#the white & orange t shirt of Learning Miyagi Do Karate

[deputychairman]

who is ready for a NEW THEORY about the cobra kai wardrobe department and the deliberate re-use of iconic costumes from TKK? 

obviously there are the Watsonian moments like when Miguel wears the skeleton pyjamas which go from top dog to underdog; an easter egg in s3 when Johnny’s in white at the country club, sees Ali with Daniel and DOESNT get spaghetti spilled on him, but what about Daniel’s TKK iconic red hoodie that he’s wearing on the beach when Johnny first beats him up/when he goes to the cobra kai dojo and Johnny smirks at him/ the cobras push him off the cliff/hill? and he hates that stupid bike? BEHOLD:

(you’re gonna have to trust me on the colours, I *can* just about edit an image but i won’t do it unless I’m getting paid for it) (like you losers don’t remember EXACTLY what both these hoodies look like anyway) Johnny, in s3 ep2!

and then the white with orange sleeves t shirt Daniel’s wearing when he’s learning balance on the boat with mr Miyagi and then also punching? BEHOLD:

(again, trust me on the colours:) Robby in the whole of s2 ep1 when he starts officially training with Daniel, doing all the iconic chores and starting up Miyagi Do (and awkwardly runs into Johnny at the hardware store bc that was an easier screenshot to get)

AND this one really needs a gif (again, i can, but it would take 1900 hours and still be rubbish so I won’t): Daniel’s TKK cutoff grey sweater with the denim shorts when he first meets Ali, complete with that weird shot where the camera shows her looking at him from between his legs like we’re meant to be admiring his thighs (ok?), vs. Johnny’s sexy dream in s2 ep8 about Carmen which ends in Sexy Karate and begins - I SHIT YOU NOT - with her wearing denim shorts and a cutoff grey sweater, BEHOLD:

you are REALLY gonna have to trust me there bc Carmen gets the whole camera panning up her entire body (is this like the focus on Daniel’s thighs? idk, i just say what i see) in soft focus so I can’t screenshot her face and the outfit but I SWEAR TO YOU this is what she wears to start the sex dream

so in conclusion, I don’t know enough about TV wardrobe decisions or the evils of the moving image to analyse this but some choices certainly were made here, i think we can all see that.

#these insights brought to you by being sick all weekend #and rewatching TKK and s2 and half of s3 while feeling VERY SORRY FOR MYSLEF #cobra kai #the karate kid #(i never get this much time to rewatch anything so ii'm trying to be positive) #(also i feel a lot better now so i have the energy to reflect on what i saw) #anyone else got any examples and/or explanations? #clearly it's the Red Hoodie of Underdog Suffering = root for Johnny! #the sexy cutoff shorts & sweater of New Romance #the white & orange t shirt of Learning Miyagi Do Karate #but what if there's MORE i didnt notice? #i was quite sick! #if anyone's got more we must ANALYSE THEM IN DEPTH #well i say 'must' #maybe 'we can analyse them in depth if we've got time to kill like i did when i was sick'