#cobra kai critical
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something something great premise, bad writing…failure to adapt with the times…writers (white men) projecting their biases and fantasies and showing clear favoritism between 2 main characters…fans following suit…*
narrative not holding aggro “manly” man accountable for his actions…shut up, i’m right, screw you, get punched…but he had a shitty childhood…self-destructive, makes it everyone else’s problem…badass all american guy with a cool car, bitches, burgers, beer, and rock ‘n’ roll, baby…makes sexist and racist remarks, but he’s just a goofy guy…rewarding violent behavior and refusal to mature…stuck in the 80s toxic masculinity mentality…apologizes, doesn’t change…alcoholism is hilarious…don’t let him around children…idolized his father figure, recognized his flaws, feared becoming him…
narrative using less masculine man as a scapegoat…why is he whiny and annoying…giving but called entitled and selfish…stuck-up stick in the mud…polite, eats healthy food, likes a clean space, and knows how the internet works, ugh…samantha, danielle…don’t be a bitch about it…get emasculated, nerd…abused as well but learns to forgive…internalizes his rage and tries to be gentle…compassionate and sees the good in people…emotional intelligence, let’s talk this through…held to a higher standard, judged more harshly…woman-coded and comfortable in his sexuality…vilified for holding justifiable resentment towards macho man…hate for character carries over to actor
oh and the homoerotic subtext (they break up every other episode)
*i recognize that this is exaggerated and doesn’t delve into the nuances of the characters. they’ll all fucked up in various ways
#johnny and dean are a better comparison than daniel and sam#but i rest my case#i love both of these shows that's why I want them to be better#and i want the writing to treat the characters fairly#and I want the characters to be allowed to overcome their flaws and grow as people#supernatural#spn#cobra kai#the karate kid#tkk#dean winchester#sam winchester#johnny lawrence#daniel larusso#dean and johnny made progress in season 3 and then it all went downhill#spn critical#spn analysis#cobra kai critical#cobra kai analysis
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Cringe writing. Johnny's dick riders. Ruined Miyagi character. Fuck ck writers/creators.
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There’s so many jokes s1 Johnny makes that I can just roll my eyes at like. He’s supposed to be stupid, he’s supposed to have silly outdated beliefs, who cares. Some of them are legitimately funny to me, too. But then there’s like. 1-2 moments where I cannot help getting legitimately heated, and him calling Miguel an ‘illegal’ is the main one. Maybe it’s bc I grew up in the southwest us and so I’m extra sensitive to that shit, but that’s not fucking funny. It’s not. It goes so beyond “haha this guy hasn’t moved on from the 80s.” And yeah Johnny’s a white guy but if he’s spent his entire life in the valley he should have an idea, actually, what it means to call someone that, the violence and disruption it could invite into their life. He should know that.
Granted I think they should’ve just cut the line to begin with. Three white american guys writing a script of their karate kid fanfic don’t need to be making jokes like that. Especially since if it were meant to actually be an interesting character moment, Miguel would’ve been allowed to actually react to it. And feel something about it. But of course he doesn’t get to do that, bc his job is apparently to put up w Johnny’s backward (and intermittently racist) comments 24/7 without complaint.
#if you’re not going to show Johnny growing out of that shit then why even put it in in the first place!!#they Almost let him make progress in s2#cobra kai#johnny lawrence#miguel diaz#cobra kai critical
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#cobra kai#samantha larusso#sam larusso#tory nichols#samtory#lanichols#this is literally their energy#i wont be accepting criticism at this time
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Oddly for a sequel show, Cobra Kai is putting far too much weight on the original TKK film. They keep acting like this is teenage Johnny and teenage Daniel going toe to toe, but these are adult men. They should have lived adult lives and processed adult experiences and emotions before getting to the beginning of Cobra Kai’s story. Why can’t Johnny ever seem to grow up in a meaningful way? Why does Daniel keep chucking his healthy wealthy family life to the side to get involved in random ass karate shit? Why do they refuse to truly mend the fences between them? I understand showing trauma affecting them and TKK being an important moment in their lives, but the show acts like that was THE important moment in their lives. Nothing was bigger or more life changing than that (basically a high school karate tournament that happened one time) even though they’re decades past it. These characters aren’t truly allowed to be adult men grappling with the past, they’re written like stunted teens who are simply walking through some strange daydream life where they’ve got kids and jobs. And if the writers don’t ever treat them like adults, they’re never going to act like it nor will they ever grow in meaningful and permanent ways.
