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BIG FRED 1973 : 5/9/2018 8:00 am
Has anyone started watching this show yet ? I started it on Saturday night and Iam already up to episode 8 .It is that awesome and I have not had this much fun watching a show since Stranger things season 2 ended .Its on Youtube Red and it’s a subscription service which sucks but for this show its worth it to me since iam a huge Karate Kid Fan .William Zabka is great again as Johnny and Ralph Macchiao is awesome as always .Had a chance to meet these guys a few times at conventions over the years and they are really cool guys and both from NY and huge NY sports fans which is cool also .Anyways great show can’t wait to watch the last 3 episodes over the weekend ..



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Great show.  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 11:26 am : link
Lots of 80's nostalgia, music, references. A terrific homage to the original movies. Very funny, too, a lot funnier than I thought it would be, but with right mix of humor and drama, and action, of course. I got the sense that the writers had a ton of respect for the characters and their stories.

I didn't plan on watching anything more than the first two free episodes, but they were so good that I signed up for YouTube Red and binge-watched the whole first season.
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BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/9/2018 11:38 am : link
In comment 13959092 Jay on the Island said:
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about where Season 2 is headed?


Well Johnny is clearly regretting his teaching methods. LaRusso is going to open a karate Class with Robby and his daughter as the prized pupils. Maybe Miguel's nerdy friend joins LaRusso.


I think Johnny will join LaRusso and find balance, but Miguel will remain with Cobra Kai. Also, Johnny will become the Sensai of Muyagi Do Karate, because lets face it, Daniel has a car dealership empire to run.
RE: RE: RE: Anyone want to talk  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 11:43 am : link
In comment 13959132 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
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In comment 13959077 BigBlueDownTheShore said:


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about where Season 2 is headed?


Well Johnny is clearly regretting his teaching methods. LaRusso is going to open a karate Class with Robby and his daughter as the prized pupils. Maybe Miguel's nerdy friend joins LaRusso.



I think Johnny will join LaRusso and find balance, but Miguel will remain with Cobra Kai. Also, Johnny will become the Sensai of Muyagi Do Karate, because lets face it, Daniel has a car dealership empire to run.


Without spoiling anything, that would be an interesting turn of events, considering how the first season ended.

I heard some rumors that Sean Kanan may be brought in for the 2nd season. Don't know how credible they are, though.
RE: RE: RE: Anyone want to talk  
Jay on the Island : 5/9/2018 11:44 am : link
In comment 13959132 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
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I think Johnny will join LaRusso and find balance, but Miguel will remain with Cobra Kai. Also, Johnny will become the Sensai of Muyagi Do Karate, because lets face it, Daniel has a car dealership empire to run.

Johnny will eventually join LaRusso at some point probably by bringing Johnny and Robby together. What happens with Creasy (spelling?). Johnny owns Cobra Kai and is here really going to allow this man back into it? I think he will for some reason and that will temporary ruin any goodwill between LaRusso and Johnny as LaRusso will think that he hasn't changed.
i would love to see  
Gordo : 5/9/2018 12:28 pm : link
a hillary swank cameo too.. many folks forget, there was a spinoff movie called "The Next Karate Kid" that was in 94. Pretty much the same story but Miyagi trains a girl this time. I doubt it happens..but would love it if it did.. a real nod to true fans.
Where is Mike Barnes, the Bad Boy of Karate, or Terry Silver?  
Greg from LI : 5/9/2018 12:31 pm : link
Sad
RE: Where is Mike Barnes, the Bad Boy of Karate, or Terry Silver?  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 12:36 pm : link
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Sad


See my post above about the Sean Kanan rumors.
Terry Silver  
Pete in MD : 5/9/2018 12:46 pm : link
aka Tomas Ian Griffith doesn't act too much anymore according to his IMDB page but he does write and co-produce the series Grimm, which I don't watch but many people love.
I thought for  
Pete in MD : 5/9/2018 12:49 pm : link
sure Elizabeth Shue was going to make an appearance.
RE: I thought for  
BIG FRED 1973 : 5/9/2018 12:54 pm : link
In comment 13959227 Pete in MD said:
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sure Elizabeth Shue was going to make an appearance.
She was too busy doing that awful Piranha remake lol
RE: I thought for  
Jay on the Island : 5/9/2018 1:02 pm : link
In comment 13959227 Pete in MD said:
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sure Elizabeth Shue was going to make an appearance.

