At this point the only thing I'm worried about is if they can give Aku a satisfying send off. Funny Aku is great, but I want to see serious, menacing Aku by the end.
Gotta get back -Back to the past- SAMURAI JACK- Whachow
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Well, only three episodes left to go. It's bee a good ride so far. Still weird seeing blood in the show though.
! I do wish Jack had actually cleaned up himself rather than getting a magical shave and a haircut though.
Only Ashi was allowed to clean herself up….after we got to see Jack half naked for a span of 3 1/2 episodes.
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Well, only three episodes left to go. It's bee a good ride so far. Still weird seeing blood in the show though.
! I do wish Jack had actually cleaned up himself rather than getting a magical shave and a haircut though.
Thats my one issue with this episode. I wanted to see Jack physically cut his beard and hair. Magical robes I can live with, but seeing him grooming would have been so cool.
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Thats my one issue with this episode. I wanted to see Jack physically cut his beard and hair. Magical robes I can live with, but seeing him grooming would have been so cool.
I agree that we still should have seen Jack manually groom himself, but the kimono conjuring is completely fine because of this parallel.
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! Well, looks like the writers are framing the relationship a certain way after all.
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Need a Walrus to sell you food? Why not Zoidberg?
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lol They would. They freaking would.
! If I didn't know any better, I would think Bruce Timm directed this episode.
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They would pick that song.
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You…I.....what just happened??? Genndy is playing 4D class.
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Tumblr must be loving this.
Looks like the preview was hinting at the Guardian.
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I'm still processing the fact that Samurai Fucking Jack just played a Dean Martin song.
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Honestly, I was smiling the whole time. Especially when I was watching /co/ have a nuclear meltdown.
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lol They would. They freaking would.
! If I didn't know any better, I would think Bruce Timm directed this episode.
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! I always considered the romance a legit possibility though. I'm alright with it. I guess. But this seems a bit too sudden and on the nose though.This is a million times better than whatever the hell Timm fanfiction was.
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I'm still processing the fact that Samurai Fucking Jack just played a Dean Martin song.
Feel like that song inclusion was Gennedy being self aware of how this episode handled the situation tonally and decided to just commit to this progression, maybe due to the episode constraints and the like.
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This is a million times better than whatever the hell Timm fanfiction was.
I can agree with that. But Genndy is going to have a hard time topping the spiciness of this scene:
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! The episode proper was having a lot of fun with itself and while I see how the two can make a good pairing, I am at the same time considering the progression to set up for a more heartbreaking finale whether Jack can return to the past or Ashi bites the big one.
! I didn't bat an eye at Jack being bothered by Ashi losing her clothes and Ashi not understanding, that made sense. Then she goes full kiss at the end, and oh boy, that doesn't seem to follow as much.
Would have been a great opportunity to see an awkward transition into the kiss from both rather than snapping into it.
Sure we get a fast change in dynamic and a funny end, but to me it's a little less natural than everything preceding.
Oh well, I'm sure I'll love their interactions going forth just the same.
! I remember episode 4's preview hiding Ashi despite her being in it a lot, so the preview for episode 9 could easily be doing the same.
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Maybe this is just me, but I wish that Aku could have done more this season than getting a couple humorous scenes dedicated to his depression. And a flashback of destroying the last portal, I guess. They're funny scenes, but it just feels so weird that Aku is essentially a glorified background threat while Jack is having this epic character development journey of struggling with PTSD and despair, all of which is linked directly to Aku. Obviously this season is meant to cater to the fans who have watched through the previous four seasons of the show, that want to see Jack finish his mission to defeat Aku and return to the past, but I still feel like this season could have done a better job of reminding us why Aku is such a lovable and hatable villain to immerse us into the urgency of taking him down.
Yeah, I understand that Aku can't meet Jack due to not knowing the sword was gone, but… What would be the issue in dedicating more scenes to that? I'd love to see Aku be given more depth and strut his stuff aside from being hunched in his throne room all day literally waiting for somebody to depose him like Bowser, whereas we see him all over the place in the past four seasons. He's not even planning to do anything big. He's just... pitying himself in his bed.
