Samurai Jack General

So there's one thing I've always wondered about Jack.

Can he fly?

No, jump good.

Seems to me he lost that ability the episode after he got it.

Jack wants to Jump Good, but he can only knows 4 moves at a time. Which move would you want Jack to forget to make room for Jump Good?

Make him forget how to samurai slash

IIRC, Jack jumps good one more time (or at least, calls it by name) in the original series for a gag in one of the Scotsman episodes.

There were a couple impressive jumps in Season 5.

I think Jack can control the strength of his jumps.

Looks like there's more SJ comics coming out. Obviously non-canon, but still.

Cheeky devils.

The name alone makes one hyperventilate.

This is the kind of story that Season 5 should have done I love in this franchise. To be fair though I love this kind of story in just about any franchise.

Gotta get back, back to reality Samurai Jack...

To me, this smells of In Name Only and trying to get your completely unrelated stories out there under a recognized name.

That's going to depend on whether Jack's personality is similar every time, I think.

Samurai Jack is kind of episodic and "choose your own adventure" to begin with.

Having a Quantum Leap-esque story brings potential for Alternate Character Interpretation and fun with the show's sci-fi elements.

If seeing an alternate universe where Jack became a Badass Biker gang leader is glorified fanfiction then it's glorified fanfiction I can roll with.

edited 20th Jun '17 12:13:19 PM by Soble

To me this just sounds like they wanted to do a series of What If? style stories with Samurai Jack now that the show's over.

Who's writing these licensed comic books anyways?

IDW Comics.

I'm OK with this. As long as Jack still gets to be a Samurai of some kind.

Not to mention it would make good crossover material. As long as everyone in-character. *cough* Super Secret Crisis War *cough*

This is rather late, but I've taken some time to reevaluate how I feel about Season 5 upon rewatching the marathon, as well as looking at a few reruns over the last few weeks.

I have to admit, I didn't like Ashi initially because I thought she ruined the season. But after stopping to think about it, I don't dislike Ashi necessarily. In fact, she was actually pretty decent.

Until Episode 6. That was the point where she went from being her own character to being a waifu.

Prior to that point, she wants to kill Jack because that's how she's been raised. Jack shows her that her life has been a lie and now she questions her mother's teachings and wonders what else is wrong. From there, she sees that Aku's world is not as nice as she thought it was and feels she's been deceived. When she finds out that Aku's henchman Dominator is manipulating children, much like she was manipulated, she does everything in her power to save them immediately and even has a moment of intense anger when Dominator laughs about how easy it is to trick children into doing your bidding due to her past with her mother. This is all pretty good stuff.

Too bad this is all dropped immediately after Episode 5, and the rest of the show is just Ashi and Jack awkwardly complimenting each other until they inevitably make out, they fall in love at the last minute, and then she dies. Before she could even start having a character transition from evil to good, they basically ended her character growth. And THAT is what I hate about Ashi, not her as a character.

Every time I look back at it, the main thing I would change is having Ashi and Jack fall in love the way they did. Keep most of everything else, just remove Ashi and Jack being awkward. Have them get married during the final episode, sure. The romance was just... weird and, in a way, pointlessly bittersweet.

Did you actually watch episode 6? Jack is barely in it, and the bulk of the episode is her finishing her transition from bad to good.

edited 28th Jun '17 2:20:16 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

The awkward romance stuff didn't start happening until ep 8. Even then, she was still her own person. Take for example, her not getting why Jack had a problem with her being naked and that not being treated as an embarrassing moment that tops the life-threatening situation they were in. At least not on her part.

Episode 6 is literally all about her changing to the side of good. Honestly I can't help but find it weird that somehow putting a female character in a relationship "ruins" them.

There's this tendency in fandom that goes with Real Women Don't Wear Dresses that having a heterosexual romance reduces a woman to an object (homosexual is fine because it's "woke" or some nonsense) and only non-heterosexual romantic relationships are allowed to preserve the integrity of the character.

It's off putting.

edited 28th Jun '17 8:11:38 AM by Beatman1