Actually Jack is not his real name, but a nickname by those from the Future. His real name is actually never revealed as far as I'm aware

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme

Ай бұрын

Isn't this a well known point? Jack was not his ORIGINAL name.

@WobblesandBean

Ай бұрын

Well yeah, we all know that.

@Ech0st

Ай бұрын

⁠@@WobblesandBeanWE?! I DIDNT KNOW THAT I never watched the first episode when I was young

@choklatecheeseburger

Ай бұрын

Is his original name not Lotus? I'm fairly certain that's what his parents call him.

@dustinjr1993

Ай бұрын

It's actually Doctor Jack's Monster

The ending of Samurai Jack is so controversial is that the video game is like “Sike”

@justinambru8529

Ай бұрын

What?

@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375

Ай бұрын

The Game retconned it@@justinambru8529

@noctisastrum7495

Ай бұрын

​@@justinambru8529there was an samurai jack video game that was supposedly the true ending samurai jack

@supersasukemaniac

Ай бұрын

Yeah, the game added a 100% completion ending where Aishi survived, and Gendy Tartakovski,the creator of Samurai Jack, said, that ending is canon.

@osmanyousif7849

Ай бұрын

I’d like to see Steve review the video game and see why that one worked….

"Ashi, you have Aku's powers!" "Oh yeah!" /instantly goes back in time What a slap in the face.

@observerofdot3603

Ай бұрын

I have a friend who told me it probably be better if Jack stayed in the future since it would make all the people he met in his journey still be meaningful. Defeat Aku for good in the future still have many friends and people who care for the warrior.

@silentecho92able

Ай бұрын

@@observerofdot3603 In truth i wish this would have happened instead, in Jack's final duel against Aku Jack taps into the swords true power and Summon the gods Odin, Rama, Ra by his side. To Aku's shock the 3 gods declare that Aku's reign of terror ends now and the future does not belong to him. The 3 gods beam down a ray of pure white light on Jack. Jack receiving the same Samurai Armor that his father wore back in *"The birth of evil"* . In which Jack strikes down Aku and ending his evil ones and for all. After the battle the 3 gods seeing that Ashi is a child of Aku beams light down on her, removing all of Aku's essence in her turning her 100% human and free of Aku's corruption. Aku finally gone the 3 gods open a portal to time, and ask Jack if he wishes to return home to the past. Which Jack replies i am already home, it will be difficult and long but he wishes to rebuild this world and make a better future for all in which the gods grant Jack blessing to stay. Then we cut to 1000 years into the future we see one of Jacks descendants telling his son of the exploits of his legendary ancestor and behind them a Large statue of Samurai Jack and at its feet the sword itself. The final scene we see is Jacks descendants walking to the balcony of their Palace and we see a beautiful city a blend of futuristic-traditional Japanese architectures, and other cultures. Large spires of building of modern skyscraper various building and spires as the sun rises on a new day.

@ZeldaSam1

Ай бұрын

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Works for me!!!

@felixader

Ай бұрын

This is one of these examples where the writers miss the forrest for the trees. HOW could the season not have been about Jack accepting the past, overcoming his survivors guilt and actually fixing the present. I just DON'T get it. All the elements were there: The sword rejected him because he got to fixated on changing the past instead of accepting and challenging the present, which is kind of very self centered considering the consequences for everyone he encountered. Following this he got bitter and closed off, then he met something that might make him care, someone he could fall play off of, with due to how both of them have to deal with a certain kind if ingrained guilt and being outsiders and then... they just missed this obvious and classic storyline. HOW?

@Mankey619

Ай бұрын

That was a very dumb plot convenience ever made in that episode.

The reveal that the guardian was dead actually broke me, not because it was sad, but because it really felt like the writers had no idea what they were doing.

@cxireen2193

Ай бұрын

The Guardian is dead??? OH GOD WHAT COSMIC HORROR CREATURE COULD HAVE DONE THAT??

@alexgomez6723

Ай бұрын

They at least addressed it, but the implications seemed to have been lost on the writers.

@Jonathanhernandez-lr6ft

29 күн бұрын

@@cxireen2193most likely aku since he said he destroyed all time portals.

@cxireen2193

29 күн бұрын

@@Jonathanhernandez-lr6ft Aku couldn't beat a guardian for a squirting jewel.

@JonesNate

28 күн бұрын

I agree with OP. When I saw the glasses and the broken portal, all I could think of was how it broke the continuity and ignored the original guardian episode.

i feel like the romance subplot and everything else needed another 10 episodes honestly

@boop004

Ай бұрын

they had very ambitious and high stakes and really couldn't fill their own expectations is kind of the impression I was getting. With the main plotline and all the sub-plots

@henryhunter9643

Ай бұрын

It feels like when you think you have space on a line to write a word, but you realise halfway through you don't, so you have to make the letters tiny. It's like Gennedy got halfway through the series when he realised he didn't have enough screen time to tell the story he wanted, so he had to abridge it.

@RobGradyVO

Ай бұрын

ngl I felt it shouldnt have existed. Took away from Jacks actual journey and redemption. Not everyone gets out of their funks or demons cause they fall in love.

@zemox2534

Ай бұрын

​@RobGradyVO I agree. The romance really held the story back a bit.

@bobtheball5384

Ай бұрын

@@RobGradyVO Ditto, it's not like love bringing out the best in somebody isn't great potential- but it feels somewhat strange in Ashi's case due to where she started and how long we've spent with them both

So many romance plots you see that they're in love but never see why they're in love beyond you're the main character and the plot demands it

@dragonhead99

Ай бұрын

It's almost like Genndy Tartakovsky just being lazy when writing Season 5.

@felixader

Ай бұрын

@@dragonhead99 Well, I think it is more like that's not the way he tells stories. That is just not how he thinks, not his creative language. I mean consider how the episodes of Samurai Jack always went, how the Clone Wars Cartoon (not the CGI series) goes, how Primal works. For example: even within creative subgenres, not everyone is made or has the feeling for every niche. Someone that is good at interpersonal, small scale dramas is probably not going to excel at epic SciFi.

@ZehShugugn

Ай бұрын

@@felixaderHe seemed to at least understand tone though (in the past, at least). People are not acknowledging the EXTREME tone shift in the show. It starts out dark and depressing- those first episodes are gripping, and clearly Genndy knows how to do work like that. But it's like he decided halfway through 'Nah lets do something else', and decided to make the last few episodes silly and goofy. Then an abrupt tonal shift with Ashi dying? If you watch the season all the way through, you'll feel like you have whiplash. I personally think it's because Genndy really liked Ashi, and wanted to write more of a story about her. I think he was bored with Jack. Almost all his female main characters look similar (just compare Ashi, Mavis, Melinda), so I think he has a character 'type' that he's gotten really obsessed with.

@willclark4449

Ай бұрын

because romance is the side plot not the main one.

@alexgomez6723

Ай бұрын

@@willclark4449Romance can be a main plot, and it’s usually where it’s the main focus is when the trope shines.

there are Chinese verb for this 'dragon's head, snake's tail' it means 'great beginning, pathetic ending'

@ekos8282

Ай бұрын

we have the animated horse

@alexgomez6723

Ай бұрын

There is perhaps no other saying that perfectly encapsulates S5.

@goatcheezius2399

13 күн бұрын

That's funny because it reminds me of a crude saying from the American South: "don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird *ss"

The relationship between Jack and Ashi would have been far more powerful had they taken a father/daughter route. This would have created a parallel with Aku being her true father and added far more impact to her sacrifice at the end. Jack didn't need a love interest, he needed an emotional anchor to the future.

The Season started strong with it's dark tone and insane themes, and very nuanced and awesome story telling, and then it devolved itself into a generic Cartoon Network show like the ending geniunely felt rushed for something we have waited for years

@numbersbubble

Ай бұрын

what ever happened to that portal ending where the blue guy he defeats says that you are not ready yet

@ironicugandan5826

Ай бұрын

That’s the main thing I got from it. RUSHED.

@user-jl7cz2pe6d

Ай бұрын

​@@numbersbubble It's shown that he was killed offscreen

@Elvusmiw

Ай бұрын

It went back to being season 1 to 4.

@josesosa3337

Ай бұрын

​@@user-jl7cz2pe6dI didnt remember he was killed off-screen. I'll have to check again.

Greg Baldwin, the new voice of Aku, also voiced Uncle Iroh for the 3rd season of Avatar

@somerandolad

Ай бұрын

They couldn't have found a better replacement.

@osmanyousif7849

Ай бұрын

Both most iconic roles from Mako….

