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Little asian kid makes no sense (what happened to the writing????!)

posted 2 years ago by avortac4 (3752)
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The small asian kid makes no sense from any angle.

The whole carwash thing is also very weird and illogical; I know it's played for laughs that the group of guys were ready to pay 20 bucks (!!) just for some pretty girls probably unskilled carwashing labor, but it's ridiculous.

I mean, the whole point of the 's3xy feminism'-crap was that the hypocrite women have no qualms about selling their body when it benefits them and then flipping the script and claiming they're soo oppressed by the evil patriarchy.

It also doesn't make sense for the 'most evil guy in the story' to scoff at 'gender pay gap', as if ONLY evil, patriarchal, rich white men would ever be 'stupid enough' to 'not realize' there's a 'gender paygap' (there isn't). Groan, sigh, not this show, too..

What really triggered me to almost scream out loud "THAT MAKES NO SENSE!", though, is not when that small asian kid was left with the money with no protection, not when he thought he could escape motorbikes by using a bicycle, not when no one seems to care about the money enough to arrange ANY kind of security or protection after having all that trouble, so that the weakest possible 'treasurer' can be alone at night with the money.

No - none of that.

It was when their group appeared on Daniel's doorstep and then the little, 'beaten up treasurer' suddenly, DRAMATICALLY (groan) emerges from behind..

(because of course he did, there's no way any TV show would DARE show a more realistic situation, someone always has to jump from behind everyone else to shockingly underline the point of the scene, BECAUSE OF COURSE THAT'S HOW IT ALWAYS HAS TO HAPPEN! - Like, what the F happened to this show's writing? It used to be BRILLIANT, now it does this kind of crap?!)..

..and shows ABSOLUTELY no weakness, no pain, no 'being beaten up' besides the make-up, and screams with the fury if a thousand lions, 'they beat the sh#t out of me!!11!11!1'.

Right.

I mean, in real life, someone is punched even by some two year-old, they can fall to a coma, get concussion, not being able to walk for a week (two year-old has enough power to kill, by the way, if the power is directed correctly).

Some weak, small treasurer bullied by merciless karate-trained monster psychopaths gets the 'S' beaten out of him, _BUT_!!

..somehow is still able to:

- walk normally
- move normally
- jump without problems
- scream with lots of power and anger
- do all this without visibly suffering from ANY pain whatsoever

But there's more!

What the heck? No bandages? Not even ONE bandage? Let me get this straight; the situation happened like this:

- this little kid is beaten up by merciless thugs and left to bleed on the street
- his 'friends' find him (or he calls someone - not 911, not the police, not ambulance/hospital, but just karate friends. Right..) and see he's beaten up, POSSIBLY BLEEDING INTERNALLY, and they..

- take him to do this 'dramatic jump scene with roaring anger' in Daniel's doorstep, instead of, I don't know, a HOSPITAL?

- NO ONE even thinks of disinfecting his wounds or bandaging him or even giving him ONE band-aid

What kind of friends are these? He should be in an emergency room, not doing friggin' jumpscare theatrics in some karate teacher's doorstep, which is probably very far away - how did they get there, BY BIKES?!

HOW CAN HE BE SO HEALTHY AND STRONG AFTER BEING BEATEN UP AND WHY DID NO ONE ADDRESS EVEN ONE WOUND OF HIS?!

I can swallow a lot (uh, not in THAT sense), but some things in TV shows just make absolutely no sense whatsoever, and I can't fathom how this 'dramatic jump' TRUMPS any kind of realism about being beaten up.

NOT ONLY THAT, but think about kids watching this show and thinking it's OK to get beaten up, because you can still just do dramatic jumpscares on someone's doorstep with FULL VIGOR without any weakness or problems whatsoever!

Look, I know what pain does to the body and mind, it makes you scared, it makes you weak, and it DRAINS YOUR GD-DMN ENERGY! That kid should _ABSOLUTELY_ friggin' _NOT_ have been able to do that jumpscare with such vigor!

Anyone that can do THAT, and whose wounds are so superficial and trivial that NO ONE even thinks to address them in any way, has NOT had the 'S' kicked out of them, they have NOT been even superficially beaten up, and if they have, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM of havnig been beaten up, if you can STILL FUNCTION THAT WELL AND ARE IN NO PAIN afterwards?!

Someone even just being punched very hard in the shoulder DOES NOT have the vigor, energy and determination to be able to pull off that enraged jumpscare! Let alone someone being 'properly beaten up'!

Make-up is not enough, you stupid writers, you have to realize ALL the damage a beating-up does to someone - it doesn't just make them angry, it makes them TRAUMATIZED, fearful, scared, and usually it makes people CRY.

This little guy jumps in front of the camera like Jackie Chan in his heyday, he's NOT beaten up!

[–] duckofprey (1557) 2 years ago

Whatever

[–] strntz (12682) 2 years ago

The guy's autistic. He can't help himself.

