- 7 weeks ago
This series is a Long time coming since its something I can trace all the way back to my Childhood. I going to begin this Journey with these First 3 episodes and I hope that you all enjoy.
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00:00So we start with Jack being plopped into the future, falling onto a flying car.
00:05He proceeds to leapfrog his way down with what looks like some kind of law enforcement shooting at him for some reason.
00:12But once he finally gets onto the ground, he meets his first locals.
00:17And man do these guys have some great personalities for only being on screen for a few minutes.
00:23I'll geek out about them more once I get into the discussing section, but I love these guys.
00:30But they basically let him know that Aku rules the whole earth, and it's always been that way.
00:36Jack of course is extremely stressed hearing this, so they tell him to go to a club that's behind him and get a drink.
00:43So then comes a heavenly moment for me, because the music once he enters and just the design of the club and all the aliens made my imagination go wild as a child.
00:56It's one of the reasons I wish this show was made a little later in my life, so we could have had an official soundtrack to the series.
01:05Because just listen to this perfection.
01:08But of course, Jack seeing all of this for the first time just stares at an alien,
01:36and so it punches him and tells him to get out.
01:39It then refuses his apology and proceeds to attack him.
01:47After Jack disarms him, his whole crew pulls up to fight, but Jack disarms them too with it literally raining arms.
01:54Some sentient dogs see Jack doing all of this and go to ask him for help.
02:00They explain who they are and tell him that they were looking for someone to help them get from under the grasp of Aku,
02:08since he has enslaved them to dig up jewels just like Jack's people.
02:12He also finds out that they date Jack's cells to before Aku ruled the earth,
02:18so they confirm that Aku sent Jack probably hundreds of thousands of years into the future.
02:25Hearing all of this, Jack agrees to help them, and we see him make up his new name, Jack, from what those guys were calling him before.
02:33But during all of this, an employee of the club was listening in on their conversation,
02:38and it turns out she was a spy for Aku, and tells him about Jack's return.
02:42But before she tells him, we see some aliens asked to live on earth because their ocean was stolen,
02:48and Aku just straight up tells them,
02:50yeah, I did that, and you're not gonna do anything about it.
02:54So one of the aliens yells at him and tells him that he is a monster,
02:59so he teleports him to a place called the Pit of Hate.
03:02Oh monster, be quiet!
03:04I am sorry my lord, the boy is young and foolish, he does not know what he says!
03:09Man, sent so!
03:11How do you ask another bitch ass?
03:13Which sounds like a place I would never want to get sent to.
03:17And he then just tells him to construct statues of him to rise out of the ocean once a month and shoes them off.
03:23So he finds out about Jack after all this time, and immediately sends an army out to destroy him.
03:29Jack gets to their mining site, and man am I surprised they let this on a kid's show, showing that dog's being crucified.
03:37Jesus Christ!
03:39A dog comes to them and tells them that Aku's drone army is coming, and they will be there by sunrise,
03:46ending with Jack looking out at them, determined to fight them.
03:49So, to get voice actors out of the way, first is Jeff Bennett, voiced McDuffie, the black dog.
03:56He has also voiced Dexter's dad, from Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Clay from Shaolin Showdown, and Prowl from Transformers Animated.
04:05Rob Paulson was Rothschild, the main dog of the group.
04:09And he has voiced Yakko from Animaniacs, Jack Fenton from Danny Phantom, Carl from Jimmy Neutron, and Donatello from the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
04:21And then the waitress that reported back to Aku was voiced by Jennifer Hale, who has voiced Miss Keen from Powerpuff Girls,
04:28Jean Grey from Wolverine and the X-Men, and Kat Nape from Shaolin Showdown.
04:33Now, getting on to the episode proper, I want to say I love the three guys Jack meets that gave him his name.
04:41And surprisingly enough, I didn't even know this, but they all have names too.
04:46Their names are Cole Lampkin, Homeslice, and Bro-Bot.
04:50Lampkin being my favorite because I love the way this line was always delivered.
04:56B-b-b-b-then that gunner will come out a ram-a-lam-a-lam-a, and the trash is all munching and crunching and snack-mixing!
05:00Me and my dad had a riot whenever we heard them talking because of how energetic it was.
05:07As a kid, I understood almost nothing of what they were saying.
05:12But now as an adult, I understood about 90% of what they were saying.
05:17It's always cool to me that when you're a kid, you may not understand something,
05:21but once you get older, you get that, oh, now I get it moment.