@aeriumsoft

Ай бұрын

my stupid ass thought you were talking about alec baldwin, thank God its not him

@zzodysseuszz

Ай бұрын

⁠@@aeriumsoft no no now I want to see that. Just hearing Aku in Alec baldwin’s voice saying “Jessica, arrange an appointment with the dentist at 3, Alex get my coffee right now”

@aeriumsoft

Ай бұрын

you have a point, lets just hope he doesnt end up accidentally capping someone again

It wouldn't surprise me if we learned that Genndy may have intended to have the series end on a longer time table than just 10 episodes. The extreme whiplash of pacing from episode to episode really suggests this was an Adult Swim decision that forced his hand. Sometimes that's just what happens, but I think its still better we got a conclusion at all vs leaving the entire story open-ended forever like with some other beloved series out there.

@noobmasterruben5167

Ай бұрын

I still pray that a brave network wud continue Infinity Train or Inside Job

@AoshiStark

Ай бұрын

@@noobmasterruben5167 I've said to many friends many times, "If I ever get ultra wealthy... First thing I'm doing is writing Netflix a blank check with the memo: finish the Dark Crystal damnit!"

@davidhong1934

Ай бұрын

Maybe a marketing executive was originally planning a surprise 6th season, realized viewership wasn't high enough to justify the costs, and rapidly scaled everything back That's my head canon, at least, for the pacing/tonal shift between the two halves of the season

@christopherauzenne5023

19 күн бұрын

Yeah I had the same thought midway through the video. I began noticing Some of the middle episodes felt a bit too quick paced and that if given a couple more episodes would have solved this. Additionally looking back seasons for cartoon shows in the early 2000s were usually 20-22 episodes to a season and now the standard length for seasons is usually around 10-13 so episodes, so I can totally see genndy wanting to have 20 episodes for this season but network basically going that’s not how it’s done anymore and cutting it off at 10

@SP8inc

14 күн бұрын

@@AoshiStark YES! I'm still mad at Netflix for cancelling Dark Crystal and Bone.

One of the problems is that we spent four seasons with future Aku, and that's the one fans wanted defeated. I for one never wanted Jack to make it to the past, it makes a strong message of how you can't change the past, only the future

@Sqwivig

20 күн бұрын

Truuuee!!! I thought that would have been great messaging

The best thing about early seasons of Samurai Jack, when he fought human enemies, he would fight to disarm. In season 5 when he killed a human enemy, he was actually upset. That was a cool bit of attention to detail.

@Fatsaver

Ай бұрын

Which doesn't make sense because he did in fact kill humans before. And if Gennedy retconned that, then it's absolutely absurd Jack hasn't killed a living conscious being for over 50 years..

@youngsterjones

Ай бұрын

jack definitely killed a couple of human bounty hunters

@latviandragon2718

Ай бұрын

I think the bounty hunters in that episode where they planned out to kill Jack, i think he killed them

@JoeTAC

Ай бұрын

@@latviandragon2718 Yes he has killed living beings that weren't robots before. But even the robots all had ambitions and dreams and hopes. I'll never forget the episode with the robot bounty hunter who only hunted Jack because his cat was abducted.

@Michael-fd1gx

Ай бұрын

@@JoeTAC Dog not cat.

Aku was undoubtedly the best part of Samurai Jack he was so hilarious and Mako did a good job of voicing him

@TECH097

Ай бұрын

And after he died, Greg Baldwin really did a fantastic job of carrying the torch...

@boop004

Ай бұрын

@@TECH097 Baldwin slurs his lines, he sounds like a drunk Aku

@Dingle-Berries

24 күн бұрын

I have a tattoo of aku i love his look and style.

From the side view, Ashi's head looks like the guy from "An American Werewolf In London" halfway through his transformation.

@boop004

Ай бұрын

this girl is growing a snout throughout the season 😂

@jakkuhl6223

12 күн бұрын

Now I can't unsee it.

Guys listen, Warner Bros. is going to delist all Adult Swim games by May, this does include Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time which contains the true ending that even Gendy approved, spread the word

@dragonhead99

Ай бұрын

And then what? Season 5 is still Canon. Unless, either Genndy Tartakovsky or someone else rewrite the finale.

@EUGE_T_T

Ай бұрын

@@dragonhead99 the game is basically a different timeline from the show's ending. But Gendy considers the game's timeline to be the canon way the story ends.

@k.constantine

25 күн бұрын

​@@EUGE_T_Tthe Ashi plot is trash, bro, who cares

As a kid, I saw the Lilo and stitch Halloween episode with the Shapeshifting experiment. When I told people at school about it they didn’t believe me; they thought I was a Louie

@kenyaholloway-reliford8213

Ай бұрын

That surprises me, because wasn't that one of the more popular episodes?

@Chucker20XX

Ай бұрын

Fr, even I watched in Mexico

@yoshidinono8095

7 күн бұрын

Louie?

@TheIceCrypt

7 күн бұрын

@@yoshidinono80955:28 7:11

I do kind of wish more of the sisters survived. So when they get reunited the now good sister needs to try and explain things to them. That would be a deep narrative drama.

@boop004

Ай бұрын

Yeah i was thinking it'd be a good reminder of Ashi's roots than just her mother, boy was that scene disappointing.

@WobblesandBean

Ай бұрын

Right? It could have been a crisis of faith for Ashi. But no, better spend the runtime on important things, like awkwardly plucking porcupine spines for over a minute straight.

@91AizenSama

Ай бұрын

I would also like if some of them still resisted to show just how deep the brainwashing was. And it could be Ashi who ultimately kills her. There are like a thousands of ways this could have been better handled

@bryansansone3301

Ай бұрын

Pen0R

@thomasc3815

Ай бұрын

Or even had a few survive, but instead of the orc army and then Ashis Mother come along, it could’ve been her sisters and her mother.

I think what bothered the most is that Jack never even got the chance to say goodbye to the Scotsman and his other friends. And the fact they no longer exist due to time travel 😢 doesn’t help.

29:50 Fun fact: that bit about a sniper sparing Hitler instead of killing him actually happened. A sniper in WW1 had a clear headshot on Hitler (who was a low ranked runner at the time) felt bad because being in The Great War sucked for everyone and decided not to shoot him. And apparently Hitler commissioned a painting of that sniper to hang in his home office...

@Savagem8

Ай бұрын

So Hitlers war records showed he was in Germany on leave during the dates Tandey, the sniper claimed to have seen him. So it was likely just some other German nerd running around, but years later after Hitler rose to power, prior to WW2 when people thought the Nazis were aight, and the rumors spread, Hitler was moved enough to put the portrait in his office, before a year later blitzkrieging Poland. I think Tandey was full of shit since the discrepancy was noted that Hitler couldn't of been where Tandey was, but hey, that's history. People lied and went with it because it sounded cool. It's like how, the Soviet Union claimed they killed the head of Germany's sniper school during the events of Enemy at the Gate, but Germany confirmed it was some other guy.

@Oppen1945

10 күн бұрын

@@Savagem8 It was most likely a case of mistaken identity. Guy saw Hitler with his mustache and remembered the time he almost killed a guy with a similar mustache. But nobody seems to have told him that Hitler wasn´t the only one who shortened his mustache like that, wich was done as not to interfere with gasmask iirc.

@justaneditygangstar

3 сағат бұрын

Lol bet he regrets that for the rest of his life 😂😂😂😂

I think Samurai Jack was one of the only cartoons that switched demographics throughout its lifespan.

@Frenchaboo

Ай бұрын

Steven Universe and Adventure Time definitely did too, they just weren't quite this edgy.

@vitorafmonteiro

Ай бұрын

The original demographic grew from season 1-4 to 5, then all the sudden at the season's end the cartoon wanted to have the same demographic of season 1-4 again. It switched demographics and SWITCHED BACK AGAIN. It's insane when you think about it.

@wesmcinerny4524

Ай бұрын

@@vitorafmonteiro They couldn't make up their minds.

@vitorafmonteiro

Ай бұрын

@@FrenchabooA good question is (hypothetically speaking), would those two shows switch demographics in an edgier way if they lasted longer than they did? (I got no hunch on that myself.)

@GhazMazMSM

Ай бұрын

Young Justice did when it got renewed .

There is nothing you could do, no amount of proof to make me believe there weren't completely different writers working on the final three episodes.

@boop004

Ай бұрын

Is Genndy even good at writing more mature shows though? Either the adjustment period from kids' demographic scripts to older audiences is rough on him, or he's never had the scope, I don't know. But Primal and Unicorn Warriors Eternal always seemed like one-trick ponies, with always a major crutch on violence and action as the main propellent of story; it gets old. Those things tend to be the only thing justifying their ratings, unless some cringy innuendo jokes are thrown in as well. It has put my judgements of the guy into question anyway. :(

@themonsterunderyourbed9408

Ай бұрын

They went full SBI.

