I feel like the reason the 7 episodes after not being as good was because they realized they spent 3 out of 10 episodes doing what could of been done with 1, so they had less episodes to finish the series than they expected.
Giving my input on what they should've done, they should have cut the romance entirely and stretched out the rushed endings to the "Jack wants to kill himself" and "getting back the sword plots." Ashi can still disappear in the end without it being romantic since that was the last remnant of his adventure in the future leaving him.
Fun Fact: According to Phil Lamarr (Jack's VA), the reason Samurai Jack ended back in the 2000's was because of Genndy's work on Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003).
That's a fair trade. But it's another example of something being cancelled or stopped because of star wars. Star wars will either destroy your career or save it.
The sandals episode is actually my favorite. Not for its comedic tones, but for the ending. It was just really nice to see jack with people who he could truly relate to and feel even a little bit at home with
Has anyone notice in season 5 when Jack got his sword back and returned to his original self, the show also returned to its "Y-7 rating" roots. Since he got his sword, there was no more blood, swearing, or mature topics.
N. A. Hartnell you gotta go to the center of the state. Anything southeast of okeechobee is basically new york or jersey. You go out to winterhaven or ocala and them some good ol boys. Right up to pasco or tampa, then its meth country.
Dude your montage in the middle there gave me goosebumps and almost brought me to tears. It encompassed everything that was Samurai Jack, truly. Thank You
It always amazes me how good those montages are. They just hit you like an emotional freight train, every single time. That beautiful goth-fetish-having pizza.
Excellent retrospective and review on the series. I gotta say, probably one of the best edited videos you've made. I really liked the sequence you did with Ecstasy of Gold.
this video gave me the realization of just how awesome Pan is. Of how well done and edited nicely his videos are, the impressive theme that marks his identity and it just gets more and more better. His words, the moment which he dedicates the beauty of the show with a well put together montage setting the mood just right, his comedy, and the fact he knows what he's talking about. This overall makes me realize just how awesome pan has grown and become someone unique..and smart. sorry for rambling, I'm so tired. The video for me is just moving.
Yah would have allowed Ashi's character to develop more (and there relationship), probably would have allowed more of the Daughters of Aku (which where really hyped up to only be easily killed off), allowed for better pacing of the season and episodes, and overall more moments for action, comedy, and that Samurai Jack charm.
Fun fact: Mako also narrated a documentary about Genndy Tartakovsky's life leading up to "Star Wars: Clone Wars." It really doesn't get any more awesome than having a guy like Mako narrate YOUR LIFE STORY!!!
The ending they went for was perfectly fine but it's such a shame that most of the finale was rushed (and how they killed off the Guardian!). Saying that, I don't want it to continue, the story's done and the bittersweet ending is the perfect note to go out on.
I wish the ending did 2 things differently. One: be an hour long ending instead of half an hour, making the battle and the buildup to Jack escaping to the past more exciting. Two: leave Ashi in the past. If she could teleport herself in time, how couldn't Aku do it too? This part of the ending just didn't make sense to me at all, especially since she didn't attack Aku in the past either. Jack killed him immediately without her help once he was out of the portal. If Jack's sacrifice was just leaving his future allies (Ashi, Scotsman, etc) behind, that would've been enough of a sacrifice. Killing Ashi at the wedding was overkill.
Matthew Mazzatto How could he travel back to when he was destroyed or being destroyed, tho? Two Akus? That would have sent even more rigid minded folk into a frenzy haha
It is severely impacted by the fact that trigger used the exact same ending in 2007 for ttgl, though I wont say it couldnt be expected from the original.
While I've watched many RebelTaxi episodes in the past, this is probably the first one that I've been personally invested in the subject prior to watching this episode. Nearly teared up several times, most notably during the "music video" segment around 18:24. A beautiful episode from beginning to end. ;_;
iirc they legally cant. I think pan explained in a different video that symbiotic titan was a financial failure. the creater wrote it off on taxes to recoup SOMETHING from it, and in accordance to US laws, in doing so, can never show it on tv again in the US.
After seeing your personal tumblr about you ranting about how the season 5 ending his shitty, I'm surprised you didn't turn this retrospective into a 20 minute rant about the ending, Pan.
remember how ashi had 6 other sisters that jack ruthlessly murdered i seriously can't be the only one disturbed by the fact that those six other sisters were just forgotten by ashi... really? absolutely zero mourning or at least wishing that they had changed like she had?
My own personal theory on that has something to do with the IDW comics, which end with Jack, the Scotsman, the Woolies, the Thief, and a bunch of other people Jack has helped all getting ready to go and take down Aku as Jack looks the same as he did in that prophecy. I know they've been called non-canon, but since nothing in season 5 contradicts them openly I still consider them canon. Anyway, I think that Aku faked being vanquished at some point, and afterwards Jack went back to the Guardian and the portal, only for Aku to pull a 'psych!' and come out of nowhere, teleports Jack to the another part of the world and then killed the Guardian and destroyed the portal. Jack, feeling depressed, gave up whatever kingship he had earned (giving up his crown he had) and went back to his classic look, and eventually he made his way to the final portal and the incident in episode 7 of season 5. So I personally feel that the Guardian's prophecy almost came true... then Aku happened.
I was totally expecting Guardian to sae Jack in the final episode and for him to reveal the full extent of his powers (judging from the dialogue in the original episode we can assume the Katana wasn't his main weapon).
