I still think the Cobra Kai philosophy makes more sense if you strip the toxic masculinity (which the show slowly does) than the Miyagi-do philosophy. Life has screwed me over and over again and I'm not ready to play by the rules and let it keep screwing me
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
To be fair the show is stripping some of the "defense only" from Miyagi-do as well. It seems to be working towards, "well both of these are wrong, but in different ways". Or at the very leart the way Daniel has been teaching it.
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Replying to @Arcane_Syntax @BootlegGirl
Right, the show is absolutely not saying that Miyagi's Light Side principles are WRONG or that Miyagi himself was a hypocrite It's just that Danny, like Luke, was always inevitably tainted by the Dark Side, and refused to admit it Most of us are
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In the original movie Miyagi didn't even want to enter the tournament He thought it was a dangerous escalation, he taught Danny to fight so he could get Cobra Kai to leave him alone but he never advocated "taking down" or "destroying" them
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He has repeatedly been the advocate of "Just walk away and go on to live your life and let the bad guys bring their consequences on themselves" This was the whole theme of Karate Kid 3, where the bad guys' whole plan relied on Danny not just walking away from competitive karate
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If Danny were actually following Miyagi's principles he'd never have founded a Miyagi-Do dojo (Miyagi never did) He'd have gone on living his best life and left the Cobra Kai alone to do their thing
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Trying to be circumspect for spoiler's sake, but doesn't S3 reveal that not to be the case?
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Mr Miyagi, himself, retired from the "family business" long ago and was determined to stay retired The big conflict with the Toguchi branch of the Miyagi clan in Karate Kid Pt. 2 was partially over this
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So the big reveal is that, yes, Uncle Sato did go through with the plans to commercialize Miyagi-Do as part of his big business venture but Chozen tried to do it in a way that honored Mr Miyagi's values rather than cheapening them
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