The karate is pretty bad and it seems like students are going from white
belts to black and back again.
Steve Jones wrote:
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
<mailto: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.
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