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Cobra Kai
2018 · TV series · 6 seasons
Created by Josh Heald, Hayden Schlossberg, Jon Hurwitz
This Karate Kid sequel series picks up 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. This reignites his old rivalry with the successful Daniel LaRusso, who has been working to maintain the balance in his life without mentor Mr. Miyagi.
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>> Yeah, everybody wants to be the Karate Kid who binged karate studies in one montage and then won the tournament instead of training in the dojo for years and still having to cheat to come close to winning (and still failing) like the chumps at Cobra Kai.
Somehow I think you missed the lesson of that movie - if there is one. It's been a long time and I can't put it into words well, but I suspect it was about someone with character and humility vs brute force and cheating. Something like that, but far different from underdog find shortcut to success.
I wasn’t aware that Cobra Kai is a documentary series.
I'm the same as far as Netflix, they have enough "good enough" shows for me to keep them around. I figure if I average ~2-3 hours a week it is still worth it.
Yes some of their new shows are... not to my liking (hey, maybe somebody out there really loves Warrior Nun but I stopped after a few episodes) but several are (Shadow and Bone, Witcher, Umbrella Academy, Ozarks, Cobra Kai, Lupin) I'm looking forward to future seasons, or finishing the series (in the case of Ozarks).
HBO Max might fall into the season-subscription category for me, where I take it 3-6 months a year. And maybe Disney+ too except I've got a large backlog there.
Anyway, the behavior change for me is to watch a show sooner rather than later. I was working my way through Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Hulu and reached season 6, taking a break for a few weeks, to return and discover the remained of the episodes are tied to a live TV subscription. Not sure if some license deal expired in time I took a break after season 5, or if it was always like that (however, I don't think so).
I had to search to find out what programs YouTube actually produced, because I hadn't seen one in a good long while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_YouTube_Premium_original_programming
Looks like most English-language content stopped in 2018 or 2019, though they continued producing films, documentaries, and a surprisingly large slate of kids shows through 2021.
I guess my point is that I don't think I've seen a YouTube Original advertised or recommended to me in years, so either this is a mercy killing of a division that never made anything all that good, or Google simply has no idea how to market the things that it creates. Heck, the one success of YouTube Originals that I remember, Cobra Kai, is now a Netflix show. How does that happen?
Honestly, I'm not all that surprised, but I do think that YouTube didn't do a very good job at selling YouTube Originals.
They didn't do what every other platform did initially: Fill it with content to draw people in. It's certainly difficult to do in the modern era of hyper fragmented content platforms, but YouTube is still a centerpiece of modern content delivery. Without that content, all they could offer was their actual original content. Yes, the YouTube Movies channel exists, but that's not a wide selection.
I don't think that's necessarily all YouTube's fault. The siloing of content is a significant problem, and this failure likely represents real problems for the future of streaming for customers.
Of the Originals content, Cobra Kai was the only good show I recall from it, and they sold that to Netflix. The only other Original I can think of is MindField, which was a good enough show, but I kept bouncing off of it. It didn't really seem interested in answering the questions it posed.
Maybe I'm just in some kind of weird minority (I also like modern art and brutalist architecture) but many of the TV shows I've most enjoyed watching over the last year have been Netflix originals. Arcane and Castlevania are both up there with the best western animation ever, The Witcher and Cobra Kai are great pulpy fun while still having compelling characters, and Kate is my favorite action movie.
These are all things I've experienced in the past three years, though some started or came out earlier.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (even better if you liked Children of Time)
Ted Lasso on Apple TV+
Star Trek: Discovery on CBS/Paramount (especially Season 2)
Letterkenny on Hulu
Cobra Kai on Netflix
The Country Things album by Granger Smith
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Oh, we're talking solely about serving the people on starlink? Not a general CDN? Yeah, that should have a small niche or two where you could make it better.
> There may be some ground stations owned by WISPs or whatever servicing a whole community
I'm talking about the ground stations that provide internet access to the satellites.
> all streaming the same new Cobra Kai episode
Multicast it.
There may be some ground stations owned by WISPs or whatever servicing a whole community, but I think the theory is that a lot will be small end user terminals providing connectivity to just a household or two in a remote location. If these are your users, then yeah, it could very well be advantageous to have and orbital CDN if millions of them are all streaming the same new Cobra Kai episode at the same time or whatever.
I love Cobra Kai, and the 3rd season was the first time I have seen a movie reference for this problem, which I think is a change in the good direction.
At the same time even with non-violent crimes I make a huge distinction between stealing and marijuana use. I wouldn't want to trust my code base to anybody who has stolen anything in his life, as the downside for stealing the whole codebase is enormous.
Regarding marijuana, who cares, it doesn't hurt anybody (except the passive smoking issues).
Thorrez is correct in their interpretation of my comment, so I have nothing to add there.
However given your username I'd like to let you know Cobra Kai season 3 recently released and is as silly as ever, in case you haven't already watched!
Yeah. I've considered moving from Google Play Music to Spotify, but I don't know if I'm ready to deal with Youtube having ads on my phone and TV (I know that ad blocking is an option on my laptop).
The actual "Youtube premium" is basically a non-factor in whether they would keep me, although I'll admit I did really enjoy season 1 of Cobra Kai.
I mean, what you've just described is the quintessential PG-13 villainy as depicted by the Cobra Kai dojo, in the very first Karate Kid movie, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita.
What specifically do you watch on YouTube that’s comparable to the movies and scripted series on Netflix? I know YouTube Red has shows like ‘Cobra Kai’ but you seem to be referring to regular YouTube.
>I don't consider Google to be largely this sort of company, as they've fought to expand access
They have fought to expand access to other people’s protected property but make sure theirs is locked behind paywall.
Think of all the copywrite violations on YouTube, from movies, tv shows, copywrite broadcasts of sporting events.
Now try to watch episode 3 or beyond of YouTube Red (Premium) series Cobra Kai without signing up for the service and giving them your credit card.
Do as I say, not as I do.
If you have Youtube Red, there is a show they just did called Cobra Kai where they look at the Karate kids nemesis 30 years later. In one episode the guy is recounting some event to one of his students from the opposite perspective as we were fed in the original movie and it fills this idea you describe above really nicely. Check it out if you get a chance.