[–] avortac4 (3752) 2 years ago

I mean, he doesn't even cry, but instead, cries! I mean.. he cries like a warrior in battle, not like a kid that has been beaten up.

None of it makes any sense.

Also, the whole 'Oh no, Daniel might lose the dealership and we're supposed to feel sympathy about it' makes no sense. They're clearly rich, they don't need the dealership, would Miyagi-san really worry about car dealership in such a situation? Can you REALLY see Miyagi-san being worried about BUSINESS, in a situation where he has more money than he could ever eat?

But that might be an irritation for another post.

Also, the 'rich white man' is also shown to be way more cruel than he was in the past - sure, rich, grumpy guys are probably realistically a lot like that, but he's shown to have SOME kind of compassion before, now he's just 'evil impersonified', which is just bad writing.

What happened to the previously so brilliant writing that could take a 'bad guy' and turn him into a 'grey area', they could juggle the delicate balance between sympathy and 'seemingly evil people', by giving them backstory and showing them having some kind of reasons behind their actions.

But in Season 3 (at least so far), everything has changed; suddenly the 'evil car dealership guy' is just UNNECESSARILY evil d1ck, the black guy in prison is just 100% evil, and the rich, evil guy has 0% mercy whatsoever, or humanity, or anything that would make him an interesting character.

It's like suddenly they lost the delicate dance in the 'grey area' and went directly into the movie-tropelike 'black and white' - our 'heroes' are still not completely black or white, but not only does it feel like Season 3 is repeating the first season (did they run out of ideas?), doing the same things with Johnny suddenly being in the gutter again, and then IMMEDIATELY bouncing back from it (groan, it was handled SO much better in previous seasons, even when he became 'healthy' again, it was shown to be an internal struggle in many subtle ways).

[–] avortac4 (3752) 2 years ago

I used to love this show, but now it's just shoving the feminist propaganda in our faces, making every evil guy just 100% evil, making every douche a 100% unlikable d1ck with no chance for redemption or adult ability to have a civil conversation, and of course now they're trying to make Kreese a sympathetic guy, after all he's done, after all his manipulations and such? Sorry, but it doesn't work that way.

It's like someone watched the first two seasons, thought they can handle it, and then used every hollyweird cliché and movie trope ever, and then tried to 'redeem' an ALREADY UNREDEEMABLE bad guy, making everyone else unredeemable in the process as well.

What happened? There used to be subtlety, and when a character WAS shown to be unredeemable (Kreese), it was also more subtle, and superficially a 'good guy', which made him actually SCARY.

In season 3, he's not scary, he's just a confusing 'comically evil' sh1thead looking for trouble openly and without any kind of subtlety.

WHAT HAPPENED?! I can barely stomach Season 3, whereas the previous seasons were so shiny and brilliant. The writing is NOT on par.

Not to mention how unpoignant and BORING the first episodes are - the action is more of the 'shaky cam nonsense'-nature than the amazingly coreographed (even if unrealistic) fights of the previous seasons. Robby was also shown to suddenly NOT be able to handle himself in a fight with some common thugs that have no martial arts training, whereas previously, he was able to handle a similar situation even when he had only had a small amount of training!

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BELOVED COBRA KAI?!

It's either repeating what we already saw, delving into boring teenage drama, showing women as unrealistic Mary Sues (I still can't get over how the now-surprisingly-fat woman can just threaten the much more buff, bigger and taller maintenance guy, as if she actually could do anything in a real fight, realistically speaking - are we supposed to just swallow that?),..

[–] avortac4 (3752) 2 years ago

..or trying to make us care about BUSINESS.

I mean, someone losing a friend, someone losing an arm, someone losing a fight, losing control, their self-dignity and all that I can feel sympathy for.

Losing a business in a situation where the whole family could feed themselves from their bank account for the next 1000 years without problems - HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FEEL SYMPATHY ABOUT THAT?

Not to mention one of the things that has bugged me for decades now; Americans don't know how to FLIP THE BIRD.

Even when they can freely DRAW the bird-flipping on a page of a contract, THEY STILL CAN'T DO IT CORRECTLY!

If anyone, a friggin' KARATE practicioner should be able to do it, because THEY, of all people, should know how to do a PROPER FIST, and then just keep that fist but raise the middle finger.

The THUMB SHOULD NOT BE ON THE OUTSIDE AND THE OTHER FINGERS should be in a FIST!

What did someone do to the only show that gave me hope in this crazy world... why? Did the original writers leave? Did the director change? Why would the main cast allow all this?

AAGH! Someone was definitely beaten up severely, but it wasn't the little asian treasurer kid.

It was Cobra Kai itself, the show that started so brilliantly, and now someone kicked the sh1t out of it. Ouch!

As a last note: Couldn't they made the kid at least LIMP a little? JUST A LITTLE BIT?!