jenpsaki:wantedtourist:“Anyone can be seduced by Cobra Kai. Anyone can be attracted to Cobra Kai. An
jenpsaki:wantedtourist:“Anyone can be seduced by Cobra Kai. Anyone can be attracted to Cobra Kai. Anyone can want Cobra Kai to press them down into the mats and have their way with them. Anyone can get their heart broken by Cobra Kai. Anyone can be deceived and betrayed and hurt by Cobra Kai but still lie awake at night 3 decades later aching for Cobra Kai and the way Cobra Kai looked at them like they wanted to possess them body mind and soul. It can happen to anyone. Even me.”No but. Real talk.I really think it’s Cobra Kai’s responsibility to establish to viewers (who forgot or who haven’t watched KK3) that Daniel didn’t just “join” Cobra Kai because he was “seduced” by it and what it represented. This is how it was presented in 2x06 when Daniel spoke to his students about it (see gif; And sorry I don’t have enough faith in the writing to pretend they’re being clever in the scene above i.e. that Daniel is internalizing blame and presenting the story as if it’s his fault because he believes it’s his fault.) So I expect the story to be revisited and Daniel allowed to present it more fully and honestly: He started training with Terry because he was deceived. Terry was falsely kind and supportive and full of praise for Daniel. He promised Daniel that his new Cobra Kai was not the same Cobra Kai that Daniel knew (Kreese’s CK) and that in fact Cobra Kai is originally not like that at all. Oh. AND they should also touch on the very important fact that Miyagi refused to help Daniel despite Daniel beseeching him more than once, because Daniel and their business (that he poured all his savings into! but that’s not what was at stake for him, it was Miyagi’s dream that he wanted to protect) were literally being assaulted and endangered. Those are the reasons Daniel joined. He was deceived and felt abandoned and desperate. That’s not seduction. Yes, once Daniel joined he saw what Terry was really about and he could have left at that point, but Daniel stayed because by that point Terry had his claws in him/his mind. Yeah, that part was more seduction, but not in the way Cobra Kai meant (in the gif/scene above). My fear is that Cobra Kai will ignore all of that [gestures above] to just once more present Daniel as someone who brings and has brought his own misfortunes onto himself. So yeah. I just want the show to establish that it was so much more than Daniel having “Cobra Kai in him” all along and being drawn to CK/Terry’s power/darkness or whatever. Will they tho? Almost certainly not! what’s insane is that the “hero joins the dark side b/c evil is Cool and Fun” is a super common trope and would have been super easy for KK3 to do, and at every turn KK3 explicitly…doesn’t? Daniel isn’t super passionate about fighting in the tournament and is physically pressured into it, his ego and defending his title are never mentioned by him after her burns the sign-up form. He’s not super into the quicksilver method or punching wood, and the training isn’t framed as getting drunk on the dark side. And even the the whole “woah he went to far” moment is bullshit because (1) he punched a guy who sexually harassed a friend of his, which is one of the most common pop culture reasons to justify a bar fight and (2) i know the ck writers know that because the scene RIGHT BEFORE the one in this gifset is johnny and the og cobras doing just that. I don’t know why the movie decided to do this, but it’s gonna be really hard to retcon for anyone who watched the movie -- source link
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