But I guess there's only so much you can focus on in only ten episodes, and Ashi's redemption requires a bunch of screen time to be believable. I would have totally preferred a mostly Aku-centric episode over the latest episode, which wasn't really necessary at all. I was totally invested in seeing Jack get his sword back, but now that it's dealt with, Jack fighting Aku feels more like a loose end, almost akin an item you forget to buy at a grocery store. There hasn't been much investment put into wanting to see him fall. Which is a bit of a shame. I keep looking at Aku as an afterthought instead of the cool final showdown I want to be excited to see.
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forget to buy at a grocery sword.
Can't count on both hands the number of times I've forgotten to buy a whetstone when I'm out shopping at the sword.
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Ashi: You're already aware of the idea of clothes, you took the time to make a whole ensemble out of leaves. Stop acting like you have no clue why you're even wearing them.
Jack: Get over it!!!
Dat ending, tho. It's like, too long with the panting led to way too quick a transition to the kissing. But again, dat ending… XD
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So doesn't that made Aku, Jack "father-in-law" since his Ashi "father". :P
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Are there really only two episodes left? They… kind of have a lot to do still. Kinda want a giant epic war reunion of all the characters versus Aku and Jack becoming king and dealing with the portal guardian. But... not a whole of space left. Oh well, hopefully the last two eps are epic.
Continuity, and Jack having someone else to continuously play off of are what the show has always needed, but we really only just got him back. This was basically the first episode with real Jack.
And what was the point of the entire Scaramouche subplot of going to tell Aku that Jack has no sword if... Jack already has the sword back?
Ah well, hopefully it all comes together.
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Maybe this is just me, but I wish that Aku could have done more this season
I wish he still had the red lines around his mouth.
But I mostly assume he was given a reduced role due to Mako's death, same as Iroh in Last Airbender. Greg Baldwin is a decent facsimile but he's just not quite the same. They obviously couldn't leave him out entirely, but putitng him front and center and as loud as he was before would just come off weird. That said, two more episodes. Hopefully he'll be heavily in those.
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And what was the point of the entire Scaramouche subplot of going to tell Aku that Jack has no sword if… Jack already has the sword back?
He'll probably show while they're fighting and distract Aku at a critical moment.
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So much for father daughter relationship.
that was some hater shit anyways, let jack get laid.
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It's funny because the whole time I was wondering this episode what samurai jack gains from being an adult cartoon now. Then Ashi got naked. This episode was pretty cringe worthy though. Either the two of them are weird or I just have a problem with affection. I laughed though that Ashi blushes from touching jacks hand but has no problem being completely naked in front of him. I like that this chapter put the whole Jack mentor thing to rest. Jack is stronger but Ashi is on his general level and can completely hold her own as a partner.
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I kinda hope Ashi chooses to go back with Jack to the past. I mean, a happy ending wouldn't be all that bad for this series, he defeats Aku, goes back home and gets the girl, perfect finish.
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Maybe this is just me, but I wish that Aku could have done more this season than getting a couple humorous scenes dedicated to his depression. And a flashback of destroying the last portal, I guess. They're funny scenes, but it just feels so weird that Aku is essentially a glorified background threat while Jack is having this epic character development journey of struggling with PTSD and despair, all of which is linked directly to Aku. Obviously this season is meant to cater to the fans who have watched through the previous four seasons of the show, that want to see Jack finish his mission to defeat Aku and return to the past, but I still feel like this season could have done a better job of reminding us why Aku is such a lovable and hatable villain to immerse us into the urgency of taking him down.
Yeah, I understand that Aku can't meet Jack due to not knowing the sword was gone, but… What would be the issue in dedicating more scenes to that? I'd love to see Aku be given more depth and strut his stuff aside from being hunched in his throne room all day literally waiting for somebody to depose him like Bowser, whereas we see him all over the place in the past four seasons. He's not even planning to do anything big. He's just... pitying himself in his bed.
But I guess there's only so much you can focus on in only ten episodes, and Ashi's redemption requires a bunch of screen time to be believable. I would have totally preferred a mostly Aku-centric episode over the latest episode, which wasn't really necessary at all. I was totally invested in seeing Jack get his sword back, but now that it's dealt with, Jack fighting Aku feels more like a loose end, almost akin an item you forget to buy at a grocery store. There hasn't been much investment put into wanting to see him fall. Which is a bit of a shame. I keep looking at Aku as an afterthought instead of the cool final showdown I want to be excited to see.
