DEMETRI MY SHAYLA

Oh, hell yeah. As much as I love Robby, that was fucked.

I feel like if they actually had time to explore character dynamics, maybe 26 episodes a season instead of a measly 10, there would’ve been episodes in Season 5 revolving Robby atoning for his sins and healing his bonds with certain people, and he’d have NO idea how to handle Eli. Basically what I’m saying is, this should’ve taken at least an entire episode to resolve.

eli should've been allowed to be mad at robby about the shaving thing for longer than five minutes, in this essay i will-

SPIT YOUR SHIT🗣️‼️

The thing about Cobra Kai that’s so unfortunate is that it’s not a character focused show.

What I mean is, I think the writers approach things from a place of, ‘I would like X to happen, so we will make the characters get there no matter what.’ Rather than from a place of, ‘What would the characters do if X happened?’

And, yeah, some cool stuff happens in Cobra Kai, but so often at the expense of characterization. And in the process of getting to a certain place they leave no time to really explore these cool characters that they’ve made.

So many of these characters have such deep traumas and insights, but the audience never gets to see anything come of them. It’s all just left in the background.

And, possibly even worse, you end up with these 2 dimensional characters like Zara and Kwon who are just doing bad shit for the sake of doing bad shit (and I’m not even gonna touch on the racism aspect-that’s its own post). I’m not saying every antagonist needs a redemption arc, but the things they’re doing should make sense, especially if you’re going to kill one of them off. Like, if they had done ANYTHING to show that had Kwon had a different mentor things could have been different, that would have hit HARD. But instead the only real sadness is because he was a kid and Kreese brought the knife. It doesn’t hit the way it could have because Kwon was more plot device than character. He should have been a parallel to characters like Hawk and Kenny. Like, this is what they could have been had they not had the support they did to get them out of Cobra Kai. This is what happens when you let hatred lead you. Instead, asshole kid got stabbed 🤷‍♀️

And it’s just so unsatisfying to have all of these characters and never get to see the things they’ve been through get unpacked in a meaningful way.

It’s always episodes worth of conflict that they decide to gloss over in one line to get to the next thing. And it’s so underwhelming. You have these great moments of building only to have the world’s most pathetic climax.

Cobra Kai has great characters with interesting backgrounds if they’d ever follow through with the effects of those things.

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If I end up writing a musical episode for Simply Miraculous (which is highly likely), someone’s gonna sing Loser, Baby whether you like it or not

I ain’t even know that girl had a name😭

my writer's intuition for the binary bros ending is currently defined by an unstoppable force (the maria storyline is leading to demetri going back to spain with her instead of MIT to show "growth") meeting an immovable object (demetri + eli are going to end up in the same place for the spin-off potential). i fear the promo hug can pretty easily slot into either of those scenarios.

The type of energy I’m bringing into 2025

“Ew, Demetri? That’s like the worst Cobra Kai character!” I exclaim. I suddenly fall to the ground, where multiple, laminated pictures of Demetri fall out of my pockets. “W-wait!! These aren’t mine!!” I scream as I frantically scramble to pick them up

Ah, Robmetri. My two favorite male characters dating each other. It’s a pretty alright ship, especially when you realize how snarky both of them can be. Well, Demetri’s more bitchy than snarky but still.

I think the most likely period for this to actually happen would be in Season 2, when they start training together and everything’s relatively lax. Robby comforts Dem over the heartbreak of Hawk’s turn, they develop a deeper friendship than in canon and that naturally evolves into a relationship, yada yada.

The FUNNIEST period for this to happen though is in Season 3, after Robby gets released instead of going straight to Cobra Kai he decides he needs somewhere else to stay, so he goes to Demetri because you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Demetri lets him crash and suddenly, he has an emo guard dog living in his house. Eventually it evolves into a relationship from there, etc etc.

If I were to write this ship into the show, it’d be a mix of both scenarios.

But forgetting the hypothetical execution for a moment, the ship itself is good. Their dynamic would be cute and I feel like they could have common ground over a lot of things. Like, I headcanon Robby as a horror fan so him and Demetri could bond over horror games and the scarier episodes of Doctor Who (like that one with the monsters that melt people into the walls and floor).

Overall, a solid 8/10 ship

That one Sinjin’s Sock Puppet episode with Jade in it got me worried cus how fucked in the head do you have to be for Jade “Casual Murderer” West to be sympathetic towards you

POTATO GANG RISE UP

“I want to put musical numbers in my fanfiction” I say with glee before beginning to write the fanfiction. Little did I know…I’d have to write them.