New trailer for the upcoming final season of "Samurai Jack" (with air date):
"Samurai Jack" returns in 2016
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I watched it from time to time - and while I found it occasionally interesting; I honestly never understood the love some people had for the series. Different strokes and all that. 
Continuous marathon of classic Jack
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/streams/samurai-jack
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/streams/samurai-jack
Only bout a month away....
What a sad tease to open up the trailer with score from James L. Venable's work on the original series, when Venable isn't returning to the new one. Hopefully the rest of the music in the trailer isn't reflective of what the new music will be like.
Spoilers. Click at your own risk to spoil it for yourself.
The new voice of Aku:
The new composer. Goddamnit, what a disappointment.
The new voice of Aku:
Greg Baldwin
The new composer. Goddamnit, what a disappointment.
Tyler Bates
Only nine days away from the start of the new season. I checked youtube and sure enough I found new material.
Jack battling bots:
Sigh. Terrible third-rate wannabe Venable music.
Jack battling bots:
Sigh. Terrible third-rate wannabe Venable music.
It's tonight at 11:00 EST. Damn that's late.
From a Yahoo article a day ago:
From a Yahoo article a day ago:
Watched it today.
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything great either.
It's very much in line with the series. It looks like it used to, has the stylized scenes like it used to, plays out like a standard episode of the series, and is setting up Jack's new protaganists. The third-rate Venable wannabe scoring was annoying and distracting at times; Tyler Bates couldn't even do it by himself -- he had two people helping, credited under him. Not like the Venable run where Paul Dinletir was credited with additional music in the end credits. No, two people credited not with additional music, but right underneath Bates' credit, implying a larger role. I can't figure out why Venable isn't back -- Gennedy gave the same kind of weird non-answers IMDb gave for shutting down their message boards, for why.
The plot for this episode is:
It's been fifty years since we last saw Jack. He no longer ages and Aku still oppresses the world. He's now on a motorcycle and firing guns and using other weapons
.
He's still helping people, but his drive to do so has wanned. He
as pointed out before the episode premiered, Aku has destroyed all the time portals, so there apparently is no way to get back to the past now.
Driving by
, he doubles back to an attack he skipped and finds an assassin frm Aku, waiting for him. We breifly hear Adam Baldwin voicing Aku.
During the whole episode we see those black-clad Aku-masking-wearing women you saw in the trailers and short promos. They are an
.
There are sublte new changes in the episode, since they are going a little darker: a little blood, more implied violence (
), and it seems a little dark, but not out of place so.
Aside from the Bates/Higginbottom/Hartmann scoring which I already complained about, I did find one thing annoying. At one point Jack is charging (or leaping at; I don't recall) at a bad guy and he's yelling, "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!" and behind him in the artwork you see in big whtie letting what he is yelling, as if this had become a self-parody like the 1966 "Batman" series with the words on screen. That is out of place. That needs to go.
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything great either.
It's very much in line with the series. It looks like it used to, has the stylized scenes like it used to, plays out like a standard episode of the series, and is setting up Jack's new protaganists. The third-rate Venable wannabe scoring was annoying and distracting at times; Tyler Bates couldn't even do it by himself -- he had two people helping, credited under him. Not like the Venable run where Paul Dinletir was credited with additional music in the end credits. No, two people credited not with additional music, but right underneath Bates' credit, implying a larger role. I can't figure out why Venable isn't back -- Gennedy gave the same kind of weird non-answers IMDb gave for shutting down their message boards, for why.
The plot for this episode is:
It's been fifty years since we last saw Jack. He no longer ages and Aku still oppresses the world. He's now on a motorcycle and firing guns and using other weapons
since he lost his sword in a battle (seen in a breif flashback)
He's still helping people, but his drive to do so has wanned. He
starts having visions of his mother and father, asking why he hasn't come back to help them and that Jack has forgotten his purpose;
Driving by
those visions
During the whole episode we see those black-clad Aku-masking-wearing women you saw in the trailers and short promos. They are an
Aku cult, training an army of young girls to become the ultimate warriors to finds and destroy Samurai Jack
There are sublte new changes in the episode, since they are going a little darker: a little blood, more implied violence (
in one shocking scene, Jack arrives too late to help people and we see dead bodies, looking like they had been set on fire
Aside from the Bates/Higginbottom/Hartmann scoring which I already complained about, I did find one thing annoying. At one point Jack is charging (or leaping at; I don't recall) at a bad guy and he's yelling, "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!" and behind him in the artwork you see in big whtie letting what he is yelling, as if this had become a self-parody like the 1966 "Batman" series with the words on screen. That is out of place. That needs to go.
It felt authentically Jack to me at first blush though I'm not an expert on the classic series. I disagree about the comment above about the lettering and thought that worked fine stylistically within the show.
Promo for the next episode:
Yesterday's episode was great stuff.
The writing, animation, look, all wonderful.
There were, however, two lets downs: Baldwin's Aku is not even close. Perhaps they wanted to play it safe with somebody who had voiced the character in other SJ projects, but it would have been a much better idea to hold auditions. The voice is really distracting. Did you know Aku is now French? Yeah, sounds like a bad French impression. Hell, he had French music, too.
And once again I have to point out the inferior scoring by Tyler Bates and his two helpers. It was even annoying and distracting a couple times. The rest it's what I've said before, third rate wannabe Venable.
The promo I linked to in the above post, doesn't reflect the episode as a whole, trust me.
The writing, animation, look, all wonderful.
There were, however, two lets downs: Baldwin's Aku is not even close. Perhaps they wanted to play it safe with somebody who had voiced the character in other SJ projects, but it would have been a much better idea to hold auditions. The voice is really distracting. Did you know Aku is now French? Yeah, sounds like a bad French impression. Hell, he had French music, too.
And once again I have to point out the inferior scoring by Tyler Bates and his two helpers. It was even annoying and distracting a couple times. The rest it's what I've said before, third rate wannabe Venable.
The promo I linked to in the above post, doesn't reflect the episode as a whole, trust me.
The second episode was much better than the first.
Aku's therapy was kinda weird. His voice doesn't bother me.
The fight scene with the Daughters was incredibly well done. At the point Jack is hiding inside the coffin as they close in...just terrific stuff.
I'm not sure what you're issue is with the music. You keep mentioning that but I don't really notice anything different. I think it's fine.
Aku's therapy was kinda weird. His voice doesn't bother me.
The fight scene with the Daughters was incredibly well done. At the point Jack is hiding inside the coffin as they close in...just terrific stuff.
I'm not sure what you're issue is with the music. You keep mentioning that but I don't really notice anything different. I think it's fine.
It's a little bit different from episodes made a decade ago? Set your opinions to hate. 
You too @1001001 save that open-minded nonsense for church.
I haven't seen the new episodes yet but I assure you I have expectations they can't possibly meet and I am already preparing posts to express my disappointment.
You too @1001001 save that open-minded nonsense for church.
I haven't seen the new episodes yet but I assure you I have expectations they can't possibly meet and I am already preparing posts to express my disappointment.
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