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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I think it's a pretty interesting tightrope that the show takes that a lesser show would fail. It would be really easy for it to fall into the trap of having Miyagi be just as fallible as Daniel.
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I think part of the reason why they do it so well is that the show has an insane amount of reverence for Miyagi (as it should).
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Replying to @Arcane_Syntax @BootlegGirl
And despite the whole characterization as a "role reversal" it doesn't really character-assassinate Danny He IS the good decent family man he's been cracked up to be, it's just that becoming that came with a certain amount of emotional cost he's not done paying
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His whole big Tragic Flaw is his irrational hatred for Cobra Kai, which was his Tragic Flaw when he was a kid too, and while it does objectively make him act like an asshole it's certainly an *understandable* flaw They deliberately set out to ruin his life
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The whole theme here is that tragically these old traumas never actually "heal" in the sense of going away You have to live with that shit, it stays a part of you Even Mr Miyagi himself had some old festering pain that never left, that he could only deal with by getting wasted
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The way I see it, Cobra Kai preaches to strike pre emptively and even though Miyagi meant "only when your life is in danger" - Daniel has interpreted it as "always strike back when you are wronged/struck." Like it isn't exclusive to karate. He also strikes back against...
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Replying to @SkirrAme @arthur_affect and
Tom Cole after his commercial mocking LaRusso cars. He's inherited toxicity from himself plus viewpoint that he's always on the defensive, so therefore right to hit back. Whereas at least Cobra Kai can be honest that to hit someone is to hurt them.
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