so everybody's been asking me about
Cobra Kai and this is the latest
installment in The Karate Kid franchise
and I watched all 10 episodes and I
thought it was excellent
what do you think I saw - I thought it
was really surprisingly I thought it was
excellent yeah this was something I was
a big fan of karate kick growing up a
really big fan I love those movies I
watched all the trilogy over and over
and over know there's a trilogy then
there's the next Karate Kid and then
there was um did the reboot which was
actually really good the one with Jaden
Smith and uh yeah Jackie Chan I actually
hadn't seen it but I just watched that
one oh you did and I did like it and but
what I do have to say is I thought it
was originally a comedy skit but they
were gonna do I'm kind of like skip all
of a sudden I go on YouTube and it's
like oh this Karate Kid thing I'm like
Oh cried a kid and I saw Ralph Macchio's
in it I click on it I had no idea it was
gonna be a whole series yeah and so I
start watching I'm like wait a second
this is like a show and it's got Ralph
Macchio and it's got you know the rod
you know Johnny Lawrence isn't in there
and I was like oh my god this is like
this is the first it's something that
like I never expected I never asked for
it but here it is and it's awesome they
actually did a really good job and I
think um this is proof that you could
continue a franchise without having to
start over which is what they do a lot
of the time because the really
surprising thing is so Pat Morita is
dead so you would think you know they
won't make any more Friday kid movies
but you know then they did the one with
you know Jaden Smith and so they had
done it and that was great plus there
was the next the next Karate Kid so you
would think after all that they've
already done like yeah you know it's and
things like that so you'd be like okay
well they're never gonna come back to
the Ralph Macchio whatever and then boom
this hits and I was just like my mind
was blown yeah I never expected that and
this is the only franchise I can think
of that had a really good reboot that
just kind of did it all over and then it
has a really good you know like comeback
like series um actually I do want to say
about the the 2010 Karate Kid the the
only problem with it was the title
because it's not actually a remake of
Karate Kid it's a different story like
Jackie Chan's character is not called
mr. Miyagi it's similar but the big
difference it's not karate it's kung fu
if they just called it the kung fu kid
it would have made perfect sense
yeah but name-value together yeah when
asses in the seats well there's the
thing where this this series understands
is that to get asses in the seats you
don't necessarily have to start over so
this one is actually good for people who
have seen the old series but it's also
good for anybody coming into it now
because you don't have to watch the the
old karate kids to understand this one
that's true I think you're gonna want to
afterwards I think it does kind of help
a lot if you did see it there's a lot of
moments yeah for one thing like Daniel
visiting Miyagi's grave at one point
it's you know but they shadow that
probably doesn't mean quite as much
unless you've seen the original trilogy
yeah I mean the impact wouldn't be as
much for that's what I did the emotional
part but they show you flashbacks a lot
of times so if you haven't seen the
original you're gonna see lots of recaps
from it so they pretty much will fill
you in very quickly so I just think they
did a really good job at just satisfying
both the the old and the new fans and
the things because it's not just about
well I guess we should get in the plot
just a little bit know just that it's
set thirty years or so after the the
original movies and Johnny who was
Daniel's opponent in the first movie in
the karate tournament is now I'm having
a grudge against him he's still like you
know can't get over it and I guess
Daniels a little more successful I mean
he's running like a car dealership or
whatever but you know it's fun at all
these reboots that are coming back now
like you know there's also the new like
full house and it's it's kind of like
it's funny that these characters still
care about the same thing thirty years
later like on full house
steve was DJ's boyfriend and now thirty
years later or whatever he's still like
yeah got her and there's now thirty
years later or whatever Johnny Lawrence
is still way back to karate tornado you
know there's how the humor to that that
there is a lot of comedy the show
address it
but yeah but but anyway it's like it's
not just about them they're just like
one part of it because um they are
basically like the trainer roles even
though you still kind of spiritually
kind of have like John Kriss has talked
about and Miyagi has talked about and
they're kind of like the the first
trainers but then you have these ones
and then the next level is the kids the
new because okay so Johnny reopens the
Cobra Kai and he recruits all these
young kids out of you know school nurses
for the week yeah but but but his
valleys are a little bit conflicted
because where John Crees was all you
know like no mercy and was really strict
about very true Johnny kind of has his
limits and he sometimes is like
redeemable he's more complex a little
bit a little bit yeah
but anyway the kids they become like the
center and I really started to love
these the kid carrot they were do daniel
has a daughter in it who is at one time
dating a guy who is being trained by
Johnny and then johnny has a son who is
like being trained by Daniel so there's
all these like complex relationships
going on the way the characters are all
connected the whole time that was trying
to think of who really is the Karate Kid
in this series because it seems like
there's multiple karate kids yeah there
isn't really this this one is more
complicated because there's no like
serious good guy and serious bad guy
it's kind of just like everybody's
