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Mr.Tophat posted:Absolutely phenomenal stuff, I'm still in awe. Yeah I rewatched it with a friend and holy poo poo it's so well done Jack watching the light from the firefly go out when he's hiding in the grave... 
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I love the contrast between the first and second episode in the way that Jack looks at his situation. The first episode had Jack with a gaze that meant, "I will loving destroy you, just like I've destroyed everything else before me, gently caress you." This time? It reminds me of the look Jack had in earlier seasons when he was fighting overwhelming odds, that panic, that desperation. Only this time, there's no sword to fall back on. I love how desperate the entire encounter was, with weapons failing him left right and center. Really makes you appreciate the magic sword he had, how many encounters he was able to overcome due to the resilient nature of the thing. Jack's got his work cut out for him. And holy gently caress, I knew that there was going to be blood in this show, but the cut across the throat was positively shocking in all the right ways. That, and the show being one word away from stating suicide as an option. Hardcore.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:He didn't seem that broken up about having killed that assassin. At least not based on the preview for next week. I think his shock was the logic that defeated his inner demons voicing the wish to accept fate and embrace death was that his foes were only robots. That, and these living people are some of the best trained warriors Jack has ever encountered to date. The only people I can think of to come close to this level of a chase would be the man-catchers (the Imoncandi) who looked like lion people, who actually managed to defeat him. There's an interesting parallel of the children of Aku to Jack's own training. Jack went around the world from his early years with a symbol of his clan and received training to defeat the ultimate evil when it would return. The children of Aku were born with the express purpose of defeating Jack, who trained so that they could restore the symbol of evil as a true presence in the world again. It's fantastic. Edit: ALSO! Aku states that all the time portals have been destroyed. Does this include the one that the guardian was watching over? You know, that blue dude with the red glasses that Jack couldn't overcome. The portal itself offered an image of Jack with a crown and a cloak with the sword, so...who knows? Mr.Tophat fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Dean of Swing posted:Ecstasy of Gold / 10 It was a weird fusion of Ecstasy of Gold and that one song from 28 Days Later that every trailer uses and it was awesome 
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Acebuckeye13 posted:That was loving intense, god drat This episode was so loving good, holy poo poo. I don't think I blinked the entire last half of it.
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I'm just blown away about how good this has turned out so far. The design and direction quality from the original seasons (but even quite a bit better now), paired with what was missing from the original set - continuity and dilemma. The quality of the soundtrack is also really excellent; this is, in my view, exceeding the hype pretty considerably.
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Mr.Tophat posted:I think his shock was the logic that defeated his inner demons voicing the wish to accept fate and embrace death was that his foes were only robots. That, and these living people are some of the best trained warriors Jack has ever encountered to date. The only people I can think of to come close to this level of a chase would be the man-catchers (the Imoncandi) who looked like lion people, who actually managed to defeat him. Appearntly the Guardian will be addressed. Jack's most dangerous enemies were probably the Imoncandi as you mentioned. Demongo the Soul Collector, the demon that served Aku that could summon the souls of all he had slain to fight for him. And the Minions of Set, the quasi divine creatures that Jack had no way to beat. (They were faster then him, stronger then him, his magic sword did not work on them as they regenerated and there were three of them.) and had to rely on an ancient prophecy that made it so that a god intervened on his behalf and destroyed them for him.
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I'm a dummy and wasn't sure what was going on with the fading firefly. How'd it let him know they were close? Also, I actually gasped at that neck slice. Jesus
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CuddlyZombie posted:Also, I actually gasped at that neck slice. Jesus Same. I said seconds before, 'Is Jack going to kill one of them?' drat. drat. i kept pausing the episode and yelling when I saw how little was left. gently caress that was good.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Appearntly the Guardian will be addressed. The Sirens also got
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed whose piano made a cameo for the tomb scene. I think Jack's "Aw, poo poo" response seemed appropriate. He's been killing robots all this time, but he never really had a code of honor or anything that stated he couldn't kill flesh and blood. So it's mostly just a bummer that now he finally has.
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CuddlyZombie posted:I'm a dummy and wasn't sure what was going on with the fading firefly. How'd it let him know they were close? The fireflies lit up around the presence of life, like when the Daughters were walking through the corridors of the temple and in the burial chamber around the roots of the trees. The tombs had cracks in their lids, so the Daughters likely saw the light and figured out his hiding spot.