I could see her showing up in season 2. I really hope that they don't start bringing back every character from the three movies. Creasy is fine but the other guys like Terry Silver and Barnes would be too much IMO. They had a very nice blend of nostalgia sprinkled into season one. I hope they don't begin to force it in season 2.
Another thing I like about this series...  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 1:02 pm : link
Is that it seems to appeal to older fans like me, who have fond memories of the movies, and also to younger viewers who might not be too familiar with them.

I was talking with my youngest nephew about it, who was a little kid when the first movie came out on VHS. I bought him a Karate Kid action figure for his birthday (and I used to goof on him when he was little, saying "Marc, do karate," after which he'd start chopping and kicking the air).

Anyway, in addition to the 80's stuff, there was some fun ribbing of us older folks, with the social media jibes for example. Again, a good job by the writers.

Oh yeah...and Courtney Henggeler is a total smokeshow.

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Pete in MD : 5/9/2018 1:03 pm : link
In comment 13959231 BIG FRED 1973 said:
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sure Elizabeth Shue was going to make an appearance.

She was too busy doing that awful Piranha remake lol

She has been in some clunkers over the years, no doubt. Have you seen Hamlet 2? (Don't waste your time if you haven't). Recently, I've noticed her in a few supporting roles in some decent movies. Off the top of my head, she was the mother in Chasing Mavericks and Steve Carrell's wife in Battle of the Sexes.
RE: Another thing I like about this series...  
Jay on the Island : 5/9/2018 1:06 pm : link
In comment 13959238 Klaatu said:
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Oh yeah...and Courtney Henggeler is a total smokeshow.


Yes she certainly is as is Miguel's mom.
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Klaatu : 5/9/2018 1:12 pm : link
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Oh yeah...and Courtney Henggeler is a total smokeshow.




Yes she certainly is as is Miguel's mom.


Yup. I hope she and Johnny get together.

But my favorite character is Miguel's grandmother. She has some of the best lines.
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Pete in MD : 5/9/2018 1:14 pm : link
In comment 13959244 Jay on the Island said:
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Oh yeah...and Courtney Henggeler is a total smokeshow.




Yes she certainly is as is Miguel's mom.

Isn't Sheldon's twin sister on a few episodes of The Big Bang Theory too?
I remember her playing his sister in one episode.  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 1:18 pm : link
But I stopped watching that show a while ago.

Now she's gone from playing the Hot Sister to playing a MILF, lol.
One look at Sean Kenan's Twitter  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/9/2018 1:35 pm : link
confirms that he is probably 99% going to be in the next season.
RE: One look at Sean Kenan's Twitter  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 1:39 pm : link
In comment 13959282 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
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confirms that he is probably 99% going to be in the next season.


I don't tweet. What does he say?
OK  
Jay on the Island : 5/9/2018 1:43 pm : link
if Sean Kenan is going to be on then I think next season will see Creasy and Kenan force out Johnny from Cobra Kai. Johnny will then fall into a drunken depression until he is saved by LaRusso and Robby and then he joins Miyagi Do. Miguel will remain in Cobra Kai until the end where he sees what he has become and decides to switch over.
RE: OK  
KWhite2250 : 5/9/2018 1:50 pm : link
In comment 13959299 Jay on the Island said:
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if Sean Kenan is going to be on then I think next season will see Creasy and Kenan force out Johnny from Cobra Kai. Johnny will then fall into a drunken depression until he is saved by LaRusso and Robby and then he joins Miyagi Do. Miguel will remain in Cobra Kai until the end where he sees what he has become and decides to switch over.


Its Kreese.
Jay, it's Kreese, not Creasy.  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 1:50 pm : link
Creasy was Denzel Washington's character in Man on Fire. :)
RE: RE: One look at Sean Kenan's Twitter  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/9/2018 1:51 pm : link
In comment 13959290 Klaatu said:
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confirms that he is probably 99% going to be in the next season.



I don't tweet. What does he say?


Check out his Twitter page below. His image is now a Cobra Kai Logo, and he has pictures posted with Kreese..

Terry Silvers on the other hand is all political bullshit. I don't see any reason why he couldn't make an appearance of some sort.

Side note, I looked up the type of Karate Miyagi teaches, and it was founded by a Japanese person named Miyagi. Never realized that before.
Sean Kanan - ( New Window )
Sorry guys  
Jay on the Island : 5/9/2018 1:51 pm : link
I stated earlier that I didn't know how to spell it. I was just too lazy to look up the proper spelling.
RE: OK  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/9/2018 1:52 pm : link
In comment 13959299 Jay on the Island said:
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if Sean Kenan is going to be on then I think next season will see Creasy and Kenan force out Johnny from Cobra Kai. Johnny will then fall into a drunken depression until he is saved by LaRusso and Robby and then he joins Miyagi Do. Miguel will remain in Cobra Kai until the end where he sees what he has become and decides to switch over.


