Did there need to be a 50-year time-skip specfically? Jack gets over all of his trauma almost immediately. If anything, it seems like the same effect could have been accomplished with 10 years and been less unreasonable.
Did there need to be a 50-year time-skip specfically? Jack gets over all of his trauma almost immediately.
God I wish jack just stayed like this for the last season.
Magicking him back to his Season 1 - 4 self like the previous five episodes didn't happen was a mistake.
I know concepts like tropes and media literacy are considered marxist or some other verboten meme here but characters in fiction don't grow depression beards unless they're going to shave them off eventually.
>media literacy
Here's some. Jack is a white coded character. The depression beard is typical of racist empowerment fantasies. The ending is a white guilt metaphor.
>return to the past and lose the advantages PoC provide
>erasing errors is emblematic of bourgeois false consciousness
Eh, game fixes this moronic ending into a good one.
I wasn't talking about the beard, I was talking about how jack adapted to his environment. Seeing him as a gunslinger was great.
>media literacy
You likely believe in death of the author at the same time
Probably the biggest thing that bugs me is that over 50 years Aku did not bother checking in on Jack personally one single time after having his big laugh destroying the last time portal.
Adding on, what could have worked better if Jack lost his sword at the start of season 5 due to his growing despair and frustration from the 50 years, rather than losing it all the way back then IMO
I guess the ultimate issue is that after a while nothing is really done with that fact. It's more useful in a "this will not end unless I end it" sense because 10 years is probably not long enough for Jack to make a definitive statement that he's not aging normally. Yellow don't Mellow in the first place but he's also impossibly fit, so him maintaining youth well into his 30s to 40s makes sense but him being over 70 and looking the same m makes no sense. But really only he Scotsman's aging seems to be the only thing truly effected and even then his daughters seem kind of young.
It fits with the cynical vibes of the first couple episodes, but not the rest of the season. Also the fact that mentally he's some 70/80 year old man makes it weird considering the Ashi thing and him eventually returning to the past to live with his parents
It's weird to me that Jack just immediately reassimilates to living in the past like he hasn't spent most of his life in Aku's future at this point. That's another thing that makes the 50 year skip feel off.
They milked the series as long as they could in the 2000s before it got cancelled. It got repetitive to the point where the show was losing viewers. He should have had those clothes from the beginning. If you look at the history of the samurais, they had similar body armor.
I think that was just a sort of meta commentary on the time gap between the original and the ending, taking a real life event and exaggerating it so it fits in a fantasy/sci fi context.
I also think they started him off with the beard so that the difference between the old and new art styles wouldn't be quite so jarring.
The problem was making the show serialized, make you appreciate the bottle episodes because you are expecting something important to happen.
You know what's REALLY bullshit? The fact that Jack (the hero who would traverse wide deserts or climb giant mountains for even a small chance to find a way to stop Aku or get back to the past) never in 50 years took the time the time to look for his sword he dropped down a hole.
Presumably he did, the point was the sword had rejected him and returned to the cosmos. It falling out of view was simply when it was literally lost to him but he couldn't physically just go get it.
I love his samurai armor.
>you must be balanced
>pew pew
>you are now balanced
Three episodes of buildup and the problem resolved in two minutes.
>You get this impression his efforts have been meaningless because he's not only failed to get back to the past but also all of the people he saved have been killed
>But actually all of Jack's friends are not only alive- they are thriving
>Aside from briefly talking to scotsman he doesn't even react when they show up to save him and then get slaughtered by Aku
They don't just get slaughtered, his friends get wiped from existence in both the show and game endings. And Jack doesn't even give a shit.
They really had an opportunity do something special with this. Jack doesn't go back to the past, accepts his mistakes and misfortunes, defeats Aku in the present and works towards a better future.
This might have made some people mad, or cry about subverted expectations and Jack never reaching his goal, true. But I feel the show was priming its audience pretty well for this sort of ending. And they could have always finished the comic with an alternate ending where he plain and simple succeeds.
It's also in keeping with his run in with the monks. Why bother going back for them when, as some people love to point out, the theme song is all about getting back to the past and time travel would simply erase all those events, making saving the monks pointless.
Jack cared more about saving people in the here and now than erasing thousands of years of history and the people along with it.
Jack killed millions.