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I just think Jack lost the sword because a fight went south. I don't know if I watched all of the normal series or not so I don't know if that was because of an Aku rematch or what but I think he lost the sword because he lost the sword. He should've really gotten a strap for that thing on the hilt. raditts posted:Ashi will break Jack's fall. And that will be the end of Ashi. She will then continue to make appearances when Blue Jack does as well. RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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I mean, yeah, the brief snippet we see of him losing it would imply he was in the middle of a fight, considering he was half-naked. I'm just wondering what he was fighting. I'm thinking the Horseman is an actual person, not just some abstract concept of death, who took Jack to task for the long-term consequences of his failure to kill Aku (I.E. they lost a loved one(s) that would still be alive if Jack had finished the job during any one of the opportunities he had in the original series + interceding years), and dueled him for the right to wield the sword because they thought he was just going to keep loving around without making any actual progress towards that one goal. Jack keeps envisioning the Horseman because, on a subconscious level, he knows they're right; for all those small families he saved, like during the introduction to the season, how many more died because Aku is still in power? Scaramouch isn't the first opponent to go slaughtering towns just to lure him, and it's not at all unlikely that he was the first in a long time to try that trick, either.
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I personally wonder if it was the Guardian that did it? Like maybe Jack challenged him AGAIN at some point, got broken over his knee yet again, and then had his sword tossed away so that he'd stop bothering him? Gendy DID say they were going to address the Guardian at some point in this season, so maybe that's how?
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Mar 30, 2017 08:28
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We saw Jack lose the sword. He dropped it.
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Mar 30, 2017 13:54
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VolticSurge posted:So,yeah,I'm kinda backing out of this thread for now. If I want to be lectured, I'd give my mother a call. No one's lecturing you, no one's even responded to you. You can talk about things you like while we talk about things we want to talk about you big pansy.
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And so the great D&D/C-SPAM conflict spills over into TVIV, drawing them into the Neverending War
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Mar 30, 2017 14:20
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the gently caress happened in this thread
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Mar 30, 2017 14:40
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Somebody UNLEASHED AN UNSPEAKBLE EVIL
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Alan_Shore posted:This show could be called Samurai Jade with all the genders swapped and it would be exactly the same show. The interesting thing is that it actually wouldn't! For example, the whole thing about "the more naked Jack gets the more brutal he becomes" would come across as something completely different if he were a lady samurai stripping down to her underwear to do murders. Hm, let's consider this more fully. Would Jade come across as having a different relationship with Aku than Jack? Or would it be more appropriate to flip Aku into Ako as well (including the episode where she confounds Jade by turning into a sexy guy)? Rand Brittain fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 15:29
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Somebody UNLEASHED AN UNSPEAKBLE EVIL ACTUALLY IT IS ABOUT JOURNALISM IN VIDEOOOOOOOOOOO GAMES
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Mar 30, 2017 16:14
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Chokes McGee posted:ACTUALLY IT IS ABOUT JOURNALISM IN VIDEOOOOOOOOOOO GAMES VIHDEHHO GHEEEEEEMS! I love the syllabic inflections in this show. They give me PUHPUS!
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Mar 30, 2017 16:17
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I have stopped thinking too much about Samurai Jack since it turned out the wolf was not a metaphor but an actual wolf.
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Hypocrisy posted:I have stopped thinking too much about Samurai Jack since it turned out the wolf was not a metaphor but an actual wolf. Did you know that in fiction, things can simultaneously be "real" and a metaphor?
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ikanreed posted:Did you know that in fiction, things can simultaneously be "real" and a metaphor? We don't take kindly to no critical didacticism 'round here. 'Specially not no Magical Realist metaphors. Metaphors? I'll so you what my metas for!
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Rand Brittain posted:The interesting thing is that it actually wouldn't! That would make sense to me. Aku, any non-insect robots, and aliens would be drawn as and voiced by women, most of the time.
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Das Boo posted:VIHDEHHO GHEEEEEEMS! The magnum opus moment of this show is a tie between: GREAT FLAMING EYEBROOWSS and BEEEEF JEEERRKYYYYYYYYY
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Hypocrisy posted:I have stopped thinking too much about Samurai Jack since it turned out the wolf was not a metaphor but an actual wolf. The wolf was a metaphor about metaphorical wolves.
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So Math posted:That would make sense to me. Aku, any non-insect robots, and aliens would be drawn as and voiced by women, most of the time. The Scotswomen's husband might not come over too well.
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I'm trying to find the episode where Jack goes underwater and the local fishpeople serve him food, and Jack exclaims "SUSHI!" He was just so dang happy to find some tasty raw fish and soy sauce.
