#but compared to everything else he did...it ain't that big of a deal#terry seems like he hunted people for sport at one point#terry silver#cobra kai#cobra kai spoilers#cobra kai season 5#ck negativity
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I've seen a lot of Robby discourse here and how the show treats him and his relationship with Johnny badly, and I agree, but can we talk about my girl Tory for once??
Things are seemingly just becoming worse for her ever since s3, ironically even after she starts bettering herself and getting on the right track. On the other side we have Samantha, who, despite her questionable actions, never really suffers for long. She has friends, bfs, even ex bfs who seemingly cannot stay mad at her for longer than two episodes, family and ex rivals she suddenly gets along with all on her side supporting her. Her bad choices and actions get either brushed under the rug or excused because something else bad happens, even though she continues to repeat these mistakes. This is where Tory and her differ because we can actually see growth in Tory's character where she, albeit slowly, does learn what not to do and why and that it isn't helping her situation. Thing is, Sam would be the person in more need to get checked by people around her because whatever she does won't affect her living conditions or her comforts whereas with Tory it will immediately make life harder for her and bite her in the back- the extra lecture is not really needed here. As we saw in s4 she needed encouragement and positive influence like Amanda, not scolding.
I didn't think of it much at first, but after having three seasons of Tory's suffering only escalating, to this season where it was just absurd, and still not having anyone in her corner for most of it, isolating her, it started to seem like favoritism in the writers room. No way in hell does the natural progression of the story lead the only two people she thought she had to respectively betray and ghost her when she needed them the most.
As if she has to be tortured, abused, freezed out and scapegoated to "earn" something. Don't really know what.
#ck negativity#cobra kai#cobra kai spoilers#tory nichols#i feel sad#robby keene#john kreese#samantha larusso#cobra kai season five#cobra kai series
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Not a CK spoiler, just a thought
Robby deserves so much better than the shit he's had to deal with for five seasons.
#idk if the writers dont like him but BOY it sure does seem like it#robby keene#ck negativity#look at me being a hypocrite and using the negativity tag even though i said i wouldnt
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so if we’re gonna acknowledge how shitty johnny’s character is this season...i haven’t seen a single mention of the moment in s5e3 when miguel asks johnny for advice with sam. and somewhere miguel mentioned demetri has a girlfriend (as delightful as their...”relationship” is). and johnny scoffs and says “i bet she’s a looker”
i. i just 🤢
like i get the joke is that demetri’s a Dork™ and yasmine is Actually Hot and wow how’d he land her!!1! in this magical karate world where mediocre men breathe and hot girls with no character of their own automatically swoon for them
(this isn’t demetri hate btw i love him--)
but like. that felt like...so regressed from stuff we’ve seen? i get that johnny’s not a Woke King (and if he were that’d be corny as hell) but what attempts he’s tried have been...somewhat funny and with good intentions imo.
but that just set me off. like something something johnny’s only Less Shitty to women he’s attracted to, and he’s Abominably Shitty to women he doesn’t find attractive (even if, in yasmine’s case, he hasn’t met her). i am. whew i can’t take this anymore--
#i mean obviously if johnny did find yasmine attractive seeing as she's a teen that'd be a whole other problem but that's not what i mean#johnny's one of those guys that like...he sees women he doesn't find attractive as nonhuman#and you can see that in the show#and if making him do the bare fucking minimum in my fics to be respectful to women (like apologizing to ali and not. like. harassing women)#is ooc. then let him be ooc at this point damn i'm tired#sigh#anyways#johnny lawrence#ck negativity#cobra kai#ck spoilers#oh and#demetri alexopoulos
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