I like to think that the prophecy did come true just not in season5 jacks universe. In a parallel universe i like to think that was the time line the the guardian was seeing and prevent jack from going in but the guardian realized too late.
Michael Aiyedun He fulfilled his purpose. They didn't exactly do it like I was hoping they would, but they did it way better than anyone expected them to.
MrKiron12 Yep, I remember when Jack murdered his parents in cold blood, and killed all the people in the past too. Should've stayed in a future where Aku is even more overpowered, and where everyone is getting a shitty life except for those in line with Aku's evil.
TheJediSonic When was it ever stated that Aku is more powerful in the future? Like Jack could've easily killed him in the Future but deus ex Ashi was like nope we gotta wrap this shit up
I liked the way Gendy wrote the resolution to the series... Aku shared his Power Juice with a band of cultists, not realizing his ungodly offspring could ally herself with the samurai and use his own time powers to undo the evil portal spell...
I honestly think if the showed ended with him staying in the future and continuing to fight Aku it would be unfulfilling. The whole point to Jack's mission was to go to the past to end Aku's reign before it began and that's what he did and if people hated that then go cry in a corner in their granny panties because I think it ended exactly how it should.
I think that he should have fought the future Aku and defeated him and made a time portal where Jack realized he would have to leave Ashi and everyone else (which would allow for the heart wrenching moment). Then he goes back in time alone and defeats past Aku and returns to his town. Maybe he could do something that would allow Jack to send Ashi one final message, kinda like what Futurama did in that one episode. (You could say that Ashi or anyone else wouldn't exist in the future but there tends to always be some kind of error in these types of time travel scenarios anyway)
NO!! His mission was to KILL AKU first and foremost and it was established there WAS no more time portals!! What's wrong with a wedding?! I want a wedding! That was NOT how it should have ended!! NO!!!
Juan Don Nadie I thought him losing Ashi was kinda representative of everyone he lost. Like she was the embodiment of everything he loved about that future and how it faded from his arms.
"I will now talk about season 5" *about 5 to 3 minutes left in the video*.....meh. Season 5 wasn't bad but they tried to shove in alot of stuff that wasn't really needed. Ashi in the end felt more like a plot device / deus ex machina than a character seeing how she instantly knew how to screech out a time portal eventhough she never saw Aku doing it or probably didn't even know he could. The ressistance army was brought up as this huge thing but if Aku never livestreamed Jack's capture they would never have appeared or known and some even met their end cause of this. The rulings of time travel are very hard to make work with, and Samurai jack is no exception as the whole journey he made from start to finish was erased together with Ashi when he slayed Aku. Not only that but before future Jack killed past Aku, a other Jack was just sent to the future. Was it the same Jack or a diffrent Jack who now roams the lands confused in a Aku free future. The end itself felt indeed quite safe and also a bit too sweet for my taste and Ashi's dissapearence from the timeline was badly timed just to give Jack the last gut punch.
Scratch that livestream crap, how the fuck did they reach Aku's castle in time is the real question, we see the leaders of each tribe that Jack saved watch Aku's stream and then they are infront of the army. Also, about that other Jack, it's actually quite simple, at the moment Aku sent Jack to the future, it created a time loop that made possible for Future Jack to go back in time to a moment after Jack is sent to the future to prevent a time paradox, if Jack wasn't sent to the future, Future Jack wouldn't even exist to begin with. But that opens another question: How the fuck did Ashi knew the EXACT moment where Jack got sent to the future? That timing was too precise, and it's not like Ashi knew how to control time travel either.
ultrix soma Don't you remember episode 7? Jack basically told her everything on that bird. People are missing this critical point, unfortunately. Also, are you saying all the portals Jack encountered before Ashi were set to send him to the point of time HE DESIRES? You gotta get a little creative.
For all we know, all he had to do was think about the time and place, or maybe your second time travel is supposed to take you to the point of the initial time travel in Jack's world. Get my drift?
She had good heart in her, no matter how much her mother tried to change or mold her ways. The only reason she followed aku, was because she truly saw him a god of creation.
Honestly I’ve always felt they shouldn’t have gone the love story route with her. Personally would’ve preferred Jack finally get back to defend the Prime timeline while Ashi served as the successor who would stay and defend the future timeline
the ending to season 5 had to have one of the most saddest ending to any show. adult swim really knew how to drive a nail into the show. I'm gonna miss this show. I was so happy that a new season came back. and as soon as it came back. it went away again....
RebelTaxi: he has to go back to the past Me: *plankton voice* Yes... RebelTaxi: _to play these shitty games that suck ass_ Me: *_YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS_*
I loved this. I never realized how great this show was until I was older and could take a step back and really analyze the shows I watched as kid. If anything, I would have loved a longer, more in depth discussion on season 5. Episode XCIII was the most amazing piece of television animation and story I have seen in a looooong time. When Jack killed his first human, you could really feel his shock and remorse. The underlying themes of the season wowed me and I wish more shows had this feeling. I watched the whole series in a night on toonami and I am incredibly glad I did. GREAT VIDEO PAN!
Jace Fiore Now you made me think of that bit of this vidro where Matt and Trey talk of South Park losing an award to Samurai Jack and both of them (and the host) having not heard of them, and thinking it's some sort of a sandwich. xD
Despite a tad rushed, i feel like they did a good job in making it feel much more serious than the very first seasons. I feel that you missed the opportunity to point out the whole contrast with the first 4 seasons and the last tbh. Good vid nonetheless!
