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Post by respect77 on Sept 6, 2020 12:23:13 GMT
Does anyone else watch it? If you are a 80s kid and/or you like Karate Kid it is a very entertaining series. With the same actors who paid the main characters in the original Karate Kid. Of course, now 30 years on they play their adult self.
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Post by Snow White on Sept 11, 2020 5:34:46 GMT
I've wanted to watch the series ever since I found out it was ob YT red but probably Cobra Kai was the only series worth watching. Good to know Netflix picked it up though.
I've watched a bunch of episodes of the first season. I can say at the moment that Daniel has become in all the things he hated when we first saw him in Karate Kid, patronizing, petulant who shoves down people's throats his wealth and success. He was hero in the movies but I can't stand him in the series.
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Post by respect77 on Sept 11, 2020 7:40:21 GMT
I've wanted to watch the series ever since I found out it was ob YT red but probably Cobra Kai was the only series worth watching. Good to know Netflix picked it up though. I've watched a bunch of episodes of the first season. I can say at the moment that Daniel has become in all the things he hated when we first saw him in Karate Kid, patronizing, petulant who shoves down people's throats his wealth and success. He was hero in the movies but I can't stand him in the series. I like it how they turned it around and now we sympathize with Johnny rather than Daniel.
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Post by Snow White on Sept 12, 2020 3:11:22 GMT
I've wanted to watch the series ever since I found out it was ob YT red but probably Cobra Kai was the only series worth watching. Good to know Netflix picked it up though. I've watched a bunch of episodes of the first season. I can say at the moment that Daniel has become in all the things he hated when we first saw him in Karate Kid, patronizing, petulant who shoves down people's throats his wealth and success. He was hero in the movies but I can't stand him in the series. I like it how they turned it around and now we sympathize with Johnny rather than Daniel. Yeah, how did LaRusso become in a condescending, pitiful dick if he did well in his adult life and had a good father figure in Mr. Miyagi; unlike Johnny who had a POS abusive stepfather. At least we know now why Johnny was an aggressive bully in the 80s, abused kids tend to repeat abusive behaviors.
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Post by pg13 on Oct 13, 2020 1:51:34 GMT
Does anyone else watch it? If you are a 80s kid and/or you like Karate Kid it is a very entertaining series. With the same actors who paid the main characters in the original Karate Kid. Of course, now 30 years on they play their adult self.
Yes, I caught all the series on YT for free each time it came out. No idea how far in season wise the rest of you are, but I really enjoyed this and won't say too much. Especially the flashbacks to the original films. But Pat's presence is HIGHLY missed. For me anyway! Cobra Kai is very well made and a standard for other similar series to be made. I also feel it could sit independently of the original films too. But it just works well.
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Post by pg13 on Oct 13, 2020 11:01:35 GMT
One of the things I liked in season 1 was how they showed Daniel and Johnny struggling to adapt to the concepts of the modern social media dominated world.
Johnny had never been on the Internet and was very out of touch whereas Daniel hadn't come across accusations of cultural appropriation before either so was out of touch that way.
They're really Yin and Yang in that they're different, but there's a little of each in the other. We see the things they had in common when they are in a car listening to the same song, for example.
There's loads of little touches like this that really makes the Cobra Kai world feel very real and relatable.
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Post by Snow White on Oct 13, 2020 16:25:58 GMT
I've watched the second season I can say I can't wait for the third one on January 8.
Even though I ended up disliking Daniel a whole lot, the series is highly enjoyable and well made. Johnny is far from being perfect but at least you can see him through out the seasons trying do the right thing and evolving as a person, whereas Daniel got cockier. Let's see if Johnny tries to recover his dojo, the role Ali will play in this upcoming season, among other things.
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Post by pg13 on Oct 13, 2020 21:00:05 GMT
^^^I don't know, I felt both Johnny and Daniel felt they were trying to do the right thing.
And both ended up letting their students down big time. Their rivalry spilled over onto them and with disastrous results.
What do you all think of the subplot involving the newer cast?
I felt that Miguel Diaz was more like Daniel when we first meet him - they have being bullied in common as well as living in Reseda. But he became more like Johnny under his instruction. In the end, he swung back to being more like Daniel under Miyagi.
A lot of the fans are thinking Miguel joins Miyagi-do and Robbie joins Cobra Kai.
But I hope to see Daniel and Johnny teaming up against Kreese. That'd be an interesting arc to their mutual history.
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Post by Snow White on Jan 13, 2021 3:37:59 GMT
I finished the third season and it was still entertaining but the previous ones were superior , IMO. John Kreese was made too cartoonish and the part of the young cast got too PC as well, it was funnier and more clever how the series poked fun at the PC culture in the other seasons. Aisha's absence was noticeable, Demitri was more unlikable but I understand why she was fired if it's true she used her notoriety from Cobra Kai to ask fans for money in GoFundMe for an operation, if I recall correctly
SPOILER:
The third Karate Kid movie is the one I remember the less but I bet Kreese called Terry Silver at the end to appear in season 4. If Kumiko, Chozen and Ali were brought back, Terry Silver is the one missing.
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