This is definitely my exact concerns. As much as I love an antagonist with humor like Eggman and Dr. Nefarious off the top of my head, the said opposer also has to be force to be feared, like Crocodile or Doflamingo. Aku to me was always a perfect compromise between the two during the past four seasons whether plotting in his lair or directly confronting Jack with whatever plan he hatched along with his enjoyable wit. In terms of following the series, I always saw Jack and Aku as two sides of the same coin, ya can't have one without the other.
I feel like this season should get five more episodes so Aku can get at least one or two of them focused on him so he can get some more spotlight time and buildup before the conclusion.
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I kinda hope Ashi chooses to go back with Jack to the past. I mean, a happy ending wouldn't be all that bad for this series, he defeats Aku, goes back home and gets the girl, perfect finish.
Well, there is the whole paradox of what happens if Jack goes back and completely erases Aku's influence: does Ashi continue to exist in an Aku-free world?
I feel like that's the crux of the potential conflict in the finale: does Jack go back, erase Aku's evil future along with everything he's done for the aliens that were only there because of Aku, as well as Ashi since she was born for Aku's sake? Or does he never go back and fail to save the countless lives that were ruined by Aku's millennia of conquest, including his parents?
I'll admit, that was one of the main problems I had with the original series: a few times he forsakes a way home just to save people who wouldn't need saving if he just erased Aku in the past. Fascinating how they seem to using that as the basis for the quandary I imagine is coming.
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Well, there is the whole paradox of what happens if Jack goes back and completely erases Aku's influence: does Ashi continue to exist in an Aku-free world?
I feel like that's the crux of the potential conflict in the finale: does Jack go back, erase Aku's evil future along with everything he's done for the aliens that were only there because of Aku, as well as Ashi since she was born for Aku's sake? Or does he never go back and fail to save the countless lives that were ruined by Aku's millennia of conquest, including his parents?
I'll admit, that was one of the main problems I had with the original series: a few times he forsakes a way home just to save people who wouldn't need saving if he just erased Aku in the past. Fascinating how they seem to using that as the basis for the quandary I imagine is coming.
That's definitely a possibility despite how awkward it is that the show has never dealt with acknowledging the implications of Jack heavily altering or completely erasing everybody he knows in the future. I can buy those moments where he refused going back in time to save his current allies in the sense of not thinking too much about timey whimsy implications because it's an episodic cartoon. And if the show's not going to bother making a big subject about the implications of time travel, why should I care? Before season five, I wouldn't have been surprised to see the series end with Jack returning to the past and the last few moments of the final episode showing everybody in the future being harmoniously together and happy even though that doesn't make sense because they are brought together by Aku's actions (sort of like the ending of Over the Garden Wall). And there's other stuff like wondering why Aku can't open another time portal into the future to throw Jack into or even peer into to see if he'll ever be defeated that you have to ignore, unfortunately.
Although I find Ashi to be a pretty selfish reason for doubting his purpose after not questioning it at all for anybody else he's bonded with (aside from his guilt trips). He's completely cool with heavily altering or even entirely erasing the existence of all these people he's helped in this dystopian future created by Aku's reign (assuming that their lives are not presently in danger). But as soon as he gets a girlfriend in the future, THEN he starts hesitating about the effects of his objective lol. I don't know how to feel about that unless the moral message is about believing that the dystopian future can be redeemed from its darkness just like Jack and Ashi were this season.
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I kinda hope Ashi chooses to go back with Jack to the past. I mean, a happy ending wouldn't be all that bad for this series, he defeats Aku, goes back home and gets the girl, perfect finish.
Sorry, I missed your reply. I expect a happy ending and would be cool with this. Even though it wouldn't make sense because of time travel shenanigans, but the show never really cared about thinking of the concept's consequences too much lol.
This is definitely my exact concerns. As much as I love an antagonist with humor like Eggman and Dr. Nefarious off the top of my head, the said opposer also has to be force to be feared, like Crocodile or Doflamingo. Aku to me was always a perfect compromise between the two during the past four seasons whether plotting in his lair or directly confronting Jack with whatever plan he hatched along with his enjoyable wit. In terms of following the series, I always saw Jack and Aku as two sides of the same coin, ya can't have one without the other.
I feel like this season should get five more episodes so Aku can get at least one or two of them focused on him so he can get some more spotlight time and buildup before the conclusion.
I completely agree. Especially with the video game/One Piece villain examples. I suppose we can only hope for the best in the final two episodes. Especially when we find out why Aku claimed to destroy all of the time portals assuming that the one the Guardian has is still active.
