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A lot of sport karate tournaments allow hits to the head, but not the face. That only makes sense if you wear sport karate gear, though. (It doesn't cover the face, which answers the obvious question of where the head ends and the face begins.)
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Xealot posted:Also, just having an awareness of their audience. Miguel already won, so it's not interesting to see it again. But Hawk is kind of a breakout character, so they embraced it. Glad they did, that was a much cooler choice. My son has been practicing karate for 6 years now, but his dojo has classes in karate and jiu-jitsu, and the instructors tend to mix it up between the two classes. Also, his sensei told him he is an extra in Season 5 of Cobra-kai!
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Flesnolk posted:Miguel namedrops UFC in season 1 :V Yeah the rules definitely change, I watched the end of Karate Kid 3 and the judge explicitly says only light ("emphasis on light Mr. Barnes!") contact to the body scores points and forbids blows to the head, which is in direct contradiction to what happens in Karate Kid 1. Also holy smokes Daniel spends the entirety of the Karate Kid 3 finale running out of bounds, until he realizes he knows karate and scores a single point in sudden death. I guess on the one hand it's way more realistic that a scrawny kid with a year or so of training in karate is naturally just going to get demolished by someone way more athletic and skilled, but I definitely prefer Cobra Kai's method of "training for a few weeks lets you do crazy movie fights complete with flying kicks and blocking a roundhouse kick from someone who has 50 pounds on you with a quick wrist flick".
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Guy A. Person posted:Also holy smokes Daniel spends the entirety of the Karate Kid 3 finale running out of bounds, until he realizes he knows karate and scores a single point in sudden death. I guess on the one hand it's way more realistic that a scrawny kid with a year or so of training in karate is naturally just going to get demolished by someone way more athletic and skilled, but I definitely prefer Cobra Kai's method of "training for a few weeks lets you do crazy movie fights complete with flying kicks and blocking a roundhouse kick from someone who has 50 pounds on you with a quick wrist flick". It's best to judge things by Karate Kid 3's standards as little as possible. It's very odd that 'new rules' mean Daniel just gets to wait for the final challenger like he's a New Jersey Shang Tsung.
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I did like Johnny calling that out. "You got to skip to the finals? Bullshit!"
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Rewatched KK1 a few nights ago and it's funny how Johnny Lawrence hands the winning trophy to LaRusso at the end of the movie with tears in his eyes and says "You're alright, LaRusso. You're the best." Seemingly ok with the outcome. JUST WAIT 30 YEARS, JOHNNY. AndyElusive fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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The ref shrugging when Robbie took his gi off was hilarious.
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AndyElusive posted:Rewatched KK1 a few nights ago and it's funny how Johnny Lawrence hands the winning trophy to LaRusso at the end of the movie with tears in his eyes and says "You're alright, LaRusso. You're the best." Seemingly ok with the outcome. I’m sure this was color by the events immediately following in the parking lot
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Golden Bee posted:I’m sure this was color by the events immediately following in the parking lot Doesn't the show basically say this when they got to that flashback?
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I love how Terry Silver is a man with a deep layered personality. It's just that all of those layers are cartoonish supervillains.
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Senerio posted:I love how Terry Silver is a man with a deep layered personality. It's just that all of those layers are cartoonish supervillains. It's funny that he's toned down in Cobra Kai from KK3 where he plays the kind of villain in a movie where the protagonists would be like a band of scrappy kindergartners. I firmly believe there's a deleted scene out there where Silver runs around in a panic with his butt having been set on fire.
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He's just getting back into the cocaine, give him time.
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I wonder how losing his CEO position is going to play out in the final season. If Cobra Kai had done karate better, surely his business partners would have been impressed!
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Halloween Jack posted:I wonder how losing his CEO position is going to play out in the final season. Isn't he already retired at this point?
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MiddleOne posted:Isn't he already retired at this point? I'd gotten the impression he had retired very wealthy from the lucrative... let me check Karate Kid 3... ah, the 'chloride sludge dumping' game.
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He's definitely still "working," but he does seem to be at that stage where you sit on a board and don't actually do anything.
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I'm still amazed at how all of us across the fanbase spent hours puzzling out how they would justify Silver's behavior in the original series. Lots of cocaine is such an obvious but unexpected answer, I love it so much. The premise, not cocaine 
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Clearly Silver has had a lot of time on his hands since KK3, given how he is now accomplished enough a pianist to be able to play La Campanella, which is well beyond the abilities of most amateurs, even keen ones. Hope he's had time to keep up his practice in between the karate training and evil scheming!
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Narcissus1916 posted:I'm still amazed at how all of us across the fanbase spent hours puzzling out how they would justify Silver's behavior in the original series. You can make room in your heart for both!
