What is your best example of a show that has a great first season then gets woke or a show that pulls a bait and switch? For me I’d say Westworld and as a prediction I would say the Netflix Conan show will either be great in the first season to lure viewers or he will have a female sidekick who is much better
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It's been a while and I'm just going off memory so this is probably full of holes. Generally speaking, Kreese is brought in to make it look like the original Cobra-Kai was always in the wrong when the whole point of the first season was to show it as a good model of masculinity for young men.
I didn't see Cobra-Kai season 2, but in Karate Kid he was fine with his students attacking Daniel for no reason, and he told them to cheat in the tournament. He had PTSD but to say he was totally a misunderstood good guy would be a retcon.
He was portrayed as a bad guy in Karate Kid 3 too. He's a grown-ass man who wants revenge on a kid.
Yeah he definitely didn't, or didn't understand the point. I'm no film/book analyst but imo Kreese represents unchecked power/aggression. While it is inherently a good thing for men to embrace their masculinity and be aggressive, the important thing is knowing when and how. You still want to strike hard, strike fast, strike first, put an end to things with no mercy, but only when it's really warranted. Part of being mature and having strength is knowing when to be a fully destructive force and when to hold back.
Johnny's Cobra Kai still embraces the ethos and inherent good of teaching boys how to be men through effort, struggle, and harsh criticisms
If you like media with that concept in particular you should read/listen to the Galaxys Edge books (nothing to do with star wars obviously) the tag line throughout the series is "kill them first"