The first season of YouTube Premium`s Cobra Kai came out of nowhere and blew everyone`s expectations out of the water. Really, a TV show that follows the story of a movie as beloved as The Karate Kid that comes out 30 years after the franchise launched doesn`t immediately spark confidence. Thankfully, the show was excellent and got well-deserved critical appraise.Now, as the show enters its second season, the surprise factor is gone and expectations are through the roof. The first two episodes of the season premiered at SXSW, picking up right where Season 1 left off, reintroducing us to evil sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove), as well as teasing a full-on confrontation between the rebooted Cobra Kai dojo and the newly revived Miyagi-Do Karate.GameSpot had the opportunity to sit down with the cast and executive producers of Cobra Kai shortly before the special screening of the first two episodes at SXSW. The show`s creators--Hayden Schlossberg, Josh Heald, and Jon Hurwitz--revealed that while they had to fill in the blanks to what happened to the characters after the movies, they did have some help from the original 1984 movie.`When we first sold the show, we told Sony, what if we dig up all the old material and see if there`s anything we can use? And we found a ton of deleted scenes, different takes and angles from the original movies,` Jon Hurwitz recalled. `And, you know, in the very first episode of Season 1 we see that iconic fight between Johnny and Daniel but edited in an entirely different way. The scene in our show gives you more of Johnny`s point of view, instead of focusing on Daniel`s lens.``We reintroduced sensei Kreese in the earliest moments of that very first episode,` said Hayden Schlossberg. `John [Avildsen, director] shot that final fight in the first movie with six cameras, with dedicated cameras on Martin Kove, Billy [Zabka], and the Cobra Kai kids. We were able to use that footage to see a different angle of Johnny walking back onto the mat af ...
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