But we never found out Jack's real name. We never found out Dipper's real name from Gravity Falls in the show, but eventually we found out in the real life Journal #3
Why does everyone act like it was just tumblr being upset about it, though? Reddit was one huge circlejerk of 'LOL TUMBLR' that accused anybody who just didn't like it of being a triggered sjw.
i was in Tumblr at that moment, looking at the mess. Yeah, not everybody was a triggered SJW, but guess what, there were SJWs and they were crying harder and louder. It was goooood af. You can look for compilations of what that people said at that moment, it's so irrational it's priceless X'D Fuck Social Justice Warriors, kudos to Samurai Jack Warriors.
btw they made a game where the ending is she did not die, and the people who worked on s5 said that they prefered that one over season 5 one but her disappearing was more appopiate
WOW, just WOW. RebelTaxi, you truly are the greatest. I learn so much from your videos that it BLOWS MY MIND, and the nostalgia is happily welcome with both smiles and tears. The video truly encompasses the greatness, the nostalgia, and genius that is Samurai Jack, and although I haven't watched the last season yet but I'm still glad I watched this video. THANK YOU REBELTAXI, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART WITH TEARS OF JOY IN MY EYES!!!😢👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Gotta get back, back to the past Samurai Jack, Gotta get back, back to the past Samurai Jack, Gotta get back, back to the past Samurai Jack, Gotta get back, back to the past Samurai Jack
I still keep coming back to this review in particular, Samurai Jack and Genndy Tartakovsky are huge inspirations to me. The Toonami style promo for this vid is also my favorite so far, the editing is perfect.
Huge fan of the show. i own all 4 seasons on dvd and ive watched them many many times over and id like to give my honest opinion about how the show was ended. I thought for a very long time about it; how jack deserved happiness and the ending should not have done him like that but the realization i came to is that i think it was intentional. Jack returning to the past and completing his "objective" is the return to normality. its dull and real. every single adventure and interaction he had in the wild and whimsical future of "akus corrupt timeline" never actually happened. i believe it to be a bit of a statement. life is balance. think of jack as light and aku as darkness. yin and yang in a sense. both need to exist for there to be life. the common denominator in the universe is chaos and that includes aspects of both happiness and sadness. what we saw was light vanquishing evil. I do not think that ashi vanishing was necessary. she is the daughter of a celestial deity with full control over the time stream and you're telling me she cant exist as a temporal anomaly? The point was basically to say "are we better off now that the task has been complete?" all 4 seasons (arguably the best parts of the show) never even happened because of it. the show is a true modern epic. in my book it is essentially a masterpiece, and for me, anyway, one that could've done without a proper ending.
one of the tenets of being a samurai is the ideal of duty over everything. i think the melancholy ending of him not having ashi is a really good representation of his resolve as a samurai. and samurai jack always was an omage and love letter to westers/samurai movies/noir etc so the hero having a bittersweet ending is usually what happens
there are even more obscure references. in the fourth season appearance of the scotsman, a tiny man at the docks asks the scotsman if he wants to hear a sailor's tale, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. As it turns out, that was the title of the longest Iron Maiden song until 2015. it's fun to connect stuff like that
Oh my god dude I loved a lot of the montages that you did and the editing as well. But yeah I felt the 5th season was somewhat rushed in pacing but at the same time the ending, while depressing, was somewhat bittersweet and also very open. So we may get a Samurai Jack movie or something. I personally wanted to see more of Jack's past or atleast have a moment where Jack atleast catches up with old friends before going back to the past.
Okay but can we talk about how incredible a Tarsem Singh Samurai Jack would be? If he put in the same vision and dedication as he did The Fall, that would be freaking INSANE.
dude, MAJOR props to the editing with Ecstacy of Gold. you did a better job than anyone in Cartoon Network ever did for a hype video. I got more than a little emotional watching it
I was in my bed unaware of which time is that he uploads; he usually uploads when I'm at home, at least my time. I'm European so it might explain a lot
When I was a kid, I always called the portal Aku sent Jack through the "Cartoon Network Portal" because of the colors.
*_ofcourse, it all makes sence now..._*
I really want to like this comment but thatd make 70
Multiverse theory, anyone?
@@Uber_Versace r/redditmoment
Hi there Kirby how is it goin’
Season 5 may not have been perfect, but those first 3 episodes sure were.
Agreed. Episode 1 was very reminiscent of past episodes and episodes 2 and 3 were nothing short of perfect.
I feel like the reason the 7 episodes after not being as good was because they realized they spent 3 out of 10 episodes doing what could of been done with 1, so they had less episodes to finish the series than they expected.
Giving my input on what they should've done, they should have cut the romance entirely and stretched out the rushed endings to the "Jack wants to kill himself" and "getting back the sword plots." Ashi can still disappear in the end without it being romantic since that was the last remnant of his adventure in the future leaving him.
First half of the series were absolutely amazing.
Up until ep 9, most definitely.
Fun Fact: According to Phil Lamarr (Jack's VA), the reason Samurai Jack ended back in the 2000's was because of Genndy's work on Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003).
That's a fair trade. But it's another example of something being cancelled or stopped because of star wars. Star wars will either destroy your career or save it.
But the Star Wars show he worked on was extremely short so feels to me like he could have worked on Samurai Jack again after that was over.
