Karate kid tv show with original characters as adults is surprisingly good
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Daniel is kinda in arrested development mode, and is kinda stuck where Miyagi left him, a kinda ironic fortune cookie wax on wax off guy. But Johnny, who was basically a prop in the original, has a much more interesting growth arc going on.
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I’m not sure it’s possible for new viewers to enjoy this in the same way. You can’t watch the originals now except as camp, but in context in the 80s it played different and thus show feeds of that in-context vibe.
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It’s not reboot or nostalgia or revival. It’s like a single canon with parts separated by a few decades. Like that Linklater movie or Updike’s Rabbit. It’s the same characters, but living out the adult 3d consequences of teenage 1d/2d events. Still cartoony but in a different way
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The weakest part of the show is probably the karate element itself. That would probably need an element of BJJ and MMA to meaningfully extrapolate from 80s to now. Strip mall karate simply doesn’t signify the same things now. It’s an elder statesman art in a grittier world.
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I actually took a year or so of karate back in like 1987 or 88. Casual curiosity, possibly inspired in part by the movie. Didn’t really get into it. But this made me google my teacher who appears to have died a couple of years ago. Must have been in his late 50s.
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