The Reel Rejects - COBRA KAI 6x14 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:07 thank you to acorns and liquid iv for sponsoring this video more on them in just a bit it's time the tournament is on let's do this thing people that they earned the shit out of that edd that was that was oh my god god it felt such like an 80s movie yeah that was brilliant oh i love that ending what a way to go out it's like yeah you need the balance of being able to earn a moment like that man they earned that that was so good

Starting point is 00:01:51 Yeah. Oh, guys. Thank you for sharing in this insanity with us. We're going to talk about the episode now, but if you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, leave us a kindly rating. I won't even tell you what to rate. You know. You know in your heart. And, hey, we got cool merch and gear in the Rejectnationshop.com story. You should go check that out, too. But moreover, we should appreciate cinema because Gat, as the kids, would say what an episode yeah and uh you know before i pass the mic off along to you guys i feel like you know it's always interesting ending a show and i feel like especially in any action oriented show you know it usually comes down i didn't every time i go into the second

Starting point is 00:02:40 or last episode or something i do i know deep down but never quite expect how tumultuous and action you know how many active resolutions will happen so this is like yeah the tournament happens and i know we got one more fight but like so much has concluded and so much has has you know uh reached its climax as of this episode and now there's one to go and i know part of what to expect from that and part of it the coda you know i'm very curious about but gang guys yes i want to know how you both are feeling uh starting off with andrew yeah No, I'm, uh, this is why we watch movies and TV shows. It, it helps us, you know, get away from what's going on in our daily lives. And this is why I'm such a huge karate kid and gopric eye fan. I mean, these guys have just really like, I already loved the karate kid series, but what these writers have done, uh, how they've elevated the lore paying respect and also they created this next generation. And all these callbacks that, as Greg said, they really are. earn these callbacks and they insert them

Starting point is 00:03:50 in such beautiful ways that are not distracting, but they make you appreciate them. I have so many different things I want to talk. I'll try and be as brief as I can. But I love that they're again calling callback is a word I'm going to use often

Starting point is 00:04:06 in this review, but I'll try not to be too tedious with it. But I will say that I love that we're going off of what Johnny set off to do in season two before Creece kind of interrupted and took that away from him before, obviously, the whole school fight and such. He wanted to make Cobra Chi a different way.

Starting point is 00:04:25 Like, he saw how the fight went at the All Valley at the end of season one. And even though they won, he was not happy about that. He saw the way they won. They fought dirty. He's like, this is not, like, this is Creeze. Even though Creece was not yet there at that All Valley, he came at the later part of that episode. He's like, this feels like Creece is, even though I taught these kids, like, I've taught them Creece's way. This is not my way.

Starting point is 00:04:49 And this is not how I want to win. This is not how I want to nurture and teach the next generation. And we were setting out to do that with Johnny. And the fact that we got back here. And that's what Daniel is like, hey, it's not Cobra Chi. Like, it's you. And that's who I'm putting my trust into him. Like, that speaks near and dear to my heart.

Starting point is 00:05:09 And there was a moment, too, I kind of said when him and Miguel were talking on the parking lot where he first defended Miguel against, I believe it was Kyler, you know, with the Peptobismol and all that, and I believe it's the first episode of season one. And I said right there before Johnny said it, I said, nope, you're in the wrong frame of mind. And I said that, not because it was a prediction by my end. That's how I would think when I'm talking to my students. And again, I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself when I, you know, if you guys are sick of me saying, stop. We don't care about what you, what you are mentioning with your students. But you are a sense, Andrew. In a sense, yes, I am. that's like that's why the show just i love these characters and the show just speaks to me so much uh and resonates with me is because i have the same frame of mind as miagi and and

Starting point is 00:05:58 i won't go all the way with johnny but they're now that with this arc that johnny and the way johnny has developed now that he's kind of got the skeletons out of his closet and like you know um and the snake uh shed uh you know the the skin is shed off of him um i i do have that frame of mind of like i love where we have come now with these characters and like, you know, learning to fight with honor and learning to fight for the right things. Like, whether you win or lose, you're still, like, you're winning. You know what I mean? There's lessons to be learned here. And that's what I try to instill with my students. You can still win the honor without winning the points. And I try to teach them like, look, stuff is going to happen out there on the ball, when you're out there hitting or even fielding. And that's okay. You know, it is a game of failure. It's a game of adjustments. But I need you in the right frame of mind of thinking if you panic out there.

