Samurai Jack Season Five Episode 10 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season Five Episode 10 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“All Good Things Must Come to An End”

Well this is it folks. The last episode of Samurai Jack of the entire series. It kills me to make this review but I have to do it so here it is.

We start off the episode with many of Jack’s friends running to their T.V. We see The Scotsman, the archers, the mammoths and so many more watched Aku on their television. At first it was showing part of the old intro of Samurai Jack until it got to the theme song. Aku showed the world that he has captured Jack and all hope is lost. Just as Aku is about to kill he paused and couldn’t figure out how to kill him. I guess after all these years Aku didn’t think this day would actually come so instead he ordered Ashi to finish off Jack.

Ashi is still fighting for control inside the dark being. Just as Ashi is about to kill Jack his friend’s come in time to save him and we see a huge battle taking place. While the battle is going on Jack is trying to retrieve his sword while fighting Ashi and just as things were looking bad The Scotsman and his daughters came in time to save everyone. It was nice to see Jack and The Scotsman reunited despite The Scotsman being dead. It was really funny seeing The Scotsman introducing his daughters to Jack. I think he named every single one and he wanted to Jack to date one of his daughters which kind of seemed weird because but funny at the same time.

We see the Robots that Jack helped in season four come in with a huge robot samurai fighting Aku. While they are fighting Jack is inside the darkness of Ashi to help free her and he says the three magic words to her. “I Love You” thus freeing her. Jack realizes that Ashi has Aku’s power and she uses that power to go back in time to the scene where Aku sent Jack to the time portal.

Jack and Ashi arrive to the scene and we see Jack beating the crap out of Aku finally ending the long awaited battle. We are back in Jack’s time where peace is finally restored and we see many of Jack’s trainers reunited including his parents. The weird thing is that his parents didn’t even aged. We definitely saw some white or gray hair on them last time we saw them before Jack was sent to the future.

We then see the two heroes preparing for their wedding. Just as Ashi is walking the down the aisle she falls and tells Jack without Aku she never would exist and as soon as she said that she disappears. Ashi becomes something Jack was afraid of and that’s a memory.

Jack is traveling on his horse saddened that he lost Ashi. He then sees a ladybug that reminded him of Ashi. He then smiles and looks at the sky as the sun appears ending our series finale.

In the end I thought this was a very good episode but it definitely felt rushed. I feel as though it should’ve been a two part episode. I loved that we saw all of Jack’s friends in this series finale but Ashi to me was the MVP in this episode. Deep down in my mind I was saying to myself Ashi shouldn’t exist since they went back in Jack’s time to finish off Aku. Everyone that Jack met in the future don’t exist. Everyone that he met in that time is a memory. I felt for Jack. I didn’t want Ashi to disappear. Many people believed that a bad ending was awaiting Ashi. I happened to be one of those people and I really hoped I was wrong. The question that I ask to myself is that did Ashi knew that defeating Aku in Jack’s time that she wouldn’t exist? That’s a question that we’ll probably never find out sadly. Be sure to be on the lookout for my season five overall review coming soon.

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 9 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 9 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“The End is Near”

Samurai Jack series is coming to an end pretty soon and I’m actually quite sad. Seeing how this episode ended we better prepare ourselves.

We start off where last week’s episode ended with Jack and Ashi kissing following their battle with the blue leech. As they wash up Jack sees his reflection that turned out to be the bearded Jack and tell’s him to be careful and Jack said this has never happen to me before. Fans basically know that Jack has never fallen for a girl before and doesn’t want Ashi to get hurt.

Jack and Ashi sit by a fire. Ashi asked Jack if he ever thinks about home and he tells her about his past before Aku came into the picture. He only see’s it as a memory. The two fall asleep and Ashi wakes up to see Jack gone off without her.

The next scene we see Scaramouch finally finding Aku. Scaramouch tells Aku about Jack losing his sword and for the first time we see Aku smiling when he actually means it. But little do they know Jack has found his sword.

