Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers Show, I’m your host Jared, aka the breaking boards Buck,
who is also here to “break” down all of the spoilers.
Haha okay, umm in this video we’re going to be doing a deep dive into Cobra Kai season
5.
And going over not only its story & nightclub dancing shenanigans, but also the ending.
This latest season solves some of the issues that plagued the dojos from Season 4, while
also leaving some big things to be explored in future seasons, with us predicting whether
or not the head of the Cobra is truly karate chopped off, or two will once again emerge
from one.
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5.
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Ending of Season 4 and Opening of this Season
Okay, so Season 5 opens on an almost Globo Gym advertisement showcasing how Cobra Kai
is the peak of any dojo in the valley, having the best equipment, experienced senseis, state
of the art snack bar, and opening more locations in the valley everyday.
This ties into the ending of Season 4 where Terrible Terry tells Crusty Creese he is finally
shedding him of his weakness, and showing the world what Cobra Kai can really be.
Which results in Creese going to prison, because he is framed for the assault on Sting-Ray,
getting him out of the picture to no longer interfere with the expansion of Cobra Kai.
With this mentality of teaming up with your past that Creese and Terry had going for them,
is also in full force on the side of Miyagi Do, not only with Johnny and Danial San, but
Chozen who shows up at the end of Season 4 has become a well established member as a
sensei for Miyagi Do, combining his teachings with the other teachings of Miyagi Do and
Eagle Fang.
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Season 5 Breakdown and themes (Dont dwell on the past/regrets/living for the future)
Now even though the season is latching on to the idea of the past, and righting the
wrongs, for example in Terry’s realm it's his failure of Cobra Kai back in the 80’s
when he was rockin’ the sick pony tail and snorting that booger sugar.
The theme of not dwelling on that past, any sort of grudge or “what if” moment you
may have, and instead living in the now, the future is what makes us, and we shouldn’t
be judged by our past choices.
This central theme is reflected upon almost all of the characters.
In Migeul’s case it's forgiving his father for not being there to raise him, even though
he does still turn out to be a dick, and it is heavily hinted that his father was a drug
dealer.
I mean, with a name like Hector Salamanca….
Uhhh I mean, Hector Salazar….
Uhhh wrong one….still the wrong one….
There we go.
Is everyone named Hector Sala-something automatically a bad guy? Anyway that story thread honestly
didn't amount to much, but he does get to meet the Point Break surfers lead by Mortal
Kombat’s Kano, who’s ass gets kicked by Johnny later, so not all was lost!
Later on Miguel forgives both Robbie and Sam as well.
Their relationship, on again and off again, finally does end up in a good position, when
Sam finds the Octopus necklace Miguel had bought for her.
And you know the Octopus is essentially their relationship love language mascot, going back
to their first date all the way in season 1.
Johnny dwells on the past when he finds out that he and Carmen are going to have a child.
Yes, surprise!
Jonny’s little dude’s kicked their way all the way through Carmen’s uterine wall….
Yeah, uhh probably a better way of saying that.
But he wants to be there for this new child after realizing he was never there for Robbie,
and doesn’t want this to happen again.
Showing initiative to be the best boyfriend he can be, cooking, cleaning, and baby proofing
his place for their upcoming child together.
This added initiative is picked up immediately by Carmen, not only in real life, but her
dreams seem to be influenced heavily by this new and improved Johnny in some hilarious
Top Gun reenactments.
Johnny turns up the heat in some aviator volleyball action, some motorbike scenes reminiscent
of Maverick and Charlie, along with the silhouetted love making scenes.
It’s a clever reference because both Johnny and Carmen reference the movie earlier in
the series.
Back on track with the central theme, Johnny mentions that for years he's been thinking
about what would have happened if he had blocked the infamous kick from Danial back in the
All Valley tournament.
How much better could his life have been?
But now almost takes a step back from those notions and is content and happy with the
journey that has led him to where he is at, with Carmen and the new friends he had made
along the way.
Even Chozen, whom I thought would be more of a side character gets his time to not only
flesh out some of his teachings and whoop ass, but there is some solid character development
from him and the regrets he had from the time of karate Kid Part 2.
He mentions that after the events of that movie, he was labeled a coward in his village,
too like Johnny regretting the actions of his past, but that this was his redemption
arc in a sense.
But also how he still, after all of these years, has a longer for Kumiko who was featured
in Part 2.
It's him looking back and thinking it’s not too late to show this person I have changed,
which is amazing growth from what his character was in Part 2, because attempted murder isn’t
the strongest pickup line.
I’m curious if they will end up together in Season 6, because Chozen was dropping some
saucy drunk voicemails for Kimiko.
