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Samurai Jack Season 5 |OT| But Yeah, I’m Thinking I’m Back.

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Unspeakable Evil

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Seesaw15 said:
Now we're just getting into the minutia of Evil Dictatorships.
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We still got Scottish and Spartans. Aku at least let's people keep their cultural background!
 
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dankir

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Holy fucking shit. I think that's the best animated epsiode of TV I've ever seen. The framing, pacing, music, the look on Jack's face the whole episode.

infuckingcredible.
 
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Sho_Nuff82

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It would be really bizarre (and almost fitting) if the series ended with Aku being bored with dominating the world and willfully opening the portal to the past.
 
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Neoxon

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I just realized something, there may indeed be one Time Portal left. Aku doesn't know about the time portal that's being protected by The Guardian.
 
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Admiral Woofington

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Neoxon said:
I just realized something, there may indeed be one Time Portal left. Aku doesn't know about the time portal that's being protected by The Guardian.
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yep. But Jack has to be strong enough to beat him before he can use it. I'm sure in the second to last episode he'll come to fight him again and finally pass through.
 
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Azure J

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So I haven't had the opportunity to watch this and gush post episode here with ToonamiGAF/JackGAF but man this season is delivering in spades. Episode 2 just ratcheted everything up past 20 out of 10. There were so many gorgeous cinematographic flourishes, such a great use of colors, lights, shadows, Jack's character is just evolving and the use of the classic Jack look as his conscience... Man this series.

I love Samurai Jack man.

Edit: Also yeah, this series and episode in particular drew a lot of immediate parallels to Breath of the Wild. "Jack of the Wild" indeed.
 
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killdatninja

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Episode was really good! The visuals and audio were top notch, and story is a lot darker than first few seasons. Im so glad they revisited this series. Dialog is kept to the minimal and the story telling is still good.
 
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DongBeetle

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I remember when people were saying Genndy would just executive produce.

No, he's painstakingly directing and storyboarding each and every episode fuckers!
 
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Blasian Persuasion said:
How he didn't kill them? That viking dude got bombs stuck in them and they exploded. One was a cat person though. He only spared the Princess.
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Don't remember that episode (still doing a re-watch catch up) but I guess in this case, Jack's been on an ignorance is bliss sort of thing.

I think this is the first time he's actually had eliminate someone face to face.
 
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joe2187

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Blasian Persuasion said:
How he didn't kill them? That viking dude got bombs stuck in them and they exploded. One was a cat person though. He only spared the Princess.
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They were all face down in the snow.

I guess the whole "If there's no blood they're just asleep" thing we see in pretty much other cartoons. Like when Cobra units planes were shot down in G.I Joe and you can see them parachuting out when the plane goes up into a ball of flame.
 
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caliph95 said:
Remember Aku doesn't really care about Jack anymore and is just waiting for him to die basically. All the assassin's and bounty hunters are acting virtually independently. Aku probably doesn't even know a cult of him exists
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And just to reiterate, we're talking about the dude who's ego used to be so big and fragile that he was visibly bothered by the thought of children preferring to roleplay as Jack instead of him.
 
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Seesaw15

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DongBeetle said:
His sword doesn't kill humans right?
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Can't kill innocent organic things.

Blasian Persuasion said:
How he didn't kill them? That viking dude got bombs stuck in them and they exploded. One was a cat person though. He only spared the Princess.
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http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/10/1...genndy-tartakovsky-cartoon-network-adult-swim

One of the big developments here is the idea that Jack is facing flesh-and-blood people instead of robots, mutants, or aliens. Is this meant to be completely new ground for the series?

Yeah, it is. The whole conceit of the first series is that we couldn't kill a human. He fought some, but he never killed them. He always had to find a way around it. When you're fighting a machine that's programmed, that has one singular goal and has no emotion, like we say in the show, ”It's just nuts and bolts, it doesn't matter." But when he faces something real, with feelings, that has a choice, he can't just easily kill it.
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Whenever this comes up, on Reddit or on comment boards, someone will bring up the bounty hunter episode and say, ”He killed them, and they were definitely people!"

Some of those bounty hunters were definitely alien-like. But maybe they're right! [Laughs] In my head, they were robots. I'd have to look at that episode again. I remember the episode, but I think they were mostly aliens. There were a couple of humans, but maybe they didn't die.
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xezuru

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Who cares about that shit when there's been a crazy amount of enemies who seemed 100% organic on the outside regardless of having completely mechanical guts spewing out. Hard to care that shit when they're very explicit with blood oil fountains even in the original series and they chose not to use it in that episode or just in general being cartoon bullshit. I mean if we really wanted to be dumb, all these robots seem to have full sentience so we could argue morality all day. What intrigues me more is that Jack lost his blade when he was "young" or pre-beard, yet in this episode Aku has seen and or watched Jack recently enough to recognize the beard, so I wonder if the loss of the sword is actually more recent then I thought, that said Aku lived probably thousands of years, so time probably is a whatever concept to him.
 
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Ogodei

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Admiral Woofington said:
Let me just say I love how Aku is still goofy. I was thinking that maybe they'd turn him more serious, but we gotta remember this is the same guy that when children were playing and rooting for Samurai Jack he gathered them all together and read them about the girl with the GIANT

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Which is interesting. I know they had an origin story for Aku, where he was part of a mindless malevolent entity that just sort of roamed through space, that got hit by a light arrow (or something), torn off from the rest of the entity, and incubated on Earth.

I know it's a kid's show, but a true evil entity would have just tormented and slaughtered one of the children and told the others that that was the price you pay for crossing Aku. In general he seems to let people live their lives as long as they accept his overlordship and don't help the Samurai. He doesn't mind if innocent people suffer or die to pursue his goals, but his goal isn't to hurt innocent people, which is what i associate with true evil. He's more just like an absolute monarch who'll let people be as long as they don't mess with him, but also doesn't care for/about them beyond their subservience: evil yes, but not pure evil.
 
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Admiral Woofington

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Ogodei said:
Which is interesting. I know they had an origin story for Aku, where he was part of a mindless malevolent entity that just sort of roamed through space, that got hit by a light arrow (or something), torn off from the rest of the entity, and incubated on Earth.

I know it's a kid's show, but a true evil entity would have just tormented and slaughtered one of the children and told the others that that was the price you pay for crossing Aku. In general he seems to let people live their lives as long as they accept his overlordship and don't help the Samurai. He doesn't mind if innocent people suffer or die to pursue his goals, but his goal isn't to hurt innocent people, which is what i associate with true evil. He's more just like an absolute monarch who'll let people be as long as they don't mess with him, but also doesn't care for/about them beyond their subservience: evil yes, but not pure evil.
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I think he's just childishly evil.

Because I recall a scene where some people came to pay him tribute and he disintegrated them for pissing him off.
 
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The Hermit

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Admiral Woofington said:
Anyone playing Zelda loving the similarities? I mean outside of hero from the past in the future deal.
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Totally.

Just hear the intro: "Magical sword" "into the future where my evil is law"

Link is a traveller just like Jack.

As for how evil Aku is, I make a parallel with Batman: jack is Batman+Jedi, Aku is Joker+deity
 
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