Jack is then traveling and see’s a familiar location. It’s the place where Jack fought the Guardian in season 3 and it's destroyed including the portal. Jack steps on the Guardian's shades and we can only guess what happened to him. Ashi finds Jack and asked why did he leave her. Jack tells Ashi that Aku took everything that he loved and doesn’t want Ashi to become a memory.

Aku finds Jack and Ashi believing that Jack doesn’t have his sword but comes to find out that Jack does have his sword and Aku immediately destroys Scaramouch. Aku tries to leave but then he smells himself inside Ashi. We then see a flashback of the women worshipping Aku and summons him. Aku gives his blood or whatever it was in a chalice. She drinks the blood and gives birth to the seven girls and calls Ashi daughter of Aku.

As Jack charges against Aku Ashi stops Jack. Ashi is attacking Jack while being controlled. Aku then transforms Ashi into nothing but darkness resembling him. Jack hits Ashi and we see her face and tells Jack to kill her but Jack couldn’t do it. Jack falls on his knees to surrender and drops his sword. Aku then picks up Jack’s sword thus ending the episode.

Another great episode. A lot of people were expecting a sad fate for Ashi and this might be it but she’s still alive and Jack might be able to save her. It was good to see a flashback of how Aku and his worshippers met and using his blood to control Ashi was great. This is also one of the few times we see Jack helpless. Jack didn’t want to kill Ashi because he cares so much about her and doing that got Aku this victory for now anyway. Next episode is the series finale and honestly I don’t know what’s going to happen. Hopefully it's something we’ll remember for a long time.

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 8 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 8 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“Wasn’t expecting that Ending”

Another Sunday means another Samurai Jack review episode so let’s get to it.

We start off the episode with a huge squared black ship flying through space. As it's flying it's struck by meteors and falls down to earth.

We then get to Jack and Ashi as they prepare their journey to Aku. They get on a huge camel and with them are a bunch of green tigers each with a different letter pushing Jack and Ashi closer together. We then start seeing a moment between the two and it was really funny seeing Jack all nervous. I don’t think he’s ever been so close to a girl before so this must be the first girl he’s ever cared for. Jack starts seeing the letters from the tigers form the letter “Die Samurai Jack” and the tigers start attacking the two heroes as they are fighting we still see Jack and Ashi getting close to each other apologizing towards each other.

Jack and Ashi get off the camel and continue their journey on foot. They come across the black spaceship that fell onto earth at the start of the episode. It turned out to be a prison. A blue leech finds itself on Ashi. That was a sign for them to get out. They start hearing a noise and start running. They find the prison cell for the creatures that's chasing them and it turns out to be a huge leech creature.

The two escape for now and find a room with a bunch of weapons and find info on the enemy creature and the ship prepares a weapon called X-49 that will help defeat the creature. As the ship is giving instructions on how to use X-49 to stop the creature Jack is distracted by Ashi blowing up the wall thus missing his chance on how to use X-49.

Ashi is ready to go fight but Jack lies and says yes (still not knowing how to use X-49.) They are fighting the creature and Jack can’t get the device to work. Ashi tries using it but the leech attacks her and her clothes get drained thus making Ashi naked and the look on Jack’s face was priceless turning all red.

The creature then splits itself into many clones and surrounds two. It looked like the two were about to face their death until X-49 activates and destroys the creature. As soon as the creature is destroyed Jack and Ashi start kissing thus ending the episode.

In the end this was a pretty decent episode. This episode was based on the relationship between Jack and Ashi. It was pretty funny seeing Jack get nervous whenever he got close to Ashi but I will say this. I definitely wasn’t expecting that kiss. It seemed kind of fast and awkward. As soon as they defeated the creature they just start kissing. I mean the kiss was going to happen sooner or later I just wasn’t expecting to be when they have bug’s blood on them. But overall I liked the episode. Jack and Ashi are now official!!!

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 7 (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 7 (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“Battle within yourself”

Holy crap!! That’s all I have to say about this episode. Let’s get down to this episode.