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Although I find Ashi to be a pretty selfish reason for doubting his purpose after not questioning it at all for anybody else he's bonded with (aside from his guilt trips). He's completely cool with heavily altering or even entirely erasing the existence of all these people he's helped in this dystopian future created by Aku's reign (assuming that their lives are not presently in danger). But as soon as he gets a girlfriend in the future, THEN he starts hesitating about the effects of his objective lol. I don't know how to feel about that unless the moral message is about believing that the dystopian future can be redeemed from its darkness just like Jack and Ashi were this season.
Jack himself noted how "confused" Ashi was upon their formal meeting, and I always viewed his examples (in the episode with Swag Hat Jack) as him correcting the error out of a….proxy-guilt, part because he did kill her sister, but also because it was the (wrong) image of himself that led her and the girls down the dark path to begin with.
I'm glad for the two of them, but….what of the past? Jack's family, and ancestors? I suppose you can view the monk scene as him getting rid of the guilt that's been accumulating these 50 years, as he's helped a wartorn future in his own way, but I'll admit part of me wants him to go back and end it, in all timelines. Even if it means undoing his success in the future...which makes it all bittersweet. Especially now that we have Ashi.
I expect a happy ending and would be cool with this.
IIRC Genndy said the ending would be something "we didn't know we would want".
To reference your complains about Aku earlier, I'll admit I share some of the disappointment, but if I get a satisfying end to the Jack-Aku conflict, then I'm happy. Which reminds me, ending Aku is something that must be done VERY well. He's been responsible for so many atrocities and suffering, both in the global sense and to Jack personally, but at the same time, he's part of the reason why the show has been so entertaining.
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Jack himself noted how "confused" Ashi was upon their formal meeting, and I always viewed his examples (in the episode with Swag Hat Jack) as him correcting the error out of a….proxy-guilt, part because he did kill her sister, but also because it was the (wrong) image of himself that led her and the girls down the dark path to begin with.
The impression I got was moreso that this is Jack still retaining his noble selflessness and being baffled by how anybody could worship Aku like a god. The guilt over killing the sisters got dealt with in episode 3, although there is that imaginary argument in the beginning of episode 4 where he does feel conflicted about killing. I doubt that he actually feels responsible for the girls having a negative perception of Jack when that was all Aku's fault (technically it was the deluded mother's, but Jack doesn't know she exists). And the monk scene was about Jack getting over his frustration at losing the sword and the chance to travel back in time blinding him into despair, feeling as if fate is eternally unfair. You can actually see how he breaks his boiling point when Aku tells him about how he missed the last time portal, and Jack almost NEVER acted that outright angry before instead of acting calm, collected, and humble. That's the toll his journey and failures took on him, which clouded him into overweighing all of the good he's done.
I'm glad for the two of them, but….what of the past? Jack's family, and ancestors? I suppose you can view the monk scene as him getting rid of the guilt that's been accumulating these 50 years, as he's helped a wartorn future in his own way, but I'll admit part of me wants him to go back and end it, in all timelines. Even if it means undoing his success in the future...which makes it all bittersweet. Especially now that we have Ashi.
But that raises a bunch of moral implications about if it's really right to effectively delete all of these people who exist in the future. Especially when they don't even get their own say. Don't get me wrong, Aku's dark reign should never be forgiven, and he should never have come into power. But now that he tangibly has done that already, and now that these people still exist in their current situations whether they willed it or not millennia after Jack's family has already perished, and now that Jack has met these people and know that they're capable of good, is it truly right to place the lives of the past above theirs? By choosing one timeline, either the past or the future, he's practically dooming the other. Even if it's for a greater good without Aku ever coming to power, everybody he met in the future is gone. Even if new happy versions of them somehow exist, they are still technically completely different people. This isn't a simple needs of the many argument because changing the past isn't REALLY saving the people in the future, it's saving the people in Jack's time and making a more benevolent future than the one Aku made. Which still wouldn't include all of the people in the dystopian future we know, because they don't exist in the past and will not exist in a new future without Aku unless they have long lifespans. Jack's era didn't deserve to be ruined, but that time already passed while the people in the future are alive and in peril now. If he leaves, that's arguably saying the lives of Jack's era and those that only exist in a new better future are more important to save than all of the ones that still currently exist in the future. That needs to be considered, at least if this was a more philosophically complex and sci-fi consistent series.
