Did Samurai Jack Deserve This Ending?

Did Samurai Jack Deserve This Ending? | Wiki Weekends

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Cheers for watching everyone, feel free to continue the conversation started here over on our Discord - discord.com/invite/33DNc2ET2h - Karl and Lucas

@jasontorrens626 Ай бұрын

A buddy of mine happened to catch the pilot when it aired and recorded it on his Tivo (yeah, we're that old) so he could show the rest of our circle of friends. It immediately became our Friday night ritual to gather over a few "drinks" and have our minds blown at how good this show was. Still one of the best animated series ever made.

@BWtalks Ай бұрын

36:12 Here’s another fun symbol influenced by culture for Karl to enjoy: Spartan’s valued their shields more than their swords because their shields were not for themselves, but for the soldier fighting next to them. The trust that spartan would have had to have to give his shield to Jack perfectly matched the trust Jack showed giving up his sword. This show is poetically more and more beautiful the better you understand it.

@trelligan42 Ай бұрын

Ninja Garb: The trope of black clothing is a conflation from Noh theater; set-changers (who you were supposed to ignore) were dressed in all black so they could do necessary scene changes without disturbing the action. Real-life ninja were known to where the customary garb of wherever and whoever they were supposed to be. In class-ridden feudal Japan this was a horrifying strategy, as your enemy might be a peasant one day and a member of the nobility the next, you could never know who was who and this caused existential dread.

@AIDcyt Ай бұрын

My main problem with the finale is that Ashi vanished several days after killing Aku, along with it happening AT THEIR WEDDING. She should've just vanished when Aku was slain, which will make it feel like a bittersweet ending, because both sides would've come at the same time, rather then a sweet ending with a bitter epilogue

@bluehero-96 Ай бұрын

Sometimes time takes its sweet time to catch up to itself.

@heyitsgabe1093 Ай бұрын

Its a reference to Gurren Lagann

@grumpymonk2460 Ай бұрын

@@heyitsgabe1093that’s what I was thinking of. Stayed around through sheer will

@rolay7730 Ай бұрын

I am always annoyed by the Trope of "they will disappear because time was changed" It kind of suggests the universe has some type of autocorrect feature. Time is a force like gravity, it pushes things forward. It doesn't check the past. I am actually more OK with it here because it would just be the gods enforcing what they think is order.

@lylek8933 Ай бұрын

Time quakes can take time. :)

@BWtalks Ай бұрын

23:59 I think Karl will appreciate the ladybug reference even more when he understands Japanese symbolism. In Japanese mythology, the ladybug is a symbol of self-sacrifice, as the black spots on it’s back represent the bad Karma destined for others than the ladybug bears so that others can have a peaceful life that they may or may not deserve. It’s perfect for Jack. It’s a symbol of self-sacrificing grace and mercy.

@BWtalks Ай бұрын

Jack would have known this, and would have smiled in understanding.

@benwagner5089 Ай бұрын

Never would have known this if I hadn't watched the movie Bullet Train and had it explained there. He bore the hardship, and now the ladybug has moved on, leaving Jack with the good karma he deserves.

@BWtalks Ай бұрын

@@benwagner5089 I love mythology and I’ve grown up reading stories from many different cultures. Bullet train was a great movie and I admittedly didn’t expect that reference to show up in it. I liked how they did that. Samurai Jack is a MUCH deeper show than it gets credit for as well.

@apollothunderflame Ай бұрын

Honestly, my immediate reaction to the wedding scene was "Wait, this is just Gurren Lagann." And I think that waiting so many years just to get an ending I've already seen left a bad taste in my mouth

@Tannerbot2k Ай бұрын

Phil LaMar also crushed it as your Wiki weekdays subject, John Stewart.

@AIDcyt Ай бұрын

My favorite episode is Jack vs. Aku (S4E9), it's such a stark contrast between the rest of the episodes in it's silliness and Aku is just legendary in this episode It's basically the funniest episode in the show

@DjErrour Ай бұрын

in the "jump good" episode, jack also makes it into a portal, but next episode is still back in time. also also, should do an episode on PRIMAL. mentioning the experimental nature of the archers episode, having nearly no dialogue and such, primal just takes that to the nth degree. only a handful of words are spoken through the entire series but its still so enthralling, and you can feel the dna of samurai jack throughout.

@ccggenius Ай бұрын

You know, aside from that one weird tangential episode where we completely cut away from the overarching story so we can watch Charles Darwin fight an escaped convict.

