The end of Cobra Kai explained
How does the Netflix series end? What should be understood? The creators dissect the conclusion.
Certainly, COBRA KAI Never die. But COBRA KAIit’s still over!
Cut into multiple chapters, the end of the Netflix series, derived from Karate Kid, has found its conclusion in recent days when courses of a final epic fight.
Attention spoilers!
Johnny and Daniel, finally gathered on the tatami
Creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald completed the loop initiated in 1984 by Karate Kidfeaturing a final fight where Johnny Lawrence and Daniel Larusso fought side by side to bring down the horrible Sensei Wolf. The second has even become the Sensei of the first! A symbolic twist planned since the start of the series:
“We knew from the start that we wanted to bring together Johnny and Daniel in this way. We loved the idea that Johnny was back on the red carpet. Back on this carpet, which had been so traumatic for him all these years before “” decrypt Jon Hurwitz In ComingSoon. “To see him fight again and win a victory this time, but, instead of having Sensei Kreese in his corner, it is Daniel Larusso, his enemy of yesterday, who became his close friend, and, to this MONTY, SON SENSEI. He had learned thanks to Cobra Kai, but also to what he had learned thanks to Miyagi-Do over the years. “
The return of Mr. Miyagi, a tribute paid possible thanks to the AI
Another highlight of this end of series: the reappearance of Mr. Miyagi! The team called on the Don Lee combat choreographer, whose morphology recalled that of the deceased Pat Moritato resuscitate the cult sensei of Karate Kid. “”Don is a little thinner than Pat, so he had to put a pillow under his shirt. Don was an incredible member of our team. We talked about it with Ralph Macchio And he loved the idea of sharing the screen time with Pat again thanks to new technologies“Says Hurwitz in Variety.”We loved the idea that Daniel needs a very last lesson from Miyagi. Miyagi comes to see him and they fight side by side and he delivers a few last words of wisdom that help Daniel to move forward. “
So how did he recreate Mr. Miyagi Digitally? “There are no archive images. We have filmed donation, the fight and the entry on the scene, in a real way. So all of this existed on a camera. There is a society of visual effects which has Deepfake technology. use the archive audio of Pat Morita So that this voice is as close as possible. In the end, you do not really recreate a person. It’s about paying tribute to a hero and you try to get closer to it as much as possible. “
Kreese redemption
Finally, John Kreese’s arc took a surprising turn. Ruthless antagonist of the saga, the founder of COBRA KAI was entitled, in the end, to a form of redemption, during a fatal confrontation with his enemy to his own, the terrible Silver. “He tried to redeem himself as much as Sensei Kreese may want to redeem himself“, Hurwitz analysis for tvline. “The death of Kwon deeply shaken him. It is a man who, when we met him for the first time in a flashback, was a good person internally. He faced many tragedies … See the One of his students die because of his own rage has produced him.
