As the continuation of the Karate Kid films, Cobra Kai celebrated an absolute success story. From 2018, the cheerful action full of martial arts love only conquered Fan hearts on YouTube Premium and from season 3 as a Netflix original series.
Now the story has ended with the last 5 episodes of season 6. After Cobra Kai had recently lost its own bite, the Netflix series tears the wheel around again in an unexpectedly successful final.
Cobra Kai heads for a catastrophe in season 6 … but then this great finale comes
I was last frustrated by Cobra Kai. With the three -season division of the final, Netflix was not a favor. Not only did the end became uncomfortable artificially pulled into the lengthAlso a failed season 6 start last summer open the increasing weaknesses of the series:
How often could someone change the pages in Cobra Kai before it got bored? Where was the friction when the former competitors Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Daniel Russo (Ralph Macchio) reconciled with a karate dojo? How long could the “Jungstars” by Miguel (Xolo Maridueña, 23), Robbie (Tanner Buchanan, 26), Tory (Peyton List, 26) and Samantha (Mary Mouser, 28) go through as a school -friendly teenager?
Cobra Kai recently moved in repeated patterns and added nothing new to the main characters. That resulted in part 1 in one tiring exchange of blows. Part 2 of the 6th season brought a little fresh wind again with the focus on the “Sekai Taikai” gymnastics, but the last five episodes of the series final only delivered the final correction.
Attention, from here, spoilers follow part 3 of the 6th season Cobra Kai.
The Cobra Kai end in short form: Despite the participant death, the karate tournament will be resumed. But Miyagi-Do-Champion Robby is subject to the unfair methods of Iron Dragons Fighting machine Axel Kovacevic (Patrick Luwis), so that in the final of the Sekai Takai the villainous Iron Dragons and the Cobra Kai team led by villain (Martin Kove) are facing each other . But he does. Tory and the transferred Miguel win at the last second. Due to a tie Johnny also defeated the dragon trainer Sensei Wolf (Lewis Tan) in the fight and can thus pull the reputation of the fallen dojos. In the end, Cobra Kai wins.
Cobra Kai is reflected in the series finals to his strong beginnings
The Cobra Kai series finale may sound almost absurd on paper, but is based on the strengths that made the series so seductive seven years ago: No grace and no fear of big gestureseven if that sometimes seems (wonderful) exaggerated. Is it realistic that the special rule of a teenager tournament has two adult Senseis compete against each other if tie? Probably not, but it’s animal fun.
Even the radical phrase fits that Kreese finally asks his old student Johnny for forgiveness, but then still in a huge explosion in the fight with Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). Not all bad guys have to be reformed. The question of what makes a villain resonates in Cobra Kai to the end. At the end, Johnny Lawrence likes new students: inside his Cobra Kai-Dojo, but we still see how far the former karate-kid entitled player came in 6 seasons.
Fortunately, Cobra Kai remembered that at the beginning Actually Johnny Lawrence the main character Was and Daniel Larusso should only play the second violin (since he still gets his own movie this year anyway). Fortunately, the fact that Mr. Miyagi’s honor is restored and his “murder” was of course only a misunderstanding does not take over an excessive space in the standard conclusion. Even the surprising Robbie defeat ensures that Johnny’s very first student Miguel can finally shine again. And Tory’s competition gain reflects the purification history in the center of the series again in the younger generation.
In the end, Cobra Kai deserves his title at Netflix of new things
When Daniel suddenly uses John’s own way against him in a last speech to put the depressed words to the last fight with Russo -less words, nobody will be able to resist a smile. There are many ways to the goal in a series that once re-seamed with karate-moves toxic masculinity. Nobody leased the right one for themselves as long as the result is right.
This happens in the final five episodes with plenty of action on the mat (including processed crane kick trauma from karate kid 1), figures with convincing inner life and future decisions with which the series one Satisfactory completion for everyone involved finds. Whether college, sports career or your own dojo: This is how I can let the characters go soothed.
After season 5 and 6 had put the Dojo Cobra Kai in the hands of the opponents, not only I wondered how the Netflix series justified their title when the focus was on the Dojos Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang. But with the last twist of the Dojo handover back to Johnny Lawrence, the circle closes at the beginning and I just want to cheer after the unexpected comeback: Cobra Kai Never this!