Starting point is 00:06:46 And, you know, get in your own mind, that's where things are going to, you're going to make it even tougher in yourself. Try to have a plan up there. And when things don't go your way, it's okay. I want you to, you know, keep your mind clear and go off of feel and go off of confidence. And if it doesn't go your way, that's fine. We will figure it out. But, you know, if you were working hard and training hard and you are doing it with confidence, I'm proud of you and I'm happy. And we're good. You know what I mean? So I like that this show has just really gotten to that point in terms of with Johnny and he's got that full arc because back in the day he would like he would not have that that kind of mindset and like and also with Daniel like seeing him like embrace again not Cobra Chi but Johnny's style of doing Cobra Cuy like it's Johnny that he believes in like I just moments like that and then we're Tori I'm going to really quickly I'm not going to get into it because I'll like Greg but I this is probably my favorite season of with Tori. And I think this show has a way of doing things where, like, you're angry with a certain character, but then, like, later in a season or in a couple of scenes later, like, oh, you embrace and love a character. Like, Dimitri was extremely annoying to me this entire season. And now in the later half, I'm like, okay, they haven't shown him a ton this, this part three. But now I'm fully back on the Demetri train.

Starting point is 00:08:05 And then, Tori, like, we were meant to not like her a lot in season two. But understand her, understand where she's coming from. and now oh my god like now when you see everything in full context to where we've come now when you rewatch you're like oh my god this is such a fully fleshed out character and she's an incredible written character as well as many of the other characters so i got more to say but i don't want to keep talking taking all the talking points so uh let you guys go it's all good it's all good it's it's funny even that thing with dmitri kind of factors into the themes of the show in a broadway you know it's not about necessarily the most elite high fancy school it's

Starting point is 00:08:42 more who you're training with and who you're inspired by but uh gee how are your feelings i feel um um sad to see the show go yeah man this the lot the it's it's such a weird journey they put us on with the with the final season it really is like not not just like for the ones who are watching it when the part ones and two's come out like it's strange because when you look at it they're like yeah they are telling like a different chapter each part each part is telling a different chapter and in like typical screenplay structure with with most movies maybe you don't know this or maybe you do maybe you've noticed on your own maybe you're heard somewhere else usually what happens when before you get to a third act of a script is like the typical

Starting point is 00:09:35 version but before you get to a third act something happens with the character usually in these this is called the all is lost moment where they start to revert back to where they were at act one of their journey and i think that's what they were doing with the final season with some of these characters is reverting back before we get to the finale which is part three where you see the full payoff of their growth and so in retrospect there's like a lot of things i'm really respect i'm not actually i the part with the tory side that i had an issue with the part that i think all three of us did was it seemed like after she like ran off the mat after fighting with sam in the uh who's going to be captain match no one was like let's try to reach out to tory and talk to her yeah so just showed up the psychotic icon just that you know uh and maybe they did but it's all off screen but who knows so that was the but but but but in terms of her character development she's absolutely she's my favorite season of tory of paidon payton list let's not pay to read uh paden list uh would would yeah with Peyton Manning with Payton List

Starting point is 00:10:40 her her acting I think is so strong she moved me so much in that monologue where she's recapping how far she's come but in a show like Cobra Kai you can get away with recapping how far you've come it's part of the the charm and the tone of it

Starting point is 00:10:55 of the bit of like the soap operiness of what the cobra Kai world is and watching her win was just so rewarding the fights were incredible They were some of the best choreography they've done. I agree. I know there's like a massive quantity

