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Das Boo posted:Aku's wife is Aku, in a polkadot dress. Now I want a "Leave It to Beaver"-style sitcom with Aku as all the characters.
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Serge Painsbourg posted:Here's something I just thought of: How didn't Aku find out that Jack lost his sword sooner? You'd think that one of his assassins or informants would've have tipped him off sometime within the 50-year time span. It's probably just the old Ｍ Ａ Ｌ Ａ Ｉ Ｓ Ｅ.
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It kind of felt like a clip show to me. Still, good to see scatbot still alive and his adventures were good.
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Apr 24, 2017 02:54
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Based on this episode, I'm going to call a prediction: Jack doesn't get back to the past. He acknowledges that his purpose isn't to prevent the future that is Aku from existing, but to help/ bring hope to the people in it.
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Apr 24, 2017 03:00
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Kithkar posted:He is real and the Scotsman is going to insult him until he bursts into a cloud of blue mist.
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Apr 24, 2017 03:01
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My guess for next week is Ashi puts up a good fight against that army but will fall and before she is defeated The Scotsman's Daughters saved her and The Scotsman someone how aids Jack in finding the sword because....ghost powers?
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Roach Warehouse posted:Based on this episode, I'm going to call a prediction: Jack doesn't get back to the past. He acknowledges that his purpose isn't to prevent the future that is Aku from existing, but to help/ bring hope to the people in it. But he's gotta get back.
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Apr 24, 2017 03:11
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Apr 24, 2017 03:17
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Apr 24, 2017 03:19
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Jack builds up speed for 12 hours to launch himself into a parallel universe where Aku never existed.
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Kithkar posted:He is real and the Scotsman is going to beat the poo poo out of him. Dumb idea: What if Blue Jack is just Mad Jack? He was defeated but just dormant and he's still there, now mad as poo poo that 50 years of this nonsense has gone on. Doesn't stop him from being the prey for Force Ghost Scotsman. Just another potential dumb callback. Crabtree fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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Regalingualius posted:I think the only disappointing bit of the episode was the rave... And that was more because of how it felt kind of cringe-y than anything else. I actually really liked that part. The autotune song was actually done fairly inoffensively, and there's something about Ashi learning the dance that was copied from Jack's own fighting moves. Also she was just having so much fun, she had no idea dancing was a thing 
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Crabtree posted:Dumb idea: What if Blue Jack is just Mad Jack? He was defeated just dormant and he's still there, now mad as poo poo that 50 years of this nonsense has gone on. Madder Jack
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This episode might have been fanservice but in a way it was kinda needed to show that this future isn't entirely grim and has things worth saving.
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Serge Painsbourg posted:Here's something I just thought of: How didn't Aku find out that Jack lost his sword sooner? You'd think that one of his assassins or informants would've have tipped him off sometime within the 50-year time span. That was resolved in the first episode when Aku hadn't gone after Jack in years. It's easy to assume that Jack killed the poo poo outta everyone who came at him before Scaramouche.
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LostRook posted:The sign on the ship said no dogs, then later on the ship Scaramouche was beaten up by dogs. Are we to expect they all rode giant penis men onto the ship? Clearly the future of Aku makes the distinction between Pluto-like dogs and Goofy-like bipedal dogmen.
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didn't you hear the guy? he's not a dog
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Yeah, like I said. There's a difference.Servaetes posted:I don't think there's that much to think about because it's pretty literal Were the other two the Two Stupid Dogs characters? I didn't even make that connection. The guy that was torturing Ashi in the last episode kind of reminded me of Moltar though.
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I think Jack will go back to the past, and then we'll time skip to the Future-present where he's gotten back there the long-way around, meeting an Ashi who didn't grow up in horrible circumstances. See, to me, I don't think Jack minds that he'd be undoing all his work by changing the future. In fact, to allow people to suffer for X years is probably far worse for him. I think he'd instead choose to devote his life to protecting life.
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Waffleopolis posted:My guess for next week is Ashi puts up a good fight against that army but will fall and before she is defeated The Scotsman's Daughters saved her and The Scotsman someone how aids Jack in finding the sword because....ghost powers? I hope Ashi and the head Scotsman's daughter(Scotswoman) end up having the exact same relationship as Jack and the Scotsman did, including getting into an epic battle over a petty argument.
