The thing I always found hilarious/interesting about this is that both Jack and Aku drove each other into depressed nervous wrecks. They were just so ~tired~ by the end.
I noticed that too. Jack was too skilled and clever a warrior for Aku too kill. However, Aku was too powerful for Jack too kill even with the sword in hand. They were just too evenly matched. That's why Ashi was so important. She literally could tip the scale either way
@@maestrulgamer9695 And even if Jack found him while roaming for who knows how long, he had no sword cause he flipped out over the last time portal being destroyed.
@@nubreed13 what I don’t understand is why he waited until Jack in the future arrived to start destroying the time portals when he could’ve done it ahead of time while he was gone
@@KingDusk278 also people of that time may have built their own time portables so he constantly had to go destroying them until a point where word got around that if you got caught building a time portal Kay would not only destroy it but also you for trying
@@KingDusk278 basically he destroyed the way back to Jack’s time and then just thought he’d wait out Jack. You know, closing the door after the moth has entered the room- sure you can open it back up but getting the moth back out is difficult.
I remember when this episode was brand new. Everyone was terrified that the new and final season of Samurai Jack was gonna be super dark, edgy, and adult. Then THIS happened and everyone's fears were put to rest.
I don't remember anyone being afraid of that and were actually excited that it would be more mature as everyone that watched the original as a kid became adults or almost adults by the time the series came back
I’m just amazed the physical embodiment of hammy evil studied psychology and therapy. Yeah he’s over 65,000,000 years old but it just doesn’t seem like something aku would bother with.
You'd think fifty years wouldn't be so long for an entity that's been around since the freaking DINOSAURS. But I guess having a FOOOOLISH SA-MOO-RAI constantly up your grill must make time seem to slow down.
Thats exactly the thing. Aku cant enjoy his “eternal evil power” EXACTLY because Jack is out there, messing with him. He probably hates being immortal if it means being immortal with Samurai at his throat. So in order to finally enjoy or even tolerate his existence he wants to destroy the Samurai.
It's less that it's long for him and more that after 50 years of Jack not aging it became clear that he'd accidentally also made him immortal, which means his plan of just waiting for Jack to die of old age wouldn't work. Meaning he'd just be stuck with Jack coming after him forever.
And if Jack doesn't do anything for a thousand years, that can just mean he is planning something. Jack could start to take the long game and undermine Aku's powerbase.
Life is a journey not a destination, at this point they're just doing it for the sake of it. Kinda like everyone who decided to finish reading Bleach after the first few arcs.
Oh for the love, am I the only who thinks that the episode we watch are the days he takes on his journey not the actual years. Like every episode equals one day unless the events are connected. The years we've been watching are not the actual representation of the time goes by. Am I the only one who thinks that!?
“What’s been bothering you?” “Jack live too long” “Yep. He does not age anymore.” “Kinda sucks” “Yeah.” “Guess we will just live with it until someone kills him or something”. -ancient evil master plan 2017
One of the most hilarious beings of pure evil. You can’t help but want him to be destroyed, but at the same time laugh at practically everything he does🤣😂
Aku is the laziest, most unmotivated master villain ever. Only his immense power makes him a threat. If he were just a mortal, he'd spend all day on his couch drinking beer and watching TV. Ironically, Jack's challenge to him was the only thing that prompted any action and imagination from him.
I can agree with you there mate. A grown up watching samurai Jack. Ever since I was a kid, I love the stories the character and the development. But in the end still, he's a pretty funny demon, except I still hate his guts. Why? Can assume that he would be bored after all these years of 1 samurai. Honestly, he should just, I don't know, send Samurai Jack. to another world and not bug him.
@@biancagrottolo Well, that's the problem. Even if Aku had the sense not to bug Aku, you forgot one thing. Jack won't stop at nothing to stop Aku or go back to the past.
“Doctor, give it to me straight. Is there hope for me?” “Well, to be honest, you might be going crazy” “Really? How so?” “Well, for starters, you’re talking to yourself”
Every time I wake up from a dream where I had a conversation with someone dropping truth bombs, I go "wait a sec... I legit talked with myself and were surprised".
I pointed that out to my bf. I was super stoned and somehiw honed in on the music and the fact hes in a hellscape...going through therapy...Jack got Aku literally FOLDED in his chair and he aint even there lol.
@@nomahfuckah2080 I also know from EXPERIANCE (see what I did there) that seeing Samurai Jack stoned is quite something. This scene has to be the funniest one in the whole season. I would also talk about how a dash of weed increases the sense of epicness in the most important moments in the show.