flawed and this you still kind of love
all the characters but none of them are
perfect they every character makes
mistakes or they lose their temper
whatever a lot of the kids are you know
they're bullied and you kind of
understand what it is they're going
through and why they're joining the
Cobra Kai and they sort of update the
whole aspect of bullying to include
social media this time so there's a lot
of like social media going on in this
movie it's not just a rehash it's like
this this actually moves forward yeah
there is a lot of a gray area with some
of the kid characters like with Miguel
in the beginning he starts off like it
was a really nice kid but then he starts
to become like an [ __ ] but then it's
points he does things where he kind of
realizes he's yeah yeah but yeah it's
like there's characters you kind of go
back and forth form like oh now he's you
know he's being nice now but now all now
he isn't and now what I didn't really
like to talk about is you know the
original trilogy really was about Daniel
Larusso
this show is really about John Lawrence
this is Johnny Lawrence's show I mean
the show's Cobra guy and he's like the
new trainer and it's it's I wouldn't
know it's about a lot of characters but
I think it's mostly about him it's kind
of his journey and what's really
interesting about this series is that
you see his viewpoint of how things went
down back with the Karate Kid and it's
really like if you look at it from his
viewpoint yeah he doesn't seem nearly as
bad as you know the villain well made
out to be in the original yeah I mean
he's pretty messed up I mean he makes it
he's not a perfect guy at all he he is
and I still think he was the villain but
certain things they say and do make you
feel like okay it wasn't quite as bad as
you think even like just like you know
he's you know studying karate and he
should be like disciplined but he's
drinking beers yeah what are you doing
like he's kind of always a contradiction
and that's actually what makes
characters a lot of times in script
writing I was talking about like you
know characters should always have like
things that contradict something like
like taxi driver I think he has like
partially he's like training and he's
like trying to get strong but then he's
like you seem porn like syrup all over
is like you know phooey or whatever and
like well I guess a what I absolutely
loved about the John Lawrence character
is how he was sort of out of date with
the time like he he didn't know about
like how to use computers at all I think
the point they asked him about like
Facebook or something like that or he's
like he's like what's the you know
what's that and as he's trying to train
this new generation of kids in the Cobra
Kai you know one of the kids is like you
know I can't do that because I have like
I think he says like a peanut allergy or
something like that me
he's play he's like what is that [ __ ]
punch him in the face or stuff okay like
real real things we're gonna do real
allergies and stuff but he's like
have any like tolerance for yes [ __ ]
[ __ ] or whatever say I don't know
exactly it was really fun yeah then he
has his bike moments too or he like eyes
is like okay like a he crossed the line
like their unknown yeah yeah yeah it's a
very easy to watch show like it's very
entertaining 20 30 minute episodes
instead of these like hour-long things
it's really fast-paced it has lots of
music they probably like um licensed
like more like 80s rock songs I've seen
anything lately that's all I have
yeah no I think it's excellent it's
definitely worth watching um I think
you'll get more out of it if you go back
and you watch the original trilogy first
I don't you don't like James said you
don't have to but I think you'll you
would appreciate it more if you did if
you haven't seen the original it's
mostly a sequel to the first movie I
think if you're gonna watch anything at
least see the first movie that said it's
all Canon yeah that said though moving
forward I really hope that they do bring
in some more characters and that's Louis
let's yeah like I don't want to say then
yet but I do want to say one thing but
maybe we could do a spoiler we might go
into spoilers um but uh I won't talk
about just it's on YouTube red and this
is the first thing I ever watched on
YouTube red I'm very curious to how many
streaming services we're gonna have in
the next few years because it's like you
got Netflix you got Hulu and like how
many of these services do you need
because it's kind of um it's getting to
a point where it's really complicated
because it's like okay well if you want
to watch this it's on this this service
now if you want that it's on this one
and you kind of have to figure out like
what's on what and how many of them do
you want so yeah you have all the big
businesses competing with each other and
you know they all want their own
platform it's like the new you know Star
Trek show can't be on television because
now CBS wants to have their own like
online thing whatever so you can watch
Star Trek and YouTube launches you know
this this stuff so that you can walk so
you can watch The Karate Kid it's like
they're all trying to have okay what are
we
that everybody's gonna want to watch
they have these big mega franchise aha
you know so you know there's still
television right like there's still like
nobody watching for that anymore no I'm
just good yeah they do and now I think
the only thing that could potentially be
a spoiler so if you want to shut this
off right now this is potential spoilers
so of what characters would you like to
see appear in it well there is a certain
character I guess I won't say there is
there is a certain character that does
appears he's a very very end of it um
but that's not even important so
basically I would like to see other
characters that we haven't seen yet
appear in I guess season 2 so for me the
ones I'd like to see is act so in Karate
Kid - mm-hmm
there was the villain in that chosen
yeah I would like to see him come back
