Samurai Jack latest episode

ain't fuck all for episode 4

...

Why even live?

I just want to see Jack truss Aku the fuck up.

next season
:^)

Ashi is probably the first person he's actually talked to in a long time.

ASShi

Can't they pick one color for his beard and stick with it for the entire show, let alone a single episode?

...

If it wasnt for the time skip I would have thought they would have just kept Jack in the future and defeat Aku there and continue to live in the future because of all the people he's helped and friends that hes made.

ARE YOU REAADY HEY!
=ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?==
ARE YOU HANGING FROM THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT?
OUT OF THE DOORWAY THE BULLETS RIP!!!
TO THE SOUND OF THE BEAT YEAH!!!

Groovy music playing in the background

goddammit shadman

Why did Jack throw away the make shift sword that could cut through anything?

Zoom into
It is a lighter colour on the beard.

Probably so Ashi wouldn't get any ideas with it or it had low durability 'cus weapon pick up.

...

What was the point of giving him the armor if he didn't do anything with it and it just got destroyed at the end?

Samurai Jack season 5 in a nutshell
Tartakovsky just wanted cool designs I guess.

We've seen so many cool weapons and armor this season

It makes me want a Samurai Jack game for the sole purpose of seeing this stuff used

Think of it from a story-telling perspective. The armor provides both a comedic character scene and serves as something for Jack to discover that the pool near the end was acid.

I spent 2 hours in paint doing this, as I didn't have PS or GIMP on this computer and didn't want to either download and install it or go to my desktop.

Enjoy, anons.

Fucking hell.

Has Jack ever been confronted with the fact that when he gets back to the past and defeats Aku there, the future and all the people he's saved will be undone? I wonder if he'll be challenged by that if he hasn't already.

Even if he did, I don't think it would really bother him..Jack strikes me as the "I'll know" kind of hero.

Never underestimate the capacity for ass from the man who made Dexter's Mom

Great now we get to see jack fucked by a dickgirl.

To be fair, Shadman may pull something else off.
It may be Jack fucks a dickgirl.

This episode is a goldmine for reaction webms.

...

You cant just force people the red pill

Would you say it's a touch pill to swallow?

Why the fuck does his beard keep changing from black to gray?

I told you (or maybe that was another user), it isn't.

grey
grey
grey though not as obvious due to lighting
as above
2nd is only black due to lighting

Apply yourself

Oh, I didn't notice you'd changed it. I saw that streak and just left it as I thought it was meant to be there for whatever reason.

Good a reason as any to fix up the parts of his hair that were most obviously wrong.

Is his site up again?

Nah, it was another user(me) you first replied to. Here are some more picks from today's episode, all from the same scene, so no different lighting excuse, you can clearly see how it goes from gray to black, to gray again. I will admit, that it's still a different color from his hair, it doesn't mean that the beard doesn't change colors.

This man destroys everything he touches.
It might be time for the first assassination motivated by pornography.

Nobody tell him. Ignorance is bliss and all that.

No, and just answer the fucking question user.

Lookin' kinda cool there, Ashi.

GOTTA GET BACK
BACK TO MEXICO

Meanwhile Jack goes off to search his sword.
Makes sense, no?

I think that confirms that Genndy is /ourguy/
Just look how many hints he left, this cant be coincidence

I ironically hope that there would be next season, i mean one is just not enough considering how good this one is

...

The fuck does that even mean?

Meant to write unironically, thanks auto correct

Whoever wrote the 4th episode should be gassed. Jack's lines were terrible and this whole entire season is lacking close up multi frame face closeups.

Maybe Jack is just socially retarded because he gave up on talking to people years ago.

Genndy wrote and directed every episode.
This was just homage to Jack and the Farting Dragon, and the other one he was stuck inside a monster.

an attempt was made

Im PC posting but i have auto correct in my browser because im a foreigner and i dont want to make stupid mistakes in my posts

It was pretty good episode, not on the same level as 1 2 and 3 but it was still pretty good

Some minor alterations

...

As long as Ashi isn't viewed from the side her nose isn't that hideous. Good job user.

...

...

uh, I think thats the wrong way round

fucking autism I swear

I'm sorry, I watched the episode and immediately thought of this.

It doesn't help that they're voiced by the same woman.

...

Fucking called it, why did it have to be the ugly one?

She's not that bad except from the side

Given the way he grabbed her, her butt was the least affected area.

You can still see several on her butt though

I am surprised that nobody is mentioning the Godzilla roar in the episode.

She doesn't want those removed

This user is correct
I'm taking a nap since I haven't been to sleep yet, so i'll give it a crack when I awake.

GUYS GUYS

ASHI

IN THE LADYBUG FRENCH SUPERHERO SKINTIGHT SUIT

user for fuck sake, I was pointing out her face.

How's this?

But Ashi doesn't have imaginary friends

The ladybug girl is Ashi and Jack's daughter, this was a prequel the whole time

Alright so I finally started watching the new series.

Is this guy voiced by Dexter's dad?

Tell me how lightning differs in those pics that happen in the same scene.

His VA is Tom Kenny.

Scaramouch is voiced by SpongeBob, Tom Kenny

I really enjoyed this bit. I'm glad that Genndy remembers how to have quiet, drawn-out moments. This show always had an amazing tonal variety in the quiet bits where almost nothing happens. It can be serene or somber or awkward (like this).

