I see that Terry wants to expand cobra kai all over the valley but if he does that, who’s gonna be the sensei to all these locations?? Like does he have people lined up that he can call to take over one location of the valley or what??? Or is he going to each location to train students?
Idk I might be overdoing it but it’s just stuck on my mind.
Also Tory is receiving the Daniel treatment from terry to hit the wood dummy? Between her and sam, it’s like they want to see the girls hurt more emotionally, mentally, and a little physically.
Is all the kids this season gonna suffer before they finally win something for the first time in their life???
Honestly, miguel and robby are literally lawrusso with their own style in the mix. Plus with them fighting again it’s like we’ll have to wait til the last moment before they can find some common ground.
Cobra Kai Season 5 trailer just came out *SPOILER*
Idk how to feel honestly.
*Like that road trip Johnny and robby are gonna take to find miguel is really happening.
*Chozen is giving that energy back to Terry as he is not fazed at all. I feel like this is just like a walk in the park for him.
*Daniel telling chozen to put the sai down was funny.
—> also Daniel looks pretty in that one shot between him, chozen, and terry.
*Sam might be facing her own demons and has a new haircut.
*Tory still has the trophy and knows Terry basically paid that referee yet still training in cobra kai??
*I really want kenny to get out of cobra kai before he’s far too deep. He’s only a child, your honor
*Terry wants to expand cobra kai all over the valley I guess.
*Another Miguel vs Robby fight in which I do feel like it’s need because they need to get out their system and hopefully talk it out in the end or someone with sense sits them down to talk because they never had a one on one conversation.
Ralph and Billy are itching to kiss each other. So why not make Daniel and johnny have an accidental kiss that brings out so many unresolved feelings they have for each other?
So it’s been established that both johnny and daniel could cook. However, Johnny has a long way since he’s still eating certain foods that’s beyond their expired date. While Daniel could cook based of experience and learning from his mom.
Long story short, I watched those food videos where someone goes all over the world trying new foods and the telling the history behind them for two days now and a fanfic idea came to mind.
Hear me out on this one:
So Daniel is a professional chef who runs an italian restaurant. Although, for one week each month, he travels to different places to try other foods as he takes food vlogs on his YouTube channel and other social media.
Johnny runs a restaurant that’s more convenient like burgers, hot dogs, fries, nachos, etc. However, there’s extra toppings that’s put on top that makes the food good. He comes up with weird food combinations that just so happen to taste good. Robby, Miguel, and some of their friends work there as they try to get more customers to come in.
Sam is best friends with Aisha and they’re close friends with robby, miguel, demitri, hawk, etc. One day, miguel made a joke of how her dad should come visit the restaurant and taste the food since he’s a “food critic” now. She laughs it off but eventually told her dad about it. It was her lucky daughter because he’s free to visit the restaurant. The only thing is he doesn’t know that johnny runs it.
So when daniel comes to the restaurant called “Cobras” he gets all skeptical about it. His heart dropped when he sees Johnny come out from the kitchen in a (tight) black t-shirt. Johnny wanted to turn back around only because he did his background research on Daniel ever since Miguel told him about daniel. Now he knows the little “twerp” was gonna judge his food. They said their “hellos” and caught up a little of each other’s life before he sat Daniel to an empty booth and a menu. Johnny goes back in the kitchen telling Miguel and Robby how Daniel is here and trying to keep it cool.
Robby tells his dad to relax and he’ll take his order, but Johnny insisted. So he goes back to daniel’s table and asked what would he like. Daniel ordered the mac n cheese bowl as he was a little curious about it. He asked if Johnny didn’t mind to accompany him for a few minutes for his video. Johnny only agreed if it’s off camera as Daniel said sure.
Johnny gave the order to the boys before sitting in front of daniel as they further catch up. After daniel ate the mac n cheese, he made a slight comment that it was a little too much of cheese and johnny got defensive and said how typical for a food critic.
It escalated until they got close to each others face and Johnny told Daniel that he was gonna come to his restaurant and judge his food. Daniel said he should as he would see how his food taste a little better. They both stand up as Johnny said he’ll be there on Friday at 6pm and save him a booth. Daniel said he will in an angry tone before leaving and johnny who obviously wanted the last word says, “Don’t let the door slam behind you, Danielle.”
The boys only caught a gist of their last words as Miguel asked him “So is that a date?”
I haven’t seen much about season 5 spoilers. So, it’s possible that johnny and robby might go out their way to find miguel. I’m on board with that. I want see tory coming to the larusso’s house to see Amanda and tell her progress in therapy right before she reveals why she really came.
It could start off with tory seeing sam on the couch depressed and feeling confused and angry with everything that’s been going on. Sam heads to her room and then tory follows after with the trophy she brought. Of course, sam gets startled because she didn’t expect tory in her room, asking what does she want. Tory just looks at her before the trophy and remembers terry paying off the ref. She just tells her, “You would’ve won” before placing the trophy on sam’s desk.
