Samurai Jack General

The only complaint I find understandable is the one about sexualized feminine bodies.

Other than that, naaah.

On the controversial article above, I did a little research. Heatstreet (the source) is center-right and libertarian in politics. It does actually bring up some good points to counter the review it's slamming. Things are only offensive if you look at them in a specific way (which is unfortunately, seems to be how many people like to view things today).

I mean, one could make the argument that Scotsman's daughters were sexualized, to which I respond that those bodies certainly were not typically feminine.

edited 25th Apr '17 8:55:05 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

The article was just easy pickings to mock leftists and is total click bait. I feel like we should move on from it and not give them any attention.

The Scotsman's wife is quite possibly the furthest thing from a sexualized female character that I can think of.

edited 25th Apr '17 8:56:58 AM by LordVatek

Jack is naked/half-naked on-screen more than the women in this show, but then Ashi and the "Extra-thicc" meme certainly do go well together. I'll give it that one.

I think it's a mixed bag where it can be offensive if you want to look at it that way, but the show is also quite aware of itself through characters like Da Samurai. It's not like Final Fantasy 13 with characters like Sazh Kitzroy, or Japan's portrayal of black characters in general. No, Da Samurai is very much an Affectionate Parody of Blaxiploitation characters, similar to Afro Samurai and Black Dynamite. Well, the former less so.

I don't know why the cultural appropriation comes to be a criticism when the main character is Asian, the show blends a lot of mythologies/cultures together into a multi-faceted, anachronistic sci-fi setting. If anything that presents a level of diversity most cartoons probably lack. It might not be portraying them accurately, but then I also think this is a cartoon about time travel and it doesn't necessarily need to be accurate. It's not like Smite where they're taking a religious figure and making them overly sexy, at least as far as I know. Least that's how I see it.

But all in all this doesn't seem like the kind of work that's written by a philistine.

Alright, I missed this line of dialogue.

edited 25th Apr '17 9:13:51 AM by Soble

I'd say that Ashi and her sisters were more stylized that trying to play for sex. There can be issues with that too, but that's how I'd go.

The Scotsman's daughters are an interesting topic, but I feel like it would be more common to see them praised for being both attractive with a non-standard "feminine" body type, than used as sex symbols. But that too would be up for discussion.

Really though, I thought there would be more meat to that review. There really isn't much to say about it, either way.

Anyone else notice that the events of the episode with the archers were altered a bit in the telling in this latest episode?

In the episode itself, the evil well wasn't a time portal per se, but rather an artifact that granted wishes, which could be used to create such a gateway. Also, Jack destroying the well wasn't done to free the archers from the curse; defeating them in battle had already done that. He destroyed the well in an act of righteous fury, to ensure that it could never corrupt another innocent soul with its promise of wishes fulfilled. Which was still an act of sacrifice, since it meant destroying one more possible way to reach his goal.

Going to have to rewatch the original episode, but can the change be chalked up due to being from the archer's perspective? Pretty sure the Woolies' statement was slightly different from the original too.

edited 25th Apr '17 9:28:32 AM by Cross

MOST if not all of Genndy's creations feature overly cartoonish sexy women. So how does Ashi make that any different.

edited 25th Apr '17 9:39:03 AM by kyun

The Woolies' statement was a bit embellished, yeah. Stuff like that first night at the banquet, the meeting with the eldest, and the mission to break that orb thing was left out.

The Woolies' version of the story made it seem like Jack fought the Chritchellites by himself, when another Woolie helped with a lot of it, yeah.

edited 25th Apr '17 10:46:53 AM by xanderiskander

These are 50 year old stories, the details aren't going to be exact.

They also let out the fact that Jack saved the ravers wearing The Cat's Hat and using a pacifier.

Well it's that time again, be careful there's info out for the last two episodes.

To those that already saw or will seek them out, please be courteous and not post them here since some people want to go in blind.

Are we talking leaks or just episode descriptions?

Just episode descriptions (that's all I saw at least) and honestly, they're not anything major (but you should still use caution).

edited 25th Apr '17 7:05:52 PM by LordVatek

Yeah, I saw them too, nothing too major. Caution should still be advised.

edited 25th Apr '17 7:06:19 PM by AdricDePsycho

I mean hopefully we can just not post them here...?

But I'm a bow out anyway until the episode hits.

In the mean time: ASHI IS A BAD MOTHERF-

Well, as for the descriptions of the final two episodes. Here they are, and they've been spoiler-tagged for obvious reasons.

• S5 E9: Samurai Jack's worst fear is realized when he faces off against Aku; the demon makes a shocking discovery about Ashi that puts her in grave danger.
• S5 E10: The fate of the entire universe hangs in the balance as Samurai Jack faces Aku.

edited 25th Apr '17 7:45:53 PM by AHI-3000

Maybe Ashi was conceived using a piece of Aku and that he wants to absorb her back into him to become complete.

That would require a lot of fridge logic for it to work. I'm just hoping that this doesn't lead to Ashi dying at the end.

Please don't make Jack her dad. It would make the whole nudity reveal...very unsettling. The idea of showing her nude bathing when we're supposed to take it as a father/daughter relationship is seven kinds of gross.

edited 25th Apr '17 8:48:53 PM by Beatman1

So we're just not doing the "no talking about the leaks" thing, huh?

What? Jack wasn't there when she was bathing.