It did not end in 2004, it was cancelled by Cartoon Network, then revived in Adult Swim.
Dang it George lucas
Didn’t Genndy himself confirm this.
As a Floridan I can confirm that we all talk like that
NOT IN SOUTH FLORIDA
Dead center of florida backwater town bog here to confirm that southern florida is the least southern part
The further north you go in Florida the further south you go
@@vocalshogun4662 actually that's a lie. Some do.
@@vocalshogun4662 well in the keys or up north mostly.
From the beginning to the end of the season, Jack came a long way from being an insane old man yelling at and arguing with birds.
THEY, CHOSE!
RHONDA HOWARD THEY CHOSE THE PATH! THEY CHOSE THE PATH!
I really want a scenario where Ashi finds out what "Aku" means, and instantly joins Jack's side.
But now it'll nevvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr happen.
Jolanos Aku probably banned Japanese, so that nobody would find out.
Whoopsie daisy.
I lost my shit when he purposely said "Avatar: The Last AirConditioner". XD
i lost my shit at the Florida part.
Elijah Blechman oh that too XD
Elijah Blechman
I live in Florida, and I can confirm it was an accurate comparison.
Sweet pic bruh
Alex McNeill Everything changed when the heat wave struck
The sandals episode is actually my favorite. Not for its comedic tones, but for the ending. It was just really nice to see jack with people who he could truly relate to and feel even a little bit at home with
Avatar: the Last Air Conditioner killed me.
Has anyone notice in season 5 when Jack got his sword back and returned to his original self, the show also returned to its "Y-7 rating" roots. Since he got his sword, there was no more blood, swearing, or mature topics.
It was still slightly more adult than before but not as much. I think that was the point though.
Goodvillain 101 Didn't Ashi get naked and wasn't there yet another penis joke in the very next episode? And all those sexual shouts and screams...
This is the longest Review I made I think 😫
RebelTaxi cute
RebelTaxi whats good man
RebelTaxi i love you
It's finally here!
RebelTaxi Were you _very_ exhausted by making it?
I'm from Florida and I can say this: "I've never been to THAT part of Florida, yet I know it exists.
N. A. Hartnell you gotta go to the center of the state. Anything southeast of okeechobee is basically new york or jersey. You go out to winterhaven or ocala and them some good ol boys. Right up to pasco or tampa, then its meth country.
after Ashi's death, Jack dedicate his life to science in order to create what he called the "perfect little girl"
*(scoff wheeze)*
pinguijose (W H E E Z E)
And cemical X is actualy remeins of whatever was left of Aku
Sugar, Spice, and everything Nice
Jack becomes the Professor Utonium.
Dude your montage in the middle there gave me goosebumps and almost brought me to tears. It encompassed everything that was Samurai Jack, truly.
Thank You
Sunny Hill Me too, that was just wow. Man I cried during that montage!😢👏
It was absolutely gorgeous.
Sunny Hill Same, even more so since The Good, The Bad and Ugly is one of my favorite movies.
It always amazes me how good those montages are. They just hit you like an emotional freight train, every single time. That beautiful goth-fetish-having pizza.
Indeed. Maybe he could upload that segment as its own separate video?
How dare you not recommend Aku's Fairy Tales
That episode is a masterpiece of comedy
Or Jack and the Zombies, since that's a big episode between Jack and Aku, and one for the sword as well.
*OH YEAH! PORRIDGE!*
Stephen Brown SHUT UP, I'M TRYING TO SLEEP
Vinesauce Obscurities Once upon a time, there was a little girl with GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS
and then she used her HEAT BEAM EYES!
Excellent retrospective and review on the series. I gotta say, probably one of the best edited videos you've made. I really liked the sequence you did with Ecstasy of Gold.
PaleoSteno
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this video gave me the realization of just how awesome Pan is. Of how well done and edited nicely his videos are, the impressive theme that marks his identity and it just gets more and more better. His words, the moment which he dedicates the beauty of the show with a well put together montage setting the mood just right, his comedy, and the fact he knows what he's talking about. This overall makes me realize just how awesome pan has grown and become someone unique..and smart.
sorry for rambling, I'm so tired. The video for me is just moving.
I really think season five should have been at least 13 episodes.
Yah would have allowed Ashi's character to develop more (and there relationship), probably would have allowed more of the Daughters of Aku (which where really hyped up to only be easily killed off), allowed for better pacing of the season and episodes, and overall more moments for action, comedy, and that Samurai Jack charm.
Fully agree, also so the fight at the end and the relationship with Ashi couldve breathed more.
I would say 15
I would say another season... and then maybe another.
(nah, actually 13 episodes would have been perfect, otherwise it would have been too drawn out)
Ur hot
*“Enter at your Own Peril! Pass The Vaulted Door were IMPOSSIBLE Things Can Happen like the World NEVER Seen before”* -Aku
Fun fact: Mako also narrated a documentary about Genndy Tartakovsky's life leading up to "Star Wars: Clone Wars." It really doesn't get any more awesome than having a guy like Mako narrate YOUR LIFE STORY!!!
The ending they went for was perfectly fine but it's such a shame that most of the finale was rushed (and how they killed off the Guardian!). Saying that, I don't want it to continue, the story's done and the bittersweet ending is the perfect note to go out on.