05:26Speaking of that, this show was also my first introduction to what a nightclub was
05:31because I did not understand any of what was happening with all the lights, music, dancers, and implied alcohol.
05:38I don't know if any kid show could get away with this kind of imagery nowadays
05:43because Samurai Jack was Y7 if I remember correctly.
05:47And again, just listen to this music.
05:51And I also love the look and feeling of the future city being grungy
06:18and having so many jagged edges everywhere,
06:21with a constant tint of black and red on everything,
06:24subconsciously telling us that this all belongs to Aku.
06:28But now let's get on to what happened with the characters this episode.
06:32Rothschild and his group are trying to find people who will fight Aku for them,
06:36but I would be like that guy who told them off.
06:40Who in their right mind would fight against Aku,
06:44who has been ruling over the earth for probably tens of thousands of years at this point, at least.
06:50I do understand why they are looking because they are backed into a corner at this point
06:55with their people working themselves to death
06:58and being crucified if they don't meet Aku's quotas.
07:02Which again, I am surprised they let that type of thing through the censors.
07:06But they were able to get extraordinarily lucky
07:10with finding the one guy that actually has a chance of standing up to Aku in Jack.
07:17And man did Jack have a rough introduction to the future with immediately getting shot at.
07:22His senses getting bombarded with the loud music from the club
07:25and seeing so many aliens for the first time
07:28which would freak anyone out and react like he was.
07:32And finally getting into a fight with an alien gang in that club.
07:36But now Jack has seemingly found allies in the dog people
07:39and we will see how he is going to deal with Aku's army that is coming next episode.
07:45And I have nothing really to say about Aku really.
07:48He is just being his evil self and I love him for that.
07:52I know of your plight, but Aquian for you see...
07:56It was me, Parry.
07:58We start with them seeing the beetle drones running towards them in the distance
08:02and Jack seeing this gets to work.
08:04He starts to assess everything he has at his disposal
08:07like their mining equipment and crystals they mine.
08:10And we get a funny joke of him not understanding how a pen works.
08:15But then we get a montage of him and the dogs preparing everything.
08:18And I have to say, seeing all the prep time of them setting up all the equipment is pretty awesome.
08:24Like Jack discovering the asset that is the crystals they mine
08:28and that they can be used as arrowheads and spears
08:31and him befriending the alien horse they use.
08:34All of this feeds the part of my brain that has an obsession with strategy games.
08:39Then all of it being completed with him making his family's flag with the dog paws on it
08:44and them making his and his horse's armor
08:46with the cherry on top of him having a dog hood ornament on his helmet
08:51to further represent who he is fighting for.
08:54We cut to the morning of the attack
08:56and we get this magnificent sequence of Jack riding in on his horse into battle.
09:01The beetle droids wash over the land like a black tidal wave
09:04as Jack puts all of his traps into motion.
09:07And I will go more in depth with all of this in the discussion section
09:11but we get to see how truly skillful Jack is.
09:16They eventually start taking him seriously and attack him in mass.
09:20Managing to knock him off his horse with his horse getting out of there.
09:24I gotta get out of here!
09:25They keep piling on him until they rip off all of his armor
09:28but he keeps mowing them down.
09:30He escapes from them for a moment
09:32leading them into more of the traps he set.
09:35With this one beetle droid that always made me laugh as a kid.
09:38I believe I can fly
09:41My favorite trap being the pit trap
09:46because you just hear silence and then
09:48Then with all his resources exhausted
09:54he makes his final stand against them
09:57and man does he fight.
09:59Getting his robes torn off
10:01and then getting himself covered in the robot's oil.
10:04Of course since this is a kid's show
10:06they made all of these things robots
10:08because they definitely can't show him
10:10covered in the blood of his enemies.
10:13But I honestly did not like the slow motion they put in here
10:16because I feel like it went on for too long in my opinion.
10:20And then the last moment of the fight
10:22where he actually made the droids afraid of him
10:25and just tells them there is no escape
10:28is such a badass line
10:31my goodness.
10:32Ending it with him standing on a huge pile
10:35of their destroyed remnants
10:36holding his family's and the dog's flag
10:39in victory.
10:41The dogs then thank him
10:42and invite him to travel with them
10:44but Jack refuses
10:45saying that he has to right all of Aku's wrongs
10:49and find a way to get back to the past
10:51so he can destroy Aku
10:53and stop this future from ever coming about.
10:56Ending with Aku seeing all of this
10:59telling Jack that he will be the one
11:01to end their rivalry
11:03when he sees fit
11:04laughing at him
11:05as we roll into the credits.