@iamLI3

Ай бұрын

@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 haahhahaha

@zemox2534

Ай бұрын

​@@boop004They were more than just one trick ponies!!! Seriously did you even watch Primal or did you ignore just to justify your shit criticism!!!

@Bullboy_Adventures

Ай бұрын

@@zemox2534 I agree, but giving boop004 the benefit of the doubt, genndy doesn't always make masterpieces. Unicron warriors eternal first season came out not too long ago, and almost everyone was like: meh

The White Wolf explaining Furries to Jack was hilarious 😂

I think the biggest thing that broke my heart was when Genndy showed no signs of wanting to continue Jack for a number of years and having poor Mako wait patiently! Luckily, Mako lent his voice as Iroh, Master Splinter in the 4th TMNT movie and that hilarious Evil Alarm clock Achoo in Duck Dodgers...but you can tell Genndy felt bad once you see his later interviews when Mako is brought up. I'll miss you Mako, You were awesome in Conan and one HELL of an Evil Wizard!❤😢

@Sqwivig

20 күн бұрын

Duck Dodgers mentioned!! That show is sooooo under appreciated! It's my favorite Loony Tunes show ❤

While so many things in season 5 could've been better. At least it had it's share of badass moments. Though it's no secret that the ending of the season was the biggest middle finger of all.

@shkmru2

Ай бұрын

Yeah it took the gurren lagann ending xD

@mirceazaharia2094

Ай бұрын

I really liked the ending of the season. Samurai Jack was always going to have to make a huge sacrifice to achieve victory. It was the way of the samurai to give all for fulfilling their duty. I expected him to give his life for that. In the end, he gave up the love of his life. It was crushingly bittersweet and better than I expected. It stuck to the theme of duty at all costs, and I love them for it.

@firmak2

Ай бұрын

@@mirceazaharia2094 " Samurai Jack was always going to have to make a huge sacrifice to achieve victory." he literally didnt. 80 years he spent in the future, thats over a lifetime, he had more common with the people of the future than the past, especially with the people he helped. I swear they were setting up that Jack staying in the future was what someone was planning since it was obvious ashy would dissapear

@zzodysseuszz

Ай бұрын

@@firmak2yeah exactly. 8 have no idea what that other guy is talking about.

@26th_Primarch

Ай бұрын

​@mirceazaharia2094, it's not the canon ending anymore. The Samurai Jack videogame that came after it does have the canon ending.

Yeah. Admittedly, I was really disappointed with the ending. I was left confused because I was wondering why they even foreshadowed the portal guardian if they didn't loop back to it properly? Very disappointed with that ending. Felt extremely rushed as well....

This season of Samurai Jack is indeed very strange to talk about. How did it went from being dark to being dumb and goofy. It was fast paced, and the weird relationship between Jack and Ashi were very forced. I mean those two never had a chemistry together, and the age gap is questioning.

Honestly would have felt more impactful if he was a teacher to Ashi and what pulled him out of losing hope was the fact his hope was right there. That Ashi was the future generation to continue on the fight against Aku. That if he could teach someone who was once an ally of Aku then there was STILL hope. THAT is what should have happened. Jack finding HOPE in Ashi as a student. It should have been like Lightning McQueen finding his new hope in Cruz Ramirez. Like that is how Jack and Ashi's relationship felt. NOT what we got. Says a lot when Cars 3 did a better job with this. Even more so seeing as Cruz was HIS trainer, but she learned MORE from him.

Here is my rewrite of the fifth season that's live rent free in my head: 1, Jack and Ashi have a student master relationship, rather than a romantic one. 2, The scottsman only dies in the final battle, and we see him fight like a ghost like nothing happened. 3, After Jack defeats Akku, Ashi immediately fell sick, then vanish. 4, We see Jack reunite with their family, and see the world celebrate. We learn Jack's true name. 5, After some time, Jack feels out of place in the past and have dreams of the future. 6, The Gods visit Jack and tell him that the future rapidly changes, and it will vanish unless Jack finds a way back. 7, After Jack says goodbye to his parents, he begins to wander the earth. 8, Cut to years later, we see the Portal Guardian standing in front of the portal, and we Jack looking like the end of the Portal Guardians episode approaching.

@magicalmomo9987

Ай бұрын

This is EXACTLY what I wanted when Ashi started tagging along. Specifically the student relationship with Ashi and Jack. I really thought it was leading up to that and was absolutely thrown off when we started getting romance and the naked shots. Like it was weird as hell, girl has no concept of the outside world, affection, sex, or even romance but we were supposed to just accept her being sexualized and suddenly catching feelings?? We're supposed to accept that Jack is totally okay with this too? Mans was THAT lonely?? Stop it lmao. But yeah, I really like your idea! I wish it had gone in this direction it makes the most sense tbh.

@travdoza6179

Ай бұрын

All that for 16 likes. Lol

@iamLI3

Ай бұрын

@@travdoza6179 it's going up

@hyde5213

Ай бұрын

Can you rephrase all of that but in human, instead of cuckchan?

@bobtheball5384

Ай бұрын

@@hyde5213 You are a great reminder as to why it's important to take a break from the computer or screen and take a walk.

Also I preferred if they went with the original ending were Jack defeats Akaku but is still stuck in the future and is forced to rule over the Empire that Akaku built for himself.🐱

@theunpopularopinion9833

Ай бұрын

I think many of us would've preferred that ending. On top of that, Jack could help re-build the world alongside his friends and allies so everything would finally be at peace. Not perfect, there would always be the occasional badie or old Aku supporters to deal with, but nowhere near as bad or corrupt as it was under Aku's reign. Then one day, many years later, Jack is informed that one of the time portals has been reformed/re-built (or have the Guardian portal not be destroyed and finally decide that Jack is ready to go home), and while Jack is ecstatic at first, he quickly realizes this isn't an easy choice. By choosing to go back to the past and ridding the world of a future that is Aku, he would also be losing all of the friends he made in this timeline, and all of that hard work would be for nothing. Everyone tells Jack that its ultimately his choice to make, they'll support him no matter what, and his final decision would be ambiguous, cause honestly the fan-base would go into rage mode no matter what path he chooses. That's just how I would've ended the series, though.

@adriangonzalez3600

Ай бұрын

Exactly, he ends the Age of Aku, but in the future. He uses the gatekeeper's portal not to go back home, but to tell his family he loves them and that things will eventually be alright, finally accepting that you cannot change your past and must embrace your current self

@onsokumaru4663

Ай бұрын

Akaku

@toadlord8594

Ай бұрын

@@theunpopularopinion9833a MUCH BETTER ENDING!

@Niyucuatro

Ай бұрын

yeah. Undoing everything that happend left me a sour taste. From a story telling prespective, Jack learning to stop fixating into going back into the past to fix everything and instead just defeat aku and rebuild from that would have been really cool. Almost a life lesson, Don't get swallowed by regret and what could have been, instead build for the future from what you have now.

My god, Samurai Jack and Johnny Bravo had more chemistry on that one cartoon short than Jack and Ashi did on a whole season 😭😭

@boop004

Ай бұрын

the love story that should've been 😥

Somehow, the series got LESS mature even as it tried to deal with more mature topics. The original seasons are magic, this one just felt like "welp, we gotta finish this somehow, so just wrap it up. Also romance!"

@boop004

Ай бұрын

Trying this much to justify the shiny mature rating only assured that Genndy would fall into tropes and cliché HARD. Sad thing to see, but I'm a little less sorry about it now that he's replicated the problem in more than one show since then.

I think in episode 7 when he gets his redesign, he should get a new robe, and maybe make his hair and beard look a bit more well kept

@thomasjones6216

Ай бұрын

He could of become the "king" version of himself we saw on the other side of the Guardian's time portal

@Choso_Kamo_Productions

Ай бұрын

@@thomasjones6216 True, but I think maybe sticking more to his samurai roots would be cool too

The Man, The Myth, The Legend Has *Returned.*

@srlorenzo53

Ай бұрын

and it's just steve

The ending with Ashi dying belatedly was such a direct reference to the end of Gurran Lagan, there's no way it wasn't lifted from it.

@sarthakarora3212

11 күн бұрын

That kind of ending is older then manga industry.

To me, there was just this massive shift about halfway through that undermined all the interesting stuff the season had been doing up until that point. Jack as a grizzled, tired man whose just run-down from all his fighting? Great idea. But then they just ditch that premise once he gets his sword back, and the season was all the poorer for it 😟

Also just as a note: those “background characters” you brought up around 42:40 were actually featured in the original series. The African Chief was a friend of Jack’s father, who took Jack in and helped to physically train him alongside his own son. They were purposely designed that way based on real African paintings/artistic depictions of African people, so while most people may see the depiction as racist, it was actually based on genuine cultural art.

