Cobra Kai Forgets Karate Kid's Most Crucial Line (But Season 5 Can Fix It)
Cobra Kai has been quite successful in continuing the Karate Kid legacy, but there's an important line from the first film that the show has been forgetting to pay off. Through four seasons, Cobra Kai has masterfully combined the elements that made Karate Kid into a classic with a more contemporary type of storytelling. At a time when many franchises struggle to pick up where the original movie or show left off, Cobra Kai is an example of how to play nostalgia while also crafting new ideas.
Although it has now grown to have a large cast of original characters as well as returning actors from the three Karate Kid films, Cobra Kai started with the simple premise of taking a look at how Johnny Lawrence was doing 34 years after his fight against Daniel LaRusso. In an interesting twist, the point of view of the story was no longer Daniel's, but his rival's. Cobra Kai took the classic fan question “was Daniel the bad guy?” into the next level and created layered characters out of previous two-dimensional ones.
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Even though Cobra Kai has been so successful in reimagining the Karate Kid universe into a different story, there is one point in the original film that the series has failed to live up to. At the end of the fight between Daniel and Johnny in Karate Kid, a defeated Johnny hands the trophy to Daniel and says, "You're alright, Larusso". The line was supposed to prove that the former never hated the latter, or had at least grown some respect for him. In Cobra Kai, however, all flashbacks and mentions of the iconic fight have never referred to it. Viewers of the original movie have even asked Jon Hurwitz on Twitter if the line is canon to the world
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