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NEW TOURNAMENT
Now one of the biggest new additions to this season was the introduction of the Sai Kai
Tai Kai world karate tournament.
Though little information on this was given, it is supposed to be the most prestigious
karate tournament in the world.
This can help expand the Cobra Kai world and lore out much further than just the valley.
It is quite a tease, don't get me wrong, but with both teams winning invites to this world
tournament, it allows for some characters from the previous seasons and movies to make
a return, cough cough Julie Pierce cough cough, along with even more intense rivalries and
karate techniques.
It was fun to watch the Sai Kai Tai Kai committee spectate each of the dojo’s training, because
the contrast between the two had some HEAVY Rocky IV vibes running through them.
While the Cobra Kai gym has state of the art technology, Miyagi Do is doing things much
more old school and bare bones, like the contrast between Rocky and Draco do in that movie.
Johnny even references it a couple times when talking with the committee, about running
up some snow covered peaks, with the committee head agreeing that he loves Rocky IV.
Johnny later on references the ending speech about how everyone can change, both referencing
the movie, and tying in with the theme of the past is the past, and the future is what
matters
***CLIP HERE ROCKY IV and COBRAI KAI*** _____________________________________________________________
ENDING EXPLAINED
Now one of the biggest reveals in this season is that Terry had paid off the officials at
the All Valley Championships in season 4, biggest shocker yet, right?
Meaning that Tori’s trophy and win were illegitimate.
Tori lets Miyagi Do know of this wrong doing, and it’s their mission to recover any sort
of footage or proof to chop off the snake’s head once and for all.
There is a bit of a two part plan going on as the Miyagi Do and Cobra Kai students all
descend upon Cobra Kai dojo, partaking in a huge karate orgy of fists and kicks.
While this karate craze is happening, across town Johnny, Chozen, and Mike Barnes.
Yes, the same Mike Barnes who was the fighter of Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part 3,
but we will talk about him later.
Silver’s goon squad of hand picked Sensei's, that actually include cameos from UFC fighters
Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson and Tyron Woodley, so uhhh the more you know I guess.
Square off against them, but the three ninja’s kick.
**INSERT OSTRICH CLIP**
This leads to Chozen being struck down by Silver’s katana and left for dead in a pool
of his own blood.
Just kidding, he survives, however Silver is finally cancelled because security footage
of his tournament bribes are uploaded via Youtube, resulting in most of the Cobrai Kai
students turning on the dojo, bad publicity for the Cobra Kai name, and Terry Silver finally
having his crimes catch up to him, resulting in him going to prison, to hangout with his
buddy Creese who he had sent their at the end of Season 4.
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Funny thing though, Greasy Creesey has the last laugh by escaping prison in a Frank Synatra
backed, Hannibal Lecter-esque fashion.
Creese had orchestrated a master plan throughout this season to make his own escape.
Faking a fight in the prison lunchroom, to make it look like he was stabbed and died.
Only for the medical staff to realize the blood was actually melted red jello.
The ole’ melted jello gag, gets them everytime.
Knocking out the few guards, stealing a doctor’s uniform and finally escaping through the magnetically
locked doors, with his therapist’s badge that he had stolen earlier in the episodes.
Creese makes a daring escape, like a fart in the wind, and leaves us on maybe the biggest
cliffhanger of this series yet.
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Season 6 predictions
So with the Sai Kai Tai Kai world tournament being on the horizon and Greasy Creesy slipping
through the long dong of the law, I think both of these things will be explored heavily
in a potential Season 6.
My thoughts are that Creese will have escaped from the United States, leaving the current
state of Cobra Kai in shambles, but trying to revive it in either Tahiti, which is where
he visits in The Karate Kid Part 3, but more likely is him setting up shop in South Korea.
There was a bit of a flashback in this season, showing that he and Terry had trained there
in 1980, with Creese mentioning fond memories of him potentially having a champion on his
hands, referring to a young Johnny Lawerence.
Here is where Creese will start to build Cobra Kai on a world scale level, because at the
end of Season 4 he exclaims that “He is Cobra Kai”
**INSERT CLIP HERE**
Meaning all of the dojos Silver built up mean nothing without him.
Creese will slither his way back to facing Miyagi Do head to head in the world Sai Kai
Tai Kai tournament, making his triumphant return, while once again being a thorn in
the side of Danial and Johnny.
Now two other dojo may pop up and join Cobra Kai and Miyagi Do in the Sai Kai Tai Kai tournament,
and that would be both the unnamed dojos of Chozen and Mike Barnes.
First of which, Chozen, even though got a katana to the back, has this reinvigorated
spirit about him, and will return to Okinawa Island to confess his true feelings for Kumiko.