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Fingers crossed Miguel's dad turns out to be a capoeirista crime lord from Only the Stong. They can definitely change up the rules to allow an unorthodox martial art at the next All Valley.
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Goffer posted:Fingers crossed Miguel's dad turns out to be a capoeirista crime lord from Only the Stong. They can definitely change up the rules to allow an unorthodox martial art at the next All Valley. Bonus points if he just so happens to run his own Hispanic or Brazilian karate dojo where he trains his militia and then teaches Miguel some sweet MMA moves or some poo poo. I can't think of a clever name for it but it's eeeeevil. But knowing this show, how it subverts a lot of expectations and with no obvious way to fold a character in that has no relation to the franchise, it wouldn't shock me if his dad was just dead or some poo poo, Miguel gets stuck in Mexico and has to karate kick his way out with Johnny's help. I'm gonna guess his dad is a fuckup that's in jail for some reason and Miguel bonds with him by teaching HIM karate somehow. But I hope they don't over do Miguel's Journey to Find His Father too much though since the show really excels at straddling the line between drama, cheese, action, family, nostalgia, violence and romance where introducing a whole new character with that much weight in an already crowded cast might backfire since the drama might not be earned and they can't really draw inspiration/motivation from the movies.
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Miguels dad is Mike Barnes
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Gaius Marius posted:Miguels dad is Mike Barnes Oh....poo poo
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Gaius Marius posted:Miguels dad is Mike Barnes
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Gaius Marius posted:Miguels dad is Mike Barnes Be right back, gonna go stare at the sky for hours just to make a wish on a shooting star.
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Miguel Barnes, Chico Malo de Kárate.
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I'm thinking the Mexico City / Miguel in search of his evil father is a set up to up the show's dramatic intensity by killing Miguel off. It would be a pragmatic move given how his own screen appearance increasingly no longer matches the character of a teenage boy. It would also free up Johnny to truly be a father to his real son and come full circle there, versus this psuedo son arrangement with Miguel. Maybe Silver being the evildoer and world connected man he is will have a hand in Miguel's death.
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I don't think this show's tone can handle child death, even in a final season.
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Nah, son. Tori is Mike Barnes' daughter. I guarantee it.
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BiggerBoat posted:They went to prom so I assumed they were seniors but then again we didn't a graduation scene or anything so maybe it was Jr Prom. It was expressly Junior prom. Show was great, I think this was one of the best seasons. Robbie’s end felt earned. He tried to be a father figure to show up Johnny, and realized how terrible it was. I liked how they portrayed Eli as just struggling to find his own identity, when so many people have so many wildlife different expectations of him. TIG is a gift. It was amazing watching him slide from “is that even the same guy?” Through “oh poo poo, straight up 80s villain!” His entire posture, body language, mannerisms, facial expressions, everything. Watch how much he slouches and cowers when he first hooks back up with Kreese, compared to how he looms at the end. I think the character has decided Kreese isn’t orthodox enough. The fight choreography was way better. Even Macchio looked plausible. Looking forward to Eagle Fang series in twenty years.
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Re: Eli I really liked how they "inadvertently" had him take off his gi and show off his tattoo at the end when he ended up winning. It did a better job of showing how he needed to incorporate the best parts of everything he learned in a fun visual way than the various coach lectures. He wasn't the over-the-top punk hair Hawk, but he was still confident and capable.
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The tournament had better choreography, granted, but how can anyone not love the insane teen karate brawls? Best line of the series was the two sides lined up, and Dmitri going "oh no, not another rumble..."
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The tournament had better choreography, granted, but how can anyone not love the insane teen karate brawls?  Best line was "no be there"
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The tournament had better choreography, granted, but how can anyone not love the insane teen karate brawls? One of the best lines is from Kyler in s4 something along the lines of "My Dad wants me to go to Harvard but I'm like ASU is the Harvard of the West"
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This show is so drat good, just masterful TV. Delivering the goods, I'm putty in this show's hands, just like the movie Ghost. Just watched the latest season over the past weekend or so, good lord, this is directly beaming the goods right into my soul. The return of Stingray! The agony and the ecstacy of the karate wars! The hearts of these warriors, on the streets of the Valley. I need season 5 asap.
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Dawgstar posted:It's best to judge things by Karate Kid 3's standards as little as possible. It's very odd that 'new rules' mean Daniel just gets to wait for the final challenger like he's a New Jersey Shang Tsung. "like he's a New Jersey Shang Tsung" is not getting nearly the love it deserves.
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My favourite thing is how Daniel's wife is fully aware that everyone around her is stuck in an 80's teen action/drama film and refuses to take it seriously.
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She's busy running a dang car dealership while her husband is trying to defeat bullying with secret ko-ryu kyusho-jutsu techniques.
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