@raptorjesus5870

Ай бұрын

Oh absolutely. This show would be the last one to be racist lol

@TheChildofAuraReborn

Ай бұрын

@@raptorjesus5870 I mean, WE as the audience who grew up with Samurai Jack understand the character designs and intent, but I don’t have much faith in the newer generation. A lot (not all, but a lot) of younger people today are media illiterate and lack critical thinking skills.

@magicalmomo9987

Ай бұрын

People thought the depiction was racist?? I remember being so excited seeing the chief and thought it was cool af as a kid. He was definitely positive representation to me back then. I also had a lot of African type art in my childhood home so when I saw his stylization it never gave me any notions of racism even now as an adult. I'm genuinely surprised to hear this, wow.

@TheChildofAuraReborn

Ай бұрын

@@magicalmomo9987Just a few people here and there, but thankfully there's a lot more people who actually knew the context of the designs. The Chief was an awesome character, he accepted Jack like his own son without any prejudice, and the whole tribe welcomed him as a new member of their family. I'm actually kind of sad we didn't get to see the Chief's son now grown up at Jack and Ashi's wedding. It would have been a nice nod to how close they were as children.

@magicalmomo9987

Ай бұрын

@@TheChildofAuraReborn Yes, same! That would've been amazing. I'm thankful we got to see at least some of the other characters from the original though.

I personally wish the last scene / ending conflict had these plot beats: * A Daughter of Aku dies every episode or two after their introduction (except for Ashi). 2 or 3 are because of Jack, but the rest are from either accidents, being cut down by their sister(s), or being hunted down as they start to side more with Jack & his cause than Aku. Ashi ends up being the only one who survives (or at least, the only one who remains with Jack as his student), leading to a confrontation between her, her mother & the rest of the cult. * It is revealed that, because Aku sent Jack into the future, Jack's aging is tied to Aku (in other words, put on hold / eternally at his current age, since Aku doesn't age). This goes beyond simply longevity however - because of the various instances where the two have 'shared their essence' (the time portal conundrum, Jack absorbing Aku's Anti-Jack, Jack actually inhaling a bit of Aku when Aku was sick), Jack is technically part-Aku (represented by the negative projection he talks to throughout season 5). ** With the above being said, this means that if Jack dies by his magic sword via seppuku (a willing, selfless sacrifice with the necessary weapon), it is the equivalent of Aku doing so (and would thus kill Aku alongside Jack). * Jack & Aku would not know about this until the final episode. However, Ashi (who would still have been born with the essence of Aku, but be unaware of this until the last episode as well) would learn about this after she's come around to Jack's side (seeing him as a mentor figure once she's warmed up to him) and would be trying to find an alternative due to Jack's suicidal inclinations at this point (and she'd likely tell other allies of Jack of her discovery, in order to get their help finding a solution before Jack finds out he can off himself to off Aku for good). * Cut the Scaramoosh survival & the romance segments, let the plot happen for a few segments to round out getting back the sword and gathering allies to fight Aku as he's starting to get back into evil gear, and then start the final episode: Aku has captured Jack & the sword, the allied forces are preparing a counter-attack led by Ashi while Aku broadcasts the original intro and prepares to execute Jack. ** The attack, initially is to free Jack and try to use all their other resources as an alternative to kill Aku. However, at about the first third of the fight, it is revealed to Aku & Jack about how Jack can kill himself with the sword to kill Aku by proxy (perhaps this is when Aku actually realizes that Ashi shares his essence & gets a look into her memories in the process; he blurts out "Wait, if I kill the samurai I die too!?" only to then realize he said this within earshot of Jack, who suddenly goes ape with purpose & adrenaline, breaking free of his containment and making a dash for his sword). ** The fight then goes into a desperate keep-away skit (everyone trying to keep the sword from Jack while also surviving Aku's panicked fury), with Aku eventually using his powers to crash the present time into the past directly (perhaps thinking that undoing the time-skip will break the link between him & Jack, and allow him to absorb his old self to gain even more power). ** Massive mayhem ensues, the sword is lost in the madness, Aku ends up more powerful than ever, and it's a desperate bloodbath. Believing himself now free of the Curse of Jack, Aku attempts to finish off the Samurai, only to be stopped as light pierces him. The fighting stops as Aku melts away, and everyone looks in confusion until Ashi is spotted, sword in her stomach as she finishes committing seppuku on herself (having realized that if she was made with Aku's essence, then her death by the sword should likewise kill him). * Perhaps, with the powers of the sword & her self-sacrifice, the gods intervene to save Ashi, giving her a chance at a proper life in the now saved (if chaotic & devastated) world, all finally rid of Aku & his evil. Jack reunites with his family, all the friends he made in the future aren't wiped from existence, we get a climactic fight, and even Ashi gets to survive with a happy ending.

@iamLI3

Ай бұрын

looks like someone needs to make a response video o:

No one can blame the original voice of Aku for passing away... However, his Japanese heritage made his voice a silver bell for the character. It. Was. Peeeeeeeeerfect❤️‍🔥

The thing that really got me about Ashi being forced to fight Jack at the end is that Jack's sword can only hurt evil creatures, as shown when Aku tried to kill Jack with it, as such wouldn't Jack simply be able to hack away at Ashi until all the Aku Goo is gone?

Genndy : I didn't want to rush the ending Also genndy: makes it so he had to rush the ending 😐

@boomburst8031

Ай бұрын

well i understand him wanting to tell his story. And finally getting the opportunity to do so. Just because his story needed 2 seasons doesn't mean he was going to get them. So he compromised and delivered a mediocre ending instead of a great ending. TLDR i don't blame him for cramming shit in and taking shortcuts.

@Galvatronover

Ай бұрын

@@boomburst8031could’ve just trimmed out the unnecessary bits

@26th_Primarch

Ай бұрын

Makes a videogame to canonically fix the ending....

@nova_nite9586

Ай бұрын

@@26th_Primarchwhich is arguably more confusing than the original ending

@user-jl7cz2pe6d

Ай бұрын

First this and now Primal..

If Unicorn Warriors Eternal is left hanging then gets a disappointment of a conclusion, good grief

@LeoHightower

Ай бұрын

Agreed 😢

@gigaj2368

Ай бұрын

Apparently, there is gonna be another season of UWE and Primal coming in the future

@griffwilson5932

Ай бұрын

@@gigaj2368I did hear something like that about Primal. I could be wrong, but I think Gendy said that if he did do another season, it would be a different storyline instead, making it an anthology of sorts.

This will sound mean, but I don’t think Gendy knows how to “end” a show. 3 series in a row (samurai jack, primal and unicorn eternal) ALL had terrible and rushed endings. He spends so much time building up tension and intrigue that he’s then like “oh shit, I forgot I only have 10 episodes” Then rushes the hell out of it.

@thardump859

Ай бұрын

Well.... We all have our strengths and weaknesses. It's just that this guy, as legendary and talented as he is, does not know how to properly end stuff.

@MASTEROFEVIL

Ай бұрын

To be fair Primal was going to be cancelled because of the Discovery merger

@supercyc10

Ай бұрын

@@MASTEROFEVIL valid. I would’ve said something, but I didn’t wanna make my prior comment into an essay. You’re right, there are times he doesn’t GET the chance to end a show, like Primal and Symbionic Titan (Popeye to an extent). But counterpoint, you’d think that after all these cancelled projects, he’d know by now how to consolidate his resources when no one (in the industry rn) knows if their show will see tomorrow.

@WhyNot-mj3hj

Ай бұрын

Honestly, he should just stick to episodic shows or at least leave the endings to someone else or, I don’t know, PLAN AHEAD.

Another "what went wrong" video from Steve Reviews that's over an hour? We've been blessed.

The first few episodes were pretty solid, I thought.

22:31 Wolf: So uhh you ever have furrys back in your time jack? Jack: Actually there is someone named Saberspark

@MRVAST-op7sg

Ай бұрын

Well that was out of nowhere lol

@SpeakerTerenus

Ай бұрын

Maybe this guy is just REALLY bothered about that.​@@MRVAST-op7sg

@Mister_Domm

Ай бұрын

Hey guys I’m SaberSpark! I review furry content, even though I’m not a furry. No seriously, I’m not a furry. I’m not a furry guys, ignore those pictures. Yes there’s a fursona of me but I’m not a furry. Yes I like this furry character but I’m not a furry. I’m not a furry. I’m NOT a furry. I’m seriously NOT a furry. I’m not a furry guys! Please stop talking about it! I’m not a furry! I’m not a furry! I’m not a furry! IM NOT A FURRY! IM NOT A FURRY! AHHHHHHHHH!!

