Samurai Jack

Samurai Jack – Episode XCII

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Samurai Jack - Episode XCII television review

For 50 years Samurai Jack (Phil LaMarr) has traveled the wastelands of the future that is Aku (now voiced by Greg Baldwin). Along the way the samurai has lost his hope, his ability to age, the magical sword, and perhaps his sanity. The first new episode of Samurai Jack in more than a dozen years gives us a sobering look at our hero haunted by his failure to make his way home and destroy Aku. Opening with some trademark action, “Episode XCII” gives us the motorcycle-riding, gun-totting new version of Jack taking out a host of Beetle Drones to save a mother and her child. Despite the fact that his skills haven’t lessened, it soon becomes obvious this is not the same samurai whose quest is legend. Haunted by visions of the past and all those he cannot save, Jack seems lost. Has Aku finally won?

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Samurai Jack – Episode V

  • Title: Samurai Jack – Episode V: Jack in Space
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Samurai Jack - Episode V television review

Throwback Thursday takes us back to the adventures of the time-displaced samurai and his never-ending quest to make his way home. While running from a pack of Aku‘s (Mako) killer robot Mantoids, Jack (Phil LaMarr) accidentally leads them to the secret base of a group of scientists attempting to build a rocket ship to escape the evil that is Aku. Given that his actions caused their discovery, Jack sticks around to help the group escape Earth. After a few rigorous tests, and much discussion, the group designs him a rocket suit to help them flee and a plan to use the escape pod at sublight speed to use science to slingshot the samurai back to his rightful time.

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Behind the Scenes – Samurai Jack – Season Five

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Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky and cast and crew discuss Samurai Jack‘s return to television more than a decade after the last episode aired which just may finally provide a conclusion to the time-traveling samurai’s long-awaited journey home in an upcoming 10-episode event which Jack will attempt once more to undo the future that is Aku.

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Samurai Jack – Episode IV

  • Title: Samurai Jack – Episode IV: Jack, the Woolies, and the Chritchellites
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Samurai Jack - Episode IV

An initial error in judgement by Samurai Jack (Phil LaMarr) is put right in “Episode IV.” Witnessing a runaway Woolie burst through the forest, Jack wrangles the animal and returns it to the mounted Chritchellites who were perusing it on other Woolies. Invited to their village, a starving Jack accepts despite having serious objections to how the the strangers are treating the Woolies. Learning that the Woolies, tortured for the Chritchellites amusement, can speak, Jack decides something must be done about the situation. A dream leads Jack on the proper course of action. Freeing the Woolie he helped capture, Jack and the creature help break the Chritchellites’ dominance of the Woolies, freeing the creatures and sending the aliens back into the spaceships to flee.

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