I'd be interesting yeah I would also of
course like because he was hilarious
wanna see Terry silver come come back
but not not just Terry silver but
actually more accurately Mike Barnes
because oh you're right yeah Mike Barnes
was actually the kid that Daniel what I
would be very curious because Terry
silver as you know it included him on
well it was an old video but it was like
what like at one of the first top ten
videos I did where it's baddest bad guys
and it's basically called cheesy
villains like that and Terry silver and
Junkers were tied I think on there or
whatever but uh Terry silver is so out
of control that I wonder what how they
would handle him in this series because
let's say if he ends up being in it I
would imagine in 30 years his character
would have to change a lot like I wonder
I'm just very curious what would Terry
silver be up to today and how would he
have changed that's why it would be
really interesting to see it like they
might have to like all term a bit so
that it's he he makes a little more
sense in it because if he's just kind of
like you know just go nuts and
everything it might not really work but
but I think it could work if they just
kind of have a reason why he's he's
maybe he's cooled down a bit like he's a
little
more low-key you know I don't know he's
a funny character he's got a lot of
classic lines in that movie you got a
secret get the rate but some not just
characters we'd like to say but there's
things that I would like to see happen
in this show they tease several fights
especially there was one almost fight
between Johnny and Daniel outside of
Daniels pool at the house and you're
just you're just kind of like oh god
here we go and then the wife comes out
and she's like you guys want to come in
and have pancakes yeah it was really
really funny yeah but to be honest with
you like eventually I'd like to see this
and it maybe it doesn't even happen in
season two but maybe if the show gets to
like season three or season four I do
eventually want and I know it's about
the kids yeah it's and that's more that
is more important to this to this series
but still I would really like to see
Daniel like getting get in a fight and I
I'm hoping that we can see Daniel like
Daniel and I don't care who wins I just
want to see it happen I want to say
somehow Daniel and Johnny fight again
and you know what that also highlights
something that another thing that really
impressed me about it was how the show
was so good I didn't even need to see
that because I kind of felt like I saw
Johnny and Daniel fight even though they
actually even isn't because they they
basically come so close to it all the
time and you see them in all these
different phases I think there's even
like just a succession of scenes where
it's like okay they're there they're
about to fight at his house and then
they're at the dinner table and then
they go to the car dealership where he's
like gonna bond the car then they're
driving in the car then they're at the
bar and then they come back to like
their house there's so much of them in
the movie the main thing though that
makes me want to see it see the fight is
something that they did in the show is
when Daniels out in the woods with
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the new characters at Robert Johnny yeah
and there they hit their training so
Daniels training him and he's teaching
him things that Miyagi had taught him so
Karate Kid mmm
three ends and then it's like a 20 25
year period where you know between now
and then there was a long period before
and they even showed the date on the
grave for mr. Miyagi so there was a long
long time when Daniel and mr. Miyagi
were still together
where Miyagi you that we didn't say that
Miyagi was still you know training with
Danton with Daniel or at least the
seeing each other or whatnot and who
knows what Daniel learned from Miyagi in
that time I would like to see more of
what Daniel learned from Miyagi and
applying that to kicking ass with the
other villains like if Mike Barnes comes
into the show in season 2 or season 3 he
has to defeat him with something that
Miyagi had talked I just like the idea
that there's still something that Miyagi
taught him that we didn't see it right I
think that's cool
well I think that that was just one
thing yeah like he's done but then I
think that there could have been more
thing ah that's what I'm saying yes the
committee was a karate he's the Yoda oh
yeah kind of this you know uh-huh anyhow
so I'd like to see I would like to see
him play anyway and I'd like to see more
franchises get this treatment because
you know sometimes reboots can work and
sometimes it worked just to do a
straight-up like sequel like this like
it's just it's just a good example of
like you can take an existing franchise
and just build on it because you already
have a foundation you have characters
everything just build on and continue
and you can do it in a way where you you
can you don't have to go back and see
the original so for people to come and
new it's not like I don't think it's I
hope that this opens up the door and
shows that it's not as huge of a risk
that this this can be done yeah and this
is the kind of thing I like to see be
done it's the continuation of the story
when they just go back and it's like you
know they just repeat the same movie
and or they show it the origin it's like
I I always feel like I want to see the
next part to to to a franchise yeah you
know so they did that here and this was
a show that was done right and I really
hope it's successful because I want to
see more of this show it's great yeah
it's one of the best things I've seen in
a while
yeah and not to say that it's like
totally amazed no no no it's like really
good it's not completely amazing but it
kind of has that yeah how kind of has
like a little bit of it like a sitcom
kind of feel to it it's very easy to
watch but yeah it's good
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