After another huge brawl and face-off, the ending of Cobra Kai Season 5 leaves the future
of John Kreese's karate dojo in enormous doubt and perhaps signals the imminent end of the
series itself.
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan and in this video I'm explaining how Cobra Kai's
fifth season could be setting up a big twist in Season 6, plus I'll be revealing the little
details and easter eggs you might have missed in the season 5 finale.
Spoilers ahead, of course, so take care.
Season 5 ends with a smashing show-down as Daniel triumphs over Silver, crane-kicking
him through a giant glass cobra.
As Silver's students line up to quit and throw off their Cobra Kai shirts in disgust after
the revelation their sensei bribed the referee at the All Valley Tournament in Season 4,
it appears that Cobra Kai's days may truly be numbered.
Interestingly, Daniel defeats the sneaky sensei by employing against him the Quick Silver
rules that Silver taught him in Karate Kid 3.
This is exactly what Chozen recommended to Daniel in the very first episode.
To catch serpent, you must think like serpent.
We will use his style against him.
Daniel's victory here shows he's been willing to embrace other karate styles in addition
to those he learned from Mr Miyagi, something he admitted to Johnny at the end of Season
4 when he saw his own daughter using some of Eagle Fang's moves at the tournament.
I see some of what you teach can be good sometimes.
This continues the overarching Cobra Kai series theme of former foes reconciling and then
making something new by blending their contrasting attitudes and styles of karate together,
We've combined our different styles to train our students into the best fighters I've ever
seen.
By the way, notice that how Daniel lands his final blow on Silver by crane-kicking him
into the glass cobra on the wall behind him is a call-back to when Silver fell into a
pane of glass during his fight with Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid 3, as well as to Daniel's
winning kick to take out the young Cobra Kai star Johnny in the original movie.
But let's not forget the crucial part the Miyagi-Do students also played in taking down
Silver.
After uncovering the incriminating footage of Tory's talk with her sensei, they remembered
Chozen's training and advice to work together as a team against the onslaught of Cobra Kai.
He said that the snakes will take us down one by one.
But what if we weren't a bunch of ones?
The only way we win is if we work together.
Similar to how, together, they surrounded the basket of eggs to protect it against Chozen,
they formed a barrier around Anthony and the tablet which was uploading the incriminating
clip of Silver.
So, by the end of Season 5, with the exception of Kreese – more on him shortly – the
biggest Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do rivalries appear to have been resolved for both the
OG Karate Kid characters and the new generation.
Miguel and Robbie are now friends; Sam and Tory are reconciled and fought together
against Sensei Kim, with Devon also abandoning Cobra Kai to join them;
Oh, I will be a champion.
But I'll get there my way, not yours.
meanwhile Kenny's beef with Robbie seems to have been put aside;
and even Stingray redeems himself when he comes to rescue Daniel.
What are you doing?
It's pitch black out.
Stingrays see better in the dark.
But with Silver hauled off by the police, what's left now for the series and the Cobra
Kai legacy he repeatedly spoke about in Season 5?
I never had any children.
My only legacy is Cobra Kai.
Well, conveniently in Season 5 we're introduced to the granddaughter of Master Kim, who Silver
invited over from Korea to join him at Cobra Kai.
I did not get on the plane for money.
What I'm offering you is legacy.
Your grandfather didn't teach American soldiers the Way of the Fist just to use on the battlefield.
We have to share his style with the world.
As a child, she avidly watched the young Kreese and Silver train with her grandfather, and
she's clearly motivated to make her own mark in the martial arts world now.
Silver may be arrested, but Cobra Kai as a dojo was already accepted to compete at the
Sekai Taikai international tournament, and if she wanted she could recruit her own students,
perhaps from Korea, and enter the competition under the Cobra Kai name, thus continuing
the legacy of Cobra Kai, fulfilling what Silver predicted:
Cobra Kai will go on forever.
Though, of course, it's also possible that she'd want to distance herself from the bad
publicity surrounding Silver and his dojo.
The Sekai Taikai tournament will undoubtedly be the focus of Season 6, and it seems more
than likely that Sensei Kim will be competing there in some form or another bringing her
grandfather's "Way of the Fist" style of fighting to the competition, and setting up a clash
with the karate styles championed by Daniel and Johnny at Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang.
