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The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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Re: The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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lazystar wrote: post #30
Forgeties79 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The episode with the three blind archers guarding the well that grants wishes is a master class in gesticulates at everything Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. The episode with the special forces clone troopers that has no dialogue after the first 30-60 seconds or show is just so unbelievably good. So much tension.

> Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has. it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users.

a million times this.

Clone Wars microseries did more for my love of star wars than all the movies put together.

pure effing magic.

Re: The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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Post by Dracophoenix »

lazystar wrote: post #30
Forgeties79 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The episode with the three blind archers guarding the well that grants wishes is a master class in gesticulates at everything Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. The episode with the special forces clone troopers that has no dialogue after the first 30-60 seconds or show is just so unbelievably good. So much tension.

> Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has. it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users.

> the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has.

As a kid, that was my favorite episode of the series first season. I still remember coming back after school catching the 5 minute micro-episodes on Cartoon Network.

> it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users.

It stops becoming Star Wars as we know it and starts becoming Dragon Ball Z with laser swords. Quite a number of books and video games in the Expanded Universe/Legends veered in that direction, in many cases to the detriment of consistency in lore.

Re: The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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Post by [deleted] »

lelandfe wrote: post #24
thatguy0900 wrote: post #15

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I wasn't much a fan of the rebooted series, I thought the inclusion of the new character took too much focus. Almost felt to me more like a fan fiction ending with someone's OC

12 years on you can get the original creator back to storyboard everything, hire back the old VO team, and still have people complaining the show is too different :P

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Re: The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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Post by skavi »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #39
franczesko wrote: post #3

Genndy Tartakovsky is a truly unique creator. Samurai Jack was so good, that I had to watch how it ends years later since watching the show on cartoon network

What about Pantheon?

It doesn’t appear that Tartakovsky was affiliated at all with Pantheon. I would have been surprised if he was affiliated given the show’s fairly mundane animation.

So what about Pantheon? It doesn’t seem relevant to this discussion apart from it also being animated.

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