4X06 - XLV - 4/5: I like that they brought back the Scotsman after going one whole season without him for a two-part story. I love that there is a different aquatic species from the Triseraquins and I wish we had seen them earlier. I like the Scotsman using the A New Hope reference when talking about the seaport which is similar to what Obi-Wan Kenobi said about Mos Eisley spaceport.
4X13 - LII - 3/5: Just like the second season finale, I was going to give it a 2/5 since it was a disappointing series finale before the series came back thirteen years later, but the action at the end sort of makes it better when the baby, who looks like Jack Jack from The Incredibles, watches Jack as he fights the robotic ogres and obtains the spirit of a samurai. I also like that they had Rachael MacFarlane, who has done voiceover work for other cartoons on Cartoon Network such as The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Codename: Kids Next Door and is currently in American Dad!, to appear in the finale voicing the mother.
It's already established that 50 years have already passed but here's my theory. The season 4 episode began as LII (52), and season 5 began as XCII (92). When you as an audience finish watching XCII, you are technically finished with XCII and are at the start of XCIII (93) and so on.
With this in mind, and the fact that Season 5 is only 10 episodes, the last episode of the season will be represented as CI (101). This represents the beginning to the end. Once you reach the end of CI, you have reached the beginning of CII, hence, the 50 years are represented.
If this season did have 13 episodes, like all of the others, the final episode would have been CIV. 104 is 13*8, implying that there are three lost seasons that would have gone after season 4 and before season 5. This just means that they wanted the starting number for the final season to match what would otherwise have been a starting number for a regular season. They could have chosen to skip over 3 seasons in particular for any reason.
From Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexter's Laboratory, comes the tale of a young samurai cast far into the future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. Join Samurai Jack on his quest to return to the past and undo the destruction that Aku has wrought upon the land. Collects all 13 Season One episodes. Nearly 5 hours on two DVDs.
The animated show features Phil LaMarr voicing the title character, who is cast from ancient Japan into an apocalyptic future by shape-shifting demon Aku (originally voiced by the late Mako, replaced by Greg Baldwin). There, he takes the name Jack and continues his battle, desperately seeking a means of reeturning to his own time. The new season takes place fifty years after season four, and the journey of the ageless Jack will absolultely come to a close. In the following conversation, Tartakovsky details how it all came together and what it's all about.
The pricing of the DVD is $24.98 which is kind of pricey. To put it into perspective, I just bought the first season of Stranger Things on blu-ray for the same price which included the really cool VHS packaging.
All in all I really enjoyed this season and it made me want to go back to watch the series from the beginning. Aside from the tone of the series changing up a bit throughout the final season, the audio was really the only issue I had with this DVD release.
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