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Published: 2017-04-25 23:06:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 2871; Favourites: 52; Downloads: 0
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In all seriousness, I think of her heel-turn-face as "concise". I believe it just fine, and I could outline my multitude of reasons why but that'll turn this into an essay real quick. Suffice to say Tartakovsky is capable of telling a story with minimal need of "fat", which is a rare gift in storytelling.But when this much happens in the frame of two or three episodes, I can't help but poke fun a little. I'm too used to anime dragging it out for a couple seasons.
"Samurai Jack" and Ashi are property of Cartoon Network and Genndy Tartakovsky.
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I completely agree! As I watched the series I was amazed by the skill Tartakovsky displayed with concise storytelling. Not a moment (Except the final episode) felt rushed. It all went at a perfect pace for a 10 episode series and Ashi's arc was carefully told and believable. That is Tartakovsky's level of skill with character and story-telling.
But, I am still displeased CN/Adultswim did not allow him to produce an hour long finale. That's what this series and it's fans deserved.
I'll admit I would have loved to have seen another series that continued Jack and Ashi's journey together. She was a brilliant character, in my opinion she was what the series needed.Β
I am one of those that wasn't satisfied with the ending. But because I felt it did not fit the season. Season 5 to me felt like it was building up towards Jack having to accept he cannot undo the past and so would stay in the future. All because he made the fatal error of underestimating Aku in their first encounter. It would have been very bittersweet, but still have so much hope in all the people Jack has inspired so he may now rebuild the future.Β
Plus, I feel keeping him and Ashi together would have made for a conclusive ending but have left the future open for future seasons or spin-offs. Basically, it closes the door but doesn't lock it.
Sorry, that turned out longer than I expected. But yes, I fully agree with you on Ashi's redemption. Tartakovsky got straight to the core of her arc without unnecessary baggage. A rare talent.
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There's literally TEN EPISODES in the entire season.
I'm getting real tired of all this fans being all it's "rushed"
Β - there's literally TEN EPISODES... ten. episodes. Not 30, not 20. Ten.
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I'd say her redemption took an appropriate amount of time to complete. It wasn't too rushed or too dragged out.
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Yeah, woulda been nice if they'd done more than ten episodes.
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trains from the time she is born to hate jack and kill him justΒ to be captured for a day and told no aku is evil and she is like... well ok i guess jack isnt bad... they must not have much faith in their show they could have easily stretched out her story like every frienemy in dbz...but no why have any character development.
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The arcs aren't long because the audience attention span is...oh, look at that over there!
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Well, give some credit to Jack, he proved his point to Ashi with an exclamation point and an underline.Β
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Yeah I feel like they needed at least one more episode of Ashi being on the fence about trusting Jack. But given the fact that there are only 10 episodes this season, I can understand why they rushed her redemption.
At the same time though, her redemption is believable and I am thouroughly enjoying what Gendy has done/is doing with her arc.
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Wow.
I've loved Samurai Jack all those years ago - and now it seems I REALLY need to find it somewhere to watch the new season.
It might have "gotten darker" - but this is still Samurai Jack we're talking about.
It's AWESOME.
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That's a pretty good analogy. A lot of people say it's "gotten darker", but...I think of it more in terms of "the show has grown up with its original audience". That, or that the Y7 "chain" has been broken. It still has more than ample moments where you nod and say: "Yeah, this is the same show."
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It's still the same author (and a pretty much same plot premise), so why wouldn't it be?
But I really like how he added a "reformed-ex-villain potential-love-interest" to beef up the tension.
If Jack started KILLING humans (even if BAD ones) - then it's high time for him to start LOVING someone as well.
I would even call this Jack Shippuden, loool.
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It is true, This change was very fast, however, due to the small quantity of chapters there is no time to invest in characters development 
In my opinion that is such a pity, and seasons should be longer xP Β
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Oh boy, I've gotten started...
To me, the thing is Ashi didn't really have "far to go". It was ironically the fact she was such a devoted cultist that made her "redeemable". All the rest of her sisters were conditioned to be drones. "What's my purpose?" "You kill Samurai Jack." She, on the other hand, always had a higher goal in mind. She loved the natural world even if she only got a few glimpses of it growing up. She wanted to kill Jack more savagely than the others because she thought he was ruining it, and she only loved Aku because she thought he made the natural world. That was her true purpose and her motivation. Now that she knows that it's really Aku who's destroying the world, she's simply "shifted to the right target". Right after she finally admits to herself she believes that Aku is the evil one, the very next thing she says is: "What can we do?" She doesn't want to lie around and mope about her mistakes...she wants to DO something about it NOW. That's one of my favorite things about her character.
Even I was wanting Jack to ditch her in episode four when she just kept ranting and raving, but, from a plot point, I admit even that felt necessary. It helped build that this character isn't someone whose allegiance is just thrown to the wind. That she did undergo a breaking point in the scene with the ladybug rather than just some flippant fantasy. And the fact is, once she did start listening to Jack, even JACK didn't think she was worth the effort. The real reason he kept saving her was guilt. He killed the others...he wanted to spare at least one of them to feel some measure of atonement. But what told even more of Ashi's character was that, once she got past the point of hating Jack so much she wouldn't even listen to him, she got even angrier because he thought she COULDN'T change and spat that he didn't know anything about her.
Later in that episode, when she's being tortured by the man in the iron suit, she gets angry when he starts talking about what he did to the kids...but I saw more than that. He talks about how children are so easily manipulated...so easy to turn into weapons. And I realize what she was REALLY getting angry about in that scene was she realized he was indirectly talking about HER. She was just another "living weapon" to be used to kill Jack. She's the same as those kids...only done "less efficiently". She might have even gone so far as to realize that her mother never expected her or her sisters to be able to beat Jack. Rather, just like with the brainwashed kids, they expected him to hesitate after killing one or two of them on realizing they were manipulated humans, which would allow the others to take advantage of the situation and kill him. She was expendable.
Finally, the biggest moment to me in the latest episode was when she answers the little creature. I noticed right at the beginning of her search for Jack, the very first question anyone asks her is: "Are you his friend?" Then she keeps meeting all these people who call themselves his "friends", using that word, and pointing out that they really don't know him or anything about him...only that he saved them, changed their lives, disappeared, and wanted nothing in return. And she slowly realizes, like it or not, she's become another "page" in his story. And right at the end of the search, that creature once again asks: "Are you his friend?" She finally is forced to admit: "Yes."
To me, that's when she really got "redeemed". There's elements of both the supernatural as well as sci-fi in the series, and it seems almost as if some higher power wouldn't allow her to find Jack until she admitted that...that saying that was what really broke the last thread with her old life. Someone has pointed out there's Judeo-Christian metaphors in this season and...ugh, I'll REALLY go on if I start speculating based on that...
In short, though...while I make fun with this post, I don't think of her redemption as rushed but "concise".
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I pretty much agree with everything you said in this post, and we can't forget that time has passed since she met Jack and until he separated from her. It could have been days until they reached that city and factory, and even more days until she got his trail and followed him, So a time skip did happen but unlike Steven Universe who likes to keep the important episodes months between them and explores all the little microevents, Samurai Jack is old school storytelling where mcroevents are left for interpretation and important ones are shown.
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I'm so happy that this wasn't a serious post.
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