I'm going out on a limb and saying Kreese owns the rights to Cobra Kai Karate, so Johnny either has to role with Kreese or leave.
RE: RE: OK  
Jay on the Island : 5/9/2018 1:53 pm : link
In comment 13959319 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
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if Sean Kenan is going to be on then I think next season will see Creasy and Kenan force out Johnny from Cobra Kai. Johnny will then fall into a drunken depression until he is saved by LaRusso and Robby and then he joins Miyagi Do. Miguel will remain in Cobra Kai until the end where he sees what he has become and decides to switch over.



I'm going out on a limb and saying Kreese owns the rights to Cobra Kai Karate, so Johnny either has to role with Kreese or leave.

That's what I was thinking as well.
Uh oh, sounds like Mike Barnes is gonna tell Daniel to make a wish aga  
Greg from LI : 5/9/2018 1:54 pm : link
Hell, bring em all back - Bobby, Dutch , Tommy, and have Chozen fly in from Okinawa.
Haven't had a chance to get through the whole thread yet but  
T-Bone : 5/9/2018 1:56 pm : link
I just want to say this thread is one of the many great things about BBI. At no point did I have any interest in checking this show out... especially if I had to subscribe to something. But after reading this thread, you guys are making me change my mind and I may just check this out now. Thanks!
RE: Uh oh, sounds like Mike Barnes is gonna tell Daniel to make a wish aga  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/9/2018 2:01 pm : link
In comment 13959326 Greg from LI said:
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Hell, bring em all back - Bobby, Dutch , Tommy, and have Chozen fly in from Okinawa.


Would love to see Chozen come back. How would anyone but Daniel know how to reach him though? Would he be bad or good?
It's really a lot of fun, T-Bone  
Greg from LI : 5/9/2018 2:03 pm : link
It's corny in spots, but overall it is a nice mixture of nostalgia, comedy, and drama, flipping the roles of the characters from the original (Johnny as the outcast loser, Daniel as the successful glamor boy) while not actually changing the basic nature of the characters. Johnny's still pretty much a dick, Daniel is still whiny.
Thanks, BBDTS.  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 2:06 pm : link
Yeah...not very subtle about it, either, lol.
RE: RE: Uh oh, sounds like Mike Barnes is gonna tell Daniel to make a wish aga  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 2:07 pm : link
In comment 13959341 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
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Hell, bring em all back - Bobby, Dutch , Tommy, and have Chozen fly in from Okinawa.



Would love to see Chozen come back. How would anyone but Daniel know how to reach him though?


Facebook. Duh.
Miyagi is a fairly common family name in Okinawa  
Greg from LI : 5/9/2018 2:08 pm : link
Which was kind of funny when I was stationed there.
RE: It's really a lot of fun, T-Bone  
T-Bone : 5/9/2018 2:12 pm : link
In comment 13959342 Greg from LI said:
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It's corny in spots, but overall it is a nice mixture of nostalgia, comedy, and drama, flipping the roles of the characters from the original (Johnny as the outcast loser, Daniel as the successful glamor boy) while not actually changing the basic nature of the characters. Johnny's still pretty much a dick, Daniel is still whiny.


Well shit... if YOU liked it... I'm definitely checking it out! LOL!
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BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/9/2018 2:13 pm : link
In comment 13959351 Klaatu said:
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Hell, bring em all back - Bobby, Dutch , Tommy, and have Chozen fly in from Okinawa.



Would love to see Chozen come back. How would anyone but Daniel know how to reach him though?



Facebook. Duh.


I mean no one but Daniel really knows about Chozen, so Cobra Kai wouldn't know to even contact him.


However, one way to incorporate him would be to use him as an example of going from the dark side to the light side. At the end of Karate Kid 2 he came to senses and flipped sides.
RE: RE: It's really a lot of fun, T-Bone  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 2:15 pm : link
In comment 13959359 T-Bone said:
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It's corny in spots, but overall it is a nice mixture of nostalgia, comedy, and drama, flipping the roles of the characters from the original (Johnny as the outcast loser, Daniel as the successful glamor boy) while not actually changing the basic nature of the characters. Johnny's still pretty much a dick, Daniel is still whiny.



Well shit... if YOU liked it... I'm definitely checking it out! LOL!


Yeah, well, just wait until the Cobra Kai face off against the team from Va. Tech.
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Klaatu : 5/9/2018 2:20 pm : link
In comment 13959361 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
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Would love to see Chozen come back. How would anyone but Daniel know how to reach him though?


