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benosheabutter — 11 years ago(September 24, 2014 05:55 AM)
Where I agree with you is the fact that as the series went on, the more mystical they made him. Almost like Kwai Chan Caine from 'Kung Fu'. I mean to be fair, he was a fvc
The movies totally jumped the shark when they turned him into an invincible always-right superman. That's in direct contradiction with his admittance that he lost fights because "someone always knows more". Yet nobody ever knew more in any of the movies, and he continued to introduce stupid "mystical" moves that always won the fight. IMO, if you want to pinpoint the moment when the whole show went downhill, nuked the fridge and jumped the shark all at once, it was honk. That slapstick turned these movies into a parody of itself and there was no going back. While first movie took its subject matter fairly seriously, and had mostly clever humor as opposed to slapstick, honk was introduction of slapstick into serious matter and that's death of credibility.
I'd say that Miyagi healing Daniel's leg was pushing it already. Fixing an over worked shoulder muscle was one thing, but fixing whatever Daniel had at the tourney, that the doctor pronounced unfit to continue, was supernatural territory. And then it snowballed with his stupid made-up moves and winning fights against multiple opponents without receiving a single punch or kick. Oh, and they even brought Shaolin monks into KK4 even though he dismissed them as "too much TV" in KK. In short, they broke every single rule they created in KK in order to keep this boring superman in the series and make him more and more Omni-powerful. That's "can't see forest from trees (tree being Miyagi in this case)" right there. -
jefgg — 10 years ago(August 25, 2015 07:00 AM)
Daniel was a bully. Please click on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Gz_iTuRMM#t=270