Cobra kai season 6 discussion part 1

[Ogata]

OK the first part dropped. Loved the kim sun yung segment and that he is pretty much super natural who is 120 year old ass kicker who owned Kreese worse than Miyagi did despite being half crippled.

It was interesting twist to imply that Mr. Miyagi had a dark side to him and that there was a possible implications of him winning a world karate championship.

I am digging the new badass korean kid.

Kyler segment was cool and so was Mike Barnes but the teen drama was unbearable to watch.


@ChickenBrother @DaleBoca @Law Talkin’ Guy

Not the same without bisexuality around.

 

[ChickenBrother]

Shit I thought it wasn't dropping until this weekend. I'll try to watch at least some of it tonight and will be back to comment.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Not the same without bisexuality around.

 

[Ogata]

I know, do you know what happened?

Whole thing is depressing

 

[Simple Southerner]

I haven't watched the new season that dropped today yet. I noticed there's only like 5 EPS then we gotta wait months for part 2 then 2025 for part 3

Lame!

 

[ChickenBrother]

Watched the first 2 episodes and will try to finish the next 3 tomorrow. Really missed this series and liking it so far. Lol at the kids mysteriously aging 3 years over the summer and Kenny being fucking huge now LMAO. And when did they re-cast Francis Ngannou as his big brother? Also Sam must be trying to avoid Tory by bulking up for the women's absolute division.

As annoying as the kids' rivalry stuff has been, good to see them bury the hatchet. Nothing like a good old fashioned karate beatdown to win friends and influence people. Also felt good to root for Kyler - you must not know that I know karate LMAO.

They got me and I thought Johnny was going to take Stingray's advice and rep Cobra Kai. I guess he really is leaving the past in the past.

Kim Sung Yun seems like a dick. The jerk store called and they're running out of him. I thought they'd make him more nuanced and maybe they'll give more backstory later but they haven't given us anything to sympathize with so far. And LMAO at sending 80 year old Kreese to kill a snake to prove himself.

@Ogata did it seem off for Kim Da Eun to refer to their style as KARATE? It's all the same shit to 'Muricans and maybe the American Cobra Kai was branded as karate but KSY and his granddaughter are proud koreans. Especially since they went there with mentioning japanese colonialism, shouldn't KSY and his family be referring to their style as tang soo do?

 

[godking]

The team realistically should be Miguel,Sam,Tory,Robby,Hawk,Kenny bringing in Mike Barnes was not necessary.

 

[Osculater]

Watched the first 2 episodes and will try to finish the next 3 tomorrow. Really missed this series and liking it so far. Lol at the kids mysteriously aging 3 years over the summer and Kenny being fucking huge now LMAO. And when did they re-cast Francis Ngannou as his big brother? Also Sam must be trying to avoid Tory by bulking up for the women's absolute division.

As annoying as the kids' rivalry stuff has been, good to see them bury the hatchet. Nothing like a good old fashioned karate beatdown to win friends and influence people. Also felt good to root for Kyler - you must not know that I know karate LMAO.

They got me and I thought Johnny was going to take Stingray's advice and rep Cobra Kai. I guess he really is leaving the past in the past.

Kim Sung Yun seems like a dick. The jerk store called and they're running out of him. I thought they'd make him more nuanced and maybe they'll give more backstory later but they haven't given us anything to sympathize with so far. And LMAO at sending 80 year old Kreese to kill a snake to prove himself.

@Ogata did it seem off for Kim Da Eun to refer to their style as KARATE? It's all the same shit to 'Muricans and maybe the American Cobra Kai was branded as karate but KSY and his granddaughter are proud koreans. Especially since they went there with mentioning japanese colonialism, shouldn't KSY and his family be referring to their style as tang soo do?

I guess for the audience it is easier to say Karate and Karate originated in Okinawa.

Those kids don't look like teenagers anymore LOL

 

[Halifax]

The team realistically should be Miguel,Sam,Tory,Robby,Hawk,Kenny bringing in Mike Barnes was not necessary.

You leave my Easter eggs alone!

 

[ChickenBrother]

I guess for the audience it is easier to say Karate and Karate originated in Okinawa.

Yep, they probably just wanted to keep it simple for the audience. But it seems like a pretty big oversight to me.

In KK3, Silver name drops "Master Kim Sung Yun of South Korea" as his and Kreese's sensei and the series doubles down on that, with KSY's granddaughter talking about the "old Korean way" and WTF not. I didn't think they'd go there, but when Kreese visits KSY in the second episode, he talks about fighting "Japanese invaders."

In the flashbacks, we see KSY training Kreese and Silver in what looks like 1600's Korea. Or maybe it's the medieval village from Gym Kata. Either way, KSY and presumably his students are old school Korean AF. Seems kinda ridiculous for any of them to use a japanese word to describe their style.

 

[jeff7b9]

I guess for the audience it is easier to say Karate and Karate originated in Okinawa.

Those kids don't look like teenagers anymore LOL

Kyler actor is in his 30s I think.

Most of them are late 20s at this point.

 

[Ogata]

Watched the first 2 episodes and will try to finish the next 3 tomorrow. Really missed this series and liking it so far. Lol at the kids mysteriously aging 3 years over the summer and Kenny being fucking huge now LMAO. And when did they re-cast Francis Ngannou as his big brother? Also Sam must be trying to avoid Tory by bulking up for the women's absolute division.