I wish the ending did 2 things differently. One: be an hour long ending instead of half an hour, making the battle and the buildup to Jack escaping to the past more exciting. Two: leave Ashi in the past. If she could teleport herself in time, how couldn't Aku do it too? This part of the ending just didn't make sense to me at all, especially since she didn't attack Aku in the past either. Jack killed him immediately without her help once he was out of the portal. If Jack's sacrifice was just leaving his future allies (Ashi, Scotsman, etc) behind, that would've been enough of a sacrifice. Killing Ashi at the wedding was overkill.
Matthew Mazzatto How could he travel back to when he was destroyed or being destroyed, tho?
Two Akus? That would have sent even more rigid minded folk into a frenzy haha
If they did continue I get the feeling it would be a bit similar in direction to God of War 4
It is severely impacted by the fact that trigger used the exact same ending in 2007 for ttgl, though I wont say it couldnt be expected from the original.
Rest in peace, Jack's love life
A little chewy...
ZONE TOONS
Oh shit!!!😆
ZONE TOONS You better get on on that Samurai Jack porn
Hen The G
OOOOOOOH! Ashi flash game when?!?👀
Damien Bustamante No, Aku hentai game
Ruby and Sapphire next ;)?
Gotta get back.
Back to can.
And watch some Pan.
AfroNinja360 Wait a minute, no way you’re one of me fav you tubers, thanks for the content, mate!
Wow a 20 min review. Dam this review is EXTRA THICC.
*THICK
ThePreciseClimber *THICC
*RABBIT SEASON
WHAT?!
Not yet, the normies still don't know about this meme.
We have time
pass me the crack its samurai jack - aku or panpizza
WowJedi yes its jason
I always loved the Porridge scene. Jack just shoves porridge into his mouth and chews it like a monster.
While I've watched many RebelTaxi episodes in the past, this is probably the first one that I've been personally invested in the subject prior to watching this episode.
Nearly teared up several times, most notably during the "music video" segment around 18:24.
A beautiful episode from beginning to end. ;_;
It would be awesome if CN revived Sym Bionic Titan the same way they did with Samurai Jack.
Cn is in a state of ruin right now, so no.
*SYMBIONIC TITAN WAS AWESOOOOME!!!*
iirc they legally cant. I think pan explained in a different video that symbiotic titan was a financial failure. the creater wrote it off on taxes to recoup SOMETHING from it, and in accordance to US laws, in doing so, can never show it on tv again in the US.
Netflix it is.
Don't you mean Adult Swim?
After seeing your personal tumblr about you ranting about how the season 5 ending his shitty, I'm surprised you didn't turn this retrospective into a 20 minute rant about the ending, Pan.
From sml
do you have a link to the rant?
Mama Luigi
It was probably a heat of the moment thing. A lot of people hated the ending originally, only to warm up to it after a while.
WRONG!! No one I knew warmed up to it. If they did that petition would not still be going strong! P.S. the ending was terrible!
There's a petition? Jeez, I didn't like the ending either but it's not like Gennedy went "and then everyone died, the end."
remember how ashi had 6 other sisters that jack ruthlessly murdered
i seriously can't be the only one disturbed by the fact that those six other sisters were just forgotten by ashi... really? absolutely zero mourning or at least wishing that they had changed like she had?
Bubbly She had no relationship with them. They were trained from day one to be ruthless killers.
She blames her mother for their deaths, as she bred them for a fight she knew they couldn’t win
@@Promethean1999yeah
Maybe she will be the only good sister and they will stand against her and only death will solve it
I was crying threw the entire review. I grew up with this show and I miss it already, wish CN had more shows like this.
Honestly, it was a legitamate show, that could have fit for kids and adults. No cringe or kid jokes, just savage fights
"Maybe it isn't over yet"
Yes, yes it is.
See Jay Genndy himself said that this was the definitive end for him, however, he also said "never say never".
Goku14635 but he said that never say never for Symbionic titan
The biggest letdown of the show was the Guardian's prophecy was never fulfilled.
My own personal theory on that has something to do with the IDW comics, which end with Jack, the Scotsman, the Woolies, the Thief, and a bunch of other people Jack has helped all getting ready to go and take down Aku as Jack looks the same as he did in that prophecy. I know they've been called non-canon, but since nothing in season 5 contradicts them openly I still consider them canon. Anyway, I think that Aku faked being vanquished at some point, and afterwards Jack went back to the Guardian and the portal, only for Aku to pull a 'psych!' and come out of nowhere, teleports Jack to the another part of the world and then killed the Guardian and destroyed the portal.
Jack, feeling depressed, gave up whatever kingship he had earned (giving up his crown he had) and went back to his classic look, and eventually he made his way to the final portal and the incident in episode 7 of season 5.
So I personally feel that the Guardian's prophecy almost came true... then Aku happened.
Not even that. I was waiting for the fucking rematch! I was so disappointed...
I was totally expecting Guardian to sae Jack in the final episode and for him to reveal the full extent of his powers (judging from the dialogue in the original episode we can assume the Katana wasn't his main weapon).
I like to think that the prophecy did come true just not in season5 jacks universe. In a parallel universe i like to think that was the time line the the guardian was seeing and prevent jack from going in but the guardian realized too late.
What if the vision was of future Jack after he defeated Aku and got back to the past?
Your videos are timeless bro, sometimes I just go back and rewatch em if I'm bored and nostalgic.
