One thing I respect about this show is that they don’t shy away from the cheese and the badness of the movie sequels. It’s still part of the universe, and they actively include. Other franchise reboots/continuations only seem to want to acknowledge the good. Afterlife didn’t reference Ghostbusters 2 at all, and the SW sequels barely referred to the prequels at all—can’t recall anything besides a throwaway line about clones. But Cobra Kai owns it all, and I like that a lot about it.