Starting point is 00:11:12 and it's really long runtime of the crazy final match or brawl in the end of part two. I like these fights more because these fights, they're weighted in so much more emotion. It's not just crazy. The emotion of the one-on-one matches. And they're also not building what I thought was really cool about how they built these two. matches was it it wasn't about what walking in and going oh god i want to see zara get taken down i want to see axel get taken down it wasn't about that you know we've had those fights before like when

Starting point is 00:11:50 when when uh daniel knocks out terry like you want to see terry go down yeah this was about what they were fighting for as individuals you know for what mcgale was fighting for as an individual the love and growth what Tori's fighting for like to literally just go from I'm fighting out of like I don't know

Starting point is 00:12:14 I mean there's a lot of ways you can better but anyway leading with love like she ends up leading with love because of what Robbie tells her so I think the character trajectory of all them is so strong and then to

Starting point is 00:12:27 bring it back to all this stuff with Cobra Kai because this is I remember brought me back to when we first watch I think I reacted to the first episode like Ashley Andrew at the time.

Starting point is 00:12:40 Like it's not you guys, right? And the first episode was Johnny Lawrence. But when the show was announced, most people were like, ah, Ralph Machio's returning, right? That's like the big talk because he's

Starting point is 00:12:54 Daniel the Roosso. He's the karate kid. Right. And that first episode had to do so much to get you on board with like, agreed. Hey, it's as much as it does become Johnny and Danny show, I'm like, I haven't forgotten. This is Johnny's show. You know, at the end of the day, as great of an ensemble this is, if there was a lead, it'd be Johnny, at least for me. Yeah, I agree. And to bring it back full circle with that, that, hey, Cobra Kai, watch the Cobra Kai art. This is what he started with. Look at the journey with that. He's had with Miguel. It's Johnny Lawrence's story to bring it back for him having the final match. I think is, just brilliant. Like it's it's it's rewarding cathartic payoffs that you don't quite anticipate and they're doing it in a way that feels natural really thought out considerate and and uh for a show that's a discuss a lot about honor. I think they're honoring the karate kid and the cobra

Starting point is 00:13:51 series legacy really well. I think it's really well done. I think it's very very well done and they also know how to have their phone when you get your like epic showdown boat blowing up match. I would it And that's the thing with the show. I wouldn't be surprised at one of them's lost. I was thinking that after it happened. Terry's a shock. Terry Silver is going to emerge with half his face burnt off. Two-faced.

Starting point is 00:14:12 Yeah. Two-face style. Or Gus-Gust style. Yeah. And he's going to come into the thing with an exposed robos skull. I mean, yeah, like, and it's one of those things where you're like, the only way for either of these two to go out. Like, as much as you want to see Crease become like, grandpa crease and, like, get

Starting point is 00:14:29 to live out, like, this newly adjusted. life that he is you know kind of epiphanied into at the same time you're sort of like well as long as as terry breathes he's going to be conniving the only way to do this is to blow him up or something or some kind of yet definitive way he could ever come back uh even though he's the kind of character who would have like a hundred contingency plans that are going to enact upon the moment of his death or whatever but yeah like it's fun because i think one of the great things about cobra Kai across the show has been the fact that they can kind of

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Starting point is 00:19:09 It's like over the top in a way that kind of suits how Cobra Kai does over the top. on occasion and I think it's really fun that they've been able to make something that has like there's a lot of hearkening to those 80s you know fight movies and stuff like that and I think one thing about I mean especially the karate kid but even the more jacked up muscled out badass ones that Johnny himself would be watching even though cheesy like they have big emotion they're at least trying to go for like a really saturated tone of emotion so that you can sit there at the end and go yeah you know and I think it's really fun the way that they've woven that throughout the show this chunk of the show this last unit of season six has been the most consistently sort of emotional and and heartfelt and you are again just due to the the essence of a wrap-up if it's going well you want all the themes to come back and to really remind you what the journey has been but it was like cool to get an episode like this that really

