Looking at Sam and Torys relationship I think that if beloved was an actual character written by the ck writers there would definitely be some weird unneeded love triangle with Terry, beloved and either Kim or Amanda or some scene of Amanda undermining beloved to embarrass them
Yeah, you're right and I would just hate that so, so much, because it would be more of the same 'women acting catty and bitchy with each other for five seasons' tropes we've seen before alongside a million love-triangles that have been needlessly floating around in this show, with literally every Cobra Kai female character ad nauseum ---- that is, if we choose to imagine beloved as a female, which for the sake of argument, lets.
We need less female rivalries.
More female complexity, please.
I prefer to view Amanda as someone innately curious over this woman who Terry so ardently cherishes and initially being tricked by it to view Terry as this mellow, successful family man. The living embodiment of the American dream; something Terry uses to his advantage, of course. Family men can't be evil, can they? Except, often they can and they are, much like anyone else, she soon discovers as she does more of her careful, tactical research merely through observational and being the genuinely smart character she was supposed to be. None of this 'Amanda throws a glass of wine into beloved's face to demean them' nonsense. That is just cringy. Hardly the behaviour of a smart, seasoned businesswoman and I think that does a disservice to Amanda herself. Instead, she realizes Terry is a genuine menace, just like Daniel always said he was, who is also a loving family man towards this woman she has seen out and about, at galas, and events and here and there and everywhere. Therein comes the creepy factor for her and it takes time for it to settle in; that sometimes the worst individuals you know hide in plain sight and can lead normal and even adoring personal lives otherwise, with normal loving people. This normal loving person being beloved, someone Amanda gets to know, even if only as a passerby in her life. Imagine the eeriness of that? Thinking someone's situation is abusive because everything points at it and yet? Yet? There is no dark and dirty secret. No hidden agenda on beloved's behalf. No fakery. No theatre. No rivalry between her and Amanda. No insults exchanged. Just this heavy silent pang. Monsters function, seemingly, just like the rest of us. And they can love.
Terry Silver can love and be loved.
Beloved and Terry, Amanda learns, aren't so different from Daniel and herself.
As for Kim Da-Eun?
I can genuinely imagine her seeing beloved as the indirect extension of grandfather's legacy, through Terry, one of the best students their Korean dojang ever produced next to John Kreese. Legacy is her interest because legacy is how ideas, individuals and concepts survive and go down in history; something money cannot buy. If beloved had children (or even if they themselves were a trained martial artist), and Terry taught those children or at least planted a seed for Cobra Kai's ideas to take root, it would be another generation of scions taking her family's teachings and style into the world, and when mixed with Terry's money, influence, connection stretching far and wide, that is a potent cocktail indeed --- and she can respect a family man over someone who isn't. She's traditional, she's strict, set in her own ways, she's blunt and haughty and stemming from just of a strict, traditional Korean family, so it is safe to say she'd scoff a little internally if Terry was an old man with literally nobody to inherit him (His words of legacy ring a bit hollow, don't they?) and that she would be pleased deep down if he had an heir on the way and she would see beloved as a vessel for that; a feeling perhaps amplified by the fact Da-Eun herself has no legacy in the classical sense, so the urgency to secure one through someone is all the more crucial. Rivalry and the undermining of beloved? No, more like, even though you are not a combatant or a fighter, you belong to us, our grandmaster and this dojang and you will fulfill your dues to it. Think shades of a weirdly parasocial relationship bordering on almost keen, strangely amorous (yet still cold and platonic) interest in somebody. Maybe beloved is a bit like Rosemary in Rosemary's Baby to Da-Eun and what she will give birth to is the extension of Cobra Kai as we know it. Beloved is an investment into the the future.