I hope that makes sense. I'm working on my own sci-fi series that includes time travel and a surreal future, and this is actually a heavy philosophical topic for the series' endgame. I don't expect the show to ponder anywhere near this deep, although I would love to be surprised. If Jack returns to the past, I still expect some sort of montage of everybody in the future somehow still existing and being happy despite how that should probably be impossible.
IIRC Genndy said the ending would be something "we didn't know we would want".
To reference your complains about Aku earlier, I'll admit I share some of the disappointment, but if I get a satisfying end to the Jack-Aku conflict, then I'm happy. Which reminds me, ending Aku is something that must be done VERY well. He's been responsible for so many atrocities and suffering, both in the global sense and to Jack personally, but at the same time, he's part of the reason why the show has been so entertaining.
Making an "all evil" kind of character charismatic but also threatening, I adore that trope.That quote sounds like code for Jack staying in the future lol. Although it just means something as simple as going back to the past with Ashi.
I adore that trope too and hope that Aku is done justice in the finale. Aku made this series almost or even just as much as Jack did.
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And the monk scene was about Jack getting over his frustration at losing the sword and the chance to travel back in time blinding him into despair, feeling as if fate is eternally unfair. You can actually see how he breaks his boiling point when Aku tells him about how he missed the last time portal, and Jack almost NEVER acted that outright angry before instead of acting calm, collected, and humble. That's the toll his journey and failures took on him, which clouded him into overweighing all of the good he's done.
right, mixed up the details there.
But that raises a bunch of moral implications about if it's really right to effectively delete all of these people who exist in the future. Especially when they don't even get their own say. Don't get me wrong, Aku's dark reign should never be forgiven, and he should never have come into power. But now that he tangibly has done that already, and now that these people still exist in their current situations whether they willed it or not millennia after Jack's family has already perished, and now that Jack has met these people and know that they're capable of good, is it truly right to place the lives of the past above theirs? By choosing one timeline, either the past or the future, he's practically dooming the other.
that's what makes this ending so puzzling to me. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I've seen MANY predictions on what Genndy will do, and the fact there's multiple possibilities (maybe less now that we've went through the love angle, but i disgress) means….well, we'll have satisfied people and unsatisfied people.
Even if it's for a greater good without Aku ever coming to power, everybody he met in the future is gone. Even if new happy versions of them somehow exist, they are still technically completely different people. This isn't a simple needs of the many argument because changing the past isn't REALLY saving the people in the future, it's saving the people in Jack's time and making a more benevolent future than the one Aku made. Which still wouldn't include all of the people in the dystopian future we know, because they don't exist in the past and will not exist in a new future without Aku unless they have long lifespans. Jack's era didn't deserve to be ruined, but that time already passed while the people in the future are alive and in peril now. If he leaves, that's arguably saying the lives of Jack's era and those that only exist in a new better future are more important to save than all of theirs.
Which makes me believe that we're aiming for a "stay-in-future" kind of idea. On that note though, what do you think of Jack himself? One prediction I've seen has all of the aging finally come full circle for him once Aku is done and the future saved, but now I see that as less likely. Him stay the way he is, as a symbol of good?
Another prediction I saw = Aku tries another time portal in desperation, only Jack turns it against him and flings him into the future where Jack's "good has become law", in an inverse of how the series began. Little cheesy but i like it lol.
If Jack returns to the past, I still expect some sort of montage of everybody in the future somehow still existing and being happy despite how that should probably be impossible.
Really depends on how the rules of time travel work in SJ. The fact that it's been a forced future travel, opposed to traveling in the past, means it already avoided the typical trap of undoing the thing that caused the travel back to begin with.
I adore that trope too and hope that Aku is done justice in the finale. Aku made this series almost or even just as much as Jack did.
Which is why I await episode 10 with heavy breath.
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Alright.
that's what makes this ending so puzzling to me. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I've seen MANY predictions on what Genndy will do, and the fact there's multiple possibilities (maybe less now that we've went through the love angle, but i disgress) means….well, we'll have satisfied people and unsatisfied people.
Given where the show went with Jack and Ashi's relationship and how the show's plots work in general (like having Ashi's mother show up out of nowhere and those random supernatural samurai spirits that plagued Jack just because), I think we're better off making simple guesses instead of complex ones.
