More Cobra Kai: Freud, Girard, and History [Media Notes 143b]

I wanted to follow up on my earlier post about Cobra Kai. Here’s my point of departure:

So, what do we have? A conflict between two teenage boys gets reignited in their early middle age where it becomes amplified into a war for dominance of the karate world. On the one hand, it is rather ridiculous, adults using their dojos as vehicles for working out their conflicts. How Freudian! [Indeed. Think about that for a minute, think about it very seriously.] The series is aware of this and indicates that awareness in various ways. ...