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Now, Jack is back in the khung of a 10-episode fifth season that’ll finally give fans the conclusion they’ve been aching for. But compared to lớn what viewers have been through, Jack himself has had it much, much worse.
An image is worth a thousand words, and the frames in Samurai Jack have always had a tendency lớn knock you on your ass. They’re bold, they’re evocative, they tell stories, they are frozen moments in time. So even without the new season’s brief logline, we need only look at the opening image of the trailer to lớn get a sense of what’s been happening in Jack’s world: the samurai is standing at the edge of a cliff, with only his shadowed silhouette visible from a distance as the wind tosses back his un-cinched hair. He stares into the crashing waves below, despaired.
He’s not in a good place. More than 12 years have passed since the Season 4 finale, but for Jack it’s been 50. On the surface, everything looks exactly where we left it: the signature animation style makes a comeback (albeit with sleeker lines và richer colors), and the visuals still hold more authority than the dialogue. Aku still rules the earth (now with a few more interesting followers). But Jack still can’t find a way back lớn his own time, so he can’t reunite with his family. He also doesn’t age, so he’s been living for years without death’s release.
Though representative of Tartakovsky’s cinematic sensibilities, the vivid animation is shattered when an apparition appears lớn him, wreathing in flame and shouting, “You have forgotten your purpose!” He’s later haunted again, this time by a ghostly khung that appears as Jack’s former self. His hair pinned back in a bun, the pale-skinned figure screams, “How much longer can you keep this up?” All of this is in the trailer, so I’m not spoiling anything. But, suffice khổng lồ say, this is some pretty serious stuff — và it gets more brutal from there.
The fans who were wooed by the show’s artistry are older, & because Samurai Jack is now in a later time spot on Adult Swim, rather than the kid-friendly afternoon block, the tone can accommodate more mature material. But Tartakovsky isn’t much interested in blood và guts. Yes, there is plenty of blood, but it’s not over used. Instead, the emphasis is on Jack’s decaying mind, his waning will. Even the opening credits — once of Aku reciting the legend of how he flung his nemesis through a time portal to the future — is now told from Jack’s perspective, reinforcing a more psychological story.
Where this sometimes falters is when it needs lớn remind us that it is a cartoon with cheeky comedic moments. Samurai Jack was never really made for toddlers, but it still had flamboyance và outlandish characters like The Scotsman, the talking dogs, and Aku himself. So the shift from Jack’s mental purgatory to the hijinks of his adversaries aren’t always smooth, especially when some of these scenes would be considered grave by normal Hollywood standards. (See the mysterious masked women in the premiere episode và the one kích hoạt Jack may not come back from in the second.)
Even when things are dark, the show is still fun in the way that Tartakovsky, his team of animators, and the writers have always approached scenes. It’s rarely a straight-on shot of an armored Jack riding his motorcycle (yes, a motorcycle) down a wooded road. We’re peering at him through an opening in the autumn tree tops above, or peeking his journey through the slits in a sea of trees, or watching a leaf fall limply into a running stream as his engine roars in the distance. In one of the more unique sequences, Jack is forced to vày battle in the pitch black of a dark temple, illuminated only by the flickering glow of a firefly.
Tartakovsky had described Season 5 as 10 parts of a five-hour movie, & it’s felt instantly. The episodes from the first four seasons were more like isolated vignettes — they helped tell a larger story but their order could be shifted around without too much disruption. I haven’t seen the over of Season 5, but it does have a beginning that bleeds into the next episode. This is still Jack we’re talking about. He’s just a little bit more experienced.
Rating: ★★★★ Very good — Damn fine television
Samurai Jack season 5 premieres on March 11 at 11 p.m. On Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
An increasing intensity và maturity are evident in Samurai Jack"s beautifully animated, action-packed, và overall compelling fifth season. Read critic nhận xét
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