Luckily Cobra Kai is a show that loves flashbacks like The Rock loves twice-a-day workouts, and we immediately see Silver and Kreese saying, “Cobra Kia…Never Dies,” in the ill-fated third movie in the series, which was both a critical and commercial flop.
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Fans of Cobra Kai who have never watched the movie series will be completely at sea. Isn’t this supposed to be a show about karate, and toxic masculinity, and Coors Banquet, but, who are we kidding, mostly karate? Why does it suddenly look like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? When the mystery man gets a call from John Kreese, the diabolical head of the Cobra Kai dojo, it begins to make a lot more sense.īut just who the hell is this guy? Even when Kreese gets to the aforementioned beachfront property, and we find out that it’s Terry Silver, plenty of fans who haven’t watched The Karate Kid Part III since it was in theaters 32 years ago may not remember who he is. There’s a man with shoulder-length grey hair playing a classical sonata on a grand piano in a red silk dressing gown. We see a modern beachfront mansion, the kind of thing that Scrooge McDuck would own if he made his fortune in crytpo. Rewind is an Inverse series that remembers the forgotten performances we love.Cobra Kai’s fourth season starts off kind of strange. Karate Kid II was a mediocre movie, but Cobra Kai has made it feel downright depressing. If there’s even a hint of a step forward in character growth, it’s usually two steps back a few minutes later.
Most of the original characters don’t seem to have grown or learned anything.
It’s ‘80s nostalgia, but it’s become toxic nostalgia. I binged the entire Cobra Kai series in three days. This usually happens when a series starts dragging out every minor character that’s ever appeared in the franchise to give them a whole story - regardless of whether the audience even remembers or cares about those characters in the first place. But it’s annoying when the show feels it can’t move on from the old days. He was a cipher in the movie, and he’s a cipher on Cobra Kai.Ĭobra Kai is pure nostalgia, and that's okay. Chozen is an obvious allegory for “people deserve a second chance,” but we don’t know anything about how this change came about. Anyone who’s seen Karate Kid III knows Kumiko became a dancer, and it’s reiterated on the show. We don’t learn anything fundamentally new about their characters either. And it seems like a waste to bring them on for what is essentially a glorified cameo. Naturally, Miyagi instantly falls back in love with her.īoth Tamlyn Tomita and Yuji Okumoto are accomplished actors. Miyagi and Daniel arrive in the village and reunite with Miyagi’s love, Yukie. Message to screenwriters: more tragedy doesn't automatically mean a better story. His beloved wife died in childbirth with their infant son in a Japanese internment camp while Miyagi was overseas fighting in World War II. Miyagi’s backstory in the first movie was already tragic enough. Things got really awkward, and Miyagi had to skip town.Īt this point, it feels like Karate Kid II is just piling on the misery. Sato and his family got pissed off when Miyagi announced his wish to marry the fiancee. That friend, Sato, was also trained in karate by Miyagi’s dying father. Turns out, Miyagi was forced to leave his village because he was in love with the girl betrothed to his rich best friend. On the way there, Miyagi expands on his already tragic backstory with even more depressing details about his past. His elderly father is dying, so Miyagi and Daniel head to Japan. Miyagi gets a letter from his hometown in Okinawa. Karate Kid II picks up just minutes after the first movie’s ending when Daniel wins the All Valley karate tournament.
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