I saw a newspaper article about sports anime. Pushing just beyond what's humanly possible in real life, without suspending laws of physics like gravity.
-----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jay Weekley Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:54 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Cobra Kai My thoughts too. I'm sure I'm not the only person that was wondering where the pads and mouth guards were. But, I'm enjoying it otherwise if only to relive the 80's. Adam Moffett wrote: > I was wondering where they put teenagers into full contact karate > tournaments. Surely not in the USA, land of the lawsuit. > > On 9/8/2020 6:11 PM, Jay Weekley wrote: >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >>> >>> >> > -- *Jay Weekley* *Cyber Broadband * -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