We start off the with a flashback with a younger Jack coming across a cute animal asking for a time portal. He comes across a time portal. As Jack jumps through the time portal Aku pulls him out and destroys the portal. This was the last time portal for Jack which throws him into a rage. Aku sends three creatures and Jack kills them but comes to find out those creatures were the little animals that helped him find the portal. This devastates Jack and makes him lose focus thus losing his sword. So now we find out how Jack lost his sword and lost his way.

We now see the current Jack and Ashi looking for the sword. They come to the same location where Jack had lost his sword. They couldn’t find it and the reason they couldn’t it is that Jack said “I did not lose the sword but the sword left me.”.

Jack medicates in order to find his sword. He tells Ashi this is something I have to do alone. As Jack is medicating Ashi sees army heading their direction. Jack medicates into a different world where he comes around a small house and sees a monk that could help him.

Ashi heads down the mountain to stop the army. Now I at first I thought Ashi would eventually be tired fighting the army and lose but that wasn't the case. Ashi beat the crap out the army and acted like it was nothing.This just give me more reason to love Ashi.

Ashi sees someone at the top of the mountain ready to kill Jack. Ashi makes it in time to save Jack and it turns out to be Ashi’s mother. She convinces Ashi to kill Jack but she refuses and then we see a nice mother daughter throw down. As Ashi’s mother makes a final attempt to kill Jack Ashi throws an arrow at her thus killing her.

We are back to the house where Jack prepares tea for the monk. The monk said that there’s no balance in this tea and also tells Jack that he can’t show him the path to his sword. We see the younger Jack angered and Jack tells his younger self that you are the reason why we lost the the sword. Jack’s hate took over him and blinded him from everything. With Jack getting rid of his hate showed balance and is transported to Odin, Ra and Vishnu the same gods that forged Jack’s father sword. Jack gets his sword back returns to his old self looking young again with his white kimono robe.

Jack is back in the real world and finds Ashi telling her the next plan is defeating Aku, thus ending the episode.

Another great episode. It was really cool to see to Ashi whoop some butt and having her fight her own mother was awesome and it if there was any doubt that Ashi would betray Jack was thrown out the window. Best part for me was seeing our favorite hero get his sword back but not only get his sword back he also got his white kimono robe back. Their next mission is to stop Aku.

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 6 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 6 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“A New Ashi and a Returning Jack”

It’s Sunday so you know what time it is. Time for another Samurai Jack Review.

We start off with Ashi looking for Jack on an air blimp where she is confronted by two guys in hoodies who happened to be the Woolies. The Woolies explained to Ashi that he saved them from the Chritchellites. Ashi continues her journey but the next scene shows Scaramouch headless but still alive. Scaramouch now hops around to find Aku to tell him the news about Jack not having his sword.

Ashi comes finds a forest where she comes across the three archers that Jack saved when they were guarding the magical portal. They tell Ashi their story of how JAck sacrificed the portal to go home to save them from the curse. They have statue of Jack in their village to honor him.

We see headless Scaramouch board a ship where he hopes to find Aku.

Ashi then comes across a rave party asking for the samurai and we see the DJ that happens to be one of the children that use to be controlled by Aku’s DJ. The DJ dedicated their music to Jack after saving them.

We then see Ashi come across a small pond. We see a flashback of a younger Ashi and her sisters. We see a pit that leads to burning coal that resembles Aku’s darkness. Their mother dropped them in the burning coal to turn their body pitch black. Now this surprised me. I thought they were in bodysuits. I’m sure a lot of people were surprised by this. Ashi jumps in the pond to get the burned ashes off of her. Here we see a brand new beautiful Ashi. New hair and new clothes. Ashi now looks like a beautiful leaf warrior. That probably isn't even a word.

We jump  to Scaramouch back on the ship where he tries to call Aku and tell the news about Jack’s sword but ends up getting kicked out of the ship for having too much of a mouth.

