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There is no problem season 2 had that wouldn't have been solved by a moment that almost happened in the last episode. Daniel and Johnny are in the elevator together in the hospital. They look at one-another. Daniel exits. I swore up and down this was about to happen, but it didn't. Johnny shouts at Daniel. "What did we do, Daniel?" Camera follows Johnny as he walks away from the elevator. Johnny shouts from the background. "What did we do?!" The whole series has been about a high school rivalry ruining the lives of two adults who should be over it and that spilling over into the lives of a whole group of high school kids, their offspring included, now culminating in a life-threatening injury. Johnny (or, gently caress it, either one of them) pointing this the gently caress out felt like it was coming and it felt so, so earned. It would've taken the fun, terrible melodrama and escalated it into actual drama.
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Spacebump posted:I went back and rewatched the Next Karate Kid for the first time in a long time. Don't spend time watching it.
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Aug 22, 2019 20:06
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It sometimes suffers from "okay, now the plot is really gonna' begin, and then we just recycle old issues the show's already dealt with, but I still love it quite a bit.
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Aug 30, 2020 21:19
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I'm so happy you're all here. I was really worried this show would die before it found a large audience.
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Sep 3, 2020 01:38
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Solice Kirsk posted:That I can believe. People who were picked on usually immediately start picking on others the minute they get the opportunity. What is true is that people who are abused or bullied have a giant blind spot for hurting people in their lives, because in the case of bullying, they view themselves as the victim of bullying, therefore anything they're doing isn't bullying, because they were bullied. Not bullies. Gabe from Penny Arcade had to have a come to Jesus about this at one point where people within the company had to point out that he was bullying people. In the case of abused people, often in the name of what feels like setting healthy boundaries, keeping people away from their trauma triggers, and altogether protecting themselves from abuse, will do abusive things. Say a partner or a parent abused you in the past, so every time your partner gets upset by a thing you've done and doesn't moderate their tone exactly perfeclty, it triggers your trauma and you feel like you're about to be abused. So you scream, or you just shut down, or you become emotionally unavailable. A perfectly understandable reaction to your own trauma, but now you're abusing somebody else. And that's where Daniel is, I think, rendered all the more intense because Johnny was his bully. Everything he does to Johnny is "justified" by the fact that he was a childhood bully. Nevermind the fact that Johnny wanted nothing to do with him and oh, he also lost the original tournament when Daniel illegally kicked him in the loving head. The series swings for the fences in trying to ask "what if a movie with 1980s morality actually happened, and how would it change the people who were involved in it," and it misses about as often as it hits, but it's loving swinging. That is so much more interesting than "let's do the same story again because we liked it the first time."
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Sep 9, 2020 00:30
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The Karate Kid was fundamentally about class and Daniel was definitely not the privileged one. Otherwise, I agree with every word you said and it was some brilliant stuff.
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Sep 14, 2020 03:17
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Fritzler posted:This is a Cobra Kai invention, but it doesn’t seem like Johnny was rich for that long. His mom married a rich guy, but I don’t think they had money before that. I loving love that they've reversed their fortunes. It makes for a more interesting and nuanced series while still commenting on class and social status.
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Sep 15, 2020 00:50
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Xealot posted:Stuff
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Sep 15, 2020 02:44
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Ishamael posted:Actually a majority of it is filmed in and around Atlanta, weirdly enough. Louisiana flirted with it for a minute. Seattle can only support one major production at a time because we make productions pay taxes. California is really only still a filming location because of inertia.
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Oct 20, 2020 06:27
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Great day in the morning what a trailer!
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sticklefifer posted:I feel like in season 1 they were at least trying to ground the show in reality, but Kreese is so comically evil they might as well give him a long mustache to twirl. Doctor Nutt posted:Honestly I find the show works a lot better if I just imagine it's some sort of alt universe where police are mostly irrelevant and people are expected to solve the majority of their differences
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Jan 3, 2021 00:40
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Fair enough.
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Medullah posted:One of my favorite parts of season 3 was the fan service fake out in Kreese's flashbacks. Some people are just evil. I don't need movie #678 about how awesome and tragic a lovely person's reason is for abusing people. It's something that every writer should remove from their toolbox after the last four years. "What if this person who harms others constantly without remorse is the real victim" isn't just hack bullshit, though. It's dangerous. If you've ever known somebody who was abused by a parent or their spouse, it super doesn't loving matter what their abuser's sympathetic story they tell themselves and others is. I've had enough people weaponize my empathy against me. I hate it when art I'm trying to enjoy does it too. Still love the show, but I hated, hated, hated that part of Season 3.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:I'm sure it will. They can probably pump seasons of this show out pretty loving fast if they wanted too. I mean it's like ten 30 minute episodes and half of it is dedicated to them punching and kicking poo poo and / or each other.
