I watched episode one out of nostalgia, figured it would be a lame reboot, we ended up watching both seasons, my daughter even put down her phone. Turns out danielsan is a real dickhead. I do take issue with black belts being obtained in a couple months, Thats kind of insulting to people who worked their way up. I never progressed past the white. I dont think I got past stance. i like the mix of footage from the original movie, didnt realize it had gotten up to 4 movies plus the one with will smiths kid,
Seeing things through others eyes i think is mor understandable to older generations. I always thought I was bullied in high school, but as i got older and ran into people who were on my peripheral in HS they tell me they were afraid of me because i bullied people. looking back I see how it could be taken that way, my bullying was with words and little violence, but it appears that lasts a whole lot longer. Will be really cool if this bursts a resurgence in interest in martial arts, not UFC. I dont think karen will let her kid be kicked though. I had a baseball coach that turned nice kids into assholes so i could see a contact sport coach/sensei having more impact. Cant wait for season 3 On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:52 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I got through season 1 of Cobra Kai on Neflix over the long weekend. I > expected a corny reboot of an 80's franchise...but it's quite a bit smarter > than that. > > Likes: > > Reviewing the Karate Kid story through the eyes of the antagonist. Danny > Larusso was certainly not blameless in that story. The other guy's > perspective is worth considering. > > The role reversals. Johnny Lawrence was the typical teen movie antagonist > in Karate Kid. A selfish, affluent jock. Danny Laruso was the poor, nice > guy, underdog. The series starts with Danny as the afluent, selfish, jerk > and Johnny as a poor underdog. Except really I think we see that > everyone is capable of being both the nice guy and the jerk. Episode by > episode each of them plays protagonist and antagonist in turn. > > Maybe a spoiler, but the "Cobra Kai" style of no nonsense, no quitting, no > being a pussy, no being afraid is shown to elevate some nerdy kids into > being able to stand up for themselves. By the end of the season some of > them have turned it up to 11 and gone all the way to being bullies > themselves. I like these perspective shifts. Sometimes we're each the > bully or the bullied, and I think that's worth being reminded of. > > > Dislikes: > > I'm not a sociologist or anything, but I question whether the mean drill > sergeant karate teacher can really turn nice kids into assholes and the > nice guy teacher can turn a delinquent into a nice guy in the course of a > few months. > > Some melodrama. Like over the top soap-opera situations. That stuff > makes me cringe and shake my head as I ponder the odds of it ever happening. > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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