I'm just wondering if anyone thinks we'll get a Rocky V style story developed here whereby the portly pancake enthusiast will be so dispondent by his father's passion for Robby that he'll turn to the dark-side, get himself an earring, etc?
Or do you think the writers just forgot he was a character in the show?
That fat little twerp is annoying as hell. His parents need to take him in hand with some discipline. As it stands, he's destined to live in their basement with his video games, action figures, comic books, and party size bags of Cheetos for the rest of their lives. At least their daughter isn't a loser, which helps balance things.
Months later:
He has made an appearance in Season Three, and is much less rotund and less annoying. I almost thought it was a different actor. Maybe dad can get him doing karate.
No Season 3 arc then.
He turned up for literally one scene in the entire season chomping on a lollypop! What's the point in his now admittedly slightly less portly character?
I don't even remember him showing up that one time lol
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Maybe so that we don't forget that he and Sam don't like each other?..
Perhaps he'll turn Cobra Kai in the future or something.
I LOVE that they used him even less in Season 3 than they did in 2. And he literally served no purpose and they didn't even bother to explain where he was the whole time.
shareI don't think so. Because this sort of idea is actually common in both fiction and in real life.
The children of successful people don't ever meet the legacy of their parents. Because it's very difficult to do so.
Martin Luther King Jr. has 5 kids. Can you name any of them off the top of your head? They're not that famous.
Steven Spielberg has 7 kids. Can you name any of them off the top of your head? They're not that famous.
Moses has two kids, but the Torah only mentions them once. The Torah/the Old Testament doesn't focus or follow up on the lineage of Moses.
Actually an interesting thing you touch on here.
Always think about this when reading biographies of famous sports stars, etc. You always get some chapter early on going over their family lives but later on, they inevitably turn into a regurgitation of their achievements (which most fans would know anyway) admittedly embellished with first hand accounts. However, usually sadly missing, is an account of the effect fame has on their relationships with their families (and those close to them) and how that effects them as people.
Children are given too much by their rich parents, so they in effect do not feel the need to be successful. There's also a disconnect because they didn't have to work for it. Daniel knew poverty as a kid and had to work his way up to be successful. His son doesn't know that struggle, because he only knows a wealthy upbringing.
What's very interesting, is that Miguel is the real "spiritual" son of Daniel Larusso and not the actual chubby son of Daniel who is spoiled. Because, the series opens with kids bullying Miguel. That's what happened to Daniel in the Karate Kid. Miguel is also poor like Daniel - living in a cramped apartment like Daniel did in the original Karate Kid movie. Both Miguel and the young original Daniel are "underdogs" if you will.
Robbie is the actual son of Johnny, but Johnny does not connect with Robbie on a personal level, much like how Daniel doesn't connect with his actual chubby son. Daniel oddly "adopts" Robbie as his own son in season 1 and season 2. Also, Miguel's real father is gone and absent, with Johnny as his surrogate father. Both Daniel and Johnny become "surrogate" fathers to kids that are not their own biological sons. That aspect of the show is so creative and conflictive. It's so great and rare when a show does this sort of subversion.
He did! He finally got a storyline!
He passed on the portliness to Miguel and became a bully. Finally in the show...
lol but he only got a storyline to set up the Robbie-black kid storyline and to set up Daniel being stern a la Johnny XD I'll laugh if he disappears again next season.
shareHe probably will. He was beat up in the locker room and it's like no one noticed or cared. I know it wasn't that bad before it was broken up but he would be in some pain and shaken emotionally.
So yeah, I think he will be out of the spotlight again next season. Although I think it is good that they didn't make him another instant Karate expert like the others seem to be.
This season they seem to remember he exists and have gone the opposite by making him a bit of a villain. More interesting than having become another Miyagi devotee.
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