But as adults it's their responsibility to reach some kind of détente. As kids, it makes sense that the conflict between them would find no resolution - they're kids and kids hardly understand themselves, let alone each other. To understand the end of this season, you have to understand that none of this strife would be happening without Daniel and Johnny. The ending of Cobra Kai season 2 is an all-out brawl in the school that starts between Sam and Tory, grows to involve everyone from Cobra Kai and Miaygi-Do, and ends with Robby knocking Miguel over a railing, cracking his spine and putting him in critical condition in the hospital.īut the end of season 2 is not about that fight, it's about who really started it - and this isn't on the kids. The final push toward a full-blown crisis point comes at a party where Sam drunkenly kisses Miguel, confirming that the two still have feelings for one another. Johnny drinks too much, struggles to hold down work, and frequently finds himself the victim of his own impotent rage. Johnny, on the other hand, is alone, estranged from Shannon Keene (Diora Baird) and their son, Robby (Tanner Buchanan). Daniel gets married, has kids, and works with his wife Amanda (Courtney Henggeler) to build a successful car dealership. Over the years leading up to the series, those circumstances lead Daniel and Johnny down very different paths.
Miyagi (Pat Morita), Cobra Kai sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) shows Johnny neither sympathy nor mercy - in other words, Johnny trades one abusive father for another. But where Daniel finds a caring surrogate father in Mr.
In the original movie, Daniel starts his life over in a new place without a father, and Johnny's stepfather abuses him. More than that, Cobra Kai is about generational trauma and how the pain that parents feel can transfer to their kids and to the communities around them.īoth Daniel and Johnny had a tough time growing up. It's about how we handle the pains of growing up and how different opportunities change our ability to move on from the people and the situations that hurt us in the past. But at its heart, the show is really about trauma. Cobra Kai is about the lingering grudge between Karate Kid rivals Daniel LaRusso ( Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka).
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