Post by insomnia1995 on May 7, 2017 10:04:12 GMT -6
So, I watched some more Samurai Jack, and since I left it the show lost pretty much all good will it had grown on me.
It felt like production-wise it got weaker. Animation, designs and action all kinda took a step backwards. They didn't get completely bad, mind you. It's still as good as it was in previous seasons. But it's not on same level with the first 4 episodes.
And the stories kinda got more juvinile and predictable. There is the whole conflict of Jack losing faith in himself. But it doesn't work without being set up in the previous seasons. So, this new season has "Jack is now hopeless and cynical" out of nowhere. And several episodes later it is resolved with "now Jack believes in himself, cause reasons". It doesn't feel like a character growth. It feels like they degraded the character only to bring him back to a point where he always was before.
And I have issues with morality in the series. I previously already wasn't happy about Jack starting killing people. But my bigger problem now is that he has a huge personal crisis after killing a person for the first time, but then kills stuff left and right without any thought. I hate that he constantly kills animals and aliens, and they don't deserve the same level of consideration for their lives apparently. Neither do robots, who, I remind you, are sentient in this universe and have feelings too (as proved many times in last 4 seasons)
The only mildly entertaining thing was seeing all the people whom Jack helped before return and be thankful to him. But I hate how contrived the episode was to show them all to us, and not have it plot-relevant in any way.
But this is not the worst part. The worst part was episode 8, where Jack got a romantic interest in form of Ashi- the girl who tried to kill him, and then was brought to the good side by him.
This episode was the worst. They had every stupid romatic cliche, like accidentally touching hands, being ackward to each other. They even had a boner joke. A fucking boner joke. In Samurai Jack.
I am annoyed that it's 2017, and we still can't have a male and female protagonists, who aren't romantically involved. But heternormativity aside, it's just painfully bad in the way its written.
It took this one episode to make it from "one of my favorite animated shows" into "I will finish it only coz I like the Scotsman and his daughters".
Stay woke, sheeple.
It felt like production-wise it got weaker. Animation, designs and action all kinda took a step backwards. They didn't get completely bad, mind you. It's still as good as it was in previous seasons. But it's not on same level with the first 4 episodes.
And the stories kinda got more juvinile and predictable. There is the whole conflict of Jack losing faith in himself. But it doesn't work without being set up in the previous seasons. So, this new season has "Jack is now hopeless and cynical" out of nowhere. And several episodes later it is resolved with "now Jack believes in himself, cause reasons". It doesn't feel like a character growth. It feels like they degraded the character only to bring him back to a point where he always was before.
And I have issues with morality in the series. I previously already wasn't happy about Jack starting killing people. But my bigger problem now is that he has a huge personal crisis after killing a person for the first time, but then kills stuff left and right without any thought. I hate that he constantly kills animals and aliens, and they don't deserve the same level of consideration for their lives apparently. Neither do robots, who, I remind you, are sentient in this universe and have feelings too (as proved many times in last 4 seasons)
The only mildly entertaining thing was seeing all the people whom Jack helped before return and be thankful to him. But I hate how contrived the episode was to show them all to us, and not have it plot-relevant in any way.
But this is not the worst part. The worst part was episode 8, where Jack got a romantic interest in form of Ashi- the girl who tried to kill him, and then was brought to the good side by him.
This episode was the worst. They had every stupid romatic cliche, like accidentally touching hands, being ackward to each other. They even had a boner joke. A fucking boner joke. In Samurai Jack.
I am annoyed that it's 2017, and we still can't have a male and female protagonists, who aren't romantically involved. But heternormativity aside, it's just painfully bad in the way its written.
It took this one episode to make it from "one of my favorite animated shows" into "I will finish it only coz I like the Scotsman and his daughters".
Stay woke, sheeple.