Honestly I almost cried for this show cause it was just to amazing to let go
It's like a dying mother you don't want to see go
ARE YOU DOING SOMETHING ON VILLANOS, PAN? YOU BETTER BE SOMETHING ON VILLANOS, PAN. IT'S YOUR HERATAGE, PAN.
he went back to the past and undid the future that was Aku
that's all I needed
10/10
shut up
Michael Aiyedun I honestly gave up on the idea of Jack returning to the past years ago. So it was an awesome conclusion I didn't see coming
Michael Aiyedun He fulfilled his purpose. They didn't exactly do it like I was hoping they would, but they did it way better than anyone expected them to.
Michael Aiyedun He also killed everyone he came to knew
what a hero
MrKiron12 Yep, I remember when Jack murdered his parents in cold blood, and killed all the people in the past too. Should've stayed in a future where Aku is even more overpowered, and where everyone is getting a shitty life except for those in line with Aku's evil.
TheJediSonic When was it ever stated that Aku is more powerful in the future?
Like Jack could've easily killed him in the Future but deus ex Ashi was like nope we gotta wrap this shit up
I liked the way Gendy wrote the resolution to the series... Aku shared his Power Juice with a band of cultists, not realizing his ungodly offspring could ally herself with the samurai and use his own time powers to undo the evil portal spell...
season 5 episode 2 was the best thing I have seen in television animation history. the tension, action and cinematography were amazing.
I wish we could've found out his real name. Otherwise, I'm satisfied. Not many cartoons get to end their story on their own terms.
Jared Hall It's funny how we never find out, but I think it's for the best
I honestly think if the showed ended with him staying in the future and continuing to fight Aku it would be unfulfilling. The whole point to Jack's mission was to go to the past to end Aku's reign before it began and that's what he did and if people hated that then go cry in a corner in their granny panties because I think it ended exactly how it should.
Jack Sledge IV what if the show ended with jack staying in the future
It might have left fans wanting more ya know, not fulfilling enough, sort of proning on.
I think that he should have fought the future Aku and defeated him and made a time portal where Jack realized he would have to leave Ashi and everyone else (which would allow for the heart wrenching moment). Then he goes back in time alone and defeats past Aku and returns to his town. Maybe he could do something that would allow Jack to send Ashi one final message, kinda like what Futurama did in that one episode. (You could say that Ashi or anyone else wouldn't exist in the future but there tends to always be some kind of error in these types of time travel scenarios anyway)
NO!! His mission was to KILL AKU first and foremost and it was established there WAS no more time portals!! What's wrong with a wedding?! I want a wedding! That was NOT how it should have ended!! NO!!!
So jock winning solely because aku's daughter had the hots for him was fulfilling for you then?
With the new Samurai Jack game coming out this week now is the perfect time to rewatch this video.
18:25 Samurai Jack tribute is life-changing. Captures the essence of the series. Samurai Jack is what a person should aspire to be.
my biggest problem with the ending was that the sorrow feeling jack had was only because of ashii.Not his friends,ashii.
Juan Don Nadie I thought him losing Ashi was kinda representative of everyone he lost. Like she was the embodiment of everything he loved about that future and how it faded from his arms.
"I will now talk about season 5" *about 5 to 3 minutes left in the video*.....meh.
Season 5 wasn't bad but they tried to shove in alot of stuff that wasn't really needed. Ashi in the end felt more like a plot device / deus ex machina than a character seeing how she instantly knew how to screech out a time portal eventhough she never saw Aku doing it or probably didn't even know he could. The ressistance army was brought up as this huge thing but if Aku never livestreamed Jack's capture they would never have appeared or known and some even met their end cause of this.
The rulings of time travel are very hard to make work with, and Samurai jack is no exception as the whole journey he made from start to finish was erased together with Ashi when he slayed Aku. Not only that but before future Jack killed past Aku, a other Jack was just sent to the future. Was it the same Jack or a diffrent Jack who now roams the lands confused in a Aku free future.
The end itself felt indeed quite safe and also a bit too sweet for my taste and Ashi's dissapearence from the timeline was badly timed just to give Jack the last gut punch.
Scratch that livestream crap, how the fuck did they reach Aku's castle in time is the real question, we see the leaders of each tribe that Jack saved watch Aku's stream and then they are infront of the army.
Also, about that other Jack, it's actually quite simple, at the moment Aku sent Jack to the future, it created a time loop that made possible for Future Jack to go back in time to a moment after Jack is sent to the future to prevent a time paradox, if Jack wasn't sent to the future, Future Jack wouldn't even exist to begin with. But that opens another question: How the fuck did Ashi knew the EXACT moment where Jack got sent to the future? That timing was too precise, and it's not like Ashi knew how to control time travel either.
I love how you called it a livestream.
ultrix soma Don't you remember episode 7? Jack basically told her everything on that bird.
People are missing this critical point, unfortunately. Also, are you saying all the portals Jack encountered before Ashi were set to send him to the point of time HE DESIRES? You gotta get a little creative.
For all we know, all he had to do was think about the time and place, or maybe your second time travel is supposed to take you to the point of the initial time travel in Jack's world. Get my drift?
I love how the Scotsman swears... without actually swearing xD
after jack showed ashi the way, she lost all character flaws. thats my problem with her tbh
She had good heart in her, no matter how much her mother tried to change or mold her ways. The only reason she followed aku, was because she truly saw him a god of creation.
