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Alternatively, he gets sent back to the past... But it's only his mind inhabiting the deepest recesses of his past self just before that first fateful confrontation with Aku, and he's stuck with having to relive his adventures and hardships over and over and over again for all of time with no way to influence the outcome.
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It doesn't have to be grimdark, maybe he just chooses not to go back in time because doing so would genocide this version of the future, which has all his friends he met along the way. The moral is that the time portal to the past is the friends you made along the way.
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Mar 21, 2017 05:32
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maybe the real mental scars were the throats we slit along the way
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Mar 21, 2017 05:37
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My wonder is if he gets the sword back or if he somehow gains a different way to kill Aku And if they'll do a flashback on how he lost the sword, because it must have been one hell of an adventure to end in him losing the world's last hope.
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Mar 21, 2017 05:40
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Funky Valentine posted:Aku shows up outside whevere JAck's hiding out with a boombox. This is a thing that probably could have happened in the original run.
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Mar 21, 2017 06:05
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Hemingway To Go! posted:My wonder is if he gets the sword back or if he somehow gains a different way to kill Aku Jack forgot he had the "Pray" option and when he finally does it the gods give him other divine sword, but his time it's an hf sword.
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Mar 21, 2017 06:27
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Chokes McGee posted:"oooh and also pick up the EGGSSSS on the way home." Oh and dont forget the BEEEEEF JEEEEERKKYYYYYYYYY
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Mar 21, 2017 08:03
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PhazonLink posted:Jack forgot he had the "Pray" option and when he finally does it the gods give him other divine sword, but his time it's an hf sword. It's time for Jack to let 'er rip! *Stains of Time starts blaring outta nowhere* VolticSurge fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Mar 21, 2017 13:43
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VolticSurge posted:It's time for Jack to let 'er rip! *Stains of Time starts blaring outta nowhere* Free will is a myth! Religion is a joke! We are all pawns, Samurai, controlled by something greater. AKU! The DNA of Unspeakable evil!
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Mar 21, 2017 14:35
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The original sword was made from his father's spirit. Maybe Jack gets a new sword made from his spirit.
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Mar 21, 2017 15:38
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Mraagvpeine posted:The original sword was made from his father's spirit. Maybe Jack gets a new sword made from his spirit. So this is Soul Reaver levels of time fuckery.
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Mar 21, 2017 15:40
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I will warn the thread, there was apparently a screening of the first three episodes of the season, the spoilers dropped before the second were consistent with what happened in the second. So it's reasonable to think the third is the same. As well, apparently there are images of storyboards hinting to events future in the season.
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Mar 21, 2017 15:41
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Roobanguy posted:i believe in jack going back to the past. S...samurai jack??
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Mar 21, 2017 15:48
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Stairmaster posted:This is a thing that probably could have happened in the original run. Given how things are going with Aku it's something that might happen in this one. He doesn't seem to be taking things very seriously this time around  e: also I hope the light bulb comes on with Ashi and she convinces the others to step away from the dark side, I don't want to see any more of them get killed 
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Mar 21, 2017 15:50
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Weird idea: tie some of the drama into Jack's real name. Either reveal that he's been fighting so long that he can't remember what his original name was, or end the show with him back in the past and his family calling him by his real name or something.
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Mar 21, 2017 15:53
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Mraagvpeine posted:The original sword was made from his father's spirit. Maybe Jack gets a new sword made from his spirit. I don't remember this. I thought it was forged by three gods. I remember Odin or Thor hammering it. I suspect if a new sword is made "from Jack", then it won't be going to Jack.
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Mar 21, 2017 17:03
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My gut tells me that the Scotsman will help Jack get back his will to live like he did snapping Jack out of the Sirens' control.
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Mar 21, 2017 17:27
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Mraagvpeine posted:The original sword was made from his father's spirit. Maybe Jack gets a new sword made from his spirit. Didn't Jack grab the sword as a child as he and his mother fled before his father died? I thought the sword existed well beforehand.
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Mar 21, 2017 18:00
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ZorajitZorajit posted:I don't remember this. I thought it was forged by three gods. I remember Odin or Thor hammering it. I suspect if a new sword is made "from Jack", then it won't be going to Jack. At the beginning of that scene, the gods extract a part of Jack's father's soul, then they hammer it into the sword. They give a speech about how only a righteous human spirit can defeat evil and all that, which is the recurring theme of the series. Ultimately there is no question that Jack destroys Aku in a straight up fight, which is why he's holed up and become a hikki.
