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don’t know the words to explain properly but part 3 of ck was so incredibly bad and just so rushed.
it didn’t feel like a series finale to the show. it just felt like the end of a season or a ‘too be continued’ or a ‘next time’
i enjoyed the fights in this part, samtory, keenry.. that’s all i think.
so, gonna just quickly talk about the things i had an issue with:
i don’t think the sekai taikai should have continued into part 3, or it should’ve been done differently. like a kid died.
continuing on a kid dying, it’s a month skip and none of the teens show any signs of trauma or caring that kwon died?
i went in dead set on thinking that they’d be having issues with seeing someone die and he’s just not mentioned, and they just wanted to continue the tournament no questions asked … weird
tory and johnny have no idea that kreese had passed away :(
no core four goodbye scene? what do you mean sam is off to okinawa with miguel, did robby and tory even manage to say goodbye to them?
devon and kenny having zero lines was actually crazy lol. also, tory and devon having a mentor and mentee relationship thing same with robby and kenny and there were zero scenes with them
we know tory and robby obviously were talking and had a reconciliation but we only saw them talk in episode 13.. why are they having conversations off screen
it way way too adult focused sue me. i’m aware that AMA said that part 3 was more adult oriented but baby i was not ready for how much lol.
see what happens when you have a big cast, try to fit shit into 5 episodes each not going over an hour.. ?? a mess happens
no graduation scene
no reactions to tory and robby’s career
tory not saying ily back to robby
like.. are they serious bruh. and i’ve said this so many times but it all boils down to having shitty writing. and the fact that there should’ve been 20+ episodes in a season with over and hour run time and better writers
cause you’re telling me that, THAT was the ending? ok.
the problem with making axel and zara too overpowered (OP) in part 2 of cobra kai.
going into part 2 my biggest worry was that they were going to make axel and zara too OP- like never losing a fight in the tournament, and unfortunately that’s exactly what happened.
the issue with making them too OP is that it messes with the balance of our existing characters. when you introduce new characters and have them win every fight without losing not even one it cheapens the tournament and it also screws over our existing characters.
axel and zara could have been strong, shown as threatening without the need to make them bulldoze throughout all of their matches.
by never letting them lose, it sets up absolute annoying and ridiculous discourse like this:
‘it doesn’t make sense for this person to beat this person’
‘they were nerfed’
‘they only won because of plot armour’
and let’s be honest. the ‘plot armour’ discourse is fucking stupid. every character in the show has plot to some extent. if they didn’t, they wouldn’t have made it this far in the show. but also, why would they have 2 characters who were introduced in part 2 of the last season win over sam, miguel and robby who have been here since season 1 and tory who has been here since season 2. that literally wouldn’t make any sense.
moving on, if our existing characters had lost to the new characters that wouldn’t been fine. like that is not the issue here. the issue is that axel and zara completely dominated the tournament. it should have been balanced.
axel and zara should have been shown to be beatable by actually losing matches in the tournament. and if the writers didn’t want them losing matches, the least they could’ve down was allow them to take hits in their matches. here’s how:
1. zara vs another competitor in different dojo (like tiger strike or redentores) in an early round OR vs tory or sam | let zara lose a match to one of them but come back stronger later in the tournament, showing she can adapt easy from a loss.
2. axel vs competitor | have axel lose a match against the competitor in a very close match, only after giving the person he is fighting against a really tough time, pushing his competitor to his limits.
3. injures and exhaustion playing a role here | show them both struggling with fatigue, and having minor injuries, proving that they aren’t fucking invincible and the tournament is tough for everyone involved.
but instead, we got axel and zara just bulldozing their way through the tournament like it was nothing. the big brawl too. in the big brawl, no one landed a hit on axel. zara beat tory in the opening fight with cobra kai vs iron dragons and in the big brawl tory only managed to land one kick on zara before zara regained control. it’s sooo frustrating that they were made out to be so untouchable and invincible.
what makes this worse is learning that choreography was cut that actually showed them both taking hits. i’ve posted this on my blog here a bit ago but there was choreo cut in which tory was getting the upper hand on zara but that didn’t make the cut.
zara was also supposed to take hits in the semi finals against maria. this comes from the woman who plays maria (jewels) in an interview on youtube.
and axel was also meant to take hits from kwon in the big brawl. this also came from an interview with brandon who plays kwon.
like.. that’s still not ideal but it’s at least better than making them untouchable.
this has been sitting in my drafts for a while now and i’m posting this ahead of part 3 since that drops in a few days, also the fact that we know someone is gonna be beating axel and zara in the sekai taikai.
i can’t believe i have to sit through ‘axel/zara was nerfed’ and ‘it doesn’t make sense for zara/axel to loose to..’ ‘… beating axel/zara is unrealistic’
like dude cobra kai was never a realistic show in the first place, don’t piss me off. ‘in reality this character would win’ no shit dude. like that argument is so stupid and irrelevant. like thank you so much for pointing out the obvious ??
as if those people who say this aren’t insufferable enough they’re gonna be even more insufferable now that they’ve basically been given the ammo to say all of this shit.
like i’m truly so annoyed about it, but hey. what can you doooo?
cobra kai writers you had ONE JOB! ONE!
big big sigh.
i’ve said this in like multiple of my posts but cobra kai would’ve benefited from having more than 10.. im thinking 15-20 episodes in a season, with obviously better writers as well as having the run time for an episode be up to an hour or just over that.
writing this season was very buns lol. like very, the characters in ck universe deserved better than what ever the hell the writers gave them. all of them.
they try and fit so much plot into 5 episodes with said episodes only being 30-37 minutes. maybe it would’ve been fine for seasons 1 and 2. more so the earlier seasons. but they introduced so many ‘new’ characters who need good arcs and developments and also the plot.
why did they have tory have a brother if they weren’t gonna expand on that. he’s strictly used as a plot device. i genuinely forget she has a brother until it’s mentioned. the writers could’ve done so much with that if they cared enough i think.
it’s like they add shit for characters for plot and they don’t understand how to expand on it so it’s just left unanswered.
for example: made episode 5 all about tory’s mothers death.. yet in part 2 she’s only mentioned twice (none by tory herself) and we see her playing with that bottle cap from the flashback. where is her grieving, how’s her mental state? what’s going through her mind?
moving on there are so many things that could’ve been expanded on like johnny and robby’s relationship, friendships could’ve been built, relationships too. i’m not gonna just solely place blame.. they (writers) didn’t know how big ck would be in the future but still lol.
as you introduce more characters and the plot changes, surely some things would change along with that and it just hasn’t 😖
doesn’t help that writers love showing their favourites and obvious bias as well lol. for season 6 writers have just been scrambling trying to find out ways for drama to continue or just stupid plots for the story.
while i see what angle they’re aiming for .. shit could’ve been done literally so much better. as i said, with better writers.
i don’t watch enough movies or tv shows to know who to name but i’m sure plenty of writers in Hollywood would’ve been able to do a better job for sure.
like there’s way too many things that just don’t make sense, and so many things that i would change when it comes to plot, introducing new characters and the arc they would have among plenty other issues.
uhm that’s all i think.