As annoying as the kids' rivalry stuff has been, good to see them bury the hatchet. Nothing like a good old fashioned karate beatdown to win friends and influence people. Also felt good to root for Kyler - you must not know that I know karate LMAO.

They got me and I thought Johnny was going to take Stingray's advice and rep Cobra Kai. I guess he really is leaving the past in the past.

Kim Sung Yun seems like a dick. The jerk store called and they're running out of him. I thought they'd make him more nuanced and maybe they'll give more backstory later but they haven't given us anything to sympathize with so far. And LMAO at sending 80 year old Kreese to kill a snake to prove himself.

@Ogata did it seem off for Kim Da Eun to refer to their style as KARATE? It's all the same shit to 'Muricans and maybe the American Cobra Kai was branded as karate but KSY and his granddaughter are proud koreans. Especially since they went there with mentioning japanese colonialism, shouldn't KSY and his family be referring to their style as tang soo do?

Regarding kids burying the hatchet, yeah so about that...


Kyler thing was nice and it was cool he moved on from karate and bullying. Spoiler alert, by the time you finish the 5th episode you will realize that Kyler and brucks are the only mature ones...


Kim Sun Yung might be a jerk and the jerk store might be running out of him but who cares since @ChickenBrother is their all time best seller!!!


Regarding the tang soo do thing. Koreans renamed it to Taekwondo outlawed tang soo do at the time.

With decades passing, no one knows what tang soo do is and for marketability reasons its best to call it karate. Also the founder of kyokushin was ethnically korean and showed that koreans are amazing at karate. So they represent karate with pride now a days.

Tang soo do is like Shootfighting. Older forgotten terms.

 

[jeff7b9]

The team realistically should be Miguel,Sam,Tory,Robby,Hawk,Kenny bringing in Mike Barnes was not necessary.

Solid lineup.

I have never bought Dmitri as a fighter.
I get that the show is a karate soap opera but that dude just doesn't move athletically AT ALL.

and his character is a bitch at heart.

They did Kenny dirty. Hopefully Dmitri gets his dick clamped in a disastrous MIT robotics accident and Kenny gets to sub in and go kick some ass.

 

[Streeter]

Should just waited an dropped all 10. Other thsn Johnny and Crease characters are cringy n annoying

 

[ChickenBrother]

Kyler actor is in his 30s I think.

Most of them are late 20s at this point.

Apparently Kyler actor Joe Seo's age is like Joe Rogan's height. Dude claims he was born in 1998 which is hilarious because he's been playing young adult roles since 2006. Some sources claim he was born in 1990 but some people claim he graduated with them from Crescenta Valley HS in 1998, and indeed a "Joseph Seo" was a member of that class:

http://crescentavalleyhighschool.org/class-of-1998.html

So it's possible this dude is actually around 44.

Solid lineup.

I have never bought Dmitri as a fighter.
I get that the show is a karate soap opera but that dude just doesn't move athletically AT ALL.

and his character is a bitch at heart.

They did Kenny dirty. Hopefully Dmitri gets his dick clamped in a disastrous MIT robotics accident and Kenny gets to sub in and go kick some ass.

Yeah Dmitri is a total can. He'll probably end up in the hospital like Wolowitz in Big Bang Theory when he tried to let a robot arm give him a hand job.

 

[ChickenBrother]

The team realistically should be Miguel,Sam,Tory,Robby,Hawk,Kenny bringing in Mike Barnes was not necessary.

Agree except Sam should be swapped out for Devon. Sam looks even less athletic than Dmitri and is the Bethe Correia of Miyagi Do.

Barnes wasn't strictly necessary but he was still good and they probably wanted to give him the screen time he missed out on last season, on account of getting injured during filming - that's why he spent most of the Silver home raid KTFO on the floor. Also LMAO at his Master Ken 12th degree black belt.

 

[Nameless Ghoul]

I haven't watched the new season that dropped today yet. I noticed there's only like 5 EPS then we gotta wait months for part 2 then 2025 for part 3

Lame!

It's so dumb that they decided to do this. I'm not saying that I won't watch it, but it definitely takes some shine off of the experience by milking it that long.

 

[ChickenBrother]

the teen drama was unbearable to watch.

Kyler thing was nice and it was cool he moved on from karate and bullying. Spoiler alert, by the time you finish the 5th episode you will realize that Kyler and brucks are the only mature ones...

The teen stuff has always been the worst part of this show. But it says a lot about the excellent writing quality that they can recycle the same ridiculous shit again and again (enacted by the same IRL 30 year olds LOL) and have it still be watchable and not completely suck. LMFAO at the girls slumber party and Miguel and Robbie were believable with the bit of tension there. Tory going back to Cobra Kai was well set up and keeps it interesting.

And badass korean kid is good. You just knew he was going to be the star because he looked so much cooler than the other dweeb lol.

But William Zabka is the MVP of this show - dude is killing it as Johnny. Like how TF has this dude not been cast in everything since the Karate Kid movies? He's been in worse shit than MacCauley Culkin. I'm really going to miss this show and his character when the season wraps.

 

[Hog-train]

Is Cobra Kai actually popular with young kids or is it just a nostalgia hit for us older people?

Also that chick's Korean is comically bad lol. I don't think she's Korean.

 

[Simple Southerner]

2 eps in this latest season it's been a dumpster fire thus far. Ep 2 didn't even have torrys fine ass in it