#im partly joking but also it's simply an interesting totally unexamined thing this season?

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smethinsmthin did cobra kai (intentionally? unintentionally?) decide that there’s a clear difference between the childless consistently queercoded villains and the heroes who’re making traditional happy family procreational (and unambiguously heterosexual) choices?

miguel’s father isn’t queercoded, but he’s really just there to add some themes/oppositional ideas to the heroes journeys, and his biggest theme is introducing him as a father and partner (as miguel sees him), only to end him on his “business over children and family” screed (he’s not even the kid’s father! gasp!) neatly playing into silver’s current obsession with legacy, and kreese talking about how he’ll be forgotten after his death because he didn’t spend his time having babies instead of wasting it on cobra kai

thank goodness johnny’s having a kid (I won’t say that carmen is because she’s not a part of the story) because how else can you indicate character growth in a 50+ year old man who’s already got two kids and being a sensei to dozens more and unlearning the cycle of abuse as his motivations for four seasons?

but more importantly thank goodness he’s having a kid as opposed to those evil villains who didn’t do things/get to do things the right way. fuck your found family, those things make you gay evil (and as an added bonus we’ll neatly pair off all the leads into heterosexual arrangements, even chozen --  fuck your actual motivations, themes, and narrative foils, those dynamics aren’t as important as being sure the audience knows you’re Heterosexual)

something very interesting in the new era of queercoding your villains here... like, genuinely fascinated, need to turn this one over in my head for a bit, it’s like we’ve crossed the threshold of aware writing (still straight, but aware of and occasionally playing to queer fans) to the point that we’re full circle into some really classic queer villains writing -- the villain whom you can tell is a villain by their incorrect and depraved ideas about what family constitutes

unfortunately that might mean that i want the heroes to lose now. i know they won’t but rip terry and kreese are right, disrupt those heterosexual nuclear family units! corrupt the kids!

#cobra kai #ck #ck negativity #cobra kai spoilers #cks5 #cobra kai s5 #cobra kai season 5 #i dont even think this is negativity necessarily #im partly joking but also it's simply an interesting totally unexamined thing this season? #sure all of these adults have complex relationships with each other some of which last most of their lives #but are they in a good heterosexual relationship? have they had a kid the old fashioned way? #it's a whole new era of oblivious queercoding villains writing #like i was super prepared for johnny's endgame to be carmen but some part of me was thinking *they have this season to write #that relationship* and uh... i was obviously very wrong #(i didn't think id ever think they had an ounce of chemistry but i figured at least theyd show a relationship) #this is just something interesting..... #they really said being childless makes you evil huh #(with the kicker that johnny ISNT EVEN CHILDLESS) #s6 we get a picture of kumiko and chozen holding a baby she's effortlessly given birth to aged 50-something #cobra kai meta #ck meta #well ive been writing holmesian analysis for 4 seasons #season 5 we're going... not exactly doylist but definitely looking at the threads because this season oh BOY are they visible