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ChairMaster posted:That was resolved in the first episode when Aku hadn't gone after Jack in years. It's easy to assume that Jack killed the poo poo outta everyone who came at him before Scaramouche. Also we still haven't seen how he actually lost the sword, which might clear up why he's been able to hide its' loss. It's not even clear yet how long ago he lost it, he started the season decked out in gear so he'd plainly been getting by without it well enough for a while, but yeah, it's plausible he lost it some time after Aku started trying to wait him out, explaining their stalemate. Onmi posted:I think Jack will go back to the past, and then we'll time skip to the Future-present where he's gotten back there the long-way around, meeting an Ashi who didn't grow up in horrible circumstances. It's totally possible that they'll have Jack get to the past, prevent the bad timeline, then show a good one where people like Ashi and her sisters are around and don't have an awful life. I think that's a weaker message though, and that they're already positioning to underline that Jack actually going back in time will come at the cost of the future he's defended for 50 years. He saved Ashi's life by showing her the truth about Aku, but what if her and her sisters might never be born in the no-Aku timeline? They were products of the cult, after all, it might not even be able to recreate the circumstances of their birth. It sets up some tension which I think Blue Jack will ultimately embody. He appears as Jack is meant to be, shaming Jack for failing his mission, so if from this point on Jack gets back on track and everything goes swimmingly with his original goal then there's not much need for internal tension anymore. If Jack has doubts about whether he should actually go through with changing the past, though, then there's room for conflict with his sense of guilt and responsibility. It opens up space for hearing other peoples' opinion on the subject; the Scotsman may not want the timeline changed if it might mean losing his daughters. This theme's shown up in the series before. Jack's had opportunities to get back to the past that he's passed up in favor of doing the right thing in the present. Heck, just generally, the way he constantly risks his own life to save people runs completely counter to his mission to go back in time and stop Aku at the source. Blue Jack even criticizes him for trying to save Ashi as a distraction. This is all speculation, of course. But I do think the season so far and the last episode in particular has drawn attention to what "getting back to the past" would actually entail, and if it were just a matter of beating on Aku then it might be pretty straightforward from this point on.
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The only cameo that felt awkward was Demongo, in the context of the episode everything else worked well
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Yeah, he honestly felt more like "throw him in for the sake of it".
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Watch Demongo bring back Ashi's sisters and a bunch of other Samurai Jack callbacks in the final fight against Aku.
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Yeah, with how things have played out I can see Jack killing Aku in the present of the show, then having those 50 years of living applied to him all at once because his youth was tied to Aku's presence in some way (which of course Jack will find out from Aku and he'll still kill him anyway), and we end with Ashi in a samurai Gi using Jack's sword and learning the Samurai code/fighting skills from Jack, then we pan out from that short lesson to see that behind her, or near her, are all the different species he's helped (including the ones that talked with spark text above their heads in the first episode of the season) copying the sword slashes and/or punches and kicks as Ashi and old man Jack perform them at the foot of a temple of some kind. Make it happen Genndy you mad genius  .
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I don't suppose they ever talked about which kind of time travel this is in the previous seasons, did they? Seems like that could be crucial to certain decisions Jack makes in the final episode (aside from the fact that it if there's only one timeline, his sacrifice for those archer guys was completely pointless)
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Jack returns to the past but then Aku flings him into the future again, and this happens for all eternity. The future refused to change.
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I mean, I doubt they get into this, but there's all kinds of ways for time travel screwiness to take place. He could beat future Aku, go back to the past a minute after he was sent into the future, then lose to Aku in the past but Aku somehow forgets that, or time travel in itself could create parallel realities so the future people are still saved and exist, but in another timeline he comes back and stops it from happening in that one. I'm down for him staying in the future, it just seems like the simplest and cleanest way to go, but it also seems a bit too obvious so maybe they'll come up with something that really meshes it all together well. He has been saying he's got to go back to the past the whole series after all, seems a bit odd for that to completely not happen...
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They never said how far jack was flung into the future, maybe the series is only set a few years after the takeover and all the changes are just due to magic rather than natural progression
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yeah but then Jack would have just gone back to Japan wouldn't he? I think it has to be far enough into the future that there is no trace of his culture anywhere.
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Jack goes back to the past, Aku uses the same time portal magic again, cue episode 1 season 1 starting.
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raditts posted:Yeah, like I said. There's a difference. I think when the three are confronting Scaramouche the one on the left looks like the big dog from Two Stupid Dogs, the one on the right was obviously Astro and middle idk. You should screen capture the potential Moltar reference because I'm so sure I saw Zorak on the blimp
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I dunno, I think sacrificing his reverence and fame to assure the world was not terrorized by Aku for [x] years while he was gone is the more empathetic option. There's romance (traditional sense) in the idea of being responsible for a better world that no one remembers you for.
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The middle dog resembled one of the Looney Tunes bulldogs for me, the sheepdog was one of the Two Stupid Dogs and the third was Astro from Jetsons.
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Das Boo posted:I dunno, I think sacrificing his reverence and fame to assure the world was not terrorized by Aku for [x] years while he was gone is the more empathetic option. There's romance (traditional sense) in the idea of being responsible for a better world that no one remembers you for. But if he just went to the past, slew Aku, and freed his father's empire from slavery he would still likely be the greatest hero of humanity
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Sentient Data posted:The last time portal is hidden in a railroad track switch
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Jack goes back to the past, Aku
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420 Gank Mid posted:But if he just went to the past, slew Aku, and freed his father's empire from slavery he would still likely be the greatest hero of humanity He'd mean more to the people who personally witnessed both him and Aku. If Jack succeeds, he either fades into a faceless legend or people don't give proper credit to preventive action. (They don't.)
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Das Boo posted:He'd mean more to the people who personally witnessed both him and Aku. If Jack succeeds, he either fades into a faceless legend or people don't give proper credit to preventive action. (They don't.) I don't know. For at least a decade and probably closer to 15-20 years all of Japan (and probably more) was occupied by a towering flaming inferno of shapeshifting evil. If someone showed up after two decades of exile and slew that. I mean come on, Gilgamesh ain't got poo poo on that
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