‘if It Means Anything We All Think It Should Be You Out There’

love the way these three sit

Leadership is not tearing your fucking captain down when he is at his lowest knowing well enough that his loss means yours as well. I can already see all the comments saying Miguel should have been captain but I think that scene alone proved the contrary. I understand both ways and I know it was probably really frustrating how unfocused Robby was at first, but everyone was blaming him and just one good word from ANYONE could have been enough to at least not tear him down completely and everyone failed at that.

I saw several Miguel fans basically saying that we can't be upset if Johnny doesn't put Robby before Miguel just because he's his biological son because family doesn't end with blood and adoptive kids deserve the same love and all that, but then why the hell doesn't anyone expect the same from Carmen?

The show couldn't care less about showing a relationship between Robby and Carmen, she never ever mention him (not even when telling Johnny and Miguel that her unborn child will have a badass brother -hello? He will have TWO brothers), and apparently it's perfectly fine for her to only care about Miguel since that's her biological son.

But somehow the show makes sure to show Johnny trying so so so bad to not show any kind of favoritism to one or the other when it comes to Robby and Miguel (when he does the exact same speech before the captain fight, like wow, Robby waited 16 years for his father to support him and when that finally happens is with the same exact words he tells Miguel too), because suddenly someone being the biological son means nothing when it comes to him.

This means in this little family Miguel will always be Carmen's and yaya's first choice, while Robby is not allowed to be Johnny's first choice becuase he needs to be impartial.

And somehow he didn't get the short end of the stick?

Tory Nichols and Zara Malik in Cobra Kai S6 EP14 - Strike Last

3 new characters in school spirits season 2 and I’m gonna discuss em ! why not.

i loved every single new character in season 2. like it didn’t feel forced, it felt natural, and i love that. they all fit right in like they’d been there since season 1, another perfect example of amazing cast chemistry.

diego: nicole’s older brother

first of all, that mine is… fine. straight up. i like him so far, but also kinda neutral. i wonder if his only relevance was for the college thing or if he’s gonna be included in helping the group somehow! that would be cool to see.

yuri: russian pottery guy

he’s just .. chill. like i love his vibe. he smokes and just plays with pottery all day. like, i love him already. also, little easter egg but sometime in season 1 they mention yuri🫡

quinn: band marching girl

definitely my favourite out of the other two!! she’s so cute!! she’s friendly, she’s helpful like i love her viibe.

I love Miguel and Johnny but what’s crazy about this scene is that Johnny wasn’t there for Robby. Johnny gave pep talks to Devon, to Sam, to the team as a whole (as well as disparaging the team as a whole). But he did not have a single moment alone with Robby where he encouraged him or supported him at all. He called Miguel the team anchor in front of Robby, praised Miguel’s performance in front of Robby. And there’s nothing inherently wrong or incorrect with that, but why does the show keep trying so hard to convince me that father/son bonding moments happened between Robby and Johnny when they just didn’t.

Kie, I just…I wanted to say I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Kie. I love you. I love you, too.

would you change anything from tory’s introduction in season two to now in season 6? like her as a character and her depth as a whole? like what things would you take out or include?

one thing i’d like to mention is i wouldn’t have tory and sams rivalry to be about miguel. that was lazy and rushed. i’d probably have it start for another reason and built up to the school fight.

Hi, thank you for asking! This is a tough question. As I mentioned before I personally have almost no problems with the writing in the first two seasons. The set-up for rivalry between Tory and Sam at that beach party was pretty well executed in my opinion. Sam and Miguel's kiss seemed to be only the last straw that was added to already existing tension. But I agree that love triangles are a tired and uninspiring tool to create a rivalry.

My main problem is with season 6 mostly. And the changes I would like for Tory as a character would also imply changing the whole show’s trajectory. It means a lot has to change which I will not go into. But the short answer is: 1. I would like to see Tory actually interacting with her family and her mother specifically much earlier in the series. It would be cool to explore that part of Tory’s life. 

2. I wish that “cheating” drama with Robby never happened. Cobra Kai writers love their love triangles. But what they actually have showed wasn't even a love triangle. It was a whole other situation that they won’t even acknowledge in the show itself.

3. I would like Tory to open up more and to have time for self-reflection. If she and Robby actually haven’t stopped interacting with each other in that gap between part 1 and 2 that would be great. I always find it weird how Cobra Kai and Miyagi-do students completely stop all communication the moment they join the opposing dojo. Even if they used to be best friends prior to the whole karate war. It is just unrealistic.

In general I would like to see Tory operate under less dire circumstances that way maybe changes in her personality could happen more naturally.

i see you’re a tory fan / defender in one of of your posts (me too), so i wanna ask you- how did you find her in part 2 as well as her arc.. i wanna discuss this so bad with someone to see if anyone feels the same way i do.

i genuinely believe she was done dirty in part 2 for a pelothra of reasons. i would even go as far to argue that her character has BEEN being done dirty.

Tory’s always the best character in this show, no matter how much they butcher her arc, but it was a disappointment as you said. Her grief, her promises to her mother and need to provide for her remaining family, the driving forces behind all her choices has been sidelined for a romantic plot that don’t get me wrong, I liked because that’s the best romance written for this show, but still.

There’s no depth to her connections with her senseis or teammates and no fucking explanation of how the hell did she actually end up there. Her fights are cool, but God forbid she is shown to be better than Samantha or Zara now.

Daniel and Johnny did not care about what was going on with her, Sam, Devon and Robby made her grief about them and their team, and the bit about all of them being there for her irked me: the girl left in tears after becoming an orphan while yall handed karate headbands.

So yeah, she’s fantastic but has the possibility of being so much more if they stopped introducing rapists and useless characters during their LAST season.

Thank God fan fiction exists.