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The craftsmanship on display is goddamn masterful.
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Mar 20, 2017 05:58
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WHY BONER NOW posted:I'd never seen an episode of this show but I caught a clip of the latest one, so I watched the entire episode and was floored. What a well made show, lots of emotional depth and I don't even know what the hell is going on. The fights with the assassins were super tense, especially when he was hiding in the coffin. The music (especially when he was hiding), the art, everything was so impressive. The look of regret when he killed that one assassin. The episode you saw was only the second episode of the fifth season, which is a revival set 50 years after the show's original run on Cartoon Network during the early 2000s. If you want to get caught up, all you really need to do is watch the intro from the original run, and watch the first episode of the current season. The original run didn't have anything in the realm of ongoing plot or recurring characters (Save one), so it's not strictly necessary to watch the old seasons to catch up.* Anyway, to answer your questions specifically: -The wolf showed up just for this episode -Jack picked up the dagger at the end of the previous episode. -Not gonna lie, I'm not entirely sure about the bug thing, I'll let someone else try and tackle that. *You should still watch them, mind you, they're pretty good.
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Mar 20, 2017 06:20
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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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Mar 23, 2017 17:20
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God drat this show is so good you guys
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Mar 26, 2017 04:14
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Sardonik posted:It really must be said that this is ridiculously high quality. This is art. You could probably skip to a random frame of any episode so far, blow it up, print it out, and put it on your wall. The visual quality of this show is downright astonishing.
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Mar 26, 2017 04:29
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VJeff posted:Also man what was up with that frog?! Pretty sure you can chock that one up to hallucination via severe loss of blood
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Mar 26, 2017 04:51
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VJeff posted:But it still gave him useful info! Eh, all it says is "They're coming", which is pretty obvious, and well within the scope of things Jack's blood-loss addled mind could have projected onto the frog to keep him alert and moving.
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Mar 26, 2017 05:14
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Onmi posted:This whole god damned episode was magnificent though. You could say that about the entire season at this point. The level of quality is just so utterly staggering, and Acebuckeye13 posted:God drat this show is so good you guys
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Mar 26, 2017 05:55
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Reflecting on the latest episode, what's interesting about the Daughters of Aku is that although they're the first human enemies Jack has killed, in a way they're actually less human than many of the foes Jack's vanquished over the years. Just look at Scaramouch from the first episode-even though he's a robot, he expresses a ton of emotion throughout their fight and even shows a bit of fear when he's about to be cut down. The closest the Daughters come to emoting, by contrast, is when they're confused by the deer and when Ashi starts ranting at Jack at the end. They show no fear, no empathy, and are as single-mindedly devoted to their goal as the beetle droids. In a way, they're simply another of Aku's automatons-merely ones made of flesh and blood as opposed to steel and oil.
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Mar 27, 2017 02:41
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JossiRossi posted:I like that they very openly showed that it's not only possible, but likely, that some of the Daughters of Aku survived. Since Jack also fell, and we know he will survive. Better than just an empty fake out, or just having some of them come back with no explanation. 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.
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Mar 30, 2017 02:04
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pretty sure you got fooled, son
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Apr 2, 2017 01:44
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okay now I'm the one who's deeply confused
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Apr 2, 2017 01:49
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Tunicate posted:http://www.adultswim.com/videos/samurai-jack The problem is we don't know if they're actually going to adhere to that, given the Rick and Morty bombshell
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Apr 2, 2017 02:14
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I'm not gonna lie, I like Rick and Morty and enjoyed the premier, but having to wait another week for the next episode of Jack is a pain in the fuckin' rear end.
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Apr 2, 2017 03:25
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Revol posted:I haven't watched any Rick and Morty yet, I do plan to. Does the fact they keep playing the same episode play into the episode's plot or something? Nope. They're replaying it so that people who got blindsided by the announcement have a chance to tune in.
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Apr 2, 2017 04:06
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TheGamerGuy23 posted:Yeesh, that was hard to watch. The Scotsman was the best part of the episode and he was only there for a few minutes. It's really surprising how much the quality nosedived from the first three episodes which were practically perfect. The first three episodes had an extremely tight arc in the Daughters' pursuit of Jack, and since we've gone past that we've lost a lot of the tension and suspense that drove those episodes, especially since Jack has once again become aimless and despondent.
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Apr 16, 2017 05:23
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Man guys, this show is so good. Next week's episode is gonna be goddamn incredible, I can feel it.
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Apr 23, 2017 04:54
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bobjr posted:Jack's back.
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Apr 30, 2017 04:30
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Mostly I'm disappointed because I think a mentor/father-figure relationship would have made more sense and created more interesting story opportunities. Yeah, this is where I'm at. It's definitely disappointing that they've gone this route, but I still have hope that the last two episodes will be able to bring back at least a little bit of the season's initial pacing and quality.
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May 7, 2017 15:23
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IIRC it started with Jewish journalists doing it first, as a way of saying "gently caress you Nazis, yes I'm Jewish, and I'm proud of it", and then it spread to other figures doing it out of solidarity. Edit: Obfuscation might have also been part of it, or different people doing it for different reasons.
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May 14, 2017 21:11
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The first three episodes alone are probably one of the greatest pinnacles of television animation so I'm pretty happy with the series no matter how it ends.
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May 15, 2017 21:59
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Actual Real Journalism takes time, effort, and money, and the modern media landscape disincentives all three. Not to say that there's no more Actual Journalism, because there is, and a lot of it-but it's buried under the sheer weight of clickbait and puff pieces.
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May 16, 2017 18:58
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I liked it, but man, what I wouldn't have given for another couple episodes to let the show breath. Edit: Seriously, you could've done an entire epilogue episode on Ashi slowly realizing she's vanishing from the timeline and trying to hide it from Jack until it's too late. Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 05:54 on May 21, 2017 |
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May 21, 2017 05:48
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I really have to wonder what the production process on the show was like. The first three episodes just feel so different from everything that came after, especially in terms of plotting and pacing.
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May 21, 2017 06:11
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The episode could have and should have ended with Jack and Ashi going back to the past, with an extra epilogue episode covering the final defeat of Aku, Ashi dissolving from the timeline, and Jack coming to terms with her non-existence (Plus some kind of resolution of what happened to the future without Aku). I don't hate the ending, and I do like the final scene, but it was just so rushed that I can't help but think of all the ways it could have been stronger if they'd just had more time.
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