@rolay7730 Ай бұрын

@Looztherin Ай бұрын

Those cats at the beginning of this talking hella fast and saying Jack always reminded me of the Mutants in Batman "He don't shiv, he's no slice or dice" they give off the same energy

@ccggenius Ай бұрын

This has real Grim Adventures "Billy, is that you? BILLY!!!!" energy.

@Looztherin Ай бұрын

@@ccggenius in all fairness more than 1 thing can be true lol but I'm pickin up what you're layin down

@magichippieguy Ай бұрын

Hey, thanks for this vid. I was in a really bad place when the final season came out and never watched it but this made me smile enough to give it a watch.

@ccggenius Ай бұрын

My issue with the original ending is that it invalidates all the sacrifices Jack made leading up to it. If time travel uses Back to the Future rules, then literally every time he gave up on going back to the past to save people, he was choosing to suffer for no reason, because he could save them ALL by just going back and making it never happen. Multiverse means saving those people had tangible meaning. Also: not even a passing mention of Scaramouche? He's like... the main recurring antagonist for Season 5.

@patrickzantomaster Ай бұрын

Well, Jack and by Extension we didnt know that. For all we knew, Jack could’ve created a new Timeline by being flung into the future. Jack chooses to Save These people because he can’t comprehend what time Travel actually means in this case. He chooses to do the right thing with the Information he’s given. And if he doesn’t succeed to go back, he simply slays aku in the present.

@ccggenius Ай бұрын

@@patrickzantomaster The thing is, using BttF rules means his presence in the future is a paradox. If he goes back in time to stop the future from ever happening, then there's no future for him to have been thrown to. Multiverse theory is the only thing that made sense under those circumstances, unless he ultimately fails to defeat Aku in the past and Aku just like... forgets about it by the time the future gets there.

@kevinvazquez5777 Ай бұрын

I always found the ending for Samurai jack to be the same as in Gurren Lagan, literally 1 to 1 where the wife dies in the wedding because after defeating the bad guy there is nothing keepping her tether to the world

@trelligan42 Ай бұрын

Great, now I gotta add Samurai Jack to my binging list. I hope we get life extension tech soon, because I'm not sure I'll last. #FeedTheAlgorithm

@nubreed13 Ай бұрын

Give it a whirl it is fantastic. The artwork is top notch

@frankkennedy6388 Ай бұрын

17:02 One of the best moments is when Jack gets so frustrated with bounty hunters that he screams "WHO ELSE WANTS SOME!" 20:12 Also speaking of retcons, remember when the STAR WARS: ROTS videogame gave an alternate ending where Anakin beats the HIGHGROUND!

@tyrnip7868 Ай бұрын

I loved the last season. The fact they were willing to adapt it to be for audiences that would have grown up with the series was so nice

@darthcravus Ай бұрын

Honestly all my favorite moments involve the scottsman

@l33tninja1 Ай бұрын

Watched this when it first released and was blown away by it. Glad they brought it back.

@TheGreatPyroWolf Ай бұрын

What do you mean ending? He's imortal. After loss of his wife he dedicated his life to studying the unknown black substance that Aku was born from. People took to calling him the Professor. The black substance was later classified as Chemical X.

@chubby-kv5ch Ай бұрын

My top to the “name a character that’s been through worse” is Guts from beserk. At the end of the day he’s fighting what is the definition of a hopeless struggle. Trunks and Jack largely both saw what happened to their worlds after the big bad. Without spoiling much, Guts had nothing and knew nothing but too struggle forward. Not out of anything but an animalistic will to live. after a lifetime of blood and guts he builds a family out of the band of the hawk. It’s just sad what happens from there. He’s called the struggler for a reason

@StevenRitter Ай бұрын

the closest I can think of is the shield hero but even then it's not even half the struggle

@nubreed13 17 күн бұрын

One of my favorite details is that the rheme song is written and sung by wil i am from rhe black eyed peas. Cartoon network pulled all the stops out on this cartoon and it shows big time.

@Scriven42 Ай бұрын

Grievous is another example of the Invincible Force Kick(tm) too.

@lylek8933 Ай бұрын

Did not know about the video game alternative ending. Mixed feelings about this. As sad as I am about him losing Ashi, it's the destiny of his adventure for this to happen. :)

@robertsonmcnaughton4850 Ай бұрын

Now i need samurai jack on blue ray

@Kamikaze_Samurai90 Ай бұрын

As a long time samurai jack fan, I was upset at the ending of the show because we wanted him to find happiness, but i loved it because it reinforced his whole struggle between what he waants and what is right, I think it had a deeper impact on me than any ending where he gets what he wants and needs, ever could.