@SpeakerTerenus

Ай бұрын

@Mister_Domm Pathetically obsessed despite how it little it matters.

@Mooffgamesgamer

Ай бұрын

​@@Mister_DommOh my God *WHO THE HELL CARES!*

The wedding was a slap to the face for me, because it's a straight up reference to another anime ending that devastated me, but was done better, even though I am still mixed about it. My idea for rewrite: 1) After getting back the sword, the episode go straight to the Guardian scene. The portal is destroyed, but a vision appear in the mind of Jack and Ashi, showing the Guardian going to give Jack one last test. A fight that started action packed, then ends in a realistic samurai duel, akin to the last Obi-won vs Maul fight and the master vs the giant fight in Rurouni Kenshin. Jack won, and the Guardian tells him that there's always another possibility. 2. After that, Jack now decide to go after the current Aku, but Scottsman spotted Jack and reunited with him. They both agree to take on Aku, but first, they need to group up with the rest of the resistance. This is the time for Jack to heal his soul and trauma, and even get therapy, talking with everyone he has helped in the past and inspired. IF the romance is required (imo, no), this is the start of it. 3. One day Aku breaks in, and attack everyone. While Jack try to stop Aku, Aku begin possessing people around. This make Jack hesitate for a bit as he try to avoid hitting the innocents, creating an opening for Aku to KO Jack and take him away. 4. The rescue happen, but instead, the astronauts from earlier episodes returned out of guilt for abandoning Jack, and set up the device for Jack to time travel. Jack and Ashi went back in time, and fought past Aku. While this was happening, future Aku got desperate and tried to travel back as well, but got held back by the resistance. During the finishing blow, we see how both present Aku and future Aku get destroyed at the same time. 5. Jack and Ashi escaped, but realized that she was disappearing. Ashi comforted Jack by assuring this was fine. Everyone expected this result, but pushed on for his sake and all the sacrifices he had made. After that, a projection from the future in the sky showing everyone were happy and cheering Jack, saying their goodbyes and thanks to him before the projection disappeared. After that, Ashi faded away, leaving Jack alone. 6. Jack reunited with his parents and wanted to introduce them to Ashi, only to remember that she's no longer with him. He could barely hold his tear, and his parents hug Jack to comfort him. 7. The last scene plays out like in the original show.

The aishi romance subplot would NEVER work, the best you could do is plan it beforehand and give a somewhat more halfway decent end to it, and 50% of that is just cause her trauma and inexperience should never have been thrown away just cause she’s a female and it’s a “natural” response, and also I’m just biased and would have preferred if they kept the beard and long hair while also keeping the dynamic as close to the Witcher as possible Geralt and ciri style would have been so much cuter than a romance

My main issue with it was the pacing. Also, it might be a nitpick and personal thing, but I wish we could've saw the King Jack storyline or Jack run The Guardian's fade again.

@theashtubereviews

Ай бұрын

They kind of do it in the comic book continuation they did before season 5

@chrisrockett5897

Ай бұрын

@@theashtubereviews I know about the King Jack storyline, but I still need that Guardian run back though.

@remixchild

Ай бұрын

@@theashtubereviewsI think that was one of the main problems: if you didn’t read the comics,you’re likely lost.

@thecinematicmind

Ай бұрын

Same

Fun fact: Greg Baldwin also voiced Iroh in season 3 of Avatar the last airbenders.

@WobblesandBean

Ай бұрын

We know. It's obvious.

@meatmeatmeatmeatmeatmeatmeatme

Ай бұрын

@@WobblesandBean not everyone knows that, jackass.

@sammyt7981

Ай бұрын

I wonder if he’ll review that show, considering the fact that that had a lot of dark episodes

1:01:39 They could have written Jack to love her like a daughter, after he took her on as an apprentice, but they ruined that so hard.

Ahh good ol' Genndy, master of incredible stunning visuals, dialogue-free narrative moments, and... endings that miss the mark so badly you wish you'd stopped watching an episode or two early. Primal did the exact same thing, and I'm still not completely over it. Some of those episodes were a masterpiece, but now it just leaves a sour taste in the mouth knowing how it all ends. I kind of wish he'd stick to purely episodic things that didn't need a definitive ending.

@ThePreciseClimber

Ай бұрын

Frankly, maybe the show would've been better off without an "overarching goal." The show was was basically 90% episodic anyway. The serialisation aspect felt more like a bait & switch than anything actually substantial. "Hey, kids! Keep watching! Maybe this week he'll finally get to the past! Fingers crossed!" Bleh. It could've been a purely episodic show about the misadventures of a lone samurai in a sci-fi future who was born in that sci-fi future. The same way Lucky Luke was about a lone cowboy. Aku could've simply been Jack's arch-nemesis like Julius Caesar in Asterix or something.

Season 5 made me realize that Tartakovsky (as he admitted it himself in an interwiew) always have been a visionary director and not really a writer. In the previous seasons of Samurai Jack he had a pretty large team of storyboarders who were also the writers of the show. The storyboard artists may have added a lot of small but neat ideas to make the show much better. Also there were many co-directors who must have helped Genndy in each episode. In season 5 Tartakovsky did all the directing and did like 75% of the storyboarding. Maybe he didn't had the studio system he used to have in the earlier days and couldn't afford other storyboard artists? Maybe he was a bit full of himself and wanted to do all the heavy lifting which resulted him to get tired at the end of the project? Maybe both. I also felt the same "sympthoms" in Primal season 2, which also had a really great start and a terribly rushed ending. And in Unicorn... I just gave up after episode 03... I'm sorry. I still love Genndy Tartakovsky as a director, his works was so influental for me. It's a wonderful thing that he still manages to create his own animated shows and still has his brilliant moments to shine. There's just something missing in his newer works for me unfortunately (in the writing at least, his animation and visual style is still very strong).

@RaymondoPerson

Ай бұрын

I GUESS I can see wanting a little more time given to Primal's ending... but it's not remotely comparable to the emotionally unsatisfying, awkwardly drawn & animated (the final battle did not look climactic at all), "mindless Gurren Lagann ending copypaste" disaster that was Jack S5's finale. Spear's actions came to bite him in the ass & his deadly final encounter came just as swiftly & unceremoniously as you'd expect it to in such a wild, "primal" setting. The Viking Chieftain's arrival was also overtly foreshadowed, over and over again, & it makes perfect sense for Spear (the last of his kind, the symbol of a purer & more animalistic form of humanity) to be felled by the living representation of a more civilized, morality & fairness-driven, ritualistic (yet also, as a result, more corrupted) "evolution" of man. Both died, yet one got to spread his seed while the other went to hell. Spear lost his wife & kids, went a journey where he made new friends & loved ones, and in the end continued his lineage. the Chieftain couldn't put the past behind him & went on a righteous crusade for revenge at all costs, to make things "fair" based on his civilized morality. For these reasons I think the fact that it all happened so fast was mostly justified; the thematic weight of it, along with the kickass visuals, should be more than enough to make up for the feeling that "maybe it should've been longer". Jack S5's ending was garbage for the aforementioned reasons, but also... I as the viewer, do not care about Jack's stereotypical Japanese home and his generically nice loved ones. I'm invested in the beautifully flawed post-apocalypse & the messy-yet-lovable characters Jack befriended in it. That's where the real meat of the show lies: his episodic adventures. So to just throw it all away, having them all give away their for their past savior felt... pretty lame and honestly a little uncomfortable to me. And yeah, the Gurren Lagann elephant-in-the-room comparison - the finale with Ashi dying was so conceptually similar (right down to the reason behind it) there's absolutely NO WAY Genndy or whichever storyboarder came up with it hadn't seen the show. The visuals were similar, even the COLOR SCHEME, and the whole concept of the main character's lover drying during their wedding because she was being kept alive by the now-dead villain's power is far, FAR too specific. Except... in Gurren Lagann it was made sense: it was nailing home the importance of death & the protagonist's personal responsibility to not go mad with power & override death, the entire basis of human evolution (and in the process guide humanity down a slippery slope that would destroy it, both literally and metaphorically). It also makes it clear, within the fictional world's own logic, why the love interest was able to hold on; that it was her willpower keeping her alive in a show where willpower is essentially magic. Meanwhile In Jack it just felt "bittersweet for the sake of it" and didn't really enforce an all-encompassing theme at all. I'm honestly amazed how much better Genndy got at telling long-form stories in just 2 years (or maybe he had it in him from the get-go but Jack was just horribly rushed). Primal S2 does not deserve to be compared to Jack S5.

