Cobra Kai Season 5 had an explosive ending that'll be sure to keep
fans talking. Today I explain the ending and break it all down.
Hi I'm Ken Cole, and if you're a Cobra Kai fan, you're in the right place.
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don't miss anything going forward. Now, we're going to break down the end of Cobra
Kai Season 5. Of course this video will have spoilers from now on, so you've been warned!
Let's start when Terry Silver is about to fight Daniel LaRusso. Terry Says, “first I took care
of Chozen, now you. This is where Miyagi-Do ends.” Daniel responds, “Miyagi-Do existed before any of
us and it'll be around long after we're gone, and the roots are strong so the tree will survive.”
This is a reference to Karate Kid 3, after Daniel dropped Mr. Miyagi's bonsai tree into seawater,
and after Mike Barnes broke the tree, it looked like it might not survive. After Daniel
suffered at the hands of Terry Silver, Mr. Miyagi showed Daniel that the tree healed. [play clip]
Next Daniel and Terry Silver fight and we see flashbacks to Karate Kid 3, where Terry Silver
is teaching Daniel the quicksilver method. This is the first time the Quicksilver method is fully
referenced in the series, and if you haven't seen Karate Kid III you might not be clear on what this
means. Quicksilver was a brutal training method that Terry used to torture Daniel, warp his mind,
and give him false confidence for the tournament in 1985. Here we see that Daniel is using the
Quicksilver method against Terry. And we hear the first rule, A man can't stand, he can't fight.
Then Terry readies his fist for his patented Silver Bullet technique, that was quite
devastating throughout Season 5. However Daniel blocks this with his knee. Then he strikes
Silver's chest for rule two of the quicksilver method. “A man can't breathe he can't fight.”
Then Terry grabs Tory's trophy to use as a weapon,
the illegitimate trophy, the one where he paid off the ref so that Tory would win.
Then for Quicksilver rule number 3, “a man can't see he can't fight,” Daniel
goes for his classic crane kick. People know this kick from the finale of Karate Kid 1,
but there's an added meaning with Daniel using it on Terry Silver.
In Karate Kid Part III Terry mocked Daniel for using the crane kick.
[play clip] So now Daniel kicks that back in Terry's face, so to speak, and Terry goes down.
Terry's students abandon Cobra Kai, throwing shirts in Terry's face,
the very merch he was always so proud of.
Outside Kyler the bully takes credit for saving the day, and then Stingray recants his testimony
that Kreese attempted homicide (which sent Kreese to jail). Stingray now says that he
was under duress, and he accuses Silver for assaulting him. The question is, how
credible is Stingray as a witness now that he's apparently committed perjury in a court of law?
Robby and Kenny come to an understanding, and Robby and Tory make up and get back
together. Then Sam confronts Miguel about the octopus jewelry he dropped at Miyagi-Do
after Sam broke up with him, and he admits he did. And then for the
first time he tells Sam he loves her, and Sam says she loves him back. Awww.
Then the hijacked Reggie's Ride or Die shows up, with Johnny telling Carmen that
it was thoughts of her and their family that kicked him into a new gear to win the day.
Then Mike Barnes helps Chozen out, so Chozen survived his battle with Terry
Silver! But he's badly injured with as Chozen says just a flesh wound, [monty python clip?].
As he gets into the ambulance he says he should have had a shorter Long Island Ice Tea.
Which means he's been drunk during this whole battle with Terry Silver.
Makes you wonder what would have happened if they hadn't been drinking.
Then Daniel spots Terry's Rembrandt painting in the car,
and Mike says that it should cover the cost of the furniture store
that was burned down in episode 3. Fun fact! That Rembrandt painting is called “The Storm
on the Sea of Galilee” which depicts the moment right after Jesus had walked on water
and right before he calmed the storm. Anybody else think that Terry might have a messiah complex?
Anyway, Mike intends to sell the painting, but it might have to be on the black market because,
the world would know that Terry owned the painting. So if Mike's not careful,
he might end up in handcuffs soon.
Speaking of, Terry is escorted out of the dojo in handcuffs. Honestly, a difficult moment
for me to watch as a Terry fan. The cop says that because of Stingray's revised statement,
Terry's facing a ton of charges and that his lawyers are going to be pretty busy. Or will they?
Terry has a history of bribing, er- friendships with the D.A.
Some of whom I may or may not be related to. I think he'll be out pretty quickly.
Johnny wishes that Silver and Kreese would wind up as cellmates, but then the cop says,
“did you hear what happened?” Then we see that the apparent murder scene at the beginning of the
episode where it looked like Kreese died, was a fake out. The blood was the red jello that
Kreese had been collecting from his cellmates. Kreese makes short work of the guards and then
takes the doctor's ill-fitting clothes and uses his counsellor's ID card that he took
while giving her a sob story, to open the prison door. And he walks out a free man. So now Kreese
is on the outside and Terry is on the inside, and the story is set up for possible future seasons!
So there's the breakdown of the ending. Let me know what you thought about the ending and all
of Season 5 in the comments. Don't forget to like, subscribe and hit the notification bell. We also
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