Cobra Kai Complete Series Fanfix

Hello!

I’m a huge fan of Cobra Kai, but there are some bits I find hold it back. This will not be a super heavy edit, just minor changes here and there.

My goal for this edit is to trim:
Flashbacks (to the original trilogy and scenes of previous episodes)
Comedic Relief Characters (Louie, Anoush, Stingray, Brucks, etc.)
Product Placements (only if they are a point of focus or forced-feeling)
Cringey Scenes or Lines (obviously subjective, but maybe you’ll find them good cuts too!)

I also plan on adding in some of the good Deleted Scenes for the first 3 seasons that were included on the Blu-Rays.

Whoops sorry, thanks for the title fix oojason!

First few cuts of S4 added to original post!

Good luck with your edit.

I’ve been working on a Cobra Kai edit. Its mostly an experiment based on a theory I have that these seasons would perform better as single movies than a long-form series. So far, season one is working really well.

I suspect future seasons will be more difficult.

I’m watching this, and am deeply interested in your cuts which are really strong so far!

Good luck!

mrbenja0618 said:

Good luck with your edit.

I’ve been working on a Cobra Kai edit. Its mostly an experiment based on a theory I have that these seasons would perform better as single movies than a long-form series. So far, season one is working really well.

I suspect future seasons will be more difficult.

I’m watching this, and am deeply interested in your cuts which are really strong so far!

Good luck!

Thanks mrbenja0618!

I contemplated doing movie cuts as well. I think Season 1 would lend itself well to that. But I came to the same conclusion you did, that the following seasons have so much more character moments, that it’d be hard to trim so much without losing a lot of what makes those seasons great.

The remaining cuts to S4 have been added to the original post! I will be now going through S1-3 before returning with a v2 of S4 after some feedback! I noticed that I had some sharpness lost in the video when encoding it for editing. This will be fixed when I do a run through with v2.

All cuts to the first 3 episodes of S1 have been added to original post!

v1 cuts to S1 are finished! I will now be moving on to S2. Once S1 and S2 are finished I will hopefully be submitting them to Fanedit.org.

The Google Drive link for Season 1 v1 is up! PM me for the link.

Episode 5 of Season 2 with the dreaded Mall fight. This is going to be the hardest cut yet…

I knew this scene would be difficult…

Johnny Vs Daniel in the apartment (removed Karate Kid 1 flashbacks)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/669288638
password: fanedit

Season 1 is completed and Season 2’s v1 workprint is available for anyone who’d like a link!

Would love to check out your season 1 and season 2!

JeromeTheEditor said:

Enjoyed your edits to these! Any plans to finish it tho? I just finished the finale of the show and although it was very satisfying, a lot of the stuff from season 6 and even season 5 just felt drawn out and ridiculously over the top. Granted I don’t know if that can be fixed in an edit tho.

Thanks!

I came back last year and finished both Season 2 and 3 after sitting on them for 2 years lol. But I do plan to finish the remaining seasons this year. I’ve mapped out all my changes for 4 and 5, so they shouldn’t take too long.

I had started my workprints for the first 5 episodes of Season 6 last year… one of the big changes I wanted to make was removing the really cheesey cave trip that Kreese goes on, but the knife ended up becoming super important later of course. So I ended up having to scrap those workprints, and decided to just wait until the full thing was out to continue work on the project.

I was also really holding out hope for a Blu ray release of the remaining seasons, so I could use some of the deleted seasons like I did in Season 3. But it looks like we just aren’t getting them at this point.

Not too sure when you checked out the Google drive, but at the end of last year I put the completed versions of Seasons 2 & 3 instead of my workprint versions. I also reverted one or two cuts I made to Season 1 that I wasn’t satisfied with.