Ashi is then at a bar where see the aged Sam-Moo-Rhai who tells Ashi that he made me change my ways then for some odd random reason we see Demongo returning to find warrior's soul to collect but didn’t like the warriors he saw at the bar and leaves. That scene was really random I guess they probably wanted more comedy in the episode. Ashi continues looking for Jack and is confronted by a mysterious person and tells Ashi the location of Jack.

Ashi then comes across a graveyard where she finds Jack. The horseman confronts Ashi and tells her that she cannot interfere. This graveyard is a place for warriors that failed their purpose. Jack was there to kill himself. Ashi reaches out to Jack to tell him that there’s still hope and that you helped many people and touched them. Ashi tells Jack the hope you gave me saved my life and that you saved the children you thought you killed. After hearing that Jack had come to his senses and defeats the Horseman. He tells Ashi it’s time to find my sword thus ending the episode.

In the end this was another great episode. It was cool to see the people from past episodes that Jack saved. This shows Ashi the impact that Jack had on everybody. I also liked seeing Scaramouch again. He definitely made the episode funny and he says this one very inappropriate word which was really. I said this before but I was really surprised that was Ashi’s bare skin with ashes. I’m loving her new look she just looks beautiful. I also said this that I believed that Ashi would be the final piece of Jack finding his way and she was. Ashi saved Jack from killing himself by telling him that there’s still hope and that you saved my life. We might even see a romance between Ashi and Jack. Our hero is finally back and I can’t wait to see what happens next!!!

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 5 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 5 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“The Scotsman is back and Ashi has found her way”

You know what is everyone it’s Sunday and it’s time for another episode review of Samurai Jack Season 5.

The episode starts off with three armies charging at Aku’s fortress. One of the armies is lead by Jack’s friend The Scotsman who unlike Jack has actually aged with a white beard and all. He’s on a wheelchair and his army are filled with beautiful strong women who all happen to be his children. (One of them happened to be named Flora.)

Despite having the numbers the armies were no match for Aku. The Scotsman and his children retreated but he stayed to give his daughters more time to escape. The Scotsman grabbed Aku’s attention by taunting him and we all know that The Scotsman is a big talker but he said interesting words by saying The Samurai is still out there inspiring people and you’re scared of him. Aku got tired tired of his words and killed him with a single laser eye beam. At first Aku was happy but as soon as The Scotsman mentioned the samurai Aku was sad once again.

At first I was like no way there’s no way the episode can start off like this but from the ashes we see The Scotsman ghost in his prime. It was through Celtic Magic that The Scotsman was able to come back. He said to his daughters that we’ll come back with a bigger army and this time we’ll find Jack to help us.

Now the scene goes back to Jack and Ashi. Ashi’s mother tells her to kill the samurai but Ashi refuses because she wants answers. The two warriors were able to get off the island from a dragon creature and after that the two went their separate ways. Jack is sitting by a fire at night and once again he starts having hallucinations. Ashi comes to Jack asking for the truth.

Jack and Ashi walk to a destruction of trees where only one is left alive to show Aku’s power. Then they walk to the city of Aku undercover. They see that Aku’s helpers are sending criminals to peaceful lands to destroy to make them and make their new home. The final stop was a destruction of a village. Ashi had seen enough and finally believes Jack and asked him what can we do? Jack said there’s nothing we can do. Ashi failed to believe Jack that there’s nothing. They hear a hurt innocent blue furry man that’s happy to see Jack and tells them that Aku’s minions took the children to the factory.

The two arrived at the factory to see the children from the destroyed village as monsters being controlled by a weird noise. Ashi goes to find the source of the noise while Jack distracts the children. Jack is fighting the children and Ashi finds the control room only to be captured and tortured by a man in a robot suit that’s behind the whole operation. The evil man shows Ashi a TV screen that shows Jack fighting the children and starts taunting them. He goes back to torturing Ashi but this angers her even more and was able to break free and beat the s*** out of the guy thus breaking the control room and destroying the chip inside the children. Jack believes the children are dead and is devastated. We see The Horseman once again and tells Jack “It is Time” and Jack says yes and walks away. We have no idea where they are walking to. Ashi finds the children and sees them waking up finding out they are okay but can’t see to find Jack yelling for his name thus ending the episode.

