kickedinthehead

While I thought Zabka did a great job in the flashback at the beginning of the episode, I noticed that scene contains a pretty significant goof. Back in 2x3, Johnny specifically tells Miguel when they're talking in the diner that Robby was born on February 4th, 2002 -- and that his mom had just died. Johnny also implies his grief over her death is a major reason he didn't visit Robby in the hospital at the time of Robby's birth. Yet here's the date on her gravestone in the finale. Oops. (Aside from this flub, I enjoyed the finale!)

For whatever it's worth, in response to somebody on X asking if they were dead, Jon Hurtwiz said this:

Kreese and Johnny's scene in the hallway was one of the best of the series, IMO. I really hope William Zabka has more work lined up.

Kreese's whole story is amusingly ridiculous. He faked his death (for a third time!) using jell-o for blood at the end of the last season, after all -- so I guess making it all the way to South Korea on the lam isn't any more implausible than that. I liked seeing Lyle (i.e. the pawn shop guy) interact with both Johnny and Daniel. Also, obviously Johnny-Stingray wasn't really going to happen but I secretly sort of wanted it to. Finally, I don't know if this will amuse anybody (yes, I'm the guilty party responsible for it) but it's relevant to the episode -- and very long, but there are captioned screenshots to break up all the text.

I know this isn't the most active thread, but just wanted to share that I met several cast members (William Zabka, Ralph Macchio, Martin Kove) at MegaCon Orlando this past weekend (attended the Cobra Kai panel, as well) and had a really fun time! Zabka was my favorite -- really nice guy, and he actually took this selfie. I was stuck using my Kindle for photos, and he figured out how to turn the camera part towards us and not outward (yes, "Johnny Lawrence" helped me with my technological device!). I also have a couple more normal photos with him, but this goofy one's my favorite.

This very well might have been mentioned before (although I don't recall seeing it here or on other forums) but - I was rewatching this episode, and noticed toward the very end when Johnny and Daniel are talking that Amanda and Carmen are behind them...and Carmen realllly looks like she's showing off a ring to Amanda. This is the best screenshot that I could get of it, but there's a least one more very quick (but even more obvious) view of this in the episode. I'm surprised that there wasn't an actual scene of him proposing (maybe a deleted one), but I'm assuming that this means that Johnny proposed to Carmen? Is this common knowledge, or did anyone else catch it?

Didn't he "ghost" her? I seem to have faint memories of seeing a brief close-up of his phone with messages from Cheyenne that said stuff like 'Where are you?' and 'I'm worried about you' (although that could just be a figment of my imagination). I felt a little bad for Silver at first, until he started beating up everybody left and right to send messages to Kreese. Then... nope, no more sympathy. He's still my favorite villain on the show, though.

I had to look it up, but I believe that Julie was supposed to live on the East Coast (apparently, Mr. Miyagi was visiting to pay respects to her deceased father who was his military captain or something; and he let Julie's mom stay in his place in Los Angeles for a bit while he took care of Julie). That seems to fit with my memories of 20 years ago or whenever the last time that I actually watched TNKK was. I don't mind if Julie appears in Cobra Kai. In my fantasies, she'll have made amends with and forgiven the oh-so-important character of "Charlie", who was a minion of Julie's bully, and she'll bring him along. (But only if Charlie is still portayed by Walton Goggins.)

I thought that 'Mony Mony' montage was entertaining-ish, but that Zabka (as much as I like him especially in this role) hammed it up a bit too much when "rocking out" to the song. Also, I could have done without the using a beer can for... you know, scene. Just pull over to a gas station or something, Johnny. I do enjoy Johnny's rapport with Lyle (or whatever that pawnshop owner's name is). "There you go, knucklehead." 😄

^That was episode 9. I've seen those "terminal illness" theories and think that they're a bit far-fetched, but... who knows. I didn't dwell much about why Silver was there while watching and just chalked up his presence to being a Villain who magically knows where all of his enemies are at any given moment. (But maybe I'm not giving the writers enough credit?) Poor Mitch with his terrible nicknames (even though I don't really care that much about Mitch). Besides the one already covered in this thread, he was also called "A**face" at one point. Otherwise, as for episode 10 -- it wasn't my favorite of the season (nor was this season my favorite of the series) but it entertained me. And that's good enough for me (I'm not really expecting Shakespearean drama with 'Cobra Kai'). Johnny and Terry Silver weren't as compelling as in previous seasons, but were still my favorites to watch. I also wouldn't have minded seeing more of Mike Barnes. And Daniel and Chozen had their moments. The kids = meh. They're fine, but I watch for the characters closer to my age. 😅 My biggest complaints would be Kreese's ending (his story was okay and even sort of interesting until then, but... come on) and Kim Da-Eun, who was just WAY too over-the-top and cartoon-ish. A couple of times, in her scenes with Silver, she literally reminded me of a cartoon character: Sour Grapes from classic 'Strawberry Shortcake'. Although I think that's just because she was an evil villain lady whose partner in crime happened to be a tall guy with white(ish) hair.

I was a weird kid who was basically IN LOVE with Peter Cetera (I sent him fan letters and everything; and this was years after "The Glory of Love" was a hit) so that made me laugh, too. As did the "Sailing" scene with Daniel and Miguel.

Johnny's been to that high school so many times (usually -- if not always -- with Miguel, or going to give Miguel some message), the few other adults there might even just assume he works there at this point. As for the pool at "Stingray's" house -- well, these were a lot of the same kids who went to the LaRusso house back in, I think, the very second episode (when Daniel caught several of them wearing his "bathing suits"). So there's that consistency! (Of course, back then they would have known Sam lived there...)

I'm glad to see this masterpiece mentioned; it's what I most remember William Zabka from outside of the Karate Kid franchise. I've also seen him in a sort-of Christian film called Where Hope Grows (it was fine, except it began to get on my nerves that everybody kept referring to the main character as "Produce"). And watched the short film that he co-wrote/co-produced, called Most, a variation on that train-track dilemma story but actually really well-made (Johnny's an Oscar nominee!).

Greg Morton's act reminded me a little too much of Joey Gladstone for my liking...

Marcin did go through; he was the Judges' Choice.