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Mar 21, 2017 18:20
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MichiganCubbie posted:Didn't Jack grab the sword as a child as he and his mother fled before his father died? I thought the sword existed well beforehand. The sword he uses in the series was forged from his father's righteous spirit, but it didn't require his father to actually die. In fact his father used it to seal Aku away the first time. So Jack could possibly make his own sword and use it himself, if he had the help of some gods. And he's met Ra before at least. Oh, also it was his mother who grabbed the sword as she fled with Jack, then sent him off to get trained and kept the sword herself until Jack was ready to take it. Also also Aku didn't kill Jack's father, Jack's dad was made into slave labour who pushed a wheel that rotated a big Aku shaped tower because Aku is a big egotistical douche. Slime fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Mar 21, 2017 18:54
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Is Jack even capable of creating a sword from his own spirit at this point? He's a little unhinged.
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Dazerbeams posted:Is Jack even capable of creating a sword from his own spirit at this point? He's a little unhinged. I'm imagining a scene where Jack has killed the daughters, buried them, and, weeping, finds himself Silently.
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Mar 21, 2017 19:17
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:My gut tells me that the Scotsman will help Jack get back his will to live like he did snapping Jack out of the Sirens' control. How old would the Scotsman be though? At least his 70's, though more likely his 90's, and it's not like you have an amazing chance of long life as a rebel against an ancient evil who controls the world. EDIT: never mind, forgot he was confirmed a while ago with the wheelchair thing.
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Megaspel posted:How old would the Scotsman be though? At least his 70's, though more likely his 90's, and it's not like you have an amazing chance of long life as a rebel against an ancient evil who controls the world. Even the promo notwithstanding, the Scotsman would make it to old age just to make sure Jack doesn't beat him by outliving him.
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Bobulus posted:Weird idea: tie some of the drama into Jack's real name. Either reveal that he's been fighting so long that he can't remember what his original name was, or end the show with him back in the past and his family calling him by his real name or something. So would you say. His memory is broken. The truth goes unspoken. He's even forgotten his name
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Mar 21, 2017 20:24
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Fionordequester posted:And then there's this complete moron doing morning stretches, complaining about his vacuumed floors, talking to his shrink about how stressed he is, and talking like an old man with a speech impediment. It's like Aku himself isn't really the major problem in the show; all the REALLY awful stuff seems more like just the natural consequence of having an immortal, all-powerful dictator take over the world. The modern American political landscape
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Mar 21, 2017 22:59
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I've been slowly rewatching the first seasons, and finally saw the episode with the haunted Japanese house. I'm really hoping we get a straight-up horror episode like that in this season.
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Mar 21, 2017 23:09
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Regalingualius posted:I've been slowly rewatching the first seasons, and finally saw the episode with the haunted Japanese house. I had thought I had seen every ep of Samurai Jack, but somehow missed the haunted house one. What a fabulously stylistic episode. 
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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So I here's something odd: On my first watch, I noticed Jack's skin tone is more peach and less yellow than in the original run but I dismissed it as "Okay, that probably has an associative subtext they'd want to avoid, I get it." But my second time through and I'm not sure that's the case. Both his parents had a very yellow skin tone in their river appearance and I can't be positive due to the ambient color, but Jack looked like he had his old pale yellow coloring in the scene where he lost his sword. Phone posting, so I'll use someone else's else's image.  The heck?
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Das Boo posted:Phone posting, so I'll use someone else's else's image. Malnourished from at least 20 years of "I don't give a gently caress anymore. Just kill me already Aku"
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Das Boo posted:So I here's something odd: On my first watch, I noticed Jack's skin tone is more peach and less yellow than in the original run but I dismissed it as "Okay, that probably has an associative subtext they'd want to avoid, I get it." It's so deliberate that I'm wondering if the reasoning is something as simple as not wanting yellow skin with black armor.
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If you watch the scene with the Daughters of Aku hunting Jack in the tomb, in one of the overhead shots at the beginning, there's eight of them. I just noticed it when I was rewatching today.
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Mar 23, 2017 06:04
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Nice loss edit.
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Mar 23, 2017 06:32
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Nice loss edit. Getting more and more abstract.
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TerminalRaptor posted:If you watch the scene with the Daughters of Aku hunting Jack in the tomb, in one of the overhead shots at the beginning, there's eight of them. I just noticed it when I was rewatching today. Normally I'd say it's an animation fuckup but Gendry is so meticulous that it's gotta be something weird going on. Or you just miscounted 
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Mar 23, 2017 14:20
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Or one died during training, as an example to the others.
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Das Boo posted:So I here's something odd: On my first watch, I noticed Jack's skin tone is more peach and less yellow than in the original run but I dismissed it as "Okay, that probably has an associative subtext they'd want to avoid, I get it." Jack's not Jack theory rising...
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Or he just looks different in a bright lit field than in green phosphorescent lighting. Is the dress white and gold or blue and black?
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Mar 23, 2017 16:50
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Regardless, this season absolutely has peach-toned Jack not for the purpose of avoiding a stereotype as his parents still have the yellow skin tone. A change was made.
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It could also be because he's turned into a pasty goon from wearing his armor all the time 
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