@lylek8933 Ай бұрын

Still sad that Ashi had to disappear. Regardless, glad Samurai Jack got its much-deserved 5th season. Gob smacked for sure. Watched this whole season, over a year ago now but still remember how awesome it was. :)

@Darkflowerchyld718 Ай бұрын

I was so hyped for season 5 when they started dropping the promos. It really was bittersweet but I didn't expect less from the series.

@Halak014 Ай бұрын

Before S5 thought the "King Jack" ending was Jack choosing to save the now and not the past. Indeed S5 was a Bitter ending but was good to have an ending.

@DanielRaez93 Ай бұрын

3:06 the scene where Samuel L. Jackson wished he did in the live action Star Wars prequel 20:15 What's scarier than a hardcore fan of a franchise? Shippers. These folks will go Annie Wilkes if their favourite characters didn't become a happy couple.

@jeremy1860 Ай бұрын

As blasphemous as this might be to say, I think the show might have overall been better if we never got any definitive ending to Jack's story. Let me present you with a possible scenario. It's the early 2000s and the show is still on its original run. The episode "Jack and the Travelling Creatures", where Jack fights the Guardian of the time portal and is rebuffed, ends with the Guardian revealing that Jack won't use the portal today, but will in the future, hinting that he will one day succeed in his quest. That episode was in Jack's third season, but consider for a moment that it was the final episode of the fourth season instead. The last episode of the show before the long hiatus. And imagine too that that's where it ultimately ended, with no fifth season. Not a definitive final fight with Aku and a resolution, but instead a promise that Jack will continue to have adventures and will ultimately triumph. That hope as the final note of the show when it ends in 2004. I think if that had been what happened, the show would have been perfect :)

@gmtatum Ай бұрын

I remember an episode where Jack is chased by these Predator Cat-like bounty hunters. I remember Jack being way up high on an antenna at the climax cornered by them. The moment I remember most is Jack breathing and doing kata or tai-chi motions as the music hits, and he is prepared for them. He ultimately earned their respect and let him live. Hey Karl or Lucas, are those Cat-Predators in the finale, too?

@gmtatum Ай бұрын

Imakandi Hunters! I found it on yt finally. I guess they weren't cats after all, but my brain remembered that stance.

@henryconnelly7178 Ай бұрын

This is just out of curiosity but have wiki weekends done a video about uncle iroh?

@durk5331 Ай бұрын

I would assume that "Blending into the Light" would be the opposite of blending into the shadows, with blending into shadows you wear something dark so that your color is indistinguishable from the dark, but with the light, well you can't do that Sight is Literally Light based, so what you do is, instead of enveloping yourself in darkness you wear something so brightly white, that it causes the light to reflect off of you like light off of freshly fallen snow....

@chubby-kv5ch Ай бұрын

My top to the “name a character that’s been through worse” is Guts from beserk and it’s made funnier realizing how sad swordsman are written

@FlashWarrior 2 күн бұрын

Black Silence

@damenwhelan3236 Ай бұрын

3:22 And I think most would agree with you...

@Leo.Labine Ай бұрын

Jack and the rave, one of the best episode 👍

@ranwolf7650 Ай бұрын

The thing is if Ashi disappeared because Aku's timeline was erased shouldn't all of Jack's memories disappear too?

@khartog01 Ай бұрын

I never knew the ending, but him giving up everything was the best idea.

@graywolf1339 Ай бұрын

I hated the first ending just because jack suffered enough man. Plus it made no sense to me that cosmic gods, who are the reason aku even made it to earth by the way!, couldn’t give my man a win. But i do agree im glad we have both endings. Both are valid but ill tale my fluffy endings thanks

@stonermonkey6127 Ай бұрын

That was probably one of the saddest endings to a show I've seen so far.

@applesauce999 Ай бұрын

The ending was alright, it’s what jak wanted but i hate that the entire timeline is destroyed.

@daset89 Ай бұрын

Never knew that it had ending 😢

@MrVxBojanglesxv Ай бұрын

I would argue that the ending known by most people is the true ending.

@TheArcSet Ай бұрын

Thanks for this. As someone who only knew the original from reputation, the sequel initially seemed to live up to that, but for some reason, I did lose interest. I might go back now.