I understand that complaint however I do think It was a restraint of the ten episode run
Honestly I’ve always felt they shouldn’t have gone the love story route with her. Personally would’ve preferred Jack finally get back to defend the Prime timeline while Ashi served as the successor who would stay and defend the future timeline
@@hambone401 I mean, the future timeline would no longer exist when jack defeats aku in the past though
@@d4s0n282 I honestly think that the people who hate the ending are just incapable of anything other than a Disney happy ending
they Gurren laggened us
joao rafi abad alvares roig they fucking did
At least they got married in Gurren Lagann
Thats exactly what I thought when it happened lol.
Yes yes yes yes!!!! AND I HATE THE GUREEN LAGAAN ENDING!
What happened at the Gurren Laggen ending?
the ending to season 5 had to have one of the most saddest ending to any show.
adult swim really knew how to drive a nail into the show.
I'm gonna miss this show.
I was so happy that a new season came back. and as soon as it came back. it went away again....
RebelTaxi: he has to go back to the past
Me: *plankton voice* Yes...
RebelTaxi: _to play these shitty games that suck ass_
Me: *_YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS_*
Or to stop The Demon Aku from, you guessed it, taking over the world.
M. Bison: OF COURSE!
I loved this. I never realized how great this show was until I was older and could take a step back and really analyze the shows I watched as kid. If anything, I would have loved a longer, more in depth discussion on season 5. Episode XCIII was the most amazing piece of television animation and story I have seen in a looooong time. When Jack killed his first human, you could really feel his shock and remorse. The underlying themes of the season wowed me and I wish more shows had this feeling. I watched the whole series in a night on toonami and I am incredibly glad I did. GREAT VIDEO PAN!
You will learn proper respect for Pan in the pit of hate.
Dev'n Around dunno why but it made me think of Pan's Labyrinth
IABI TV except that it got lost to a German film from Germany in the best foreign language film at the 2007 Oscars
Jace Fiore
Now you made me think of that bit of this vidro where Matt and Trey talk of South Park losing an award to Samurai Jack and both of them (and the host) having not heard of them, and thinking it's some sort of a sandwich. xD
"The Pit Of Hate" being an euphemysm for Pan's room
Despite a tad rushed, i feel like they did a good job in making it feel much more serious than the very first seasons.
I feel that you missed the opportunity to point out the whole contrast with the first 4 seasons and the last tbh.
Good vid nonetheless!
That montage with Ecstasy of gold was so good. Gave me chills
Also I love how they put the original into into the show itself. Absolutely genius
Yeah it’s into was so good i was intro it
That ecstasy of gold edit was fucking amazing. Adding this video to my favorites for sure.
But we never found out Jack's real name. We never found out Dipper's real name from Gravity Falls in the show, but eventually we found out in the real life Journal #3
Dipper's real name is Mason.
@@ClearwaterMK2 Mason and Mabel.
Huh.
Now that season 5 took some time to settle. I can say for sure that the finale was actually a lot better than I initially thought.
XD at the very end it seems Genndy gave up on the guardian story arc.
Tumblr having a meltdown over Jashi was glorious
agreed
Flame of Udun
the kiss scene was the best because of how hard /co/ and tumblr got triggered from it.
Well they got their wish on the last episode though.
Why does everyone act like it was just tumblr being upset about it, though? Reddit was one huge circlejerk of 'LOL TUMBLR' that accused anybody who just didn't like it of being a triggered sjw.
i was in Tumblr at that moment, looking at the mess. Yeah, not everybody was a triggered SJW, but guess what, there were SJWs and they were crying harder and louder. It was goooood af. You can look for compilations of what that people said at that moment, it's so irrational it's priceless X'D
Fuck Social Justice Warriors, kudos to Samurai Jack Warriors.
The Space Ace reference went straight over my head as a kid.
you graciously earned my like on the akku impression at 6:56 keep it up taxi.
This show's aesthetic is one of a kind and still blows me away. I need to rewatch it.
Samurai Jack is awesome.
Sena Kashiwazaki Scotsman is also awesome too
Everyone.
It's more than awesome. It's legendary. :D
Sena Kashiwazaki epic
You're on a video that's a review of a pretty universally-loved cartoon on a cartoon reviewing UA-cam channel. You're just begging for likes.
Never realised how much I love your editing style.
Now I do.
Asian Mark Hamill died? No wonder Aku didn't sound nearly as menacing as he did before...
Honestly, I didn't like the ending but the part with the ladybug made me tear up
btw they made a game where the ending is she did not die, and the people who worked on s5 said that they prefered that one over season 5 one but her disappearing was more appopiate
WOW, just WOW. RebelTaxi, you truly are the greatest. I learn so much from your videos that it BLOWS MY MIND, and the nostalgia is happily welcome with both smiles and tears. The video truly encompasses the greatness, the nostalgia, and genius that is Samurai Jack, and although I haven't watched the last season yet but I'm still glad I watched this video. THANK YOU REBELTAXI, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART WITH TEARS OF JOY IN MY EYES!!!😢👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm one of the few people who appreciated the ending.
I'm one too.
i am one three
I am one 4
I'm one 5
I'm one 7-
Oh fuck i'm late
One of your best reviews Pan, really top notch edits. Honestly it shows how much you've grown as a content creator.
Tumblr: ASHI RUINED THE SHOW!
