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Cobra Kai Recap: My Right Foot
In its finale moments, Cobra Kai revisits the disturbing moment at the end of The Karate Kid that inspired Johnny Lawrence’s underdog arc as an adult.
Here, he’s making a genuine attempt to apologize to the students he failed: first Tory, whom he treated like a “soldier in his own private war,” then Johnny, whom he forced to carry his trauma and bitterness for the past 35 years. That scene in the parking lot explains the wild hook of Cobra Kai: an underdog arc for a grown-up, alcoholic Johnny Lawrence who’s still holding on to that loss and haunted by the emotional (and, at least in that encounter, physical) abuse of a cruel sensei. Besides, Cobra Kai, Miyagi-Do, and Eagle Fang have been swapping students (and sensei) since the beginning, so it really shouldn’t be a surprise that the show is changing things up one last time — or that it’s setting up one final act of reclamation for the titular dojo.
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