#I get Cobra Kai is fundamentally about that trauma and about TKK#but they keep acting as if neither character has thought about anything else other than it or just repressed it like crazy#be real with me. it was high school. crazy life changing shit happens then but the fact is crazy life changing shit keeps happening#they write Daniel as if his marriage was less important than TKK. his children his business his social life everything else#and Johnny was originally written as a man who let that trauma crush his life#but really had the power to move forward because HE NO LONGER WAS THAT KID!#the whole point at the beginning was Johnny having to reconcile himself with the fact that TKK is over. has been for decades#and he can’t live there anymore. there’s not space for adult man Johnny in that story#but then they kept writing it like TKK was the pinnacle of Daniel and Johnny’s lives#which is crazy!#and then only focused on that#even though there were serious important plot lines like Johnny neglecting Robby or Daniel repressing his emotions#or that violence left to fester is violence that will be fostered#these are adult men. make them act like it for fuck’s sake#cobra kai#ck#ck criticism#tkk#the karate kid#johnny lawrence#daniel larusso
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I love the way you play Ayden in downfall it amazing! And the way you talk so soft but with power when you say a line are you going be in more downfall eps
I’m about to ask the most likely question that will probably hopefully not freak you out or make you weirded out but I seen you like most of the post about it so how do you feel about young cobra husbands 👀 I’m actually nervous as hell to ask this lol you don’t have to answer it if you don’t want to 😅
Also the way you play young terry silver is beautiful especially in s6
Thank you so much! Both Ayden and Terry have been so much fun to play and are both the young versions of an established character in a funny way! I'm glad you were one of the few people who might have found my Terry Aeor passport amusing! I think the purpose of art is to inspire! If people are taking the time to channel that inspiration into Cobra Husbands, who am I to judge! I think ultimately it is flattering that people respond to a character I partially portray. Once I have completed filming something it ceases to be mine and becomes whatever people receive it as. Cobra Husbands away I say!
#critical role#cr downfall#ayden#cr spoilers#critical role downfall#cr: downfall#the dawnfather#dawnfather#critical role spoilers#terry silver#cobra husbands#cobra kai
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80s Terry with a Beloved who is just as eccentric as he is. There’s no need for him to calculate his next move or manipulate things around her because she’s crazy enough to immediately accept anything he says or does no matter how batshit insane it is.
Terry causes enough chaos on his own, but with a Beloved who not only supports him but encourages him? World domination is definitely in discussion at the very least.
“I can fix him? No, I can make him worse.”
Ironically, this just makes him better.
Not good, in the sense of a good person, but better, in the sense that he wouldn't snap mentally and turn, oh, I don't know, suicidal, telling Chozen how he's not afraid to die. Because, consider it; he's loved for exactly who he is. He's getting the devotion he's putting out given right back to him by someone who understands and sees him --- the real him. He's repressing nothing. He's not fabricating a whole personality. He's not hiding his past. His deeds. His machinations. Who he is. He's not fronting. Wearing a mask. He's precisely what he is in front of his significant other and while he's not a good man, total acceptance is something. How many people can boast to have that? Someone who knows all their flaws and bad sides and still cares? In a world where nothing's for free, that sort of thing has no price. Sure, it doesn't turn him into a saint, I don't think, because he'll never be a saint and he never was in the first place, but in equal measure I don't think a repressed Terry living a lie in the company of a bunch of vapid champagne Liberals who barely know a genuine fact about him is any healthier. In fact, it is much, much worse. Terry wouldn't be a good person if he was with a beloved who complements him so fully, but he'd certainly be an infinitely happier one.
#nobody's made unhappier by a partner who's a good fit for them#what would make him worse is a person who represses him#and critically misunderstands him#terry silver#kk3#cobra kai#terry silver x reader#terry silver x beloved#fluff
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Just so y’all know, Nick Marini, the Dawnfather incarnate, plays young Terry Silver in Cobra Kai. Billionaire, planet destroyer, but disciplined, dogmatic, and the same slick charm and penchant for gambling as his brother Asmodeus.
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k so back from break and did light googling and turns out nick (guy thats playing i think exu's jesus) was a young version of this guy in cobra kai
but enough of my upcoming review of that shows final season and other personal bs lets get back to the game
#cr spoilers#live blogging#bells hells#campaign 3#critical role#nick marini#cobra kai#cr downfall#terry silver
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I love it when different series have characters with the same name. It adds a bit of spice and ambiguity to the dash.
A post comes up about Percy smacking a god for looking at him funny. Is this Percy Jackson or Percy de Rolo?
Another post talks about Danny being an idiot. Do they mean Danny Phantom or the kid from Cobra Kai?