Season 5 started out REALLY strong but at some point we got anime romance into the mix (which is not bad for anime but it felt weird seeing it in a cartoon we all grew up with), there were a few call backs to certain characters in the show (kinda like a nostalgia trip but it just felt a little weak to me), there was that one portal that prophesized that Jack could only return to the past once he returned as some battle torn king (which that apparently was a lie or maybe that went over the writers heads), then the ending got rushed (not even exaggerating when I say that), and to top it all off we see that our man Jack *finally* made it back to the past and even got the girl in the end but we all know how that worked out (seriously why did they have to pull the rug from under us like that? I mean the writers went out of their way to shoehorn a last minute romance between Jack and Ashi, the least they could've done is keep them together in a cheesy happy ending now it just really makes all the time they've spent together kinda pointless) Personally I think it'd be better if Jack stayed in the future, stopped Aku once and for all, let old ghosts rest because technically now his people are free one way or the other, I am one of those suckers who likes Jack and Ashi being a couple but I really hate how they did it WAY too fast (there was hardly any chemistry or emotions they shared with each other), Jack can have a new life with his friends, rebuild his kingdom in his original homeland, and finally rest in peace.

Jack & Ashi wedding is way too similar to to Gurren Lagann. The only difference is that Simon knew Nia was gonna die & has an emotional goodbye with her

If the part where jack n ashi are fighting together is a sex metaphor, does jack missing his sword for a while symbolize erectile dysfunction

I learned the Roman numerals thanks to Final Fantasy.

@rubyy.7374

Ай бұрын

Reminds me of that Simpsons gag where Bart learned Roman numerals from the Rocky movies

@rosestrife1498

Ай бұрын

Ayyy me too!

still feel bitter about season 5 after all this time. if i had to choose between getting this version of samurai jack or getting nothing at all, i would choose nothing. like what the fuck happened? i really hope it was something out of genndys control that forced him to rush the show, and not something of his own volition.

@boop004

Ай бұрын

either way it reflects badly on him. Honestly, with what he's been creating for more mature audiences keep continuing to fall short in their writing and pacing really just tells me he's truly just an art guy. He needs a better skill of writer helping him instead.

@onsokumaru4663

Ай бұрын

I'm also disappointed, season 5 felt like the series was taken over by non original show creators.

Honestly I really loved the series but season 5's ending was so jarring and rushed to me that I never picked up the series again since the premiere of the finale. This video has been a good reminder of why the series was so good and why 3 bad episodes out of 5 seasons shouldn't taint something legitimately so good. Thanks for doing this video, it's made an old fan of the show revisit it after swearing off it for so long.

A Loui can be annoying, but a Loui sent me on track to beging my animation career. He told me that he saw a music video for a gorillaz track that actually doesnt has one, and being in my room daydreaming about how that video could be is what made me discover my love for story boarding.

This felt like Game of Thrones where it seems like they were making things up along the way, pre-planning completely thrown out of the window. I hated it and still hate it to this day, they should have left the original series as it was.

@boop004

Ай бұрын

Did Tartakovsky have those 10 years between to work on Season 5 or was this a bang-up job rushed in like a couple years? The nostalgia baiting alone was pretty marring even with the quality action scenes of Season 5.

the time guardian ending is in the comics steve, if you haven't read it, you should check it out, is pretty much what everybody was hopping for

The ending is what kinda made it feel all pointless to me. Like it makes zero sense to do what they did for the ending. Jack really should of just stayed in the future after all it was part of his life for so long

Samurai Jack was one of my ultimate favorite series of the Cartoon Network block since the Powerpuff Girls. Genndy Tartakovsky is one of the most distinguishable animators of all time. He makes storytelling grander in animation throughout the 1990's. The fifth season was one of the best final seasons around until... Many fans out there backlashing because the ending was too extreme for the fans everywhere. I understand about what happened to Ashi but sometimes in life there's been tragedies even losing legendary icon animators. Walt Disney, the Fleischer bros, Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, William Hanna, Joe Barbera, the old 9 Mice Men of Disney, Looney Tunes creators and now we lost a Dragonball Creator: Akira Toriyama. But animation lives on to those greats been established and this final season was legendary of GT. Great upload, Steve.

The fifth season really should have ended with Jack remaining in the future and spending the remainder of his days repairing the damage Aku caused. Plus the whole Jack becoming immortal due to going through the time travel should’ve been scrapped so to allow Jack to age and thus giving him more urgency to defeat Aku before he becomes to old and dies.

@Harvest133

Ай бұрын

Should've been bittersweet. Bitter in that he learns time travel to the past was always impossible. But sweet in that he now has freed the world as it is and has the opportunity to rebuild it and rebuild his people and culture in this new world.

@Rainforestdelight

Ай бұрын

@@Harvest133My thoughts exactly!

@mray4784

Ай бұрын

@@Harvest133 No.

@firmak2

Ай бұрын

that was exactly how i imagined it even if we didnt get season 5, and seemed like they were setting it up. The only 2 reasons i can come up with is that 1 executives or 2, he figured it was too obvious and wanted something diffrent.

@Harvest133

Ай бұрын

@@mray4784 OK

Part of me thinks they should've brought Josephine Clench back in more episodes and had her evolve into a romantic foil for Jack, the Catwoman to his Batman. Samurai and southern belle is a pretty unique couple.

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme

Ай бұрын

Ugh why does romance need to be forced down our throats in every show? Why do all women need to be used as romantic sidekicks?

@thematiasmadness7010

Ай бұрын

@@itsgonnabeanaurfrommeeasy rule 34

@Foniofinesse

Ай бұрын

@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme Honestly, if they were committed to making ashi a love interest I could see it working. The problem seems like genny’s vision was to have her as a mentor/sidekick, but someone else thought a romantic relationship would be more impactful. At least that’s what I got with the flip flop that was given to us. Like why make her, a completely new character, so young knowing she would end up as a love interest? She could’ve been any age. Especially since she got Thanos’d there at the end.

@MsMvsc

Ай бұрын

@@thematiasmadness7010 that happens regardless of canon, so your point makes no sense

@thematiasmadness7010

Ай бұрын

@@MsMvsc I just like rule 34

44:48 Yeah, but that's an issue with any "immortal" character. Unless you write an eternally young counterpart, it's always gonna be weird. Just about any relationship Wolverine's had would be awkward seeing as he was born in the late 19th century. This is something you just gotta deal with, or there's simply no story.

In the new ending you suggested, Ashi could live and Aku be dead. What I imagine is that Ashi going back in time would make her not affected by flow of time (like Jack) or any changes to the timeline (but it is only my guess).

I think Genndy just has an issue with endings. Even Ego Trip just ends in a time-loop. I didn't like Primal's ending, as it was a bit problematic to me. Then Unicorn: Warriors Eternal didn't really impress me over half the time. Fantastic art design, but bad story, lackluster characters, and even poor action scenes turned me off of it, though I watched it all hoping it would have gotten better. Sym-Bionic Titan, which I didn't see, sadly got canceled. Clone Wars was part of a larger universe, but I think it ended on a high note.

@Unknown-mz3ww

Ай бұрын

he has an issue with romance too...Primal ofc with the batshit ending...Symbionic Titan with the redhead twerking on the robot Character and then this rubbish

@RaymondoPerson

Ай бұрын

"I didn't like Primal's ending, as it was a bit problematic to me" Oh come on, is this the "Mira didn't ask for Spear's consent" criticism again? I'm one one the loudest critics of the idea that "women can't assault men" & I never even considered that while watching the ending cuz I was so invested in the show & the the actual emotional & thematic importance of the scene. I guess Genndy could've added a little extra detail to make it 100% clear that Spear consented to avoid these criticisms, but there was so much importance to everything that went on in that ending it's really weird that so many people will readily dismiss it for moral reasons. Is it that hard to tell yourself "it's a cartoon, you're not meant to base real-world morality on it, and in the context of a pulpy fantasy story it was clear their love was so strong that they were both clearly on the same page"? It's like saying Snow White has a bad ending cuz "you don't kiss sleeping women in real life". And no I don't think everything else surrounding the ending was poorly executed either and I'm willing to elaborate.

@BingFox

Ай бұрын

@RaymondoPerson I think it would have been more acceptable if it was given more time. It's an overall issue with the length of seasons now. Sticking with 6-10 episodes has caused a bunch of pacing issues with shows lately.