Not him, it aired the normal time. April 1st pushed the schedule back 1 week. Or were you not aware the new season has already started?

Nigga, Jack doesn't hate Ashi. He's just sick of the bullshit.

And man is he sick of the bullshit.

She should have gotten knocked out a few more times

It looks cool and Genndy's clearly been trying to make a point of how Jack has changed since the original run. He used to always stick to the look he had when he arrive in the future. 50 years later and he's moved on so that he tries different stuff. Scaramouch points this out in the first episode. It's a matter of character development and reflects the fact that Jack's lost his original identity. The only time we saw him wearing the iconic outfit was in the flashback where he loses the sword. You can bet your ass we won't see him wearing the gi and having his hair tied up (and probably being shaved) until he accepts his mission again, probably upon finding the sword or something.

Sure she does, she thinks Aku is her friend/God.

I like it a lot.

Colour changes, though it's never the same as his beard, so you can still pretend his head or a tree is blocking the light :^)

I don't even see a difference here. Maybe the beard is a color very close to black but different and when the codec compresses the video for transmission sometimes the color shifts a noticeable amount.

...

This is the worst feeling, when something great you really enjoy comes along, ends, and then you have nothing left to fill the void.

I'd say it's a good feeling. When a show ends and you want it to keep going, it's done something right. It's the shows that overstay their welcome and lose their charm that do it wrong. These kinds of shows become forgotten and often leave a bad taste in the mouth.

Genndy doesn't really have any plans to stop anytime soon, and he said that he's been in talks with Lazo to maybe continue working on Adult Swim once Jack ends.

There's still some hope.

So does anyone have any HD quality rips? I want to make some fucking wallpapers damnit.

I know what you mean and completely agree, a contained story with a solid ending is much better than something getting dragged through the mud until it becomes an unrecognizable mess,The Simpsons it just sucks that there will be nothing left to watch once this is done, at least for a while.

Except there are 50 episodes missing between the end of season 4 and start of season 5. Adult Swim has plenty of justification story wise to do more episodes in between, but would probably not include Genndy. I hope they don't do this but this season is doing well (so well hat reddit and memey got them fewer views when they marathoned it for April Fool's).
He said he wants to do another show with AS because he's like doing this season so much.
It'll be on AS so he'll have as much freedom as possible with western cartoons today. And based on this season he hasn't lost a step.
It'll be a lot better for the show to have closure instead of continuing indefinitely. And there's plenty of hope for the future. Genndy says he wants to keep working with Adult Swim and he's making them money right now.

mega.nz/#!pLJWRS6a

!_YnoDzT3R1wDYyP6p0dodunhM5bfOomXuOHi1Y7ZZrc

I love you.

Bitch, you could've read his Luke Cage comic and realized his talent for pacing and direction haven't been dulled at all.

I really hope AS takes him up on that offer. Sony is wasting his talent.

I did not know about this. Thank you for informing me of this combination of two things I like.

you're right about that. I'm still looking forward to Rick and Morty season 3, but I don't have a lot of optimism for it after season 2 and the forced diversity of the writing staff. Not to mention, none of the new CN pilots really caught my attention besides that train one, and it looks like it's not getting picked up.

After this and World of Gumball end, I probably won't be watching any new cartoon for awhile.

to be fair, that's probably because there isn't a lot of crossover between those two audiences. I stayed up for Samurai Jack and got Rick and Morty instead. I would have preferred staying at work and watching a free movie if I knew that was going to happen.

I'm sure a lot of people saw R&M playing instead of Jack, said "fuck this", and turned off their TV.

Guess you could say you got Rick-rolled?

HACK
A
C
K

Adult swim already made that joke (cancer warning).
youtube.com/watch?v=r0IwfHdO36Y

You are reaching so hard that you've only established he has a fairly consistent style.

Isn't Jack supposed to be (biologically) in his mid to early twenties? Isn't that a little young to be going grey.

I thought he was 27 or 28, but I suck at telling people's ages.

Some people go grey young, and stress (at least anecdotally) turns people grey. He's got 75 years of living on him at this point.

He was 25 when Aku FLUNG HIM INTO THA FUTURE per the dogs in episode 2. If the "Fifty years have passed" means since then, that makes him 75. If it's 4 seasons + 50 years he's pushing 80. Either way his aging probably stopped during the jump so he should physically be 25.

...

YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN HOLMES

reee

Time to do some pushups nerd.

Even your screeching is low effort.

I really hate the continuous story arc they're doing with this. I get that he wants to be more cinematic for a final conclusion to the series but I'd much rather prefer each episode to be self-contained while also wrapping up any elements from the original series, like what happened to the baby and seeing how Jack's friends turned out after 50 years. I know there was a comic so maybe that already answered some stuff

Ashi/Aku Daughters are garbage so far, only good for porn and barely contributing anything, Ghost Jack also seems like he's made with the intent of mocking any original series fans that might have problems with the new run

Do you think Genndy can we blamed of self-plagiarizing his previous work?

At least your complains are plot justified. There are people in tumblr bitching about Jack apparent "whitewashing"

How? None of his scenes have anything to do with that you retard. His first scene is him telling Jack to give up and kill himself, his second one is externalizing his guilt for having killed someone/suggesting he wants to die, and his third was trying to convince him to leave Ashi behind. What do any of those have to do with old series fans?

