# Samurai Jack is returning to TV!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237 "2015-12-02T19:19:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/21 "2017-04-27T05:22:11Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Yes watching and enjoying. > > Actually the last episode was to me the weakest. Too much clips filler and humor at the level of penis heads. Okay, the burn of the guy coming in looking for great warriors to kill or somesuch and saying he’s in the wrong place was alright. The waiting horseman reveal was disappointing. > > The rest though has been stellar and beautiful to watch. They’ll be back on their game this next week I am sure. Pretty much, yeah. I’m surprised to say that I don’t have many complaints. I was really enjoying the glimpses into his mind. They picked some great ways to show how he was riding right at the edge of insanity. Glad to see an exploration of the darkness without becoming mired in it. Too many other revamps trying to be edgy or adult fall into that pit. Until this last episode (agreed, weakest by far) they weren’t too heavy handed with the more grown up aspects. Subtle artistic differences like showing the bodies in the background or using that bright red for the blood over an otherwise muted palette? Great touches. Some not great choices, too. Aside from the literal dick head I wish they hadn’t been so obvious about Ashi winding up with Jack. On a WTH note, what exactly was she scrubbing off with that rock? If it was charred skin has she been running around naked this whole time? Also, seriously missing the old Aku. Why does he seem like a gag villain now? No scheming, no meddling, no reveling in Jack’s despair? Ashi’s Mom comes off way more evil than he does right now. I’d love to see her get a beat down and a half. Hoping there’s some kind of twisted mind blowing reveal in store. Something to make finally defeating Aku feel worth the effort. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/22 "2017-04-27T10:10:00Z")
He certainly goes through a lot of outfits, does Jack. Every time he gets a new one it gets shredded off him immediately. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/23 "2017-04-27T17:51:17Z")
> [@Sodalite](#): > > On a WTH note, what exactly was she scrubbing off with that rock? If it was charred skin has she been running around naked this whole time? In real life, some holy men and women wear no clothes but smear ashes all over their body; it could be a reference to that. But more likely scrubbing dirt off is simply symbolic of spiritual cleansing and rebirth. ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/24 "2017-04-27T18:15:02Z")
I’m still watching. Admittedly, I consider myself “easy to please”, but as far as I’m concerned the entire season has been a masterpiece. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/25 "2017-04-27T18:43:51Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I was going to start a new thread, but I’ll join in here. > > Do you recommend this show to me? I have enjoyed only the following animated shows: > > Avatar - Totally awesome. > Legend of Korra - Loved it, too. > Gravity Falls - Pure joy > > Outside that, very little. > > Thoughts? I loved those shows … and Samurai Jack, too. It is in the same league of quality, but of course, very different. If you love Star Wars, Spagetti Westerns, and Japanese Samurai movies like _Seven Samurai_, chances are you will enjoy this one …because those are the influences on the creators of it. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/26 "2017-04-27T19:24:41Z")
My son is coming back from college. I realized we should try to watch this season together (we loved the previous ones) but I didn’t set up my DVR. Are the episode on Video on Demand or are the episodes being rebroadcast at weird hours so if I do a search I can find them and get the DVR’d? I will check when I get home but thought I’d ask here if anyone knows if a new viewer to this season can get caught up. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/27 "2017-04-28T09:33:50Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > My son is coming back from college. I realized we should try to watch this season together (we loved the previous ones) but I didn’t set up my DVR. > > Are the episode on Video on Demand or are the episodes being rebroadcast at weird hours so if I do a search I can find them and get the DVR’d? I will check when I get home but thought I’d ask here if anyone knows if a new viewer to this season can get caught up. Don’t know yet but I plan to check on demand later today. We have Dish Network. I’m going to see friends tomorrow and they want to get caught up, too. I’ll be glad to share whatever I find out. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/28 "2017-04-28T22:44:11Z")
On DirecTV, Adult Swim On Demand is only showing episodes 3 to 6. (This is a separate on demand channel from Cartoon Network.) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/29 "2017-04-28T23:17:07Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > On DirecTV, Adult Swim On Demand is only showing episodes 3 to 6. (This is a separate on demand channel from Cartoon Network.) Yes I was just going to report back with the same status on Verizon FIOS. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/30 "2017-04-29T15:26:29Z")
Dish Network has all the episodes out so far, I think. One through six? I’ll know after a while. I’m leaving to watch them with friends right now. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/31 "2017-04-30T15:51:56Z")
The latest ep? Back on their game. I loved the cutting back and forth between Ashi’s and Jack’s trials. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/32 "2017-05-21T04:08:35Z")
And a very satisfying conclusion. Happy they brought it back to bittersweet with loss. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/33 "2017-05-21T04:11:02Z")
I’m mostly just going to repost the same thing I put on FaceBother. It’s over and I’m not happy at all. It’s gotten harder and harder for me to watch shows because I’m afraid of wasting my time like this. Halfway through the first episode I knew how it would end. I didn’t want to know and prayed that I didn’t know. It was so good otherwise I desperately hoped they would pull out some kind of interesting, satisfying, worthwhile NEW ending at the last second. Maybe for much younger non-anime fans who don’t read books this was fresh. For me though, bored there done with that. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/34 "2017-05-21T15:03:51Z")
That was exceptionally good and left me crying at the end. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/35 "2017-05-23T23:33:03Z")
How else could it have logically ended…I almost didn’t think they would go that route though. ☹ I thought it was an excellent conclusion. It would have been nice if they could have taken a little time to show what the future would be like in an Aku-free timeline, but I’m not sure how they would have worked that in with the narrative. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/36 "2017-05-25T00:39:29Z")
I would have liked to see Jack pray to the gods not to condemn Ashi to oblivion, and as a result he discovers a para-Ashi living in his own time. BTW: We never learn Jack’s real name; his sigil or the sigil of his house is a circle containing a square with a stroke through each side. Does that actually have a meaning in Japanese calligraphy? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/37 "2017-05-25T01:20:25Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I would have liked to see Jack pray to the gods not to condemn Ashi to oblivion, and as a result he discovers a para-Ashi living in his own time. > … And I OTOH am thrilled they did not do anything like that, would have been mortified if they did. It was the exact right bittersweet note to end the more mature Jack with. It was a bookend to the start of the season - Jack haunted and tormented by his losses, both literally and by the loss of his sword, to the point of giving up - to the end dealing with the loss of the woman he loves and the recurring released ladybug motif, mourning but no longer tormented. This portion of Jack’s story was as much about his growth (and brilliant animation) as it was the relatively likely to happen finally getting back to the past plot line. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/38 "2017-05-31T01:47:11Z")
HOW many daughters did the Scotsman have? It goes by too fast for me to keep count. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/39 "2017-05-31T16:20:12Z")
I just watched the ending and I thought it was great. There was really no other way to end it. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237/40 "2017-06-05T08:52:11Z")
I found the final episode to be rather abrupt, considering the pace of the storytelling previously. “You have powers!” “Yes I do!” ZAP! STAB! HAPPY END! SAD END! It all seemed rushed and sudden. But I thought it was a good end narratively, despite the pacing issue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samurai-jack-is-returning-to-tv/739237.md?page=1)