Masterful storyboarding throughout this episode and looks like we have more to come next week. The episode kept speeding up and slowing down at just the right times building up to the moment when he kills her. Following that great slow-mo sequence of pursuit we switch to the perspective of the sisters and get the drama from their POV of Jack hiding from them.įollowing that they decide to hide and we return to Jack, now feeling the tension once again as we know they're out there. Then he gets his butt kicked by the sisters till he hides and debates committing suicide. Then he takes off on his motorcycle neglecting to realize the real enemy is still out there. I loved how this episode flowed.įirst we had a buildup with Jack expecting something in the forest which turned out to be the easily dispatched bug. In order for the action to remain intense there has to be ebbs in the tension. It's not action and explosions all the time. A gravely injured Samurai Jack chooses to create his own fate by going up against the deadliest foes hes ever faced, Assassins from the Cult of Aku.
Jack defeats them all while Shinobi watches - then the ninja takes the boy to a nearby ruined. Jack responds to the cries of a young boy from a village beset by robot lobsters.
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This episode proves that Gendy knows how to do action unlike so many modern Hollywood directors. Aku sends forth the robotic ninja Shinobi, Warrior of the Dark, to kill the Samurai. The score is still awesome though so I definitely wasn't upset.
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I think it would have been much better with no music while he was sitting in the coffin, because the whole episode had so much sound, to have a short break in the music so you feel the same tension that Jack is feeling instead of the TV show telling you 'Look at this, this is intense' despite it just being some people walking around, would've been great. There was some pretty intense music going on there, but this show can very effectively use silence to build tension, like they often did in the original. If I could nitpick one part of this episode, it would be the part where he's laying in the coffin and the daughters are walking around looking for him. And I loved it, even if it wasn't the smoothest blend.
When I first read that they were going for a more serious tone (hence why it's on AS), I really hoped they kept Aku goofy. I mean I totally get what you mean, but keep in mind that the original show was not nearly as serious of a tone as this is going for, so it would be next to impossible to blend the goofy Aku with this new tone without changing Aku himself, which would've sucked, honestly.
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