This is actually a really good character study of “the dictator”: one who has absolute power and authority who orchestrates thru fear and displays of power secretly has the paranoia and fear of some tangible and measurable or in some cases imaginative entities that can upset their power. Hitler, Stalin and other dictators are well documented as being very eccentric, suspicious and secretive within their ranks and often killed their own people out of fear of possibly losing ground. Aku slipped into a manic phase where the only thing that can oppose him is just “out there somewhere” and it’s just fucking with him. 😂
It is a vicious psychological style. The more ruthless things they do, the more they fear for their lives. The more they fear, the more people they kill. This is why dictatorship doesn't really work. @@szylaj
Akus essentially at a stalemate with jack by this point in the series. aku is the unquestioned dictator who is unable to be killed, and jack, despite being only one man against a regime, is unable to be killed by akus forces, and cannot age or die of natural causes as a side effect of akus time portal. aku is frustrated that jack is essentially immortal due to time travel, even resorting to cloning himself a therapist to vent to, and jack is hopelessly wandering the wasteland trying to find something to finally send him back in time so he can finish aku off once and for all, and presumably live a normal life, despite all known means of doing so were destroyed fifty years before the season even began. i love that this is both the hero and villain absolutely frustrated with each other. they are just *DONE* with each other.
@@icicle_ai Or he'd had a more recent encounter with him shortly before the season started when Jack didn't lose the sword yet but he noticed the beard and how he wasn't aging.
@@bob1986 he was clean shaven when he lost his sword. But jack has fought without it so many times that aku may not have noticed it was missing among all of Jack's other weapons
@@zillafire101 that's possible He can't distinguish a fake to the original, Remember his fight with Jack when he manage to get the sword only to find out that Jack outsmarted him with a fake one.
Seeing Aku melt into a depressed blob on the chair while speaking to a therapist who may or may not be his transmogrified feet is actually surprisingly adorable and hilarious 😂😂 I’m glad to see this show never lost its goofiness when it turned more adult
It's strange how Aku is always had that wooden sound when he moved, like branches snapping or wood being stressed but also turns into almost a form of liquid when he transforms.
Basically, Aku thought he would trap Jack in the future he rules forever, only to realize due to Jack being unable to age because he was affected by time traveling, Aku is the one trapped with Jack forever.
@@brentdye1504 he sent him to the future because he would have been killed in their iconic first battle Jack had him on the ropes for a knockout but Aku pulled a hail Mary to save his ass and thought he would kill him later
i like the fact that an extremely ancient demon thing that the gods themselves tried to kill somehow doesn't know enough grammar to know what a conundrum is.
AKU is one of my fav villains of ALL time. He can go from pure comedy, to depression and always being a great villain. He has so much range and personality unlike 99% of all the villains out there.
I really loved the fact that aku literally achieved everything he wanted got control on the entire universe brought about a new age of technology and brought life from all over the universe under his grasp. But yet because jack is still alive he’s just dosnt care about anything and is massively depressed.
To be honest, being your own therapist isn't as crazy as one would think. Since it's you, the therapist already knows your problems, so you don't need to be nervous about talking to them about them. The advice you give yourself can be helpful or not, but it's better than keeping it bottled up deep inside you.
It is very crazy especially when your status as your own therapist prevents you from finding productive solutions to your problems but you do so anyway.
@@TPDManiacXC626 Greg Baldwin did a pretty good job and I think Mako Iwamatsu would be proud of him, but no one will ever be able to truly replace Mako himself. Mako's voice was unique.
"Well... I just assumed that eventually, over time, he would just DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!" A perfectly logical train of thought, that most ancient immortal villains don't ever come up with, just a shame the plot conspired against you there Aku...
1:01 i dont know why but i love the way he says that line of "but he hasnt even aged" it sounds so genuine that hes upset that he enemy hasnt just gotten old and died already.
You know, no one explained the plot hole of Aku not finding out that Jack lost his sword. I know that the minions he sent out were killed by Jack and no one reached Aku to tell him of the news but Aku used to keep his eye on Jack all of the time. He even knows Jack grew a beard but doesn't know that he lost his sword?
@@EdxSarxNatxChoc No. Well not sure but you'd think if he spied on him all the time before he would think "Hmmm that samurai has used his sword in weeks..."
After the fake sword bit (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UrH_hu9mPe0.html), I feel like Aku just assumes he has it with him 24/7 and is just not using it because he realized he's strong enough to not need it.