Facebook. Duh.



I mean no one but Daniel really knows about Chozen, so Cobra Kai wouldn't know to even contact him.


However, one way to incorporate him would be to use him as an example of going from the dark side to the light side. At the end of Karate Kid 2 he came to senses and flipped sides.


Check it out - Yuji Okumoto and his family own a restaurant in Seattle. He's still acting, though.

RE: RE: RE: It's really a lot of fun, T-Bone  
T-Bone : 5/9/2018 2:22 pm : link
In comment 13959366 Klaatu said:
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In comment 13959342 Greg from LI said:


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It's corny in spots, but overall it is a nice mixture of nostalgia, comedy, and drama, flipping the roles of the characters from the original (Johnny as the outcast loser, Daniel as the successful glamor boy) while not actually changing the basic nature of the characters. Johnny's still pretty much a dick, Daniel is still whiny.



Well shit... if YOU liked it... I'm definitely checking it out! LOL!



Yeah, well, just wait until the Cobra Kai face off against the team from Va. Tech.


Hahahaha
Oh shit just read this  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/9/2018 2:29 pm : link
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(One more thing: In Cobra Kai, Johnny ends up having dinner with Miguel and his mother and his grandmother one evening. While there, Johnny asks Miguel’s mother why they left Ecuador. Miguel’s mom mentions that, after she got pregnant with Miguel, she learned the truth about what her husband did for a living. She doesn’t say much more beyond that, other than that Miguel’s dad is “a very bad man” and that they don’t have anything to do with him. In 1989’s Karate Kid III, there’s a part where Terry Silver, the movie’s main bad guy and a sleazy businessman with lax views on where people should be allowed to dump hazardous waste, makes an offhand comment about Borneo. I’m calling it right now: In a future season, it’s going to eventually be revealed that Terry Silver is Miguel’s father
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Jay on the Island : 5/9/2018 2:33 pm : link
In comment 13959380 Klaatu said:
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Check it out - Yuji Okumoto and his family own a restaurant in Seattle. He's still acting, though.



He had a very small part in last night's episode of New Girl.
RE: Oh shit just read this  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 2:36 pm : link
In comment 13959402 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
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(One more thing: In Cobra Kai, Johnny ends up having dinner with Miguel and his mother and his grandmother one evening. While there, Johnny asks Miguel’s mother why they left Ecuador. Miguel’s mom mentions that, after she got pregnant with Miguel, she learned the truth about what her husband did for a living. She doesn’t say much more beyond that, other than that Miguel’s dad is “a very bad man” and that they don’t have anything to do with him. In 1989’s Karate Kid III, there’s a part where Terry Silver, the movie’s main bad guy and a sleazy businessman with lax views on where people should be allowed to dump hazardous waste, makes an offhand comment about Borneo. I’m calling it right now: In a future season, it’s going to eventually be revealed that Terry Silver is Miguel’s father



I love this shit. It's General Hospital, circa 1982, all over again...with fighting.
That would be an incredible twist!  
Greg from LI : 5/9/2018 3:08 pm : link
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Chozen was the best villian  
KWhite2250 : 5/9/2018 3:44 pm : link
In the movies. And he has the best scene too
Link - ( New Window )
RE: Chozen was the best villian  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/9/2018 3:48 pm : link
In comment 13959494 KWhite2250 said:
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In the movies. And he has the best scene too Link - ( New Window )


Fantastic villain.

I want to see Daniel teach more Miyga moves. Like the crane, the drum move, and whatever the focus move is called.
Your Karate is a Joke.  
Klaatu : 5/9/2018 7:23 pm : link
Sean Kanan
1 Episode  
BIG FRED 1973 : 5/10/2018 10:43 am : link
left !!!! Gonna try and watch it before the Yankee game tonight .
6 episodes in  
mfsd : 5/10/2018 10:59 am : link
This has been awesome so far. What a great job they did
I finished it up late last night  
Greg from LI : 5/10/2018 11:10 am : link
They did such a terrific job with blending humor with drama and just enough flashbacks to the original. Can't wait for season 2.
RE: Chozen was the best villian  
Motley Two : 5/10/2018 11:54 am : link
In comment 13959494 KWhite2250 said:
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In the movies. And he has the best scene too Link - ( New Window )


Daniel's bully shows up while he's hanging out with a girl and kicks Daniel in the stomach...that's cute, but how about Daniel's bully shows up while Daniel is on his first date and kicks her in thew stomach!
Link - ( New Window )
Season 2  
KWhite2250 : 5/10/2018 1:08 pm : link
Is on
Link - ( New Window )
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