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
Rigged Death Trap posted:The magnum opus moment of this show is a tie between: Eh, I think Aku calling up a pizza place has that beat.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y57fFLHnmI
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ikanreed posted:Did you know that in fiction, things can simultaneously be "real" and a metaphor? Yup. Still, it was made pretty clear to me that I was overthinking things.
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E: posted late.
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Caidin posted:The Scotswomen's husband might not come over too well. Agreed.
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Gorilla Salad posted:We saw Jack lose the sword. He dropped it. Yeah, I just think that that's the end of it too. It's not a metaphor of anything beyond that. Dude just dropped his sword.
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it's okay for symbolism to exist. like i dont think it's over-analyzing to say jack losing his sword is sorta like how he's lost his motivation for the quest. i'm all for not making paragraph long self-owns about television but i don't think that thats a far-fetched thing to say or anything
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How can he possibly fight (gently caress) aku without his sword (penis)? Also women bleed and that is scary to Jack, who is used to only lubricants.
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mandatory lesbian posted:it's okay for symbolism to exist. like i dont think it's over-analyzing to say jack losing his sword is sorta like how he's lost his motivation for the quest. i'm all for not making paragraph long self-owns about television but i don't think that thats a far-fetched thing to say or anything it is not and a little of that is good and cool and thought provoking four pages full of d&d style slapfights is ... not the reason I come to tviv I mean I suppose I can just leave but I'd really rather post in cool threads with you guys 
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Somberbrero posted:oh, i think i get it. i like jack cool motorcycle. sad that motorcycle gone. this but unironically. Fionordequester posted:1) I'm a virgin Take it to E/N, buddy, jeez! *thunderous applause*
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Chokes McGee posted:it is not and a little of that is good and cool and thought provoking consider: there is no such thing as a cool thread
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IronSaber posted:I'm trying to find the episode where Jack goes underwater and the local fishpeople serve him food, and Jack exclaims "SUSHI!" Great scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dki-6bLcwlg
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I need to rewatch all the originals before the finale comes out. I don't think I've seen them since they were on Cartoon Network, and I've probably missed a fair few of them. Making my way through now.
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Remember that time Jack got turned into a chicken? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaC-B2HoGX8
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Acebuckeye13 posted:My guess is something along the lines of another goon's prediction-Ashi and Jack will be forced to work together, and will later be confronted by either one or both of the other Daughters that were thrown off the cliff. I don't know a whole lot about Jack's character. But if they end up working together, I hope it's because she has like a broken arm or something and he helps her--not out of necessity for his own well being, but benevolence  nerdman42 posted:I'm betting on at least one daughter besides Ashi to survive, just to provide a contrast for her own development. But if not, its no major loss. The Matriarch could probably serve this role too. Or maybe the Big Bertha that beat the poo poo out of the sisters. Maybe Jack will beat the poo poo out of her. mycot posted:Ashi will be eaten whole by the wolf in the opening of the next episode, making this whole discussion moot. What if the wolf starts to eat Ashi, and Jack is forced to kill it to save her. That would probably mean all sorts of deep stuff.
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If Ashi becomes a significant character with a redemption arc, I think it's almost a certainty that she will have to face one of her sisters, or if they're all dead, at least one of the women that raised them. Her character seems custom-made for that particular narrative trope.
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So in the last 50 years Jack acquired: ~ A Beard ~Paranoid Schizophrenia (He is hearing voices that urge him to kill himself, hallucinating even in the very thick of battle) ~Literally the motorcycle from Snowcrash except with spikes on the wheels ~His crazy transforming scrap metal armor ~Basically Han Solo's magnum laser blaster ~A chain gun ~ a pair Butterfly knives ~A ridiculous folding Electro-Extendo trident ~A bandolier of thermal detonators straight out of Star Wars I'm willing to bet that his Ep1 mask was wooden and that he carved it himself, and that it vaguely reminiscent of Aku really shows much of his psyche he has given up to this endless quest. Aku is all he knows.
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I just watched that scene where Aku assumes a human form to duel Jack. Jack does a bunch of stretching exercises and Aku has no idea what those are But Fifty years later Aku does stretches daily
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Hey, there are TV Guide spoilers out for 7 and 8. They put to rest the stupid arguments in this thread. Episode 7 - XCVIII: Jack and Ashi overcome a series of dangerous physical and spiritual tests in order to recover Jack's sword. Episode 8 - XCIX: The burgeoning relationship between Jack and Ashi takes a turn after they are hunted by one of the galaxy's deadliest creatures.
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