In the end another great episode. It was great seeing The Scotsman again and unknown to Jack he’s out there inspiring people although he has lost his way. We finally see a new side of Ashi. Just like the Scotsman said Jack has inspired other people. Ashi has found her way and has a new path. I guess you can say that from her sisters she was the only one that had a heart and we see that from last night’s episode after she sees the villain taunting at Jack and children. I still believe that Ashi is the missing piece for Jack finding his way. But the question is What is the Horseman talking about  when he says “It is Time” and where is Jack walking to? Hopefully we’ll find out on next week’s episode.

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 4 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 4 Review (Spoilers)

“Ashi is hilarious”

Robert Knuckles

Toonami messed up last week giving us an April Fools Prank not showing Samurai Jack… I was sad but hey at least yesterday we got our beloved Jack back. So let’s dive into last night’s episode.

The episode starts off with Jack waking up and attacking but remembers himself falling from branch to branch (Looked liked it really hurt). He soon follows a trail of blood leading to Ashi knocked out. Crows begin taunting Jack yelling murderer and killer. Jack yells at the crows “They chose this path!!!.” Ashi wakes up and immediately attacks Jack but he’s able to counter and wrap Ashi’s weapon around her.

Ashi begins yelling “Die! Die! I will undo the evil from you!!” Jack tells her that Aku is the evil one but Ashi refuses to listen to Jack. Both Jack and Ashi are soon swallowed up a huge creature. While they are falling Ashi (although still wrapped up) still tries to kill which is pretty funny.

After they fall inside the creature Ashi once again tries to kill Jack when she’s still wrapped up. They are soon attack by creatures. While the creatures are about to kill Ashi Jack saves her and makes her his backpack. It actually looked adorable seeing Ashi as a backpack.

Jack is soon encountered by a small floating cotton ball telling him let’s get out of here and leave the girl. Jack says that she’s innocent and lost her way. Jack must be feeling guilt and now probably wants to redeem himself. Jack is soon encountered his younger self once again. This time looking normal and not a monster. His younger self questions why are you helping her? “We should just leave her.” Current Jack says that it’s his fault why she’s here. Jack is really feeling guilty and sees Ashi as an innocent girl. Ashi is soon kidnapped by a monster and Jack saves her once again.

As Jack is walking around with his Ashi backpack she still keeps on yelling at Jack and praising Aku. Jack lost patience and flipped out at Ashi saying you need to let go of the hate and you’ll see the truth but Ashi refuses to listen. It soon starts raining needles. The two find shelter. Jack starts getting the needles off him and Ashi. It was really funny seeing Ashi’s facial expression during that scene.

After the needle storm is over the two climb up and once they climb up they see beautiful creatures flying around. Samurai Jack always know how to make beautiful art in this show. They see the exit open up. Jack grabs on one of the creatures and starts flying towards the exit but a huge skellington like fish tries to eat them. The two eventually manage to get of the creature and end up on an island.

Jack sits down and recovers. As Jack is sitting down Ashi wakes up and plans to sneak attack Jack as she’s preparing for the kill she see’s a ladybug and we see a flashback of a younger Ashi training and is fascinated and distracted after seeing a ladybug. Her mother tells her “This is not part of Aku’s order.” Ashi see’s the ladybug fly onto Jack and she drops her weapon thus ending the episode.

I really enjoyed this episode. It didn’t have the action that we saw two weeks ago but we see Jack caring for someone that’s trying to kill him. Jack deep down knows that Ashi is an innocent girl. Perhaps Ashi could be a big part of Jack finding his way. Ashi made this episode fun to watch as well. Always yelling at Jack and praising Aku was hilarious. We see Ashi drop her weapon as she was preparing to kill Jack. Has Ashi see the errors of her ways? Does she see that Jack is a good guy? We can only wonder. Another question that comes up is what about her other sisters that fell too? Something inside me tells me that the other two are still alive and will they see error of their ways too? Until the next episode!!

