Samurai Jack General

I'm OK with it because it's not a complete downer of an ending. It didn't seem to me like he was a left a lifelong widower who could never move on or anything.

Concerning Dexter's Lab, it's more the point it would usually be comical, and then randomly we'd have a completely melancholy and somber ending like "Way of the Dee Dee" or "The Koos is Loose" (the latter was especially superfluous because Koosie returned anyway, it was a randomly depressing ending for the sake of one). Samurai Jack has always been semi-dramatic with a bittersweet tone. Sure Jack deserved a Happy Ending, but the premise made it little surprise he didn't quite get one.

edited 3rd Apr '18 9:40:21 AM by Psi001

I say it's the happiest bittersweet option he could have gotten. Although as people said, I wonder if he would dwell on how the allies and friends he made during that timeline would still be there or at least lives would be changed for the better.

Villanos has a new episode focusing on Aku.

I'm surprised that he showed up here. So I'm guessing this is before the finale then.

Woah. LOOOOONG episode!

So after putting this off for a while, I finally sat down and watched season 5 in its entirety.

Perhaps fittingly, I feel kinda the same way I do about the Hey Arnold Jungle Movie: it's far from perfect, but ultimately I'm glad that it exists and it brings the story to a close after all this time. There were some issues across the season as a whole (mostly regarding the trite way Jack and Ashi's relationship develops), but before that, especially in the first few episodes, it had some extremely strong moments and really felt like they took advantage of the freedom granted by being on Adult Swim without abusing it. It was really the rushed and anticlimatic conclusion of the last episode that kind of soured the whole thing for me a bit.

I found this neat animation while I was on break from editing. I figured I could share it here since it is so cool!

What if Samurai Jack WASN'T cancelled during it's original run and had a series finale during so? (Somewhere in the multiverse this has actually happened)

I'm just speculating but I think we probably wouldn't have gotten Ashi or the fifty year time skip. I have a feeling they were thought up at a later time.

-another long rant about why Ashi wasn't needed, should've been handled differently, and Season 5 was garbage for thrusting Jack and Ashi's relationship to the forefront and would have been so much better if it'd paid more attention to details like the Guardian, Demongo, the Dogs, the Scotsman, etc-

I don't know if we'd still have had the Daughters of Aku, and that'd be a shame.

It'd probably be the same, but Jack would actually come back to the Guardian, looking like he did in that future picture. There'd probably be no Daughters of Aku or Scaramouche, but I'm thinking Ghost Scotsman and his merry band of previous cameos would stay.

I don't know about that. Back then the show was mostly self-contained episodes aside from some two parters like with the Scotsman. Most cartoons were like that back then before binge watching was thing. It might have been more likely they'd forget the Guardian. And we might have gotten a TV movie to end it instead.

The show probably also would have dipped in quality because Genndy stopped working on Jack to work on clone wars, so it'd either have new people heading it or he'd have been juggling two shows.

edited 8th Jun '18 1:47:11 PM by xanderiskander

Here's my idea for a Samurai Jack AU:

Instead of getting flung into the distant future, Jack gets warped into present day New York City and becomes partners with an Occult Detective who hunts demons.

What do you think of this idea?

Nothing.

its been done!

(by now anyway)

Does anyone find it odd that Aku has intelligence the instant he was "born"? The black mass was a mindless force of evil, but the moment the magic arrows hit the goop Aku takes only seconds to gain self-awareness and intelligence. Come to think of it, why would the arrows even give him sentience to begin with?

It's magic arrows fused with a piece of primordial evil. We don't have to explain it.

But yeah that is weird.

Edited by windleopard on Sep 5th 2018 at 10:14:45 AM

Quite.

Did anyone read those Quantum Jack comics?

To me it seemed like the uncontrollable black mass of evil was so obsenely powerful it operated on a different level of consciousness. The arrow struck it powerfully enough to bring it down from Eldritch Abomination to a Humanoid Abomination level of consciousness, basically bringing it down.

It just occurred to me that when Aku was having his therapy session:

• He's aware that Jack grew a beard
• Aku-based time travel "affects the aging process"

So Jack still time-traveled that way. So... doesn't that mean Jack is now double immortal?

There's no indication that killing Aku made him mortal again.

Still makes me wonder why Aku didn't bother keeping an eye on Jack after destroying the last time portal, even on a whim to gloat and see him in despair.

It's possible that Jack's immortality was connected to being sent to a different time period. Being temporally displaced may have messed with his body's aging. Returning to his original time may have restored his mortality.

Because Aku's a Dirty Coward who didn't want to risk being anywhere near the one weapon that could kill him. The entire reason he decided to go after the time portals instead of Jack was because he hoped time would kill Jack for him.

Edited by M84 on Aug 21st 2019 at 4:08:28 PM

It's highly likely that Aku has been getting info on Jack from his minions, not directly. While Aku likely told them to watch out for Jack's sword, none of them likely paid too much attention to look for or tell Aku whether Jack had it or not.

With the fact Aku had last seen a very pissed off Jack with the sword and had left before Jack lost it, he very unsurprisingly assumed Jack still had it.

Edited by tclittle on Aug 21st 2019 at 3:17:12 AM

Presumably the minions who did observe Jack over the years didn't stay long enough or remain close enough to Jack to notice he wasn't using his sword. If they did stay too long or get too close, they'd have been killed by Jack. The only reason Scaramouche was able to report the missing sword was because Jack didn't realize he could survive decapitation.