@RaymondoPerson

Ай бұрын

the show is literally called Primal. in a wild untamed world, death can come swiftly & unpredictably. the Viking Chieftain's arrival was also built up to, consistently, & it makes perfect sense for Spear (the last of his kind, the symbol of a purer & more animalistic form of humanity) to be felled by the living representation of a more civilized, morality & fairness-driven, ritualistic (yet also, as a result, more corrupted) "evolution" of man. both died yet one got to spread his seed while the other went to hell. Spear lost his wife & kids, went a journey where he made new friends & loved ones, and in the end continued his lineage. the Chieftain couldn't put the past behind him & went on a righteous crusade for revenge at all costs, to make things "fair" based on his civilized morality. I guess I can understand why people felt "it was too fast" but it's kinda weird to compare it to Jack S5's ending which was a total trash fire. Primal's ending had thematic and emotional weight to it, Jack's did not. Ashi's development & relationship with Jack were poorly executed, the final encounter sucks, the payoff sucks, there's no narrative significance to the attempted "bittersweetness". the more you think about it, the more it sucks. the more you think about Primal's ending the better it gets @@BingFox

@StarrChild.

Ай бұрын

I feel like Unicorn: Warriors Eternal would have been better had it not spent 70% of itself with the Emma/Melinda plot. Like there was a real cool story going on but it needed nearly all of the episodes for the character going back and forth on who/what they are. And don't get me wrong the Emma/Melinda story is a good one, but I feel like it was handled poorly. Like it could have been Melinda in control for the main plot to move along and then have moments of Emma coming back and trying to go home and the other warriors realising they're basically parasites to these people. Sadly just mishandled.

Ashi should have seen Jack as a father figure, considering her real father is the closest thing to satan. The love story made me cringe the hardest. Instead of jack returning to the past it he should have realised he would leave everyone in the future behind. He would have been able to create an alliance against aku and possibly after killing him, aku's followers would have been still out there plotting to get revenge so Jack will train ashi and many other warriors on everything he know to be able to fight and thrive in this waste land.

@selalewow

Ай бұрын

Not just leave everyone in the future behind but they would not exist at all.

@catscanhavelittleasalami

Ай бұрын

even as a dumb kid I knew the romance was weird and cringe af

@CannoliSlugYT

Ай бұрын

Exactly! That what I thought it could've been better while watching this video just... now?

@glockenspiel266

Ай бұрын

Yes!!!

@zzodysseuszz

Ай бұрын

@@selalewow in reality it would not work like that this is a cartoon.

I love how badly the writers tried to do a Casca and Guts romance 😂

@odinwilliams717

Ай бұрын

And with out knowing what made Guts and Casca worked

@Hepheat75

Ай бұрын

@@odinwilliams717 exactly

31:00 the Scotsman went out like any good Scott, Bagpipes blaring and insulting his opponent.

Yes!!!! Yes!!! My boy uploaded again! And finally another analysis on the samurai jack season five! I loved it and all but it definitely had issues! Must be my birthday today

Hi Steve, I recommend you take a look at "The King of Pigs" a South Korean animated movie. Its pretty dark and Mature in subject matters. It was made by the team that made 'Seoul Station' and 'Train to Busan'

I could go into a huge rant about things that bothered me regarding Season 5, but I doubt anyone wants to read paragraphs on KZread. So to sum up it up in a few major points: 1. For someone with 50 years of trauma, Jack manages to get over it all pretty quickly after finding out some random kids he was depressed before meeting were still alive. I guess the kids Scaramouche killed in Episode 1 looking for him don't mean anything to him. Mad Jack was also wasted, because Jack doesn't listen to him at all the whole season or even take him seriously, but somehow he's also unbalanced by him despite ignoring everything he says? 2. The Jack/Ashi relationship is kind of weird. Between Jack mentally being about 70 - 80, Ashi being repressed most of her life, and Jack basically convincing Ashi to discard everything she knows and accept his entire world view (even if he is correct) before they suddenly start sucking face, there's a lot of unfortunate aspects of the relationship that combine together to feel unsettling. Even with that aside, Ashi becoming a romantic partner just to serve as a plot device before being killed off feels pretty lame. 3. The future should've still existed at the end of the show, just changed into a good, alternate outcome. After seeing Jack give up the chance to go back to the past multiple times in service to others for fifty years, it feels weak to time paradox all of that out of existence. Heck, the final episode could've been Jack vs. Past Aku and Ashi vs. Future Aku, with Ashi getting to live, but stuck in the future while Jack is in the past. Even better if Ashi actually gets to have a living, caring family without Aku's presence, or at least gets to bury her sisters if they stay dead.

@boop004

Ай бұрын

You make good points, and I appreciate the specific examples too. If the maturity rating is anything to go by... there's a critical lack of depth and nuance in a show that should have built on it.

Unrelated but that anecdote about you noting down every roman numeral to figure out which episode was playing is kinda adorable

Not everything has to have a romance in it. If it doesn't play to a show/writer's strengths then it's better to skip it. Adding a romance to a show like Samurai Jack doesn't make sense. If they really, truly wanted to do a romance then they should have given it equal time and care as everything else in the story. I can't stand when writers act like romance can be just tossed into anything, as if there's no difference between well-written romances and poorly-written ones.

31:10 yeah, i hated all that. While it looked cool, it made absolutely no sense. The scotsman would have never been stupid enough to bring him and his daughters on a suicide mission that would never work knowing how durable aku is and jacks magic sword bit.

Can I just say I've been a sub for years now and I really enjoy your videos. I'm an insomniac and I ❤ whenever a new video is up thank u for all your hard work

Another Cartoon Network show that got canceled was Transformers Animated. The season 3 finale was actually good but there was still unanswered questions that were going to be answered in season 4. TFA ended in 2009 and if season 4 finally gets the green light I really hope they learn what not to do. I wonder if that were to happen TFA would be more mature like Samurai Jack

2:25 Fun fact the theme song was actually sung by former Black Eye Peas member Will I Am

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme

Ай бұрын

So? Isn't it a singer's job to sing?

@williampulfer-melville8536

Ай бұрын

​@@itsgonnabeanaurfrommeBut usually they don't get famous singers to do theme songs for tv shows

@onsokumaru4663

Ай бұрын

When you say 'former member' you are implying that he left or was kicked out of the group, whereas in actual fun fact he's still an active member of that group.

@williampulfer-melville8536

Ай бұрын

​@@onsokumaru4663oh really I was just aware that Will I Am went solo for a while

Jack's skin changing tones between the shots within the same scenes could maybe have to do with the angle of the lighting. Otherwise it could be just tanning if it isn't the same scene. I do notice this happening in other digital animations as different animators could have been working independently on each shots, chose slightly different palettes and forgot to fix it later due to oversight and/or not enough time. They still animate by hand and not using reusable models or scenes. Some digital animations seem to forgot to follow character models or palettes correctly at times.

Does anyone have the season 5 Blu-Ray? If you noticed that it has storyboards to most of the episodes however there aren't any for the final episode which could mean Genndy had trouble writing it.

Honestly as a Samurai Jack fan, hearing about there being a 5th season gave me so much hype because it meant wrapping up the series and answering questions. And while the animation was still great and the blood was surprising and a big adjustment to the robot killings from the first 4 seasons, it got disappointing as you watch the 5th season. 10 episodes isn't enough to cover everything and it felt rushed. Like you want Jack to get back to his past and defeat Aku, you want him to have a happy ending but how it got resloved wasn't what we asked for. For instance (not numbered by importances): 1) How Jack got to the past was solved so fast it was anticlimactic. 2) We didn't get enough nor visited enough of Jack's friends and allies, some were just pop-ins and never seen again. There was no goodbye or any send off, it felt unceremonious. I especially loved the Scotsman and his dynamics with Jack as a friend, I'd at least expect a proper goodbye since he did have ties to them. 3) Unpopular opinion, but I actually ship Jack with Ashi and never thought about their ages. Jack's age was just stuck as (somewhere in his 20s) in the past and I didn't dare to question it. So when Ashi got close to his appearance age, I just simply saw them as the same age. It would be like Philip J. Fry can't be with Leela because cryogenically he's over 1000 years old in Futurama despite being in his twenties when frozen. But how Ashi disappears just upset me because Jack needed a happy ending of sorts so I'll stick to my AU that the series ends with Ashi walking down the aisle on their wedding day and leave it as an open ending. No hate pls.

I still don't quite understand why in S5 they made such a big deal of Jack taking someone's life. Besides the fact that in the original seasons we had several episodes and scenes where it was heavily implied that Jack indeed killed some of his organic human-like opponents... Why so suddenly does he put lifes of non-robotic beings higher on moral scale? Most robots in the show's universe have self-conscious and empathy, some of them even created their own entire civilizations! Jack had numerous times interacted with them and treated like human-beings, sometimes even created personal emotional connections! Yet after killing one human he suddenly get into mindbreak mode because she wasn't a robot? Like... why does he even differentiate importance of lifes of robots and organics after 50 years living in the far future, where there are not much difference between them?