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 3 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 3 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“The decisions you make and the actions that follow are a reflection of who you are. You cannot hide from yourself.”

It feels like it's been forever since the last time I did this. A week feels like a month. So enough about me let’s get on with last night’s episode.

We start off this episode with Jack floating across the river. Blood is just everywhere once again seeing the Adult Swim essence. Jack is still badly injured from his fight with the daughters of Aku. Jack does manage to get on his feet walking around the woods trying to find shelter while he’s walking he once again sees the horseman. We still have no answers on what that’s about. Jack manages to find a small cave to recover. He pulls the dagger out of his stomach and drops unconscious.

Jack starts hallucinating seeing his younger self again or some call it his conscious this time with piranha teeth which made it very disturbing. He tells him you actually killed a human being real flesh blood with a disturbing smile. What happens when the others find you? Will you be able to kill them? Maybe they will kill you. Or is that what you want? The time will come when Jack has to make that decision.

Jack hears footsteps heading toward him getting ready to attack but we see the wolf from last week's episode who appears to be alive. We could only guess that since Jack is alive the wolf would be alive. Jack doesn’t attack but falls back to sleep. We flashback to a younger Jack with his parents. They get ambushed by a bunch of assassins. Jack’s dad goes out to face the assassins and says “Leave now and live or stay and face your destiny.” The assassins didn’t listen and Jack’s dad kills them with the younger Jack watching and gets blood over his face.

Jack wakes up and stitches his wound falls asleep (again) and wakes up with the wolf giving him food. You see the mutual understanding between the two and quite possibly a bond. The both are fully recovered the wolf runs off and we see another flashback of younger Jack with his dad saying to him “The decisions you make and the actions that follow are a reflection of who you are. You cannot hide from yourself.”

The daughters of Aku get out of the ruins carrying their dead sister. The girls showed no remorse for their dead sister. They only said death is failure. The daughters followed Jack’s blood leading them to the forest and we see a very important scene when the daughters see a deer (they didn’t what it was). Then they see a male deer whom at first believed it was Aku’s minion because of his antlers. The two deer start showing affection towards each other and daughters of Aku didn’t know what they were doing and they didn’t like it. This just shows once again their childhood being taking away from them. The daughters see more blood and follow the trail getting out their weapons preparing to attack.

Once the trail ends it starts snowing making it the perfect setting. Jack starts talking to them using his father's same words. “Leave now and live or stay and face your destiny.The decisions you make and the actions that follow are a reflection of who you really are. You cannot hide from yourself.”

It’s quite for a few seconds then Jack comes out from beneath the snow stabs through the one daughter with a spear killing her and throwing another spear killing the other daughter. I’m literally like “HOLY S***!!!” Jack basically went the tarzan on those two girls. He runs off and the snow clears and we got a fight going on. Jack was holding his own very well. He counters one of the daughters attack with his arm and throws a small sword at her thus killing her. We see the last three daughters combine together to change their style almost like a spider and attack all at once. It appeared too much for Jack but like always he found a way to stop their attack.

Jack and the daughters run to the edge of a tree branch. He throws his weapon down the abyss. Jack throws the one daughter off the cliff and punches the other daughter. It looked she twisted her neck when Jack punched her but regardless she falls unconscious. Now the final daughter throws her weapon at Jack. He counters by having the weapon wrap around his risk. Both jump off the tree branch wrapping the weapon on the branch. Jack kicks the daughter and lands on top of the branch. The daughter's mask falls off revealing it to be Ashi. She is seen hanging on her weapon yelling at Jack “You will die!!” Jack drops Ashi’s weapons making her fall into the abyss. Jack is relieved but the branch gets weaker and breaks causing Jack to fall into the abyss to thus ending the episode.

