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Pirate Jet posted:Seriously. The fact that the show actually tackled the dilemma of having to kill humans head-on and came to the PROPER conclusion was genuinely mature in a way that just the newfound swearing and blood wouldn't cover alone - the answer wasn't "well I guess Jack has to be Batman now" but instead "they chose to try and kill you, it's not your fault if they lose the game of life and death." And the crows showed that the show had no interest in backing down on that position. That's not exactly true? I mean, even when Jack kills the other daughters, we know he's wrong about them. He says "you chose this path," but the truth is, they really didn't. Ashi even says it outright later to her mother: "Jack didn't kill my sisters; you did."
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:This ending was poo poo in Gurren Lagann and its poo poo now, gg gendy it was good in ttgl because accepting mortality is a cool and good thing to do and ttgl was kinda all about that it was bad here because it was a non-sequitor
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I thought this ending was as good as it could be considering the run-up episodes, I'm actually pretty pleased.
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I liked "You're back already!? Wait..!"
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May 21, 2017 21:34
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its really crazy to think samurai jack is finally over
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Guy Mann posted:One nice thing about the finale is that by reusing the original intro in the beginning Mako got to be in it. Seems like his voice replacement got a lot better at imitating him since Avatar / Korra as well, although with all of those shows done I can't imagine there'll be much use for it anymore.
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Hey I was right about Ashi being the one to send Jack to the past. Feels...alright I guess. I feel good about that ending. Jack went back to the past, killed Aku, and ended up happy. There were a lot of issues leading to that ending but the important parts got hit so I am satisfied.
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I kind of wish they had started with the original opening sequence to have Aku gently caress with the audience one last time.
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raditts posted:Seems like his voice replacement got a lot better at imitating him since Avatar / Korra as well, although with all of those shows done I can't imagine there'll be much use for it anymore. I'm pretty sure they added a lot more reverb to his voice in his episode, too - malaise officially over 
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Im happy with it. I'm also happy it didn't end happy, bitter sweet endings are far less common than happy ones.
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So now that Samurai Jack is over what's next on the agenda for Genndy. Gonna try and shoehorn a pale girl with short hair into the next Hotel Transylvania, bring back Sym-Bionic Titan so he can focus more on the pale girl with short hair, or maybe make an entirely new series about a pale girl with short hair?
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Spinoff show starring Aku in the years between conquering the world and Jack emerging in the future?
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Aku's "Welp" expression as Jack portaled back made it all worth it.  I guess we can cleanly confirm though that Jack was a total idiot to not let the monks sacrifice themselves to let him get into that one time portal. It's a pretty sure thing none of them would have existed. That episode plays even worse now in the context of the new season. Overall? I'm pretty satisfied.
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Regalingualius posted:Spinoff show starring Aku in the years between conquering the world and Jack emerging in the future? No, it's the spin-off show starring Aku that's basically Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast
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Xelkelvos posted:No, it's the spin-off show starring Aku that's basically Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast Does every episode end with someone saying something to the effect of "...wait, how are you even here, shouldn't you be--", and Aku promptly poofs out of existence?
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Guy Mann posted:So now that Samurai Jack is over what's next on the agenda for Genndy. Gonna try and shoehorn a pale girl with short hair into the next Hotel Transylvania, bring back Sym-Bionic Titan so he can focus more on the pale girl with short hair, or maybe make an entirely new series about a pale girl with short hair?
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Guy Mann posted:So now that Samurai Jack is over what's next on the agenda for Genndy. Gonna try and shoehorn a pale girl with short hair into the next Hotel Transylvania, bring back Sym-Bionic Titan so he can focus more on the pale girl with short hair, or maybe make an entirely new series about a pale girl with short hair? Hotel Transylvania already has a pale girl shoehorned into the Dracula mythos (alongside a ridiculous monster hotel concept that completely contradicts the canon)
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i like the part where aku dropped the snow globe and whispered rosebud
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Mantis42 posted:Hotel Transylvania already has a pale girl shoehorned into the Dracula mythos (alongside a ridiculous monster hotel concept that completely contradicts the canon) Haha, nice.  Canadian Ashi
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but its nice to have a ending at least... i like the think the scotsman continued to fly up and is hanging out with odin and the other gods
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Aku's hushed, panicked oh no made up for an episode that was going a million miles an hour tripping over itself head over heels
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Timeless Appeal posted:Like look, as long as he's just not allowed to draw black people anymore. 
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It hit me when one of the ravers got hosed up in the final battle that I don't think I've ever seen a black person on Samurai Jack without a tooth gap. Thank goodness I've been proven wrong
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Bust Rodd posted:I'm unfamiliar with the rest of his work but literally every human being is drawn super exaggerated and I feel like the Asian/Norse/Scotish depictions are just as stereotypical? I was also put off by his recent Luke Cage work for Marvel that goes to an Ebony White in The Spirit level of grossness with some of his depiction.
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It's odd, because there are other black people, in the same episode even, that don't look like minstrel show characters.
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ArfJason posted:its really crazy to think samurai jack is finally over
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Bust Rodd posted:I'm unfamiliar with the rest of his work but literally every human being is drawn super exaggerated and I feel like the Asian/Norse/Scotish depictions are just as stereotypical? The Jack universe before everyone is an alien is pretty much Street Fighter
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Nina posted:The Jack universe before everyone is an alien is pretty much Street Fighter I forgot about Jack's British mentor being Literally Robin Hood.
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Pavlov posted:It's odd, because there are other black people, in the same episode even, that don't look like minstrel show characters. I just figured Africans in Jack are depicted as a style of African art. They always reminded me of the artwork a friend who lived in Botswana had around her house, but damned if I know the name for it. Lots of elongated figures with exaggerated facial features either on pottery or carved from black stone (I think). Kinda like these, but full figure:  But I'm probably being way too optimistic. 
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Das Boo posted:But I'm probably being way too optimistic. Not necessarily. Gendy may not always be a perfect writer, but he seems like he's always been a talented art director. Moreover, he was always very faithful to the Asian asthetic of Samurai Jack; to the point where even the bittersweet ending can be seen as a callback to Samurai stories of old. I can't find the Youtube comment, sadly; but I ran across one that talked about the director's commentary of Cowboy Bebop. And apparently, if you're really trying to tell an authentic Japanese Samurai story (like Gendy was trying to do), then there's really no such thing as an unambiguously happy ending. Everything comes at a cost; nothing great can ever be accomplished without sacrifice. If you've got an ending where everything's wrapped up in a neat little bow, then you don't have a true Samurai story. So I wouldn't be surprised if your "optimistic" interpretation turns out to be the right one.
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Would have been better if he defeated Aku, and then as he did it the Hiroshima bomb dropped. Back to the past Samuria Jackass.
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I'm surprised at people being surprised that Jack would go back to the past to undo centuries of torment and suffering even at the cost of the people he saved. People ask "What's the point." And the point is that Jack isn't the kind of person who does good because "This ultimately leads to the end game." Jack doesn't care that every good thing he ever did was erased, doing good - for the sake of doing good - is the entire point. That's why even at the last portal, he didn't hesitate to throw himself into it. And you know what? If you think for a moment that anyone who showed up to save him was going "How dare he undo this horrible world and erase the me that currently exists." Then you're even more foolish. The goal from the start was to go back and stop Aku, even if you want to point to the thousands Jack had saved in the future, that is incomparable to the billions he would be saving by ending Aku before AKU perverted the timeline.
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