Chozen also revealed that his uncle Sato, the secondary villain from Karate Kid 2, had
major beef with Master Kim and I expect a lot of that history will be revealed in Season
6, setting up a collision between Chozen and Sensei Kim.
My uncle Sato did not speak much of Kim Sun-Yung.
But I know he had much anger towards him.
Chozen also revealed that Master Kim's teachings are behind a lot of Cobra Kai's brutal philosophy.
Kim Sun-Yung's style is based on deception.
No honor.
No mercy.
Of course, John Kreese, the OG big bad of the original Karate Kid film, will be back
to mix things up in Season 6 after faking his own death yet again.
The finale began with Kreese pretending he was done with everything after being tricked
by his former star student Johnny and arch enemy Daniel, and telling Tory to look after
herself from now on and forget about him.
And his opening words in the final episode…
This is it.
End of the line.
…are a call-back to what Danny's mum said to her teen son when they first arrived in
LA, the event that kicked off the whole Karate Kid and Cobra Kai saga.
This is it.
This is the end of the line.
That's a clever little signal that although Kreese claims he's giving up, this moment
is really just the beginning of a new chapter in his life, just like it was for Daniel all
those years ago.
Now that an unrepentant Kreese has broken out of prison, it'll be interesting to see
how he reacts to Silver's arrest and discovering that the students from his beloved dojo have
abandoned it.
The threat that Johnny made to wipe out Kreese's legacy appears to have come true.
You wanna know why I'm in this fight?
So I can erase everything you did.
And every mark you left.
Every memory of you.
I expect Kreese might well team up with Sensei Kim when he discovers she's been at Cobra
Kai.
Remember from the flashback that they both seemed to get along with each other when they
were younger, and this will be Kreese's opportunity to re-establish the legacy of Cobra Kai which,
of course, came from Kim's grandfather.
On top of that, going up against Daniel and Johnny at the international tournament will
be a chance for him to get revenge on them for the trick they pulled on him in prison.
I think Kreese will also be looking to get his own personal payback on Silver for framing
him for beating up Stingray.
First of all, I'm not entirely convinced Silver will be going to jail.
He's got plenty of money to pay the best lawyers around, and they could probably convince a
jury that Stingray's new testimony is unreliable given he already lied about Kreese.
Plus, the video evidence of Silver beating up Stingray has already been deleted.
If Silver does go free then, Kreese will likely want his own revenge.
There is an endgame, kid.
Silver's going down.
Only he doesn't know it yet.
Now, Season 6 hasn't been confirmed by Netflix yet, but apparently some scenes have already
been filmed; however, my feeling is that it could well
be the final season of the series.
Many major character arcs have already been wrapped up in Season 5, and it's hard to see
how exactly the series could carry on and top the stakes of the biggest karate tournament
in the world.
It also makes me wonder whether there could be a big surprise twist for the final season,
and I think there's a clue in the Season 5 moment when Daniel and Johnny were accepted
into the tournament and were asked for the name of their dojo…
We just need your dojo's name.
We are Miyagi-Do.
And we are Eagle Fang.
Well, which is it?
Now, wild and out-there theory time, folks, but what if Johnny and Daniel decide they
want to finally rehabilitate Cobra Kai by taking on the mantle themselves, so that Miyagi-Do
and Eagle Fang combine to become the new Cobra Kai, or Miyagi-Cobra-Fang?
It was Johnny after all who resurrected Cobra Kai, and it would be an intriguing turn of
events for the OG Karate Kid to rehabilitate the dojo of his former nemesis.
He did already of course train at Silver's Cobra Kai in the third movie, and used some
of those techniques this season to defeat Silver.
The biggest problem with this idea is that it may be hard for Daniel to justify it as
fitting in with and honouring Mr Miyagi's legacy.
Of course, the whole name thing may just be a bit of fun and a meta moment alluding to
how fans have referred to Daniel and Johnny's team up in earlier seasons as "Miyagi-Fang",
something also acknowledged by Stingray when he gets ambushed.
Miyagi-Fangs?
Overall, I feel that Season 6 might be the best way to end the Cobra Kai series on a
relatively high note, rather than dragging things out for many more seasons.
So, what do you think?
Did you enjoy Season 5 and do you think the series is ready to wrap things up for good
in Season 6?
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