Me: JUST LET THE GUY BE HAPPY JESUS
*ashi dies*
Me: Well shit.
Oh ya well the Scotsman died
Who?
sbeve XLR8 i don’t even remember my own comment, no idea.
@@whosthatgirl22 Ok
I liked the part where some fans wanted to boycott Adult Swim for delaying an episode by a week.
Gotta get back, back to the past Samurai Jack,
Gotta get back, back to the past Samurai Jack,
Gotta get back, back to the past Samurai Jack,
Gotta get back, back to the past Samurai Jack
I still keep coming back to this review in particular, Samurai Jack and Genndy Tartakovsky are huge inspirations to me. The Toonami style promo for this vid is also my favorite so far, the editing is perfect.
My favorite episode of Avatar was when Iro was remembering his son with that song. Brave soldier boy comes marching home.
Clean your room up, Pan.
Huge fan of the show. i own all 4 seasons on dvd and ive watched them many many times over and id like to give my honest opinion about how the show was ended. I thought for a very long time about it; how jack deserved happiness and the ending should not have done him like that but the realization i came to is that i think it was intentional. Jack returning to the past and completing his "objective" is the return to normality. its dull and real. every single adventure and interaction he had in the wild and whimsical future of "akus corrupt timeline" never actually happened. i believe it to be a bit of a statement. life is balance. think of jack as light and aku as darkness. yin and yang in a sense. both need to exist for there to be life. the common denominator in the universe is chaos and that includes aspects of both happiness and sadness. what we saw was light vanquishing evil. I do not think that ashi vanishing was necessary. she is the daughter of a celestial deity with full control over the time stream and you're telling me she cant exist as a temporal anomaly? The point was basically to say "are we better off now that the task has been complete?" all 4 seasons (arguably the best parts of the show) never even happened because of it. the show is a true modern epic. in my book it is essentially a masterpiece, and for me, anyway, one that could've done without a proper ending.
one of the tenets of being a samurai is the ideal of duty over everything. i think the melancholy ending of him not having ashi is a really good representation of his resolve as a samurai. and samurai jack always was an omage and love letter to westers/samurai movies/noir etc so the hero having a bittersweet ending is usually what happens
has anyone else noticed how sincere pan sounds in this its almost abnormal
like you can tell he really loved the show
there are even more obscure references. in the fourth season appearance of the scotsman, a tiny man at the docks asks the scotsman if he wants to hear a sailor's tale, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. As it turns out, that was the title of the longest Iron Maiden song until 2015. it's fun to connect stuff like that
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem by Samuel T. Coleridge, that's probably what both that episode and Iron Maiden were referencing.
Samurai Jack will forever be one of the best animated series of all-time! Along with the Simpsons, Futurama, and SpongeBob.
It was also one of the show's not to suffer from seasonal rot
Ho shit! Iroh and Aku have the same voice actor? Well I learn something new everyday.
Narticus And Greg Baldwin replaced them both.
That montage you made for this video, some of your finest work yet, Pan. Awesome job for the whole video, actually.
The ending of samurai jack was truely amazing
I fucking loved the first 5 eps of season 5, and im so pissed about the others. thats just me tho, and am still sad and disappointed
19:50 it sounds like he’s saying APPPPUUUU like the Simpsons charecter😂
Jack got an ending befitting that of a samurai. An ending he must acknowledge and accept.
Oh my god dude I loved a lot of the montages that you did and the editing as well. But yeah I felt the 5th season was somewhat rushed in pacing but at the same time the ending, while depressing, was somewhat bittersweet and also very open. So we may get a Samurai Jack movie or something. I personally wanted to see more of Jack's past or atleast have a moment where Jack atleast catches up with old friends before going back to the past.
The right path will take you to the DRAGON'S LAIR!!
...And the other one?
...SPACE ACE
.............
That weird chick was obviously Brack. They have similar silhouettes and eyes.
Ruger Williams *Brak
I always held samurai jack in high regard and will still go back and watch it! Has a samurai champloo vibe
Okay but can we talk about how incredible a Tarsem Singh Samurai Jack would be? If he put in the same vision and dedication as he did The Fall, that would be freaking INSANE.
we never got to see old man king jack, oh well
We did in the comics apparently
non canon sadly
10:45 I don't know which is better; the Don Bluth reference or Jack's confused look!
GregTheLion
Both.👍
dude, MAJOR props to the editing with Ecstacy of Gold. you did a better job than anyone in Cartoon Network ever did for a hype video. I got more than a little emotional watching it
Whenever I feel i need to escape lifes hardships, I come here to this channel so that I may reminisce on the better more simpler times
Easily Pan's best video to date.
Yeah pan THANKS FOR UPLOADING WHILE *SOME* PEOPLE ARE STILL IN SCHOOL...
Piccolo54 Fuck school. Pan is far more important.
Piccolo54 I'm on lunch break watching this (but nobody cares anyway)
I was in my bed unaware of which time is that he uploads; he usually uploads when I'm at home, at least my time. I'm European so it might explain a lot
Piccolo54 lol just drop out
Hey guess what? You saw the video just the same.
So Samurai Jack is really The Angry Video Game Nerd out to stop The Nostalgia Critic as Aku! (I LOVE BOXES!)
Its an obvious metaphor if you really look at it
South Park creators didn't know about Samurai Jack, gee I wonder why...
5:14 OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT MOVIE. I STILL HAVE IT ON DVD.