#cobra kai s6p2 spoilers

[shrinkthisviolet]

Thinking about how there are two scenes in this show in which Sam snaps at Johnny to get his act together (s4 and s6p2). And instead of snapping back at her or just waving her off because she's a kid and he's the adult...he goes "oh shit yeah you're right" both times and gets his act together 💞 Sam & Johnny lovers RISE UP!!

[mooshrune]

actually can we talk about this? why does robby have so many damn pillows next to him?? where did he even get them

[breckstonevailskier]

Like, the other characters are capable of making their own choices, right? 🤨

I mean, it's not Sam's fault that Axel developed a one-sided obsession with her and clearly doesn't get that she has a boyfriend she has no intentions of leaving for him, y'know. And it was Kwon's own choice in turn to use a deadly weapon.

When you think about it 9/11 is Sam's fault too 😍

[backinblack-80]

Fingers crossed for the CKS6 filler episode of Amanda and Carmen sightseeing and getting up to adventures in Barcelona without turning up to the tournament because they are having too much fun 😊

[billy-royalton]

i call it the silly karate show because it is the silly karate show but that doesn't make it a bad show like truly whatever they were cooking up in seasons 1-2 was top tier grade a shit ergo i do believe that i get to expect some nuance, heart, and character growth in my silly karate show because they literally proved from the beginning that they know how to do it and do it well so that's on them at this point.

[rosie-tyler]

Possible Cobra Kai S6P2 spoilers under the cut

Kinda looks like he's standing next to Kreese

[shrinkthisviolet]

Well!! Hayden Schlossberg has officially said, verbatim:

There was no assault, he was drunk and depressed and made a mistake, she wasn’t drugging/tricking/forcing him in any way.

So if anyone thought/hoped this was gonna be addressed or called out, or that the writers had maybe perhaps come to their senses…I regret to inform you that no, they in fact did not 🫠 god I hate them sm

Proof of this under the cut, in case anyone wants to see it (or wants context):

[shrinkthisviolet]

take a shot (of water) every time the show belittles Mr. Miyagi, either via "expanding his backstory" or with one of Johnny's lines 🫠

[shrinkthisviolet]

gotta love that when Anthony is finally scolded for bullying Kenny, it's about something he didn't even do 🫠

[shrinkthisviolet]

I think what really gets me about the Mr. Miyagi storyline isn’t even the content itself, but the context.

Like…as has been pointed out several times on this site, this show treats its characters of color in an…odd way compared to the white characters (Miguel mostly being an exception, because he’s the protagonist, but his storyline is consistently tied more to his white Sensei than his Mexican mother and grandmother, so…). Every character of color has at some point joined Cobra Kai—and yes, so have a number of the white characters, but the one character who hasn’t is white (Sam). They’ve also been framed as aggressive at least once (even Kenny, who is the most sympathetic when framed this way, still retaliates against Anthony in a way beyond what Anthony did in the first place!). If they’re lucky, they’re either so minor that they’re never mentioned again, or shuttled off to Miyagi-Do later (and once they’re there, the writers usually write them better—Kenny in particular)

Also, notably, its Asian characters get the worst of it: Kyler sexually assaults Sam, Kim Da-Eun physically assaults Tory, Sensei Wolf physically assaults Axel.

(I would also like to list Zara here, but I will concede that with her being ethnically ambiguous, it’s only clear that she’s a character of color, not Asian—her name, Zara Malik, could be Pakistani or Arab (or possibly she’s from another country that I’m less familiar with culturally, like Malaysia). Her accent leans more towards Pakistani (except her first fight against Tory, during which her accent is a straight-up Spanish accent), but the latter possibility does exist. But anyway. Just wanted to say that)

And then…Mr. Miyagi. I see the writing on the wall with his storyline, I know how this is gonna go: he’s in grief, he signs up for the tournament to let off steam, he kills because he wants to make his opponent hurt like he does, and it shakes him so badly that he becomes a pacifist. At least…I hope that’s what this show is going for. But! It still sits badly with me because of the pattern described above…as well as the show’s other pattern of putting him and his teachings down at every turn…hiding behind “well, it’s Johnny, not us!” even tho it’s very clear that Johnny is their favorite (I mean…duh, aside from the way he’s allowed to never grow, they also wrote the show about him).

If the movie writers had chosen to do this, or a group of writers that had treated Mr. Miyagi with respect rather than derision, I wouldn’t be reacting so poorly. I imagine most of the Tumblr Miyagi-verse fandom wouldn’t be, because we’d trust that they’re trying to further the nuanced “Mr. Miyagi is human” message from KK1 without putting him down. But it’s because of the show writers’ clear attitude towards Mr. Miyagi that we’re reacting this way. A lot of us probably do see where the storyline is going! But that doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly tasteless given the show’s patterns.

Oh, and just for a cherry on top? Part 2, when we find out Mr. Miyagi killed his opponent, was released on November 15th. You know what else happened on November 15th? Mr. Miyagi’s death, as established in the show!

Maybe that’s a coincidence. These writers can’t keep their own timeline straight, so it probably is. But it sure lends to leaving a sour taste in my mouth.

[shrinkthisviolet]

“Nichols this is war” Kreese, this is a KARATE TOURNAMENT

[shrinkthisviolet]

oh my GOD of course Kenny is turning down Silver and of course Hawk saw this without hearing the conversation so of course this'll stoke distrust and SCREAMING I HATE THE MISCOMMUNICATION TROPE!! STOP DOING THIS

[shrinkthisviolet]

Johnny: “Surprised you went along with the plan. What would Miyagi think?”

Daniel: “Part of defense is redirecting an opponent’s momentum.”

Chozen: “Also dog cage change man."

Daniel: “Yeah, maybe that too.”

...Mr. Miyagi wouldn't be opposed to this, Johnny and Chozen. He was a pacifist, not passive. This is literally just a less literal version of what he did to Kreese in KK1 - redirecting an opponent's momentum! Daniel may have changed, but it's not him turning away from Miyagi-style teachings or whatever

[shrinkthisviolet]

oh my god SILVER?? HE was behind the kidnapping??

🎶who's been messing up everything? It's been Terry Silver all along!🎶

[shrinkthisviolet]

If i had a nickel for every time the writers of a show introduced an intriguing WOC antagonist, made her assault a guy and gloat about it, and then pretended they never did that…I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right 💀

[shrinkthisviolet]

Kwon has Kreese's knife now?? He's gonna kill someone?? oh my GOD