Overall I thought this was a decent episode. It started off slow for me at the start with Jack recovering and all. His younger self was disturbing talking about killing another human but it definitely fit the scene. Now I really thought it was cool having Jack using his father's words. Jack already killed someone and he can’t hide from it. He already made that decision of killing another human being. This didn’t break Jack. I think using his father's words helped him. If Jack didn’t use his father's words who knows what could’ve happened. The action was great. Jack killing those girls man... lord have mercy. He wasn’t playing around. Jack is a straight bada**. Now for the daughters of Aku the first two that fell off the tree I think they are dead but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are still alive because yea you see them fall but didn’t see them ACTUALLY DIE. Now we definitely know that four are actually dead. I think Ashi is still alive. We see her falling too but I just don’t see her dying so fast in the series. I still believe she’ll play a huge role in this final season. Let me know what you guys think of this episode in the comments below.

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 2 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 2 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“Just Nuts and Bolts”

I’m back with another Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode Review. I hoped everyone enjoyed my first one and I’m already here with a second one so let's dive in. Warning Spoilers ahead!!

We start off with episode Two with a laid backed Aku who doesn’t even care about killing Jack anymore. Aku is having a therapy session with himself. Aku believed that destroying the time portals Jack would eventually just die over old age but he noticed that Jack hasn’t aged at all after 50 years. The therapy Aku tells the original Aku the time travel has affected the aging process of Jack. Aku still doesn’t know that Jack has lost his sword. Which will be a huge turn around into the series when Aku finds out.

In this episode you see a wolf walking in the forest who’s pretty much the Jack in this episode. The wolf is confronted by three green like tiger creatures. At that same time Jack is once again confronted by Aku’s robot. Jack quickly defeats it but is soon confronted by The Daughters of Aku and boy did they give Jack and butt whooping. They were moving really fast and Jack could barely see them. Jack is then hiding as he’s hiding you see the younger Jack in his white robe telling the current Jack to end  it. The younger Jack keeps telling the current Jack you don’t have the sword what are you going to do when Aku finds out you don’t have the sword. The current Jack says Aku doesn’t know and he keeps sending robots thinking that they’ll kill me they are just “Nuts and Bolts Nuts and Bolts” which in my opinion is the key quote of this episode. Jack’s younger self says the only honorable thing to do is to kill yourself to join our ancestors. We once again see the horseman image. Jack then runs to an abandoned ruined temple to hide from the assassins.

We start seeing a lot of stealth when we get to the temple. Jack finds a hiding spot and each Daughter of Aku goes to a different hiding spot to ambush Jack. I thought the stealth part was really cool. Just as Jack gets out of his hiding spot he’s  looking to get out but is confronted by the assassins. Everywhere he ran there was another assassin ambushing him. Jack then falls down and soons finds a bunch of tombstones to hide in. As The daughters start searching for Jack the music becomes really dynamic. It was the perfect setting in my opinion. The Daughters start walking towards the same tombstone. I was thinking that maybe the lighting bug around that tombstone gave away Jack’s location. Jack manages to fight them off and runs as he's getting towards the exit one of Aku’s daughter’s confronts him. She was able to stab Jack but he’s soon able to slash her neck. Jack see’s blood surprising him but also when the mask breaks he see’s a human girl which surprised even more. This horrified him. Jack is badly injured and you see his blood on the wall. Jack hears the other assassins coming. Jack grabs Scaramouch’s sword tapping the wall while walking out of the temple and falling into the river before blowing up the temple right after that you see the wolf and the green tigers killed and boy do you see a lot of blood thus ending the episode.

Overall I really enjoyed this episode more than the first. You see more of the back story as to why Jack doesn’t age. I really loved the therapy session with Aku once again showing the comedy. Seeing Jack talking to his former self was really interesting. You see that Jack is fighting against himself. It seems that Jack is his own worst enemy. The fighting was awesome. I was really in love with the stealth scene. These girls are really some bad asses. The music never disappoints and just having Jack killing another human was such a huge turning point because remember Jack said they are just nuts and bolts. Jack is so used to fighting robots he didn’t realize these are human beings. Killing another human can really have a toll on someone. If Jack was his old self he might’ve spared the girl who knows? Now this isn’t Jack’s first human kill. Another Spoiler Alert. In season 4 episode “The Princess and The Bounty Hunters” Jack killed off the bounty hunters so this isn’t his first human kill from Jack. Like always I’m excited for next week’s episode. Let me know what you guys think in the comments below.

