We had a few awesome things that happened on December 21st that I want to talk about.
We had the Karate Kid x Cobra kai Reunited Apart w/ Josh Gad, which saw a HUGE reunion
of people from both Karate Kid and Cobra Kai, including some people we haven't seen do
interviews relating to Cobra Kai previously, including Elisabeth Shue who played Ali,
Julie Fields who played Ali's friend Susan, Robert Mark Kamen, the writer of the Karate Kid movies,
Robyn Lively who played Jessica, and Thomas Ian Griffith who played Terry Silver.
We also got a peak at Joe Eposito playing the iconic song “You're the Best Around.”
At the very end of the video, there is a skit involving Tanner Buchanan who plays Robby, and
Martin Kove who plays John Kreese - these two were noticeably absent throughout the entire video.
Here's the breakdown of why that video and a new teaser point to Robby joining Cobra Kai.
At around 11 PM CST on December 21st, another NEW teaser dropped showing some new footage
for the upcoming season of Cobra Kai. Once again something stuck out to me
in this teaser involving our friend Robby. First we'll have to backtrack to Season 2.
In the episode “Fire and Ice,” Kreese overhears Miguel and Hawk talking to Johnny about Robby
being his son. After teaching class that day, Kreese expresses his concern that it
doesn't look good that LaRusso is training his son, believing Johnny should train him.
Kreese brings this up again in the episode All In after teaching the class with Johnny.
Kreese says “the most important student is still absent... your boy.” Johnny tells Kreese once
again that Robby wants nothing to with him, and Kreese under his ruse of still wanting the best
for Johnny tells him that "you only teach the lessons, but you don't apply them. Go all in.”
While this wasn't expanded upon (beyond) this episode in Season 2, this was heavily teased
in the official trailer for Season 3 that dropped on December 9th. Robby is being visited by Kreese
in juvie; the shot shows him standing there and Kreese looks up at him from the visitation table.
Now in the Reunited Apart reunion, almost every primary actor from the original Karate Kid was
there... except for Martin Kove who plays Kreese. And Cobra Kai had all of the primary actors there
except... Tanner Buchanan who plays Robby. Earlier in the video, Josh Gad asks if there
are any spoilers that the cast can give away, and the only response that he gets is that there's
gonna be more karate and more mohawk. After Joe Epsosito plays " You're the Best Around", Tanner
shows up saying he was on a “rival episode”, and Martin Kove shows up right after him,
telling Tanner “not to be merciful,” and reciting his famous creed that "here, on the streets,
in competition... if a man faces you, he is the enemy." So why does all this stand out?
In the newest teaser, one of the images we see is Robby being locked in a headlock by Shawn.
Up until this point, Robby trained only in Miyagi-Do, which is a based on defense and
counterattacks, but he's never been taught on how to break out of a chokehold, or rather has been
in a situation to where he was in one, and had nowhere to go. The only other time he was put
in a similar grapple is in the second fight with Miguel at school, but only in the background while
Hawk and others begin to join the fight. Miguel's choke hold is only with one arm, while the choke
hold Shawn puts him in his with both arms. Robby is able to escape this by using the wall to gain
leverage and power out of the hold against Shawn. But who would've taught this to him?
Kreese! But why Kreese, you ask? Kreese has used this choke hold before on Johnny at the start of
Karate Kid II, and on Johnny while teaching Cobra Kai with him... in the episode titled All-In.
Johnny is able to break out of the choke hold by shifting momentum. It is very possibly that
Kreese taught this to Robby, possibly after his first fight with Shawn and his boys.
Now remember, Kreese says to Johnny in this episode that to get his son to join him, he needs
to “take the lessons to heart.” In what could be another way to hurt Johnny, he sinks his teeth
into Robby, and by teaching Robby this move to help him in juvie, Kreese is able to start to pull
Robby in the direction of his Cobra Kai and go All In. You also have to remember in the episode
The Moment of Truth, Robby says “The problem with Miyagi-Do is that it's all about defense.
People show up to watch karate for the offense,” so this is not that far fetched, especially Kreese
making mentions that Robby should be in Cobra Kai. After all, it is Tanner and Martin who
conveniently show up together at the end of the episode of Reunited Apart. Why would these two
people be paired to do a skit where Martin is “instructing” Tanner in the ways of Cobra Kai?
This is obviously another tease of what's to come in Season 3... hiding in plain sight!
Let me know what you guys think, whether you agree or disagree. I have another video
in the works called “Why Johnny Lawrence is the Better Sensei,” so stay tuned for that!
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