Starting point is 00:20:10 well encapsulates that side the yeah the heart pounding like yes get him like i want to see you rise to the occasion you know tori miguel even and even an axel zara not so much but uh axel you want even him in the fight to just choose to fight honorably and that's again a nice nuance to throw at that and that's like in the middle because it's heightened it's it's in the throw of a battle uh but you know it's it's well kind of structured and grounded within the show and then later on you can take these characters who do have sort of this more wild background and who have you know like crease has been off with pimei in korea is a million years old you know sensei and they have their history in the war and like stuff like that feels like

Starting point is 00:20:56 it's borrowing from other movies too so like to isolate them at the end for this like crazy badass showdown on the end of an episode that has been otherwise so kind of grounded and heartfelt like is a swing in a way it's kind of a risk even though i feel like again we're all liking the show to the point if you've made it this far you probably like the show enough to the point to cut her to break but i think it's actually like it isn't an earned choice even though it is kind of breaking away from again some of the more grounded aspects of the reality and uh and even the switcheroo of that terry ordering his uh go his al young danny trejo uh spliced henchman to uh you know go you know to intimidate carman and the baby and all that

Starting point is 00:21:38 stuff and then crease coming in and killing that guy and it reminds you you too he's like oh yeah no he would kill this guy uh and so yeah i don't know there's so many interesting soups and flavors and it's neat to behold that because this has been shining so much on the themes and these fights as as you've often pointed out it's the story it's the emotion like a cool fight is one thing but a well choreographed fight with a real story to it is another and uh i mean i think even the choreography is better yeah beyond that too like i think all this story and emotions first and foremost and that's what's made it so good but i think just the choreography alone is better than the craziness of the brawl yeah yeah and this also too for

Starting point is 00:22:18 where we are and for the the back and forth of the conversation about like oh cobra kai slash miagi do in the sikai tai at all like the way these are choreographed really just sells the moment of like no these are the fighters who seem like they ought to be here if these were and the all the fighters not only was the choreography great i love too and it seemed like you guys did well i love that they were cutting back to flashback transitions with Miguel everything that he had learned and everywhere to the point where he had come to like full circle again um i thought that was yeah i thought that was uh just brilliant editing um just to show like how far he's come from the nerdy kid he used to be to the champ that he is now and again fighting honorably like

Starting point is 00:22:57 you mentioned uh i also just really quickly really has that uh like a massive physical transformation hasn't he's had like the medoria glow of yeah he went for like a little like a dweeb yeah to like wow you're so cool yeah look when you get a hot girlfriend like sam you you got to hit the gym okay but um i mean look all look also too i i will just you usually hit the gym first to get the hot whatever not not when you're sorry okay um but and and and then i'll let you in that because yeah and that also i think nicely illustrates that miguel i think is the other if you had to boil down the main character of the show in the legacy side it's johnny and in the you know next gen side it's Miguel and so to have all those clips come back and there are clips that are shared between them at the training the tutelage I think is a nice compliment to each other and I do like that in this fight he won honorably whereas at the end of season one at the all valley against Robbie he did not fight he fought dirty against Robbie and so like again coming back full circle I also do like just really quickly piggybacking back off of what Greg said about Tori like how you know she was talking to the Laruso's about how important they have

Starting point is 00:24:06 been and you know where she has come and how nice they have been to her i think that was a nice commentary on just like how strong of a person she is but also like when we're down and out in life we need a strong support system around us because i've been there in life too whether it's depression or whatever and having such a strong support system around me is like yeah i am a fighter which i'm willing to acknowledge but i'm also strong enough to admit like without my strong support system like the one she had I would not be able to have uplifted myself too so I think

Starting point is 00:24:38 there's a combination there and I appreciate that the show acknowledge that as well as Tori well and you feel the weight of the trust that has been built because there's been so much distrust and hurt trust and broken trust and you know especially with Tori and so like

Starting point is 00:24:54 I really felt the weight of like no these people have proven that they have at least the motivation to support your best interest yeah and of course like we know where they were at the beginning of season three like they wanted this this uh they wanted tory arrested and expelled and all that and like it's really come uh it's the development of the relationships is really uh earned and last thing i'll say and oh way i was sorry before i forget it's just like something you said just made me think of