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May 30, 2021 23:48
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Anne Whateley posted:Zabka should've done DWTS, the demographic watching for the younger influencers would be calling him daddy in no time
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:Dancing With The Stars. The show that Kreese is now on.
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Sep 21, 2021 22:43
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Xealot posted:This show wouldn't, no. Though apparently that does happen pretty often IRL. Turns out many strip clubs are not ethical and don't look too close at falsified employment forms. One thing people don't think about nearly as much as they should is this whole machine we live in runs on plausible deniability. Most people just don't want to be held responsible for a thing, so if they covered their rear end, that's all that matters, and a dancer presenting you with real-enough fake poo poo that you can say you made a good faith effort to obey the law is pretty much enough for most to be going on with. It wouldn't at all be a stretch for a character in a show that takes place in this bizarre universe to fake some documents.
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Jan 5, 2022 02:56
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Stingray is a great character if you've ever known that specific guy in real life and rightly loving hated him.
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Jan 5, 2022 18:41
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Atlas Hugged posted:Stinkray feels very true to life for me and him getting his poo poo absolutely pushed in was tragic but also long coming. He'll break though in season 5 and turn on Silver for sure.
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Jan 6, 2022 17:53
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Agreed. That's some fine work.
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Jan 19, 2022 07:57
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AndyElusive posted:When is Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) going to show up?
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Jan 25, 2022 03:14
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That movie's title makes no loving sense and I didn't care for the flick besides, so I'm fine with this. But they should bring in Hilary Swank.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:03
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That doesn't really track with the story, though. Why would Daniel turn to a decent person out of desperation? Like, yeah, from a marketing perspective it would make a great teaser, but it wouldn't have made a lick of sense to bring her in that way.
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Jan 25, 2022 21:04
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One she deserved, Hollywood's obsession with only casting cis people in trans roles and every trans flick being about us being traumatized notwithstanding.
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Jan 25, 2022 21:14
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Rhyno posted:She didn't win an Oscar.
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Retrowave Joe posted:The only thing I remember from that movie is Hilary Swank dancing to the Cranberries and then some monks join her? I remember, because I dragged my mom to that flick because I was so stoked that a girl could be The Karate Kid and that's the only scene that didn't absolutely embarrass me. And again, if memory serves, by the end of it, even that scene had. So, maybe I want Swank back so bad to wash the taste out of my mouth. I didn't even re-watch that flick when I watched 1, 2, and 3 in the run-up to Cobra Kai.
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Jan 27, 2022 00:44
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Because having one of your Mexican characters be in the cartel or whatever is kind of gross and it'd be cool if they didn't do the gross thing.
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Noob Saibot posted:He’s actually Ecuadorian you racist His dad's in Mexico and I made assumptions I wish I hadn't.
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Gaius Marius posted:Nothing hosed up with a Bulk/Cut Weight cutting in particular is devastating to the body.
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Darko posted:Michael Ironside and Walton Goggins as the final villains of course. Hollismason posted:Yeah he's so ridiculously over the top. It's too bad they can't get Hillary Swank to make a appearance. On another topic, there's a great throughline of this season about Johnny learning to be a supporting character in his own story. He has to grow up to be a dad, instantly does the beginnings of the work, and he sort of hands the franchise back to Daniel this year for a season. This was way more The Karate Kid sequel show than it was a show about Johnny and Cobra Kai this year, and it's great that they gave Daniel his own season with Silver as his villain before handing the show back to Johnny for the wrap-up with Kreese's return as main antagonist.
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He was pretty racist this year, which was yikes, and down to the writers more than the character, but aside from that, I still root for the guy because when Johnny points out that he's losing his way after his family left, (and that's from Johnny of all people) he instantly remembers all those movies he starred in where the same thing happened and does a hard left, needing his family at that point to drive home that he needs to keep going. He's the same hotheaded kid he always was, but that's only his knee-jerk. He was the bullied kid who became the bully to Johnny because he couldn't fathom being anything but the victim, so him actually going "oh, gently caress. Right. I'm doing that thing again" is a lot more character growth than he's getting credit for.
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I thought it could be either or both, but the only important thing was that it seemed like he was full of poo poo in KK3, so the show had to hit the beat of "no, that's a real dude."
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The MAGA redditor who clearly had no compunctions about boozing up a bunch of teenagers did not need a redemption arc.
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Spacebump posted:Stingray sucks but nothing indicates he is MAGA. You don't need to use MAGA as a synonym for lovely person.
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The Bee posted:MAGA? Nah. Redditor? Abso-loving-lutely. That douchebag and Chris Jericho deserve each other.
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BiggerBoat posted:Are people who dislike Stingray saying they think he sucks in terms of bringing anything to the story or that his character is an rear end in a top hat?
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Gaius Marius posted:Its surprisingly easy to beat up children
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It was bad, the name made no sense and was racist, and Jackie Chan disowned his lesbian daughter, so frankly I'll be thrilled if we all just continue pretending it never happened.
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