Sam is just confused until tory revealed the truth. Both are now feeling more upset, angry, and confused. Sam looks at the trophy before tory’s face who looks like she wants to cry. She sees how much this could’ve meant to tory, to finally win something. All she could say is “There’s nothing we could do, the tournaments over and our dojos shutdown.” Tory just snickered, “Yeah. Except one dojo owned by a phony.” They cried for a small moment before sam made a comment how terry would just pretend nothing happened.
That gave tory an idea. She knows that terry thinks paying off the ref is swept under the rug and would pretend nothing happened. She tells sam of her pretending to not know everything and continue to be an undercover in cobra kai to get enough evidence to shut terry down. As much as this idea sounds good, Sam has little doubts that two of them could take terry down. Tory stands up straight while crossing her arms, “I thought you were a tough badass, Larusso.” Sam told her how she’s retired as a joke.
“Besides who said we’re doing this alone. Doesn’t that nerd know more with hacking and all that stuff?”
Sam knew what “nerd” she was talking about as demitri and hawk worked together to build space for their dojo. She hopped out of her bed to grab her phone from the desk and thanks tory. This plan might work and new friendships might blossom.
Idk I’m all for this little group to work on taking down terry. Since demitri did reveal about terry’s old job of dumping waste and the controversy behind it. It could work since Johnny will be gone and Daniel is gonna be busy working with Chozen. I do want to see Johnny a little jealous but then him and Chozen start to talk and laugh about Daniel.
I know it’s in character for terry but he really snuck johnny. We need a rematch with these two again. Maybe terry could say “Ready to get your ass kicked, pretty boy?” Or taunt johnny with a similar line along with calling him “pretty boy.” HOWEVER, this fight takes place in front of daniel as he’s nervous for how this might go down. Him and johnny are on good terms again so he’s gonna be worried for any trick terry might pull to mess with johnny. He would take johnny’s place to fight him but now johnny has a personal score to settle.
I laugh at fact that daniel is a magnet when it comes to being called names especially if it’s feminine like “danielle” or “primadonna” yet this primadonna has no problem kicking your ass if provoked.
*Johnny is a doctor who’s well respected cause he’s one of the best. Outside the life as a doctor and working, he’s not as social as he used to and the conversations he has with robby tend to be awkward but meaningful because he sits down and listens to his son’s concerns, curiosity, or anything in mind. Robby still trains with daniel and they both have mutual respect. When robby is injured from his first tournament from an opponent from a different dojo, both get all overprotective parent on him. Robby is not all confused cause he knows there’s been a weird tension between the two adults but it makes him feel good to know they are supportive and caring. They told him it’s okay if he doesn’t want to compete but he says he’s good and want to finish the match. They let him as Daniel looks at Johnny, “He’s a tough kid just like you” and Johnny feels appreciated and replied with robby continuing to fight the match like his sensei.
*So remember when robby lied about that father-son road trip for his school abscence. Instead of being mad, Johnny actually takes Robby on this road trip as robby only agreed to go if he can choose the places. Then it’s like the goofy movie as they are going from L.A. to Las Vegas and more while surviving on $200 bucks left. Needing money they go to a casino as Johnny teaches robby a few tricks up his sleeve and they win a lot of money which they spoil themselves. Throughout the trip, Johnny was honest with robby about not arriving to his birth to now. Robby expressed his anger towards him as he wishes he was around more. Johnny feels shitty but he gives robby his phone number and a copy to his keys if he wanted to stay or come by once in a while. On their way back, Johnny asks if he wanted to stay as it’s not the perfect apartment but he has an extra room for him to stay. Robby thinks about it. The day when the lights were off at his place was the day he went to Johnny’s place as robby declined the ham.
*Daniel may not look like he was the athlete type but he does become a soccer coach for younger teens as it just made his luck to find out that robby is Johnny’s son. Of course, he’s not gonna kick the poor kid off the team but him and Johnny exchange a few words and looks that make people think they got a thing goin on. At one point, Sam who’s also on the team says to robby on the sidelines, “I think my dad likes your dad” before running into the soccer field as robby is confused a little since he’s never seen his dad date anyone. Johnny explained to him that nothing is going on between him and Daniel. Robby jokes saying “Not yet”
*Johnny and Sharron get cleaned up and decided to co-parent when they had robby. Robby mostly stayed with Johnny and best friends with miguel. When they’re older, the diaz family and robby and johnny have their usual family dinners as Johnny adopted miguel as his second son which carmen didn’t mind. She was happy to know that miguel has a father that he can look up to and a brother who looks out for him. Sharron gets invited here and there. Miguel and Robby often tease johnny of his blatant crush on Daniel on the car rides to the dojo. They each take turns talking to Daniel and johnny to get a clue and help push the lovers closer. It worked when they were on the training wheel and managed to keep steady, looking at each other’s eyes and moving as one after falling into the cold water too many times.
