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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My one big maudlin take on this show is they could only do it after Pat Morita died because the point of it is Mr. Miyagi was one-of-a-kind and after he passes there's no one else like him in the world
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Danny is trying to live up to him and be the new Mr. Miyagi for the next generation and learning that's not as easy as he thought it'd be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
(The scene that elevates the original Karate Kid beyond cliche is giving Miyagi just a hint of those hidden depths, that he had a dark past with its own share of trauma and failure before he became the serene old man we see today)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
(When Daniel-san finds him in the middle of a drunken bender as he's commemorating the loss of the family he couldn't save)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
That scene, fuck me, you can convince me we werent watching pat morita pouring some long held something out on the floor. And he got an oscar nod.
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Morita had a hell of a life He contracted spinal tuberculosis when he was two years old and spent his entire childhood in the sanatorium At the age of eleven he underwent a drastic course of corrective surgeries to give him the ability to walk
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AbsurdistTravis and
After which they immediately walked him out of that hospital and into a Japanese-American internment camp with his family
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AbsurdistTravis and
Then his dad got killed by some hit-and-run driver when he was in his early 20s and it derailed his life forcing him to stay at home and help his mom keep the family restaurant afloat
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