First scene could be fans saying the series should've stayed dead, second one is an exaggerated version of the first given how nothing really happens between those episodes, and the third could be interpreted as older fans complaining about Ashi intruding on what was normally a lone samurai story

The warped samurai is meant to be Jack struggling with what he both used to be (the white-robed honourable samurai) and how he perceives himself to have fallen, despite not at all.
He sees that warped version of himself, who looks slightly evil, as it's not the true past version of himself, just what he thinks he used to be.

The warped samurai doesn't want to help someone who has lost their way, but current Jack and past Jack would.

It's him saying "I should be doing this, I've clearly lost my way", when in reality his current, bearded self is much closer to the original than the apparition.

i think you're reaching a bit

XCV
dailymotion.com/video/x5hmzgx_xcv_tv

I love it, personally. The continuous story arc helps set this continuation apart from the rest of the franchise, while the episodic nature of the original show worked very well for a midday re-run airing network, it's not really what the show needs for it's final run. It's basically just the Samurai Jack movie Genndy's wanted to make for years now, just split up into twenty minute chunks.

The daughters of Aku worked really well, I think, as the driving force that pushes Jack out of his funk. A group of humans who've pushed him to his limits and forced him to cross a line he never thought he'd cross is really the kick in the ass he needed to start pursuing his quest again in earnest. Ashi serves as a consistent reminder of that and pushes Jack out of his shell even more, and is ultimately a reflection of himself in that.

Now she could be completely cancerous if they decide to turn her into the hero in the end, which is what I'm afraid of. But I like to believe Genndy isn't dumb enough to deprive Jack of his final confrontation with Aku, too many people make that mistake, and Samurai Jack doesn't make a lot of those.

...

...

...

very nice

my Take on the whole Ashi character angle is that her entire purpose in this story arc is to make a heroic sacrifice which either allows Jack to reclaim his sword or finally defeat Aku and return to the past.
AND UNDO THE FUTURE THAT IS AKU

...

how many more hallucinations of alter egos of jack are we going to see?

...

yes

Damn, Mote, you harsh on a nigga

fuck ashi and fuck genndy for obviously still having a boner over symbionic titan.

one of the bobcut girls should have lived, such a patrician haircut

...

Jack seemed pretty at peace by the end of this. Bit of a change from how he was earlier in the season, where he was a lot more grizzled and troubled.

My heart hurt.

Did she did a good job rising her kids?

Also i wonder if Jack will ever confront her

It warms the cockles of my heart

There's a little trick I've picked up: listen to their loud speech.
Dexter's dad and Johnny Bravo scream the same, Scatbot saying "NO ONE" sounds the same as Spongbob crying or even laughing.

This is exactly what I wanted from the new season - Jack simply not giving a shit anymore and getting it done.

...

Nice digits

I can't take that blue blood seriously, it's like he's slashing a Bic monster

You're a bic guy…

The memes, Jack

Genndy always wanted to have a plot, but CN made him do the original run in episodic format.

Come the fuck on man why is everyone eating this shit up.

Jack and Aku are completely mischaracterized, Ashi is a terrible character who contradicts her own established backstory and the events of all previous seasons are rendered irrelevant. This is no season 4, not by a long shot.

Because it's good, user.

Evolved
They just changed, and i like the change because it shows them more in depth, shows more emotional impact
Kinda agree, i hope that she dies at some point
>who contradicts her own established backstory
When?
Because first of all show had episodic nature, it wasnt all closely tied together, secondly 50 years passed, most of Jack past deeds are already forgotten

They're not mischaracterized, they're depressed. And Jack has started his ascension back to his old self. It's called character development. Ashli's been given a very clear arc as well, and she has another episode coming up that will show her change of opinion more.

I know some people can't into story progression but come on, nigga.

It's a straight downgrade over the previous serious that is shitting all over the established story.

Why not make it a new fucking IP if you're not actually going to follow the story of Samurai Jack. This ain't Samurai Jack.

In what sense? I would say its much more mature and better
First of all how, secondly 50 years has passed

Are you fucking autistic?
It is still same samurai jack, its called character development

Except that it's a direct follow up, you fool. It's continuing the story of Samurai Jack more than most of old Samurai Jack.

"Change is good because change".
You're a bit of a dingus lad.
When this woman who has been raised to serve Aku in every way shape and form and who is supposed to lack any sense of emotion outside devotion to Aku (which is apparently the explanation of why she doesn't give a fuck that all her sisters got killed by Jack) is suddenly doing a 180 on that for reasons that shouldn't even remotely be strong enough to cause such a change.
That's an explanation of WHY, it's not a justification. Rendering the entire original series irrelevant is a dumb move regardless of why they did so.

It's less mature to be honest. Sure it's got more "for real violence totally look actual blood woh" but there's no substance. It gives the appearance of maturity without having the strong characters and mature themes and stories the original series had.
Jesus you people love this excuse. Why not just make the show into fucking Sym-Bionic Titan and say "duh 50 years had passed so it's just different stop asking".

You don't know what that fucking word means, go back to reddit faggot

Are you the same guy or do Nu-Jack fans just have 27 chromosomes between them?

She didnt yet, she just hesitated once, after he saved her life numerous times, we dont even know if she will change or not

They've already released the synopses for future episodes lad.

