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    My Love Letter to Cobra Kai

    With the new (and maybe conclusive?) season coming out at the end of this year, I thought I’d talk about why this series appeals to me. Because it really shouldn’t. For one thing, I didn’t see The Karate Kid until I was like, thirty? So I didn’t grow up with it in my pop culture bubble. I liked talking animals, cartoons, and cool robots. I did not go for cough, cough realism. Same reason I never watched The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, Dirty Dancing, Uncle Buck, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Top Gun, or Commando. Unless it had some fantasy element in it, I wasn’t buying. But now I’m a grown-up…