Watching CobraKai is relatable in that I connect with the main character's sense of humiliation and failure at life,but then I started thinking if I was in his position who my equivalent of Daniel would be and I realized none of my high school enemies were even vaguely successful
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
The funniest thing about CobraKai is that twenty years later people still care about who won a high school karate championship.
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Replying to @Czhorat @BootlegGirl
Well, I mean, the fact that Danny and Johnny care about it is realistically portrayed as being very sad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Meta: it's sad that Maccio and Zabka are playing the same characters again an these years later. And that we're watching them.
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I don't know, I think it's interesting to see a crappy ancient movie franchise analyzed. Having its own main characters do it is a nice tweak.
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Yeah, it's a "sequel" to Karate Kid in the same sense that, I dunno, I'm out of metaphors, but the whole point is to build these characters and give them complexity (without necessarily changing their fundamental nature from the film) and show what happens after the montages
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Gr8SageEqlofHvn and
Like, Johnny isn't so humiliated that he just slinks away and dies after his second defeat, but he also doesn't "learn his lesson" and shape up (until the show at least). And Danny doesn't actually remember that Mr. Miyagi was teaching more than just karate
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Gr8SageEqlofHvn and
There's such tragedy in that, just learning the outlines of the show left me a bit depressed. It reminds me of someone talking about despair they felt at the Force Awakens because it represented a tearing away if the happy ending that had been promised for Jan, Luke, and Leia
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Replying to @windy_rockbell @Gr8SageEqlofHvn and
Whereas I'm like "yeah, this is reassuring bc I was always basically told that my life would be like an 80s zero to hero movie, except with good grades instead of fighting, and I really appreciate the acknowledgement that your life can still suck after you 'win' high school"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @windy_rockbell and
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with us for not living up to the stories that were told to us, it’s just that those stories were almost all lies! This is genuinely reassuring!
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A lot of conservatives concern trolled over the trend of "deconstructive parodies" because they said it's a way to undermine narratives of heroism as an ideal to give those of us who are mediocre quitters an excuse by telling us people better than us don't exist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheBrianMcNatt and
I unironically agree with this and am a huge fan of deconstructive parodies for exactly that reason
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheBrianMcNatt and
As a citizen of a country that really doens have "heroic mythos" (Mexico has been "deconstructing" their heroes since i has 1 year old) and a millenial, this really make you complacient. You can not look into a brighter future becouse "everything is shit and heroes dosnt exist
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