Fucking thank you. I hate it when long-running series show no change in their characters except for flanderization and submission to fan demands for "coolness." The face that both of these characters have actually changed, not to extremify their existing traits, but in a way realistic to what they have been through over fifty damn years of struggling against one another all in futility, is so refreshing to see.

That said, I don't think this is quite as good as Season 4, but that opinion is very open to change depending on how things develop. I loved the artistry of the end of Jack's run; hopefully this can blow me away with story.

It's kind of funny how FIFTY YEARS HAS PASSED seems to just fly over some people's heads. A fucking lot changes in five decades.

In what way is Jack's change not submission to demands for "coolness", and how is Aku not flanderized?
Amazing that you managed to pinpoint the problem and ignore is simultaneously.

I think everyone can agree there, but I'd put episodes 2 and 3 on the same level as peak S3 Jack.

"Why isn't everyone accepting the explanation for it being worse, if you lower your standards it's great!"

Jack shows a weariness appropriate to being 75 years old. Aku has grown complacent with his anxieties about Jack. We see a similar (minus the stress) Aku when Jack first arrives in the future, before he starts being a burr up Aku's ass.

Different is not the same as worse. If you wanted more of the same you should maybe have gone somewhere else besides a season meant to bring closure to the series. Especially given the episode with the Guardian suggesting it would take a long fucking time before Jack could go back.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't consider suicidal depression and utter purposelessness "cool" since I'm not an emo teenager. And I didn't find Aku's behavior to be an extreme character-stripping variant of his previous form; the ennui he expresses is novel, and therefore is not a result of flanderization (which by definition is the expansion of a character's DEFINING trait to the point that it eclipses all other aspects).

It's appropriate for normal people, but it's not appropriate for Samurai Jack. It retro-actively renders his level-headedness and determination in Seasons 1-4 as lesser since it's not part of his character, but just something he feels like doing at the time.
The problem with the "Jack is a chronal anomaly and Aku is super scared of him now" angle is that Aku can always open another portal and fling him further into the future. Aku is mischievous and destructive, surely he can entertain himself by causing that on others, and especially given that we know aliens are canon, why doesn't he cause havoc on other worlds?

And it's not synonymous with better either. It's not worse because it's different, it's different AND worse.

Be honest right now: Do you really think half the people who were rallying for another Season of Samurai Jack ever actually watched the original series? It was a social media phenonemon when it was announced among fans sure, but it was really popular among hipster faggots who wanted to seem retro.
It's definitely the beginning of flanderization, now that "wacky Aku" is becoming more common than actual evil entity Aku.

Well it is
But maybe i have supper low standards because i dont watch movies and cartoons at all

Fuck off.

Don't know about that. Next episode seems to show him being a bit more destructive, so we might get to see that side of him pretty soon.

I mean he doesn't have to go willingly, Aku may not be able to defeat Jack but he surely has enough strength and resources to throw at Jack to chuck him through the portal by force.
I hope so, but then I'm near certain that's what they're going to use to have Ashi switch sides, which if they do would be resoundingly fucking dumb.

If a character fails to evolve over SEVENTY FIVE YEARS they are no longer relatable. Samurai Jack has always been very relatable as a (very powerful) man who is saddled with a massive burden.

Only if he can get the drop on him in combat, and even then Jack's real threat is that he can undo time. Aku is properly paranoid because Jack might find one more time portal Aku missed and undo thousands of years of his work.

Sure, but you were arguing "different is worse" here
The ways you say it's worse are reasonable changes to the characters and show and take it in a direction that fits with the "wrap it up" idea, as well as the real time delay between seasons.

I'm not one of them per se (only watched the whole series recently) but a lot of people have had blue balls for over a decade because the show just kind of stopped. Genndy always wanted to give it an ending.

Aku has been in one fucking episode for more than a couple lines. If you only ever watched one of the wacky Aku episodes of the original run, you would have just as much claim to Aku only being wacky. Meanwhile the overall tone of the show is bleak and apocalyptic (just like the original run) which you are ignoring as a reflection of Aku's character, since he's the one responsible for this.

If he has enough resources to be able to restrain Jack by force then why not, you know, kill him?

Admittedly that hasn't worked out, but if you're going to get that close, may as well get rid of the problem altogether rather than just delay.

I'd say that *really* depends. Ashi was taught that everything exists because of Aku's generosity, that he's their world's benefactor, yadda yadda.

Seeing Aku at his darkest (as in Shogun of Sorrow, Deliverer of Darkness that you so desperately want to see) it may change her mind about who's really the malevolent one.

Especially if seeing the effect Jack's had will have any effect.

What I'm hearing here is that they couldn't write original Jack anymore, and that they went for a time-skip to justify changing the character so drastically. Sure it "makes sense" in universe, but as I said that's no longer the character of Samurai Jack, it's Nu-Jack.
And what defined him was how he handled that burden. Now that he's changed so drastically in that aspect he feels nothing like the original.
I mean that's nothing that isn't a threat at present. If anything it would give Aku more time to check for other time-portals, it would be beneficial to Aku in that aspect.
No, it's just that whenever you say "This is worse and here's why" you don't get a response on those aspects of the show, you just get spammed with "IT'S BECAUSE 50 YEARS SO IT MAKES SENSE OKAY?"
The ways you say it's "reasonable" are worse changes to established characters that wrap up the story by rendering prior seasons irrelevant. It also completely renders pointless the character of the Scotsman who seems to have made no headway despite being arguably as powerful as Jack.
It did just stop abruptly, but at least that meant it never got bad. It always remained a great show that lacked an ending, now it may very well become a great show with a season 5 quality dip and a bad ending.
The original show was not "bleak and apocalyptic", it was bleak and sombre. The apocalyptic aspects were always shown to be fought against and rallied against by not just Jack but the other characters in the world, and Jack inspired many others to fight against Aku. The storytime episode was all about how people were losing the fear of Aku and gaining the will to fight, but now it turns out that was fucking pointless since all those kids are now most likely dead and no meaningful resistance has been shown. The Molten Giant seems completely trivial and given Aku's actions over 50 years, retro-actively out of character.

