re: Cobra Kai Season 5 (Released Today) Official Discussion Thread - Spoilers Welcome

Finished the new season. It’s pretty awesome. They completely ramped up the “seriousness” of it, which felt a little odd. Normally it’s tongue in cheek but this season has multiple attempted murders with deadly weapons.

Not sure where they go from here but I assume Kreese will be the big bad now that Silver is presumably in prison. I’m just not sure what the plot will be. Silver wanting to go global with this global tournament is pretty large scale.

This show has no business being as good as it is but man it’s fun as shite and does such an amazing job of weaving a new show in and out of the old movies.

I absolutely can’t believe they addressed the fake weights thing from KK2. That made my day.

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Chozen was using those to get more money for the villagers. Larusso ruined that too.

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I can buy that. I’m always down for shitting on Danyasa.

I forgot to mention earlier how awesome the Rocky 4 stuff was. That was outstanding. And there were several other references throughout the season that were subtle but awesome (and some not so subtle). Barnes “get up!” from KK3, Stingray “come with me if you want to live” from T2, Rocky 4, etc.

Another thing I thought about too was the granddaughter sensei literally fighting kids and injuring them. Like when Tory was at the dojo and she was trying to make her punch the stones, when Tory went to leave the other senseis blocked her way. I’d have been like are y’all gonna murder me or something, because I’m definitely leaving.

Also, I wonder if both dojos are still invited to the sekai taikai tournament now that it’s common knowledge that Silver paid off the referee in both that battle and the last AV tourney.

It was also a little ridiculous that these grown adults can’t seem to go anywhere in public without starting or getting into fights. Even Amanda and her cousin got into a bar brawl.

Does stingray give the car back to johnny?

Wonder if Mike Barnes gets back into Karate with Myagi-do..

Maybe they take over Cobra Kai students and locations. With all the guys teaching..as a way daniel can help make hime whole again, giving him a location and 25% ownership

Who would you rather spend time learning from?:

Daniel
Johnny
Barnes
Chozen

Well judging from my FB feed.. it was spectacular.. everybody who watches it are raving about it

Learning from? Chozen

Hanging out and sparring? Johnny

Working for? Daniel

Need anything in the dead of night and need someone who can flip a switch? Barnes

I hate Kyler, they've had every opportunity to give him some depth and its never evolved. Could have been an interesting character, but he just sucks

If it’s one thing I’ve learned from this show, it’s that parents in the valley don’t give a shite what their kids are up to

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I hate Kyler, they've had every opportunity to give him some depth and its never evolved.

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They have gave him another chance with him removing the Cobra Kai jacket after Silver was exposed but then he just took credit when he was being interviewed. It would seem like they (the writers) want him to stay that way.

I would be interested to see what happens with Kenny and when/if we see his brother get out of juvey.

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Wonder if Mike Barnes gets back into Karate with Myagi-do..

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Great season, but I was really disappointed Barnes got wiped out of that final fight.

Would have been awesome seeing him and Johnny teaming up against the CK sensei gang. They would have still been overmatched but would have been at least somewhat more realistic. Johnny would have gotten killed by those dudes

He also deserved a shot at Silver imo.



But by far the most disappointing thing in the entire season was Kenny basically never even getting hit. That little fricker was such a cocky bitch, and really hadn’t done anything to earn that type of attitude.

Pushing Anthony around is one thing, but straight up kicking Hawk and Robby’s arse with the Silver Bullet thing was just lame imo.


I wanted to see Robby beat his arse, and he totally would have. No clue why they didn’t give him some comeuppance.


The Sam and Tory arc ended up getting handled well after the silly fight scene when Tory tried to talk to her at the party. I liked how that ended up.


Definitely glad we should be past the Sam and Miguel drama too, they should just be together now.


Ultimately I felt like the first half of the season was better than the second, but that last fight definitely felt epic, like a finale almost. Especially Silver fighting Chosen and then Daniel. He’s such a great villian.