11:08Since there isn't any new voice actors
11:10we can get into the meat of this episode
11:12which is seeing what Jack can do
11:14with all of his skills
11:15and half a days of prep time
11:17to destroy an army.
11:19So we see him put his education to use
11:21being able to draw a map
11:23and battle plans for everyone
11:24because I am sure
11:26through all of the places that he went
11:29as a child
11:30someone taught him military strategies.
11:33We then see him make a bow
11:34and arrows out of the crystals
11:36with him being deadly accurate with them
11:39since he was trained by goddamn Robin Hood.
11:42And we see him set up rocks
11:43that when they are hit
11:44produce sparks
11:45to set the barrels on fire to explode
11:48and he was able to shoot
11:49a launch button
11:50on the machines
11:51to hurl boulders at them
11:53while riding on horseback.
11:55And speaking of this alien horse
11:57I just loved its design as a kid.
11:59With it hearkening back
12:00to his time in India
12:01learning how to take care of horses
12:03and it looks super cool
12:05with its six legs
12:06and awesome armor
12:08the dogs made for it.
12:09I do think Jack
12:10is one of the few characters
12:12besides Batman
12:13that can actually do something
12:14if you give him prep time.
12:16And this last episode
12:18is a great full circle moment
12:20for the first episode
12:21with all of its references to it.
12:23And there's not much else
12:24to talk about with this episode
12:26because it was mainly action
12:27with very little talking.
12:29So next I will talk about
12:31the creator of the series
12:32Genndy Tartakovsky.
12:34He was basically
12:35the creator of my childhood.
12:37He was the creator
12:38of Dexter's Laboratory
12:39which was one of my favorite
12:41children's cartoons as a kid.
12:43He worked on Powerpuff Girls
12:45as a director, producer, and writer.
12:47And I owe his headcanon
12:49that the city the dogs were in
12:50was the city of Townsville
12:52in the future.
12:53He was the creator
12:54of the Hotel Transylvania movie series
12:56which I have only watched
12:58the first one
12:59but I hear that the others are okay
13:01but go down in quality
13:02as they go on
13:03as most movie franchises do.
13:06And finally
13:07he was the creator of Primal
13:09which has been one of my favorite
13:11animated series as an adult.
13:12and which I will be reviewing
13:14after I am done
13:16with Samurai Jack.
13:17Genndy is a respected
13:18and experienced creator
13:20even though he does have
13:21a few duds here and there
13:23but nobody can be perfect
13:25unfortunately.
13:26As I said before
13:28I grew up with this series
13:29and I will say
13:31the major thing it does
13:32that I don't see
13:33any children's cartoons
13:34do nowadays
13:35is let the scene sit.
13:38They don't let there be silence
13:40for a few seconds
13:41or they don't let there
13:43be no dialogue
13:44for long periods of time
13:46like the first episode
13:47having very few lines of dialogue
13:50and basically none
13:51through half of it.
13:52And the lessons it instilled in me
13:54were things like
13:55being able to quiet your mind
13:57so you can focus
13:58being able to persevere
14:00and struggle through hard work
14:01because once you get to the end
14:04it will be worth it
14:05and learning to let go
14:07of your anger
14:08because if you let it consume you
14:10it will eventually destroy you
14:12and many more lessons
14:14that I will get into
14:15as I review the series.
14:17So I really hope you guys
14:18will go on this journey with me.
14:20Now, how things are going to work
14:22on the channel
14:23for this series
14:24is that I will review
14:26two to three episodes
14:27every video
14:28depending on how much time
14:29I give each episode
14:31because I want each part
14:33in the series
14:33to be between
14:3410 and 20 minutes long.
14:37Then once we get on to
14:38season 5
14:39the season that aired
14:41on Adult Swim
14:42I will probably section that out
14:43into three parts altogether
14:45because man did that season
14:48have problems
14:50the longer it went on.
14:51I am partially dreading
14:53ripping into that season.
14:57If any of you have any questions for me
15:00don't feel afraid to ask me
15:02in the comments.
15:03We have come to the end
15:04of the video
15:05and if you are still watching
15:06I would implore you
15:08to like the video
15:09and subscribe
15:09because I will be getting
15:11more episode reviews out soon.
15:13And if you are watching this
15:14in the future
15:15make sure to check out
15:16the playlist for the series
15:18if you want more
15:19of what I showed here.
15:21With all this done for now
15:22I guess I will see you guys
15:24later.
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