Then what would you prefer?
Series staying dead or Jack just going on a robot killing spree without any deeper story like in every episode of earlier seasons?

Doesn't need to be restrained, just knocked about. We've seen that Jack isn't invincible, he takes hits every now and then. Aku could easily force him to take a leap off a bridge or something like he's done thousands of times and then pop a portal where he's gonna land. This was never a problem in the original series because it was always assumed that wasn't an option and that killing Jack was an immediate priority. Now we know that Jack isn't really all that much of a threat to Aku since he's done nothing meaningful in 50 years, so why not give him another fling to the future if Aku's so down?

That reminds me, this begs the question: Why would Aku have them convinced of such a thing, rather than conditioned to support what he actually HAS done? I mean we've seen plenty of humans who've fallen under Aku's influence for his evil ways, why would he not do the same here?

Yes I'd prefer that. I'd also like to thank you for confirming swathes of fans of Nu-Jack were never actually fans of the original and are just saying they love the new one because it's trendy.

This is getting into heavy speculation and handwaving, but maybe it was a onetime trick? We've seen the time travel's had side effects such as Jack not aging.

Maybe Aku creating a second time portal simply wouldn't work.

Could've been he either doesn't know jack shit about the cult, or he doesn't give a shit about them.

Maybe he humped and dumped that chick and never gave it a second thought. It wouldn't surprise me considering his personality.

How the fuck did you come to that conclusion? Original Jack is easy to write, watch, I'll do it.
That's how you write original Jack. If you honestly think they went with this change because they couldn't write a character that says maybe 3 lines per episode then I don't know what to tell you.

Nigger I've been waiting for this shit for 10 years, you bet your ass I'm enjoying the fuck out of this season.

Honestly, it's beginning to sound like you just like Jack because he was an awesome badass dude that killed tons of robots in flashy action scenes, and the shift away from that has left you with blue balls.

There's also the question; if Aku can do that, why didn't he in any of the previous seasons? It seems like an easy solution, rather than creating hordes of robot assassins; "Whoop, that time of the millenium again, better find that samurai and send him forward in time again."

I cant say anything for the others but i just watched is as kid found out there is a reboot and decided to watch it,
I dont fucking know nor care what is trendy nigger, i watch it because i enjoy it i didnt had even any irl human contact in few weeks, how the fuck im supposed to know what is trendy and what is not

Or because the point of the season is to wrap up the show, it called for a fundamental change from the Jack who was perpetually failing to get back to the past and was stuck fixing problems in the future.
We've already explained why these changes would happen. I'll add something new here by pointing out that the time slot and TV rating lets them do things with the character that weren't on the table in the original run and Genndy apparently wants to explore Jack's psychological state. Struggling with suicidal ideation doesn't make him weak. Overcoming it makes him strong. Any man who was saddled with a seemingly insurmountable task for half a century would be in his position.
No matter how they wrapped up the show would render the highly episodic parts of the show "irrelevant" because those older epsidoes never furthered the plot. They aren't irrelevant though because they characterize Jack, Aku, the setting, and the presentation. Almost all of the previous show was "filler" that expanded on the show aesthetically and contextually.
Being a bad show is a matter of opinion and yours seems to be "they changed it so it's bad." I'll remind you that Jack and Aku changed over the course of the original run. Compare "Jack and The Warrior Woman" to "Jack vs. Aku". By the end of season 4 the two of them had already started growing accustomed to the status quo presented in the show.
Varied by episode. A lot of the original run was apocalyptic, such as (forget the name) the episode where Jack gets the metal arm to beat the super tough robots. And there were also shitloads of comedic episodes, like "Aku's Fairy Tales."
Yeah but when the near-immortal samurai hero never makes real progress for 50 years, those kids in "Aku's Fairy Tales" turn into old people who lived almost their whole lives with Jack fighting Aku and making no progress. All of this makes sense in the context we're given.
None of the people Jack interacts with seem trivial because the show painstakingly portrays their individual struggles and Jack's compulsion to relate to them as individual people rather than part of a mass population suffering under Aku. The only way any of Jack's heroisms seem trivial is from the context that his primary objective would erase the events from the timeline (which is why the show would be best if Jack never goes back).

But now this comes back to flanderization where Aku is less evil and far more bumbling. That's an explanation sure, but it makes Aku look really fucking dumb.

It's real easy to say that faggot but every post you've had shows the exact opposite. The fact that in your desperation to find a counterpoint you resorted to saying "It could be worse, it could be like it used to be!" shows that you didn't actually like Season 1/4, you just like it now that it's trendy.
You've yet to say anything of actual substance and are just saying it's great because "now it's got super-deep lore and a story so it's good inherently shut up stop asking!"

