To be fair he's killed humans before with the Bounty Hunters. Genndy admitted to forgetting about that episode and just said "I dunno maybe he killed those guys too?". Oh well, I guess you can BS it and say Jack assumed he only KOed them.
Same here. To be honest I can't help but feel sympathy for them just as much as I feel sorry for Jack because they never had a choice to be assassins but were forced into it and went through literal torture to do a mission that's going to kill them or if they fail the cult would likely kill them. It's so much a no win situation for them no matter the outcome and given that we were centered a bit on Ashi in the first episode I have a strong feeling that she'll be the only one left and that she'll eventually play a huge role for the rest of the season. Spoiler I had a feeling one of the sisters would get killed by Jack but it was still sad to see it happen and it's clear by Jack's face he's horrified by it despite knowing that he may have to kill more to survive next episode. I get a feeling this is going to play ahug e factor of Jack regaining his sense of purpose.
I think the shock was of killing someone so young. Most people Jack has faced in his life were hardened warriors/hunters/killers. This one, to him, looks like a young girl.
Nah, Genndy kept hyping up this season as "the first time Jack kills a human" and "how he deals with that"; it's just the general killing of another human that's going to be hanging over his head this season.
I didn't see jack react at all too killing the girl, his reaction mostly came from the knife in his side. shrug
Ugh, just every single shot in this episode was wallpaper worthy. Samurai Jack still has some of the best animation on television.
I mean, he certainly did. That was the whole point of the "just nuts and bolts" inner monologue before. He's conditioned to only fighting robots. But Jack is a samurai. He's prepared to kill to survive, but he didn't expect to kill that girl just then, and hasn't killed in so long, it's probably going to affect him. After all he's not in the best state right now considering he's, y'know, contemplating suicide. It was just as much as gruesome a shock to him as to us.
That episode was intense. Aku was hilarious, which kind of threw me through a loop considering how dark the previous episode left off. It quickly grew grim again. I don't know, it seems almost... too dark? Maybe I just don't remember the show that well, not helped by seeing only a few episodes recently before the new season?
I loved the beginning of episode 2. "That was the old Aku, this is the NEW Aku!" "I thought after I destroyed all of the time portals I would just wait it out, but it has been 50 years and he hasn't aged. All he's done is grown that stupid beard." lol Also, loved seeing them bring back the use of light in this show as that battle scene in the temple was badass.
Were you not paying attention to the scene when he was arguing with himself though? He clearly says something like, "They're just nuts and bolts, not flesh, so I can easily destroy them like I have in the past."
You just reminded me of the Shinobi, warrior of the night. But the rainy temple also reminded me of another Tarkovsky project:
In my head, there is no way Jack hasn't killed a living being before, or at least prepared to do so. Heck when he faced the ghost of the Viking warrior (one of my favorite episodes) he was essentially killing someone. However that doesn't mean he was mentally prepared to do so this time. If anything this season has shown that his mental health is not the highly crafted weapon it used to be. Plus, I know I can't remember what I did a year ago, let alone 20. All of Jack's battles have likely blurred together. So he convinced himself he was fighting a robot (which somehow makes their life unimportant) and when he realized he was wrong, he wasn't mentally stable enough at that moment to grasp it. Then survival instincts kicked in and he ran.
Damn that was such a great, intense battle, and I've known it ever since it first aired on Cartoon Network. It's a shame that it no longer canonically occurred in the main SW universe. What the temple scene in this newest episode brought to the table was a much greater feeling of tension what with the sisters hunting down Jack and then later laying in wait... did anyone else feel like the green bug inside the coffin gave poor Jack another hallucination while he was hiding? It wasn't shown but I could kind of read it in his eyes.
The bug sensed the evil of the Daughters, and the less glow, the closer they were. At least, that's my interpretation. Gotta love the ode to Ecstasy of Gold in the tombs. Compare: Field of the dead in a circle. Only one of the graves holds the prize.
This is accurate. He was prepared to kill the Viking, because he asked him to (so long as it was in battle). It was the only way to break Aku's curse on him and set him free, so after learning that, Jack knew what had to be done and was prepared for it. Not so with the unnamed Daughter. It's not that it's the first time he's ever killed a living being, much less the first time that he's killed a human, but probably more likely (even if it's a bit of a hand wave) that it's first time in a long time that he's killed a sentient living being. A lot of the robots weren't sentient (or if they were, they were single minded and devoted to their program, which is to kill). There's the occasional X-9 and Scaramouch, but X-9 happened 50 years ago for him and Scaramouch was a mass murderer. So yeah, it's easier for him to see the robots as just constructs rather than living things, and that makes them easier to kill.
