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Disclaimer<\/em>: I make no promises that I won\u2019t write anything that could be construed as a spoiler.\u00a0 Heck, even the photo above could be considered a spoiler to some with defined opinions, but I don\u2019t really think it is, given the development brought on in S5.<\/span><\/p>\n But unsurprisingly, as rare as it is for me to do in my life, I was on top of, and I\u2019ve already finished watching the first installment of Cobra Kai<\/em> S6.\u00a0 I knew it was going to be multi-part, because Netflix is diabolical like that, and American media is incapable of finishing any story in a singular, logical, digestible experience, and either makes it abysmally short and rushed like Game of Thrones<\/em>, or in the case of Cobra Kai, Infinity War, Fast X, Harry Potter<\/em>, and The Hunger Games<\/em> to name a few, requiring multiple installments.<\/span><\/p>\n However, I was mortified to find out that the final season of Cobra Kai wasn\u2019t going to be just two installments, but three<\/em> motherfucking installments, culminating probably around this time next year.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know definitively, but I want to say that it\u2019s already been all filmed and wrapped up, and this is just Netflix further creeping towards becoming cable television #2, by making viewers wait instead of the binging everyone prefers to do.<\/span><\/p>\n And I really hope that it\u2019s true that they\u2019re done, because the cast of this show is starting to really show their age in embarrassing ways.\u00a0 Kenny looks like he\u2019s gone through puberty twice, and is basically bigger than all of the kids\u2019 cast.\u00a0 Demitri is now like 6\u201910, and it\u2019s hilarious to hear a character talk about his advantageous size in a fight, when he was literally the worst kid to ever become a regular karate student in the beginning.\u00a0 Daniel\u2019s ridiculously hot wife Amanda is now showing the wrinkles above her lips that come with age.\u00a0 Even Kyler, went from looking like a 22-year old high school underclassman in early seasons to looking like a 36-year old college freshmen trying to pledge for a fraternity.<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, if they haven\u2019t wrapped up filming and plan on doing it all the way into next year, Kenny might be a divorced father of three by then, Chozen will have turned into Master Roshi, and William Zabka might start looking like old Vin Diesel by then.<\/span><\/p>\n As for the story and execution of the first installment of S6, absolutely nothing about it was any surprise.\u00a0 The groups are all going to be preparing for the Sekai Taikai tournament, and of course there\u2019s continued repeated spats between Daniel and Johnny.\u00a0 The kids have seemingly all squashed their prior beefs, and it\u2019s almost as insufferably peaceful like the Power Rangers the way everyone is so indoctrinated by Miyagi-Do.<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly it\u2019s only the hints of chaos that seem remotely interesting, like the Mr. Miyagi\u2019s mystery box of his past, and the family issues that befall Tory and the resulting actions, but other than that, the five episodes flew by in a relatively uneventful manner.<\/span><\/p>\n The series\u2019 signature of dipping into the past and dredging up old characters wasn\u2019t really that prevalent in these first five episodes, and I still believe that within the final ten episodes over two installments, it\u2019s inevitable that Hilary Swank will show up, with the off-chance that Jackie Chan, Iron Monkey, Jaden Smith or any of the kids from the Kung Fu Kid makes appearances, so that literally every gamut of the previous Karate Kid films can be referenced at some point.<\/span><\/p>\n But the one thing that I really wanted to talk about and what spawned the urgency to make this post, was what was shown at the very end of the fifth episode.\u00a0 Okay, **[spoiler alert]**<\/span><\/p>\n It took me a few seconds after the big reveal that Cobra Kai was still alive and well, despite the collapse of their American operations courtesy of Terry Silver, that the new and most fucking definitely improved logo, was in Korean<\/em>. \u00a0Like when Kwon and two unnamed Cobras came walking out in slow motion in the traditional black gi with the giant cobra on it, I was kind of just like ohhhh shit, but then my eyes did a double take, and I could see that the Cobra Kai wordmark was in Korean, and then I was like OHHHH SHIT<\/span><\/p>\n Despite my general fandom of the Karate Kid franchise throughout my life, and general appreciation and admiration for the fire branding of Cobra Kai itself, I never did ever get any shirts or hoodies with the OG logo.\u00a0 The hipster in me defied the all the other hipsters who all swooped up and bought shirts and hoodies, and I kind of didn\u2019t want to just be another one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n But a Cobra Kai logo, written in KOREAN, I\u2019m just like, there has never been something in existence more tailor made to well, me, ever in existence of humanity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This is something that belongs to me, and other Korean people who are fans of the franchise and the brand.\u00a0 This does not belong to any of the Koreebs, the white people, the black people, or anyone else who also are Cobra Kai fans who already have their OG black, yellow and red Cobra Kai stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n I was like, I have never needed this logo on a piece of apparel more than anything in my entire life.\u00a0 And at first, I had a tremendous amount of dread that this would not be produced, much like the absolute nuclear gold mine<\/a> the show and Champion athletics sat on but never did anything with, but upon doing a cursory Google search after watching S6E5, I found some immediate results.<\/span><\/p>\n I had concerns that these were probably like some cheap bootleg shit from Temu or Alibaba or some shit, but then I found a link to this Hot Topic shirt<\/a>, and as easy as it is to dunk on Hot Topic, they still carry some semblance of legitimacy in my opinion, and despite the fact that I typically have choice paralysis and can never pull the trigger on anything, I didn\u2019t hesitate (beyond making sure I made the transaction on my laptop so I could get 2% Rakuten cashback) to purchase it, and eagerly await it\u2019s arrival in the mail.<\/span><\/p>\n If for anything at all, the introduction of the Korean Cobra Kai logo, completely sets the season on fire for me, and I wait impatiently for the next installments of the show.\u00a0 I still resent that they\u2019re releasing it like this, but there\u2019s no shortage of shit on my list that I can watch over the next few months to fill the time.<\/span><\/p>\n God damn I can\u2019t wait to get my shirt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Disclaimer: I make no promises that I won\u2019t write anything that could be construed as a spoiler.\u00a0 Heck, even the photo above could be considered a spoiler to some with defined 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