As opposed to what, enjoying what is quite literally a gritty remake of Samurai Jack which shits on the originals?
It wasn't a problem until they decided to make a retarded move and do a time-skip. Before the timeskip it was assumed to not be an option, post time-skip that becomes a question that needs an answer.

Wait, you lost me. Why does the timeskip make it an option? How does that change Aku's ability to fling Jack around time?

Yet they didn't need to change his entire character to have that happen, Season 1/4 Jack could have done the same if he was written to win, but they clearly were unable to write early Jack.
Again, you're saying "Change is good stop questioning it". You've yet to argue in favor of it, you've only justified change as a nebulous form.
No, they wouldn't have. Because those changes would have remained in the world after it was purged from Aku's influence. They've actively undone shit from prior seasons buddy, are you really this desperate to justify the time-skip?
Oh, you mean the same Jack, Aku and setting that have been completely changed into entirely different entities? You're saying they characterize someone who they just threw out the old characterization for, you hit the nail on the head and missed the point at the same damn time.
And it seems that you have the wrong opinion buddy.
Are you really this fucking illiterate that you can't read? You're so caught up in thinking change is inherently good that you're ignoring everything. Nu-Jack fans are fucking cancer I swear.
Once a-fucking-gain instead of trying to justify its use as a plot device, you just say "Time-skip stop asking". In the next episode Jack could commit fucking suicide and have the show end there and you'd just be left telling everyone "you have to think it's good because time-skip stop asking".

Struggles which are shown to be irrelevant
A characterization which is then thrown out to make way for Nu-Jack and thus ultimately irrelevant.
Or you know, the fact that they never result in the goals of the people involved because the time-skip murders all those characters with old age and shows that Jack doesn't succeed.

Does Jack not think robot lives matter or something? Robots have feelings too.

And the first human beings he's killed are numerous women. Fucking sexist.

In the original series it could be assumed given the urgency on Aku's part that this wasn't an option and that Jack had to die by force.
The timeskip shows Aku uncharacteristically trying to wait Jack's biological clock out, and given that he now knows Jack doesn't age due to time-travel, we know Jack's death isn't urgent at all, and we've been given no indication that Aku can't still manipulate time.

Jack went from being the single biggest threat to Aku's reign to a minor annoyance to Aku's emotional wellbeing. If Aku doesn't want Jack dead anymore and just wants him gone, why not fling him through time again? The reason the timeskip makes it an option is because the original series Aku's urgency made it implied that one of them was to kill the other as soon as possible. The timeskip shows there's no urgency and Aku is content to wait out eternity.

Jack's defining characteristic (and central flaw) was his compulsion to help people in the (to be rewritten) future instead of prioritizing going to the past. There are a number of episodes where going to the past is in his reach but he chooses to see to the future instead. Without fundamentally rewriting his character there was no way he would ever go back (and he probably never will because this mindset enabled Aku to destroy the time portals).
No, fam. I've explained pretty clearly why this change makes sense and is necessary for the new direction.
That's not how time travel and causality works according to any working concept of time travel.
You got an example of prior events being overwritten or you just blowing hot air?
Change doesn't mean the past is overwritten. The real world changes perpetually. The atoms in your body get cycled through every seven years or so, your attitudes change, governments and economics change, etc. The world isn't static and demanding that from fiction is some kind of bizarre inability to cope with reality and desperation for a fantasy that meets your autistic needs..
Yes, right and wrong is how opinions work. You're definitely autistic.
This lack of theory of mind or general understanding of human behavior is seriously symptomatic of autism.
How are their struggles "shown to be irrelevant"?
You mean the characterization that Jack is compelled to try to save people in the future over getting back to the past? That's overwritten by the opening sequence, Jack making a beeline for the village Scaramouch attacks, or trying to save Ashi? Pic related. It's you.

Fucking what? People will die of old age no matter what Jack does. He's not a god. And Jack not succeeding going back to the past is not new. That' was par for the course of the original run. If anything, the new season is a deconstruction of seasons 1-4, showing what happens when that format is taken to the logical conclusion including the psychological toll on Jack.

What do any of these posts have to do with what you're talking about? You've got me confused with someone else, I watched the reruns on CN when I was a kid and loved that shit with every fiber of my being. I watched again 6 years ago, and again this year. I was replying to you projecting your idea of who the people who like the new season are on to all of us you colossal faggot.

Your assumption of why it wasn't an option pre-skip was that Aku didn't try it and acted urgently. Your assumption post-skip is that it is now an option because Aku isn't urgently trying to kill Jack. There is no logical connection there, just assumptions.

Also,

I've actually taken Aku's actions not to mean that he doesn't want Jack dead, but that he doesn't believe he has the power to kill Jack; after however many years of trying to kill Jack with force, he finally realized that Jack is just too damn powerful, and all that does is put him at risk. So his new plan was to destroy the time portals, except that didn't work either. Jack isn't a minor annoyance; Aku is basically a prisoner in his own tower because he's AFRAID of Jack now. At least, that's my interpretation given what we've seen so far.

Aku's Therapist: "We don't say his name. This is a safe place."

I think it's relevant to point out that Jack's time travel so far is entirely due to Aku, and Aku is surprised that Jack doesn't age. This means Aku doesn't have a good grasp of how his powers work.

Why the fuck Ashi? She wasn't even the hottest one.