Will this post about someone named Babs gonna be DC Comics or The Locked Tomb?
It's especially fun if I have no idea what the actual source material is, so I'm imagining the character I know doing something that makes no sense. Just a little moment of absurdity.
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male characters who are losers but you know if they were female characters with all the same traits you'd be their full-time defense attorney
#bolo speaks#just read a really good cobra kai fanfiction (sorry) about genderflipped johnny lawrence#she's awful and I would fight in the trenches to protect her from criticism
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Okay I don't know if you talked about this (I wasnt active in the fandom recently), but I hope you know CK writers are zionists. Listen I do enjoy the fandom but like I said in a post recently I won't be watching season 6. Im not even subscribed to netflix anymore. Like no one is forcing to not watching it but ngl I'll consider it spineless as hell.
Same goes for another show I used to love, learned that many cast members are zionists. An actor of the show who happened to be muslim who is pretty vocal about Palestine on social media got fired..... If you know what show im talking about then you know the fandom sucks. Many poc, as myself, were not feeling welcomed and many left the fandom. Like there was legit white people doing blockchain on twitter because of that one white side character as their chosen blorbo (and this side character's actor is also zionist)
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thinking about an AU where johnny and Dutch are both trans
not gonna write anything. just thinking
#that’s how they became friends :)#they were both wolf kids i know this to be true (critical ftm experience)#cobra kai#karate kid#johnny lawrence#dutch karate kid
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Something has been missing for a while...
Every year when a new Cobra Kai season was released, I binged as soon as possible, like any fan. However, after the third season and my first hiatus in this fandom, I had the time to better assimilate the show and figure out my attachments and grievances with the show. I realized I really liked Sam, Daniel, Robby, Miguel, and even Johnny (though I always had many problems with his childishness and irresponsibility). I got attached especially to Samantha, who stood out as the type of character strangely placed in an extremely "macho-man" preaching show. I thought of the many interesting possibilities to approach her development as "the legacy kid" and "the love interest" who now had an extremely violent rival who was also a girl with a contrasting energy and story.
The meta-conversation that could've been explored filled my expectations for the seasons ahead. I anxiously waited, season after season, to see more, to see which of the possibilities they would explore. Though season four was interesting, it ended there.
Season five was the biggest disappointment, it was clear they didn't want to do much with her anymore, she didn't have an arc, they teased an arc, and just... didn't do anything with it. Season six part one was the very same. She was there... Nothing particularly personal going on except the crumbs of her relationship development with Tory. Her motivation to fight barely being touched upon, her anxieties about college and what to do with her future completely ignored or forgotten, she's happy just gathering pamphlets to pick a university. No excitement or tension or even a hint of which direction she would like to go or refuses to. They gave her nothing.
I do not hold any expectations that she'll be given substantial stuff anymore by the writing, if she gets to at least be relevant in the mission to bring Tory back from CK I'll be honestly surprised and reasonably content.
I believe I'm not the only one feeling this way, maybe people feel this way about other characters too -- and I would agree with them. It's just something I felt there was missing for a while, something not easy to excuse or forgive because, in this case, we're talking about a legacy kid, Miyagi's granddaughter, Daniel's eldest child... And she gets too little. It's a shame.
#cobra kai#ck#ck critic#sam larusso#samantha larusso#little rant about the hard life of being a fan of an unpopular kid
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is season 6 of cobra kai safe?
Hi, unfortunately I do not know. Try does the dog die website, emetophobia move and tv warning fb page or emetophobia help on tumblr. They may have some answers for you.
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#emetophobia#movie review#tv review#emetophobic#emeto film critic#emetophobia warning#emetophobia help#movies#emetophobia warnings#emeto tw#cobra kai#asks
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I find it so funny to see people in the cobra kai fandom or casual watchers get upset about Eli no longer having his hawk bully personality lmaoo
Like they always say he looks really weak and he’s downgraded like???
He hasn’t downgraded he’s just started healing from the trauma he’s being going through and he isn’t weak he just doesn’t mindlessly hurt people anymore.
Sometimes I think that some people in this fandom would actually be on Kreese and Silver’s side if they were in this show 😭
#they get so upset by a kid who previously felt so much anger that it caused him to hurt others actually starting to feel good about himself#they’ll say he was at his strongest and he was in his greatest era#lmaoo no he wasn’t he was a bullied kid who let his anger take hold of him and he couldn’t control it#it’s the same people who blame ali for karate kid johnny being a dick#cobra kai#cobra kai fandom#fandom critical#eli moskowitz
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