Samurai Jack General

So apparently, at least if Phil Lamar (Jack's VA is to be believed) Ashi is an adult.◊

Now, the sword. We saw a brief flashback of him losing it. How does he get it back?

Also you know who I'm surprised we didn't see? The mob that Jack helped.

edited 25th Apr '17 4:24:03 AM by Beatman1

You know, I kinda suspect that Demongo made a cameo and we won't see him again, or at least that his next scene will be last and as long as this one.

Also, wtf, he's voiced by Kevin Richardson? Really? When he started speaking in that last episode, I thought at first that it's Richard Steven Horvitz.

That's not the age of legal consent/independent tax status/alcohol-drinking in the US so...

Also I'm skeptical of Jack being 2,000 years old.

But the thought is amusing.

edited 25th Apr '17 7:19:59 AM by Soble

Well, Jack's over 2,000 if you measure from his birth year.

Ignoring the time travel, how old was Jack when he challenged Aku? 18? 20s? 30s?

Jack's age has never been specified.

Yep. As a kid I didn't care, but now I'm curious. For all we know Jack could just be a really mature 18 year old.

I'd say he was in his early to mid 20s, but that's just gut instinct.

So he ages in anime years.

edited 25th Apr '17 6:37:14 AM by Beatman1

Early twenties sounds about right.

I've seen 25 passed around a lot.

I mean. There is literally nothing that indicates his age. It's all speculation.

That was makes this season so fun. Has it been fifty years since he first arrived in the future? Or fifty years since the last episode of the original series? For that matter, how far into the future was he when Aku originally sent him there? How old was Jack when he originally left?

So now I'm pretty sure that Jack lost his sword when this happened and everything we saw in the first episode's flashback was just a trauma-induced hallucination Jack's mind created.

We never did see the bird that carried Jack away pick up that sword. I mean we assume he retrieved it later since he has it in the next episode, but then no one ever said these episodes were being told in chronological order.

edited 25th Apr '17 7:35:35 AM by Soble

A Yale student slams the show for being homophobic, sexist, and culturally inappropriate.

... gee. Maybe he should watch the first 4 seasons and realize all this wasn't new to the show!

I haven't even read it yet and I'm already angry.

This is important why? All this is gonna accomplish is unnecessary "SJW" bashing.

Just glancing at that site, it looks like an alt right news site.

edited 25th Apr '17 7:52:35 AM by AdricDePsycho

Agreed. This will lead nowhere good.

This is the Rainbow Dash school of "assuming the camp/butch character is gay, the complaining it's a stereotype."

That entire site, just from a cursory glance, looks like an alt right publication like Breitbart. They probably just picked some dumb kid's writing on the show to bash the left. Let's not give them publicity, please?

The actual review might be a better point of discussion.

That review is kind of amateurish. Not worth moving "le Es Jay Dubyas" for.

I mean I'm going to call BS on Scaramouche because while he might be annoying to some, his scatting is excellent. I'm actually pleased he survived.

The rest of it doesn't seem entirely unfair. But that other site was just making clickbait out of it.

edited 25th Apr '17 8:08:46 AM by Soble

He's a straight-up inspiration of Sammy Davis Jr. That doesn't at all imply anything else, it's just supposed to be a funny voice.

Honestly, you'd get more mileage out of a discussion over Scaramouche being an impression of a black guy voiced by a white guy and the ramifications of that, but that's a topic for another thread.

Jack was mentioned as being born 25 years before Aku enslaved the Earth.