Honestly, I was hoping they would go the exact opposite direction with her character. Show those first inklings of morality and curiousity in the first episode, then instead of a redemptive arc, she goes full on berserker rage when Jack kills her sisters, and becomes a persistent thorn in her side, seeking personal revenge now. No redemption, no "oh, the power of goodness and love can overcome even ingrained evil," just putting down a maddened animal in the penultimate episode. That her plotline was so predictable is my biggest complaint thus far.

Oh, and I can't unhear Bubbles' voice whenever she speaks. That's a little annoying.

thorn in his* side

She was the one who liked nature. And based on episode one she was the most willing to kill the people who raised her as suggested by her peers recognizing her for killing some trainers.

I still vaguely hope that her arc makes redemption impossible, but it makes sense that she has no attachment to her sisters given how she was raised.

I think the most involvement I'd like Ashi to have in the final confrontation is:

Will honestly flip my whole house if she flies in at the last second and steals the kill.

What if Jack does all of the work but Aku wears him down and the show plays it like Jack saving Ashi is the lynchpin of his victory over Aku?

Anyone have the other episodes laying around?

Anyone know where I can watch the new episode? The website I used went down apparently.

...

...

what are torrents?

Still waiting for Jack's dad to say [spoiler]one more thing.[/spoiler[

please return to cuckchan kid.

lurk more

This your first day?

I'm surprised no one's made a version of this yet.

It was already done

So Jack is an Asian man drawn as a White man and voiced by a nigger?

LE MARIO IS LE ITALIEN NIGGER PLUMBER VOICED BY LE WHITE MAN

I need more blue emoticon alien memes.

Get on my level you faggots:
Why is pizza circular, cut into triangles, but served in a square box?

Remember he will outlive them.

Get on my level. Why is reddit here?

Is this the first year is a long damn time where the best animated show of the year is western rather than Japanese?

avatar the last airbender as pretty good at the time

Hehe

is that a minigun under his kilt or is he just happy to see Jack?

torrentdownloads.me/search/?search=samurai+jack+S05E04
The first result is always an ad. Click "magnet link" instead of any of the download buttons.

Dank OC 4U

saved

He's literally yellow most of the time in the original run. They gave him a more realistic skin tone in season 5. He's always had squinty eyes. But whatever, he's supposed to be the finest hero humanity could offer so your description is fine too.

Wow fuck, that packs a punch.

Those trips must be checked

lol.

lol*8

Meta searches aren't always up to date as quickly, and at least half of the results lead to malware filled cancer sites.

lmao
There's always torrentz2.eu, but they have ads everywhere and don't search many sites.
They are up-to-date if they query the others sites whenever you do :^)

Oh, and qbittorrent has a built-in search engine that can be expanded to any tracker you desire.

You know it amazes me Holla Forums doesn't really have a fleshed out share thread for this shit. Sure there's the one for comics, but nothing really for cartoons.

The share thread is for anything Holla Forums related. People only really ask for comics as cartoons are comparatively easy to find.
A few anons and I tried to get some MEGA accounts going to upload a bunch of shit, but it never really panned out.

As for the thread that's up, I try to find what every single user asks for, though admittedly I fail occasionally.

but where

What are you after? Something obscure or something mildly popular?

all

Well then, you'd be in trouble.
Just use qbittorrent to start off with. It searches the larger sites, but not the niche ones.

If you can't find anything, ask in the share thread.
There's a bunch of invite only sites that use MEGAs and torrents, but you can't go wildly sharing links so you have to download it and reupload it elsewhere for the average user. You could go asking about in torrenting circles for those.

Not with the emoticon alium, Ashii, you dumb dingus!

I think the whole thing was what the canceled movie was supposed to be. Like I'm definitely seeing some actual cinematic pacing.

The brutality of the other sisters being killed put this worry to rest for me. Sidenote - since Jack and Ashi survived the fall, what about the other sister? The one he punched is probably dead, but the one he threw off the log fell about as far as they did. I predict she'll be back and there will be a little moment where the changed Ashi sees what she used to be like.

The baaaaaaaath!

Checked.

jack gets a wife

Should we make a Gorillaz thread?
Unrelated but still important question.

I heard it too user.

...

...

Why couldn't they make him end up with the doggo antennae girl? They could even put NuSpin to it but anything is better than Ayyysha.

HE

How many episodes are out right now?
Of the new series, I mean.

The fourth dropped not too long ago.

Well we have to wait then. No need for insults you numbnuts

...

???

Ah someone beat me to it.

feed a man vs teach him to fish, etc

The fact that all the other sisters were characterized as a monolithic entity with Ashi as the sole exception who never seems to actually do anything leads me to worry. She has had dozens of chances to kill Jack by now but she never takes them, for no reason.

Eh? She took several opportunities to hinder/attack him at points which would be fatal to them both.

She thrusts Jack off the climb when he's holding a vine/tendril thing. But she doesn't do it any of the other times he's in equally dangerous situations and has a whole jumpcut segment where she's ranting and raving about Aku without trying to harm Jack at all. And then when she finally has the chance to kill Jack on the Island she walks insanely slow for no damn reason, then sits down because ladybugs. Years upon years of training and conditioning undone by a ladybug.

HE

It's called snaking user.