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I loved the homage from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in this episode.
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God drat, the action in that episode was amazing. And someone actually died on Samurai Jack. It's a little hard to believe that in 50 years not one living person went after Jack, but either way I like the episode acting like that's the case since from the audience's point of view that's exactly what happened. Annointed posted:Yeah I'm convinced this group is a credible threat to Jack. It'd be kind of messed up if Jack kills them in increasingly raw and brutal ways in his descent to madness. Before I saw the preview I thought Jack had just buried them all alive with Scaramouche's dagger, but that would've been pretty anticlimactic.
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:God drat, the action in that episode was amazing. And someone actually died on Samurai Jack. Nah Plenty of humans went after jack. The bounty hunter and his sorta maybe ex wife come to mind.
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If you want to continue the Dark Souls vibes, this episode was basically "Crazy skill escape. 1vs 7 invaders !!".CuddlyZombie posted:I'm a dummy and wasn't sure what was going on with the fading firefly. How'd it let him know they were close? It let them know where he was because the Daughters of Aku were obviously going to focus on the one slightly glowing tomb. I thought it was a pretty nice visual metaphor though, the firefly light fading just as Jack's life would have been extinguished. Also lol at the evil scientists. "This guy has been wrecking armies of our beetlebots without breaking a sweat. What are we gonna do?" -- "Okay I'm gonna go a bit crazy here, but hear me out. GIANT BEETLE."
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I really liked all the visual homages in this episode. Silence of the Lambs, The Fugitive, and I really expected a MASH reference with the firefly. Where But he ended up getting found anyway so w/e.
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Judging from when and how it appeared (showing him the way to safety), I guess this episode is more evidence to suggest that the green samurai apparition is the bit of him that didn't give up hope, or the like.
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Elite posted:If you want to continue the Dark Souls vibes, this episode was basically "Crazy skill escape. 1vs 7 invaders !!". Jack literally ran for the fog door. The other daughters didn't see the fate of their sister before the place collapsed, wonder if they are going to spend the next episode unburying everyone and discover that. Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZMXHkX-fnE Ra Ra Rasputin fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Elite posted:Also lol at the evil scientists. I enjoyed how even Aku was like, "Yeah, okay, whatever you stupid fucks. Not like you've been doing this for fifty years now or anything." Speaking of which, those are the same scientists from the X-9 episode. How'd they become immortal too? Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Welp, it only took two episodes. Jack took his shirt off, so everyone take a shot.Rigged Death Trap posted:Science Yes. http://i.imgur.com/lvtdclx.gifv One can hope.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Welp, it only took two episodes. Jack took his shirt off, so everyone take a shot. I like to imagine this as 'Mako (but with a Yiddish accent, for some reason)' so it's not as jarring.
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Mr.Tophat posted:Edit: ALSO! Aku states that all the time portals have been destroyed. MonsterEnvy posted:Appearntly the Guardian will be addressed. There were also those 8 machine assassins that Jack could not cut without the help of the machines' creator. In fact, the Daughters of Aku sort of remind me of those machines.
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The crypt scene only lasted about 2 minutes, but it felt so much longer. Easily my favorite moment of Season 5 so far, second being the battle with Scaramouch. Jack contemplating suicide and generally feeling hopeless was upsetting, but I found myself feeling the worst for the dead Daughter of Aku. Poor girl was denied a proper, healthy childhood and died following the orders of her mother/cult leader.
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I was kind of hoping Aku would get a new design. I swear the original Season 5 teaser image made him look like he'd be very different looking. Either way, that crypt scene was so drat intense, and the music was phenomenal. I'm kind of hoping the Daughters nearly kill Jack in the next episode, only for The Scotsman to burst in to save the day with his new minigun leg.
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When I finished the episode, I had a weird buzzy high from animation giddiness. So when can I get this on Blu-ray yesterday?
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Somberbrero posted:The Scotsman is definitely dead or close to it. He's in one of the promos with a minigun leg and gray hair.
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Dean of Swing posted:Ecstasy of Gold / 10 Yes, that piano riff starting made my ears tingle with delight. I also love the tomb having that circular design like in The Good The Bad and the Ugly.
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