*Johnny continued being a handyman to fix stuff while Daniel is working as a mechanic while being a part-time student to become a lawyer. Both have robby and sam from a one night stand but good terms with sharron and amanda. They live in a huge loft as it’s spacious for the kids since they’re only 2 years old at this time. Both are still young themselves as they often come to each other’s job for lunch and plan where they should go to spend some time with the kids. Whenever Johnny is off from work early and picks up the kids from daycare, he comes at daniel’s job to bring to surprise him with cute gifts. It makes Daniel’s heart flutter and laugh inside to see Johnny using the baby carrier (With the cobra logo on it) as him and the kids are wearing black sunglasses.
*Daniel and Mr. Miyagi continued with their bonsai shop after the tournament in KK3. Mr. Miyagi was firm with daniel going to college as they agreed that daniel can take a gap year but he needs to put money to the side for when he goes back. Daniel just wants to show his appreciation for Mr. Miyagi and the business to be blooming with customers so he makes flyers to spread all over places he knows. He went to the Golf n’ Stuff as he finds Johnny working at the go-carts race track. Johnny’s taking some time off away from college and living with his step dad. Yes, daniel did poke fun at him but they talk while he was on break and finally apologized for everything. Johnny’s boss told him not to go over his 10-min break as Johnny told Daniel that it kinda sucks if you’re working for an asshole. Daniel tells him that he can apply to work for him and Mr. Miyagi as he promise they’re not assholes while giving him a flyer and left. Johnny thinks about it since he hasn’t thank Mr. Miyagi for saving him. Next week, Daniel sees Johnny coming in the shop asking if they still need one more employee.
* It’s no surprise that Daniel became a car salesman as this movie is evident enough to show that he has potential to persuade people to see a vision that could be in store for them.
*What do dennis and snake do if mike didn’t arrive? Just errand boys?
* I love that orange pufferjacket that Daniel wears throughout the movie. It just suits him in a way.
*I enjoy the friendship with daniel and jessica while it lasted. It’s also a good thing that she told daniel about her relationship and didn’t want to lead him on. There’s reassurance on both ends that they are only friends.
*Now that it’s confirmed that terry did drugs around this time, it makes much sense that he had a shady business that could be more than just dumping toxic waste anywhere he pleased. Also the way he dressed at home with the slick ponytail does give a hint that he did coke. A bonus if he had an accessory where he stores a little coke and snort it when he was taking a bubble bath.
*mac n’ cheese. That’s all imma say
*Daniel’s been trained by 4 people in which 3 were his “archenemies” and 2 helped him after years have gone by and for his own good to get better than what he’s been taught. With one who taught him for self-defense only as karate would be meaningless if daniel did the opposite of what he was trained for.
* Mr. Miyagi’s prayer for daniel as he just misses his son
*Mr. Miyagi is such a patient man and much better than me cause Idk what I would’ve done had daniel yell at me like he did to Miyagi.
*every time daniel and Mr. Miyagi train together I’m instantly reminded of Daniel and robby/miguel training together.
*I love how much terry goes on about daniel having a little “cobra kai” inside him and thinks he made him into something he’s not. Although it doesn’t last because daniel acted but freaked out when he punched a guy making him bleed. It wasn’t Daniel’s nature to hurt someone as he wanted to make things right w/ the guy and apologize.
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*The soundtrack hits every time especially when terry tells daniel to prepare for the real pain.
ya ever think about how every single person from his past is suddenly coming back into daniel’s life except for the one he misses the most? how history is repeating itself and all the demons he thought he banished keep coming back to haunt him, but the one person who used to help him through it all is the one who can truly never come back?? ya ever think about that???
Anyway, if Cobra Kai as a series hadn’t ever happened I would have had the same headcanon as Ralph himself that Daniel married Kumiko and moved to Okinawa. Cos it’s obvious that’s where he felt like puzzle piece that fit the picture.
But of course, for the series sake, it’s better this way. It’s also good that he’s married with children here, with a career too, cos it makes it impossible to just deroot himselfand start over. His character arch is about always being the one who doesn’t quite fit, until he resolves the conflicts he has in with himself.
I feel such empathy towards Daniel and relate to him. He’s so likable and friendly and yet he doesn’t seem to be maintaining friendships at all. Even his marriage at the moment is crumbling. He’s an extrovert and yet constantly picked up upon and pushed to limit.
I look forward S5. I wanna see what this unraveling of life might bring. I’ve felt since S1 that Daniel isn’t fully content with this life he has, but he doesn’t want to break things he’s successfully managed to built when nothing else lasts. But you know, maybe it’s just good for him, that there is an ultimatum coming. What do you want, Daniel? Don’t posture, don’t think of someone else - who do you wanna be?