Which makes me believe that we're aiming for a "stay-in-future" kind of idea. On that note though, what do you think of Jack himself? One prediction I've seen has all of the aging finally come full circle for him once Aku is done and the future saved, but now I see that as less likely. Him stay the way he is, as a symbol of good?
I agree.
Are you saying that Jack dies from old age once Aku is defeated? I can't see a dark ending like that happening. Unless you're saying that he starts aging normally. Which I suppose is okay.
Another prediction I saw = Aku tries another time portal in desperation, only Jack turns it against him and flings him into the future where Jack's "good has become law", in an inverse of how the series began. Little cheesy but i like it lol.
lol I wouldn't mind that if they have a way to fight Aku.
Really depends on how the rules of time travel work in SJ. The fact that it's been a forced future travel, opposed to traveling in the past, means it already avoided the typical trap of undoing the thing that caused the travel back to begin with.
The thing about Samurai Jack is that it hasn't even bothered setting up any rules aside from Aku spawning future portals (that he never does again for some reason) and random past portals littered throughout the world. Jack somehow not aging as a side-effect is the first additional stipulation of time travel that we've learned since the series started. So they can pretty much do whatever they want with suspension of disbelief on outside, because there's nothing really set up to make the possibilities unbelievable with how little time travel is explained.
Which is why I await episode 10 with heavy breath.
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Given where the show went with Jack and Ashi's relationship and how the show's plots work in general (like having Ashi's mother show up out of nowhere and those random supernatural samurai spirits that plagued Jack just because), I think we're better off making simple guesses instead of complex ones.
Yeah, we only have two episodes left…
Are you saying that Jack dies from old age once Aku is defeated? I can't see a dark ending like that happening. Unless you're saying that he starts aging normally. Which I suppose is okay.
The former (well not dying, but rapid aging), but I dismissed it in the same line, since well…..Genndy greenlighted Jashi. It'd be weird if a wrench was suddenly thrown into it because Jack's an old man. Aging normally, sure.
The thing about Samurai Jack is that it hasn't even bothered setting up any rules aside from Aku spawning future portals (that he never does again for some reason) and random past portals littered throughout the world. Jack somehow not aging as a side-effect is the first additional stipulation of time travel that we've learned since the series started. So they can pretty much do whatever they want with suspension of disbelief on outside, because there's nothing really set up to make the possibilities unbelievable with how little time travel is explained.
I agree.
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Still, somehow it felt a little bit like an old man finding his "sword" again…
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! WHY does it always have to be in TV shows and movies where a guy and girl who spend a fair bit of time together HAVE to hook up like this?! I thought it would have been better as a Father-Daughter thing, but now I'm worried that Ashi, this badass fighter who tore an army to shreds with her bare hands, is gonna be reduced to a damsel in distress now because Jack loves her…
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Finally caught up! Can't say I'm happy with the newest development however…
! WHY does it always have to be in TV shows and movies where a guy and girl who spend a fair bit of time together HAVE to hook up like this?! I thought it would have been better as a Father-Daughter thing, but now I'm worried that Ashi, this badass fighter who tore an army to shreds with her bare hands, is gonna be reduced to a damsel in distress now because Jack loves her…
They were never going to do a father-daughter relationship largely do to the fact they're around the same age. As for making her damsel in distress in spite of her badass cred to be fair Jack's had a couple of instances where he was in a vulnerable position only to get saved by an intervention (or an ass pull).
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They were never going to do a father-daughter relationship largely do to the fact they're around the same age.
Physically, not mentally (he's really in his seventies, and her mind is still as educated as a child). And it's not like you can't have a platonic relationship with a mentor/partner who's around your age and the opposite gender. By informal fiction law though, yes, it was always an obvious for them to get together just because they're a guy and a girl.
As for making her damsel in distress in spite of her badass cred to be fair Jack's had a couple of instances where he was in a vulnerable position only to get saved by an intervention (or an ass pull).
It's not that Ashi can't need help once or twice or that Jack has never needed help. Rin is simply worried that her whole role will be completely about needing to be saved from here on out, especially when the stakes are their highest during the finale and she doesn't contribute anything else except needing to be saved. I doubt it will happen, but it would suck if it did after how much she has been combat efficient throughout the season.
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Just try and act surprised when Ashi gets fridged