@boop004

Ай бұрын

Perhaps because he was coming undone, and didn't like the morals he's had to accommodate for that ~50 years? In the first few episodes of S5 he seemed very self-isolating, his value of life was definitely confused as well.

1. I feel like Jack and Ashi's relationship should've been more like Splinter and the Turtles'; where the former is a teacher, as well as a parental figure. 2. Your ending scenario is similar to mine. But here, Jack and Ashi face passed Aku but the future Aku, appearing in a window of sorts, tries to intervene, saying that everyone he knows may not exist should he alter the timeline, especially Ashi. But everyone in the future tell Jack that its okay, saying that whatever future they may or may not face can't be any worse than one ruled by Aku. And Ashi says to do it for the greater good.

@firmak2

Ай бұрын

i like the idea jack staying in the future and accepting that he has more common with the people there now and the whole Ashie thing too.

@pilum3705

Ай бұрын

@@firmak2 Yeah, but that leaves out that everyone in the past (especially his loved ones) had to spend the rest of their existence in brutal slavery. You can't just ignore that.

@firmak2

Ай бұрын

@@pilum3705 they did, scenturies ago. Would or better should you go sack a millenia to i dunno stop alexander the great or a sultan from conquering somerhing you had personal investment in? Is deleting someones existance or in this case billions of people, morally right or possibly akin to murder? Could jack go to the children from season 5 "Sorry kids, im going to make sure you, your friends, your family will never exist". Pretty sure Star Trek had multiple eüisodes on the morality of that. Also would his family really want that for jack? Would they even recognise him? Jack would be as old as his parents by that time. Also now that i think about it, why wouldnt they go even more further into the past, let jack help his father kill aku and stop the show from happening. That atleast gets rid of the moral dilemma for jack cuz that version of him stops existing too.

@firmak2

Ай бұрын

@@pilum3705 also it would give a more of an ark to jack, let him move on, not be shackled to the past like the first episodes aluded to.

@pilum3705

Ай бұрын

@@firmak2 Its less about being shackled to it and more the fact that there are actually Millions of people living in agony in the past. It's not an imagination he has. We know they are actively suffering.

The woman you refer to is the high priestess. And she stood right back up like nothing happened after birth which makes ne wonder if she is even human

@MASTEROFEVIL

Ай бұрын

Remember that episode where all the assassins gather in a log cabin? People theorize that the priestess is actually the sword woman

@AngryKidaardman1998

Ай бұрын

@@MASTEROFEVIL princess Mira? Damn, I never thought of that until just now. But I wonder why she’d idolize Aku now? He was the reason she had to hunt Jack because Aku was terrorizing her village which lead a lot of fans to think since she was a human and Jack wouldn’t kill her, that her and jack should’ve put their differences aside by Jack getting through to her that Aku is a liar and can’t be trusted so they both team up to defeat him. Also in season 5 when scaramouche tries to get on the ship, the guard points to a list saying no to villains Aku considers his best including Gentle Jim Da bomb Death blow Fans theorized that those three were the other bounty hunters from that episode you mentioned and they were the gentleman (the Cajun American bounty hunter), Boris (the buff Russian bounty hunter) and jujunga (the aboriginal bounty hunter) but they just had their names changed. That’s an interesting theory too but I find it odd that such one-off characters would be referenced in season 5 especially when no other one-offs were. Also what about I and Am? (The Siamese cat bounty hunters). Samurai Jack probably has more theories than any CN original show because of how many one-time characters were in it.

I think the thumbnail says it all

I definitely agree with you about how the ending should have been handled because after watching the final episode, it just came down as lazy writing to me and I definitely would have preferred a happier ending than what we've gotten

@thecinematicmind

Ай бұрын

The finale is way way too short.

Over an hour of steve?! YES PLEASE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I think the biggest issue I had with Samurai Jack Season 5 was I felt like the team clearly wasn't given enough time/episodes to tell the story they wanted. You can tell Adult Swim only wanted to give them so much money so the project wouldn't become a money pit. Thankfully, it was successful enough for Genndy's other two shows to become a reality, but man, Samurai Jack Season 5 needed 25 episodes, and not only 10. It would have only made the show better in the long run, and Jack and Ashi's romance could have developed over the season properly. As a whole, Samurai Jack tends to have excellent pacing, but Season 5 felt like it was going as such a breakneck pace that we never really got to slow down and soak it in.

Finally, I’m glad to see you’re doing videos. been waiting for sometime to see if you have anything new still I’m grateful you did this long video which is understandable. The ending of samurai Jack was a bitter sweet ending. Although for 50 years to go on and Jack doesn’t age yeah that yeah kind of throws a lot out. almost like the part where he falls in love with Aku’s daughter. Funny how literally she didn’t even seem to realize that considering she was called a daughter of Aku from the start. I don’t think they had to put that much effort into doing this. Then having him go back in time because Ashi has the power to go back in time all of a sudden. then to make it even more crazy when Aku sends Jack into the future and then he appears out of nowhere realizing he’s back already. yeah, of course Jack wins but it just was a waste of time considering it should’ve been the first episode where he defeats him. Instead of going back all the way to the freaking past to square one. Where his story began. it makes it look like none of it ever happened along with all those that mentored him show up for the wedding. now the wedding I got to say is depressing because yeah of course now that Aku is defeated she doesn’t exist anymore. Yeah, all that should never have happened. Now that I got that out of the way, can you do a review on Hazbin hotel? I’m not sure if you’ve seen it but yeah it’s worth looking into. Specially, all the weird shit you see in there.

"Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love." Miyamoto Musashi

Episode 8 really put a wrench in everything. Imagine if they did the student-master angle for Jack and Ashi. Episode 8 could've been an episode like Bitter Work from Avatar, with Jack training her and teaching her all the skills he learned in the first episode of the series in order to have her ready for the final battle against Aku. It would be a great way to bookend Jack's journey from being the student to the master who has finally found balance. Then, the final 2 episodes could've been this amazing, epic final battle where everybody that Jack has helped comes to fight. I don't mind Jack returning to the past, but the way it was written was very underwhelming.

With Primal, Samurai Jack, and Unicorn Warriors Eternal, Genndy has proven he can make some of the best stuff ever and then finish it off with some of the most rushed conclusions you've seen. I think he doesn't know how to end his shows.

@jerzeta47

Ай бұрын

I agree it does. He work on Season 5 without some of his original crew though like Paul Rudish who is working at Disney right now. Have you seen Genndy's full storyboard for his cancelled Popeye movie? It was a huge mistake that Sony didn't decide to make it. It's also why there's a Popeye cameo in Season 5 of Samuari Jack.

I’m crossed cause I don’t care if the romance is kinda creepy, but I also despise shipping and care less for romance in shows. The Scotsman offering one of his daughters to Jack is still in character hilarious though. Comedy over romance every day.

At the very least, I think Future!Aku should've followed Jack and Ashi into the past, so that they would have to fight two Akus at once. A little messy, sure, but it would at least give us something with a little more weight to it.

Ashi dying was whats best for the story. Jacks story has always been one of sacrifice and lost. He always sacrificed his own happiness for that of others. Which is fine.

I don’t have an ending idea but I like the idea if Ashi had another one of her sister with her. - Ashi sister gets wounded from the fight between her and Jack, falls from the same place Jack and Ashie fell, not only she has broken bones she has deep cuts. - Ashi is the more sympathetic sister and the other one is more on edge but the two at the moment are still thinking of killing him. -When they get out of the monster stomach when Ashi gets loose she walks up to Jack treating her sister wounds while she is unconscious from blood loss, Ashi asks what he is doing. -That’s when he helps carry her sister and then they go off to travel. -Skip time they discover their surroundings even more and grow to act more human, even strengthening the bond between the two sister. -The other sister is still skeptical about Jack but now is skeptical of Aku while Ashi changes, wearing her little lead fit. -When the army shows up Ashi feels like she can’t trust her sister to be alone with Jack but she has no choice but to go down there and fight off, she tells her sister to watch after Jack and that she trusts her even though she doesn’t. -Ashi seeing her mom halfway to the top she gets the bird, as their mother gets to the top she tries manipulate the other sister as Ashi begs her to see how twisted their mom is. -Ashi and the mother began to fight, to make the fight more impactful instead of Ashi killing her mom in like 2 seconds she’s stronger and Ashi can’t take on her mom alone, finallly the other sister joins in and the two fight to kill their mom. This is all I can think of tbh it just sucks I think it would’ve been a lot more wholesome and fulfilling to have Ashi look at Jack as she dad or even family she never had.

aw hell yea I just finished watching both your Bare Foot Gen videos, glad to see you back!