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Yes. I saw the beginning of the first episode randomly about a month ago and thought it was cool and I've watched the whole series since then. Apart from a small handful of episodes that don't focus on Jack, all of the other ones are great. The show is beautiful to look at and Jack is such a cool, Zen type of dude.
Does Samurai Jack get better after season 1? So I'm currently trying to watch samurai jack and I'm quite disappointed by the first season (besides that episode with the three blind archers). I knew it was going to be episodic but I didn't expect it to be that formulaic with no real big impact on me.
Samurai Jack was always astonishing for how it found such beauty in its fight scenes, and here they're even more epic and meticulous, as well as well-paced with the story elements, as yes, this...
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- August 10, 2001
- A double-edged season.
- Verdict
By Joshua Yehl
Posted: May 27, 2017 11:09 pm
After years of waiting, Samurai Jack finally got the ending that many thought would never come. Now that the story has concluded, let's look back at how the final season pulled off such a strong finish despite a some pacing issues towards the end.
Warning: full spoilers ahead!
Moving to Adult Swim gave Genndy Tartakovsky and his gifted team the license to take Samurai Jack in a more mature direction, and aging up the content to better align with the tastes of its now-adult audience proved to be a master stroke. Adult themes were explored in a way that broke new ground for the show. Jack took his first human life in the season’s biggest gut-punch moment, making him confront the morality of killing in battle. Instead of hacking away at lifeless robots, Jack now spilt the blood of his enemies and suffered nasty, grievous injuries himself. Wandering the land, immortal and unable to defeat Aku, Jack suffered intense PTSD that haunted him in the form of his younger self given a demonic makeover. And the introduction of Ashi gave Jack his first true romance, and for as complicated as it was with her being the daughter-assassin of Aku, their love became the crux of the show’s emotionally devastating finale.
Yet despite all this heavy material, Samurai Jack never lost its sense of humor. With such a stoic samurai at the show’s center, the world around him made for a nice counter-balance with its quirky characters and strange creatures. The Sammy Davis Jr.-inspired Scaramouche proved to be a twisted delight with his deadly sonic blade and zany antics. He also earned the season’s biggest guffaw with his that’s-what-we-were-thinking penis joke. Jack and Ashi’s, ahem, courtship episode also earned some hearty laughs all the way up to its explosive, sticky conclusion. It truly speaks to the appeal of Samurai Jack that it can create an epic story of Good vs. Evil and deliver sick action scenes while still making you bust a gut.
The final season of Samurai Jack embraced its license to be more mature to deliver an intense, bloody, and emotionally devastating send-off. The first half of the 10-episode season was brilliant in execution, breaking boundaries left and right and pushing Jack like never before, all while executing its animation and sound design in masterful fashio...
Mar 11, 2017 · Dan Schindel Vox. TOP CRITIC. It hasn't missed a single beat, effortlessly recapturing everything that has always made the series great... It's intoxicatingly perfect action cinema. Full Review |...
May 25, 2017 · Brendan Frye | May 25, 2017. Samurai Jack Season 5. IMDB: Link. Cast: Phil LaMarr, Mako, Kevin Michael Richardson. Network: Adult Swim. Review Score: 9.5. After 13 long years, Samurai Jack...
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Mar 2, 2017 · Samurai Jack had the sort of deliberately slow pacing, stylized design and highly choreographed action sequences rarely seen in Western action, Western animated action, or Western animated...