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 1 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 1 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

Jack’s Back

Samurai Jack is back after over a decade absence. I honestly thought this day would never come but I’m glad I was wrong. I mean we never got a true ending so they needed another season. Now let’s talk the premiere of Samurai Jack Season 5 on Adult Swim. Note Spoilers ahead.

The episode starts off with a family running away from Aku’s robots. They were ready to accept their fate until an armored warrior riding a motorcycle comes in time to save them. As the robots scratch off the mask the family notice that it’s Jack…. A really aged Jack. He’s got the beard game growing strong and his hair looks pretty bad. Now at the bat you notice Jack doesn’t use a motorcycle and the biggest thing that struck me is that he’s using a gun….  Correct me if I’m wrong but Jack doesn’t use guns or at least I haven’t seen him using it in the past seasons. Jack makes pretty easy work of Aku’s robots and rides off.

We get going to the intro of the series. Instead of Aku saying the intro we have Jack speaking. “50 years have passed but I do not age. Time has lost its effect on me, yet the suffering continues. Aku's grasp chokes the past, present and future. All hope is lost. Got to get back. Back to the past. Samurai Jack.”

After hearing the intro I could already tell that this is going to be a dark themed show. I just got that vibe and I was excited.

After the intro we see a stone pillar of Aku with a bunch of women dressed like him. We see a women giving birth to seven baby girls. The mother whose name wasn’t mentioned said to the statue of Aku that these seven girls will finish what you started.

Jack rides into a forest to drink some water. There he starts having hallucinations of his parents and the people of his kingdom saying that you’ve abandoned us and left us to die.. He tells his father that Aku had destroyed all the time portals which prevents Jack from going home. While he’s having hallucinations we keep seeing a horseman which we can only guess will be a key factor in this show as it progresses. That right there was a huge moment because what can you do if you’re Jack? Without the time portals how can Jack return home? After dealing with his hallucinations Jack rides off.

While Jack is riding off the seven baby girls who are the daughters of Aku have already aged into little girls. They are being trained by their mother to kill Jack. Failure means death for the girls. There is no room for the weak. You already know that their childhood has been taken from them. As the girls are training they are confronted by a huge monster. As they are fighting them one of the girls notice the light and sees peace but the mother tells Ashi only one out of the seven whose name we have heard to not lose sight of her goal. You see Ashi being tested again as a teenager when she’s hanging on a cliff her mother strikes a staff on her hand saying “are you weak?” Bringing the fire of Aku in all of them.

Jack comes across a destroyed village that was caused by a robot assassin named Scaramouch. Destroying the temple would get Jack’s attention. Scaramouch is a Sammy Davis Jr musical themed character. Bringing the comedy in the show. I’m glad they did that although this a dark themed show we still get the comedy to show there is still some Cartoon Network essence there. Before Jack faces off Scaramouch he asked Jack a very important question. Where is your sword? We see a flashback of Jack losing his sword but we never see what was the cause of it. I’m sure we’ll get it soon. Scaramouch calls Aku to tell him the news but Jack destroys the phone and they start fighting. As they are fighting Jack is hallucinated again with children from his village telling him to save them and once again we see the horseman. Jack defeats Scaramouch and rides off. Back to Aku’s shrine The Daughters of Aku have completed their training and run off to kill Jack thus ending the first episode.

Overall I liked this premiere episode. We see a different side of Jack who has lost all hope. His fighting style is different using firearms. Like I said before we don’t see Jack using guns. I liked the daughters of Aku as well. In a way you feel sorry for them because you already get a feeling that a sad fate awaits them but maybe not Ashi. She’s the only one with a name. She also seems to be the leader. I get a feeling she’ll be an important character in this season. We also don’t know how Jack lost his sword and who is this horseman? There are many questions unanswered but I’m very excited for the next episodes! Let me know what you guys think of the premiere.