The next time we see him, the two will either be married or an item, with him starting his
own dojo, and it better be called Chozen Ones dojo.
It’s right there, don't mess up a good thing.
On the other hand is Mike Barnes, like I mentioned earlier he was the opponent that was hired
by terry Silver in the Karate Kid Part 3, and essentially fell out of karate after that
movie.
In Season 5 he had a well established life, until it was all ruined by Terrible Terry
when he burned down Barnes’s furniture store.
Now Barnes starting his own dojo, may be a long shot, but there’s a few reasons why
I don’t think this is the last we’ll see of him.
First he wants revenge on Silver and Cobra Kai.
Even if Silver is in prison, Cobra Kai is still alive, maybe not well, they maye need
to rebrand a bit, but they are still there, so a rival dojo would help fully put an end
to them.
He did say the furniture was the only thing he had, so he has nothing to lose and one
skill he possesses is the art of karate.
But how is he going to fund this venture?
Hmmm?
Well one simple answer, the painting that he stole from Silver's house at the end.
So the painting is actually a Rembrant painting called “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee”,
which, in real life, was stolen in 1990, but never recovered.
This makes sense why Terry would have possess this, all of his sketchy business dealings,
and thus is worth a ton of money, that Barnes could now somehow pawn off, make a little
starting cash and start his own dojo.
Because again, I don’t think that is the last we’ll see of him, unless Season 6 does
some Miyagi magic and Hillary Swank’s Julie Pierce somehow comes out of nowhere and roundhouse
kicks the fans right in the face.
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Season 5 review
Overall I think this 5th season had some perfect rhythm, while also missing a hit here or there.
Digging into and playing with some of the previous lore was probably its strongest attribute,
like expanding upon Terry’s addiction of Cobra kai greatness, sending out Cobra cut
outs that instantly reminded me of the biceps from Always Sunny in Philly
**ALWAYS SUNNY CLIP HERE**
and the furthering of character development between Danial and Chozen.
Chozen was the perfect addition to this season bringing a new sense of energy and fighting
style, while also being the almost wild card comedic relief character when it was needed
most.
And Johnny now mending that father son bond with Robbie and essentially starting a family
with Carmen, shows how much his character has changed from season 1.
I mean he was kinda sober this season.
Sure he partied some, but compared to the previous seasons, the dude looked like he
completed his 12 steps of AA meetings.
Was some of this season a bit bloated and more of a cracked board than fully shattering
it?
Absolutely, like Miguel’s father amounting to a little less than 2 episodes of story
was a bummer for myself.
With that being such a big cliffhanger of the last season, it seemed fairly insignificant,
in the grand scheme of this go around.
And the complete cock tease of this new Sai Kai Tai Kai worldwide competition, seemed
like more of a stepping stone set up of what is to come later.
Don’t get me wrong, the fight choreography has improved 10 fold as these seasons continue,
but this season felt way more about the internal drama and politics of karate in the valley,
rather than people actually getting into fisticuffs with one another.
Surprisingly everyone did have a time to shine, each having some sort of internal conflict
about how they should act vs how they want to act, which makes these dojo allegiances
so interesting at the end of the day, and I love that Netflix is really investing in
this series, I mean a young Johnny Lawerence, look at him.
You don't know which one is which.
If You ask one for ice cream, they both say yes!
But also the expanding of lore from the older films, sure they are cheesy 80’s karate
flicks, but this season not only pulled off some great homages, like Tori having to break
the stone figure which is the same as Danial having to break the wooden one, or bringing
back Jessica Andrews and her mac and cheese recipe, great tie in by the way.
but also really building upon Scary Terry as a fleshed out character.
In Part 3 he’s pretty much just a coked up dude with a pony, but they really made
him even more menacing than Creese.
But Creese also got some really great scenes like his therapy flashbacks and the demons
he is dealing with.
Cobra Kai is doing exactly what the fans of this show are already wanting, it’s not
like they are reinventing the “wax on wax off” method.
It’s karate, drama, dojos, rivalries, and kicks to the pants.
Was this season a perfectly executed tornado kick to the face?
No, like let me some more of these weird senseis.
Like what happened to this dude's eye?!
But hey, it was a fun, cheesy, bitch slap to the face.
I’m going to give this season a 8/10 broken boards.
If you don't like the rating, well then hey, don’t cry over some cracked eggs, okay?
If anything this season massively sets up what could be some of the best karate yet
in the Sai Kai Tai Kai tournament, that best be a majority of Season 6.
Hell, if that goes well, make them fight in Mortal Kombat, I don't give a shit.
I think it would work.
Right?
dDo some high flying bicycle kicks, the Kano dude from the beach.
It’s all there….
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CLOSING
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