Starting point is 00:25:20 stingway for some reason oh and i remember like the first episode of this season he was here yeah right brought back cobra kai and johnny was posed of that question right right and i remember I remember watching that on the rewatch me I'm like what the hell's the point of this season? Like knowing where this comes, knowing like how part two ends. I'm like I don't even get with the purpose

Starting point is 00:25:41 of this. I thought it was just like a cameo from Sting where they just made here of like why would Johnny possibly be posed with the question of bringing back Kobe guy and I'm like oh now it makes sense that's a great point and he had the recording of crease too which is kind of symbolizes the

Starting point is 00:25:59 redemption that the relationship between crease and johnny lawrence as well so that's a that's a great point i also too last thing for me i love the the stingrail be in his corner yeah exactly i also i also love the theme too that we've been honing on this uh season of let learning to let go you got miguel with sam like not freaking out in that moment and he loves her so much that he's willing to let go and allow her to travel to okinawa where he knows she's going to be happy there but they can still maintain a relationship. Daniel as well, allowing her to travel there. But Daniel also learned to let go of his hatred towards not just Cobra Kai, but the idea of Johnny doing Cobra Chi because he trusts in Johnny. And I like that theme that we're really building upon there

Starting point is 00:26:44 and like executing. I think it's just really well done in this season. Yeah. And it makes me really excited to see the ultimate full circle of like it's been really cool to watch like, oh, Tori's training Sam but now Sam's training Tori and Robbie and Miguel are training together and so now to have Johnny being you know mentored for these this last fight by Daniel makes a lot of sense because it

Starting point is 00:27:06 seems like this is truly in a spiritual way like the edge that could help him face this real like cut throat fighting machine yeah in Wolf Louis Tan like he's going to need the the Zen and the sort of redirecting energy and it's the full circle of Johnny being the underdog now

Starting point is 00:27:24 with the last tournament. Yeah, that's a good point. Danny. I can see Daniel right now as his sense saying sweep the leg. That's right. That's right. But it's a good point that Johnny is now the underdog. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:36 And Vidal is the rest. And he'll have the, and if he wins, presumably, he'll have that redemption of that thing with the tournament. Right. And literally, how did the show start in the first episode? The first shot is Daniel Crane kicking him at the thing. So, like, this is the only appropriate way to do this. He's going to win with a crane kick.

Starting point is 00:27:53 Oh, how cool was that? If that happens, I'm going to fall. Seriously. You've got to do it. Can we create all the shots? All right. All right. Anyway, yeah.

Starting point is 00:28:04 Any other stray thoughts before we boogie on to the final? A great episode. I'm sad and excited for the sex one. Cobra cry, am I right? I mean, probably I should get some tissues for this next episode. Well, gang, thank you so much for joining us. And, hey, yeah, we're going to. Going on to the next one.

Starting point is 00:28:25 Tune in. See you soon. Guito. Guito Galindo. We don't know what your name means. John, he's going to take a guess, and we're going to see who comes closer, okay?

Starting point is 00:28:38 Guito, I think that means a giggly guy. He's a giggly dude. This is an ancient Irish name meaning giggly. So, you know, he could be, like, having fun. He could be gregarious. he can be he can be just uplifting positive

Starting point is 00:28:57 spirit you know that something like that so what do you think Guido means I think it means like like natural like it reminds me of leaves and things I'm gonna imagine that it means like some kind of grotto yeah or something like that all right Guito name meaning enter what do we got

Starting point is 00:29:15 it may have multiple origins Guido is what they oh they don't even know your actual name meaning here. Uh, so they're going with Guido, which is a German name, which may come from old high German name, Wildo, which means water forest. What did you guess? I got, I guess like leaves and, and nature things.

Starting point is 00:29:37 Oh, my God. You've won every one of them. I don't actually, I, because I don't know, it's encyclopedia what these names mean. So I guess, uh, I'm glad that these blind guesses are going somewhere. All right. We're moving on. It's my word nerd coming out. Thank you.

The Reel Rejects - COBRA KAI 6x14 Breakdown & Review

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