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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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Post by anthk »

Dracophoenix wrote: post #37
lazystar wrote: post #30

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> 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" ever…

Dragon Ball had Star Wars as inspiration too. Akira Toriyama loved SW.

Re: The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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Post by consumer451 »

debugnik wrote: post #50
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #39

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What about Pantheon?

You tell us. What about it?

Not who you responded to, but what an interesting show!

I hate simulation theory, and even with that bias, that show had so many cool concepts.

Re: The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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Post by Dracophoenix »

anthk wrote: post #91
Dracophoenix wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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" ever…

Dragon Ball had Star Wars as inspiration too. Akira Toriyama loved SW.

And in turn, Star Wars was inspired by the film-work of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa's film noir period dramas are different in tone and scope from Toriyama's action-comedy flare and they both differ in subject matter and characterization from Star Wars. For Star Wars, going too far in the pursuit of cool overpowered characters creates difficulties for meaningful plot resolution.

Re: The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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Post by debugnik »

consumer451 wrote: post #92
debugnik wrote: post #50

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You tell us. What about it?

Not who you responded to, but what an interesting show! I hate simulation theory, and even with that bias, that show had so many cool concepts.

Noted! First time hearing about it, I'll have to consider it even if I'm growing tired of "living in a simulation" stories.

Re: The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

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Post by Forgeties79 »

aceazzameen wrote: post #79
Forgeties79 wrote: post #12

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Clone Wars was so fun. The episode with the special forces troopers that’s mostly silent immediately comes to mind, as well as the one where General grievous just goes to town on a group of surrounded Jedi. It was also pretty cool watching Mace force crush grievous‘s chest lol

Tartakovsky's Grievous was awesome. That character ended up being such a disappointment in the film. But I still liked how they tied that series straight into the final film. I was at a talk with Tartakovsky a long time ago. I don't remember all the details, but he said when they first got their descriptions of Grievous from Lucasfilm, they didn't have much to go off of. Lucas said Grievous had a cough and that was i…

That’s awesome. Way to use the slack given to him
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