Yes I'm sure that's why she takes 5 seconds between each step in a barely vegetated

I remember there being lots and lots of grass, and she knows that Jack managed to defeat several of her sisters without any weapons, the fact that he is unarmed doesn't mean that he isn't deadly. The reason why she was walking slowly was to see his body's reactions, to know if she was heard sneaking or not. If she had just jumped at him to attack, he would have killed her, she knows that and he knows that.

You remember wrong.
But it does mean the decision to stop and sit down instead of killing him because ladybugs is retarded.
I mean the entire episode preceding it seems to indicate Jack won't kill her despite her trying to kill him and despite him killing all the other sisters, so that's not really an argument.

I think a 30 second montage of her several attempts would have been good, but how much of the episode's air time would you fill with that. Her intent and desires where pretty clear and set and acted on enough. Would have been a bit of over kill?

That's really all it needed. Because what we got instead was a montage of Jack walking on different landscapes and Ashi making no attempts to kill him, just sitting there like a little bitch.
Ashi is the worst thing about the reboot and it worries me because it's clear she's going to only get a larger role as the series progresses.

Actually, I remembered it right, pic related.
I agree with that, I hope she just has some doubts and will still try and oppose/kill him.
Ok fine, here is a better argument, if she had jumped at him, he would have made her into a roll of sushi Ashi and tied her to his back again, she knows it, he knows it, /d/ knows it as well.

Post the following scene where it zooms out of both of them sitting on the Island. Barely vegetated.
Given the synopses for the next few episodes that's highly unlikely.
But for someone who was born and raised with the sole purpose of killing Jack, that doesn't seem like nearly enough reason not to at least try.

You could even take it that, despite her assassin training and indoctrination, she is still very much a drone. So while direct combat is great, critical thinking might be lacking. They most likely will cover that in the next episode or two. In any case she already knows she is no match for him, given that he already took out her and her sisters already. So anything aside from a complete sure bet would be useless. A few more attempts would have been nice though.
I thought it was a continuation. I get what you are saying though. Ashi's character didn't seem like something they really needed. They wanted to make it more character focused though, but they probably need Jack to talk to someone else other then NOT Mad Jack.

Then the time-skip was a really dumb idea considering the original had such a wealth of great characters they could have called on. They could have used the Scotsman, they could have brought back X9 if need be, hell they could have done a shorter time-skip and brought back a newly well-trained Sah-moo-rai.
I could deal with Ashi if she was better written and wasn't shoehorned in, but it's just disappointing. It doesn't help that Tara Strong is really phoning her voice in.

Also important to note is that it's not like Jack is invincible. The 7 daughters were ridiculously easy to beat for what they should have been, not even remotely a threat. We've seen that other humans can compare to Jack, the Scotsman was Jack's equal in combat prowess and even had the edge on him in sheer strength and ranged weaponry. Hell at least Scaramouche even gave him a run for his money.

The daughters kicked his ass at his most powerful with a good ambush and teamwork, destroying his armour, bike and all his weapons. They're clearly trained to work as a team, complete with the whole Shiva act in the snow, and are lesser threats alone; Jack's first victory against them is when one is fighting him solo, where has has the advantage.

You're calling them ridiculously easy when it took an entire episode for Jack to defeat even one of them, and he then had to flee to recover from his wounds and has been on the back foot the entire time until he managed to return the favour with an ambush of his own, and get the hang of their tactics and abilities.

The preview had an aged Scotsman. I have a feeling they're going to save all the characters from the old show for a crazy continuity cavalcade at some point where all of Jack's allies show up and are really badass now. Even Lulu. Especially Lulu.

I do like that Jack is basically resigned to being batshit insane and having occasional conversations with the voices in his head. Well, he is at least in his 70s, maybe it's dementia.

If Jack and Ashi go their separate ways, maybe Ashi will encounter the Scottsman. At least they'll both be able to bond insulting Jack.

I hunger for more electro doggers.

Why do you have shit ideas

Lone Wolf & Cub did this scene way better.

I'm sorry homo, I got a little mad there.

Ashi could do to learn some new insults.

The final episode is just 10 minutes straight of insulting Aku.

apology accepted, sodomite

I just realized.

The Scotsman is still alive. Just old.

You think Jack even remembers his original name?

scotsman is in the next episode famalam

...

MEMORIES BROKEN
THE TRUTH GOES UNSPOKEN
I'VE EVEN FORGOTTEN MY NAME

You know something? I bet his wife died. Either died or got so sick she's become bedridden and frail.

Really? Do you have the article(s) or other evidence?

Same guy made both?
I love it

Damn man, if that's shown it's gonna hit hard as fuck

That's pretty good

...

E X T R A T H I C C
X
T
R
A

T
H
I
C
C

...

...

...

We live in a golden age of Samurai Jack OC. I just wish we had more that wasn't centered around the phone scene.

Dude, what the fuck. It feels like they were made a decade ago.

FUCK!

I should've saved that shit when I had the chance.

This feels comfy. Like an actual brief revival of the past and past board quality. I needed this after so long, even if its brief. Sure the newest episode was rushed as fuck, but considering we only have 10 episodes left to resolve everything, we'll need it to be fast.

It was an interview that was on Adult Swim's website in the run-up to the new season. Might still be there under Samurai Jack videos.

(checked)
try with .io Don't know if it is a clone, but I watched the new episode there.

I suppose we won't be seeing a return of Jack's truest freind, then.

/storytime/ is back and I resumed upping the Samurai Jack comic, now at chapter 6.
>>>/storytime/9058

...