Well to be fair if you've lived as long as aku and have been fighting the same dude for 50 years (Wich probably for him is like just nothing) I'd go on a slump too
@@ru_gamerandotaku2431 yeah but you don’t often see that with other characters like Ganon or The Lich from Adventure Time I appreciate how human Aku is
@@kruegerpoolthe13th for a being that is evil incarnate the dude is super relatable and can be both ruthless and merciless yet be so petty that he'd probably rival the reverse flash for inconveniencing jack
At this point Aku was sick of fending Jack off and Jack was sick of the hopeless battle with Aku. They were permanently stalemated, and it was even driving the ancient Oni completely batshit. Considering this whole scene was him talking to himself, Gollum/Smeagol style, it's a first class example of black humor. One of many examples in the last season of Samurai Jack.
He spawned from a crooked tree growing over a corrupting alien tar, its kind of reasonable from an audio design standpoint to sound like creaking wood.
@@diegosaez4885 It's just so wrong too. It's instantly recognizable as something between creaking wood and cracking joints, but it doesn't sound anything like them or anything that does or should exist. It's beautiful sound design.
I love that Aku stayed the same while Jack fell into depression and psychosis. It really sells how immensely powerful he is when the only issue he has is being mildly irritated by the continuous presence of the Samurai.
Not really; in terms of "character development" for The Villain in this case, Aku has yielded to depression, severe paranoia and all means of psychosis to the point he's having a therapy session with himself as shown in this above scene. He had a plan up to a point and now it's not working out the way he planned and now it's almost purposeless seemingly now that he knows there's a chance of inevitability He'll have to face The Samurai again regardless without a real ending in his sight unless he knows the eventual fate that one of them will die one way or another during their next bout(s)
I think I understand Aku's problem. Now that Jack's lost his sword, he's barely a threat to him. So, when you're greatest enemy has lost their edge. Where's the fun in ruling the universe anymore
He doesn't, at the moment thou there is a HEAD who knows and its hopping its way to Aku's lair in order to tell him the news, question is, will Aku bother to listen to him?
sadlobster1 Aku doesn't know that Jack lost his sword And he can't sleep because he thought Jack will keep hunting him until he's dead Kinda like when John Wick is hunting you because you killed his dog
@@animebrat76imagine he went from hating him to fearing him in just 50 years I feel like they did fight a third time somewhere in those years we didn't see anything and Jack came within an inch of killing Aku he came as close you could without successfully killing him a lot closer than the previous times and Aku barely escaped and hid for years afterwards that's the only way that can explain this insane transition from hatred to fear as he was not afraid of Jack the times we did see them fight
Aku was always the comic relief in samurai Jack. Season 5 was great. Cartoon network gave the creators a mile, when they put it on adult swim. but the creators only took an inch.
"I sure wish someone could dispose of that horrible Samurai." Weeks later: "Die, Samurai! Die! I will kill you for the glory of Aku!" "Aww, she's so cute."
To be fair Aku’s plan was actual pretty solid. He had tried to kill Jack so many times that he eventually just gave up. Plus he still thought he had the sword so there was no reason to keep trying so he just decided to wait it out over time. I mean he has to die EVENTUALLY right?
Jack has an inner Jack who hates his guts and Aku has an inner psychiatrist who actually seems pretty competent. It’s weird to consider which of the two is more emotionally stable...
All the list of Aku Step 1: Send the Samurai in the future Step 2:Destroy all the time portals Step 3:Send all the universe you fall. Step 4:return to your prime universe Step 5:hide you pretend to be dead. Step 6: accidentally you get reborn a teletubby Step 7:get more aliases Step 8: say fool Step 9:EXTRA THIC step 10:kill samurai's son (almost) Step 11:Ask your self about manele Step 12: corruption all prime universe Step 13: which TV Step 14 :you realized the samurai its dead Step 15:Idk ,never thought I'd get far.
In all fairness, Aku was paranoid, and it wasn't the first time that Jack tricked Aku into believing he lost his sword by using a "Fake sword", which Aku can't distinguish between the fake and the original. He fears the possibility of Jack outsmarting and killing him, even if there is a slim chance of Jack actually losing the sword for real, he wouldn't seize it due to his paranoia.
@@razumahiroki9216 Oh this is a great explanation. Thanks. I actually remember there was that one episode where Jack just spread a whole bunch of fake swords around their battlefield.
