#//Jack isn’t John Wick. weirdly controversial statement lol

[bushido-jack]

//my favorite thing lately has been scrubbing the internet for decades old samurai jack edits and amvs and watching them. there’s so much love for samurai jack in them, faith that he would be back to finish his tale one day, and it fits perfectly with the time it came out lol. the edits aren’t as great as they would be with technology nowadays and the music is often linkin park but there’s always an open love for Jack and the series in there. and there’s something about seeing people love Jack even when it’s not at it’s most angsty, when it’s just seasons 1-4, without the novelty, without anything else to focus on but what makes Jack Jack.

#『 out of robes 』 #samurai jack #ok to rb #//I love season 5 but man. it’s so saturated it feels like people forget that’s not Jack’s natural state #//Jack isn’t John Wick. weirdly controversial statement lol #//jack at his core is an honorable gentle kind and good man. the gruff and sharp exterior was forged and is necessary #//but he doesn’t LIKE fighting. he wants peace. he seeks a peaceful solution before he fights #//he’s an extremely well trained and steely warrior don’t get me wrong. he kicks ass and he takes a measure of pride in his abilities #//but s5 is the furthest he is from himself. the show even acknowledges that. Jack loses himself (understandably) #//it’s hard to put into words idk I feel like I’m going in all directions here but like #//the essence is that there’s a difference in the way jack fights and survives in s1-4 and the fighting and survival of s5 #//there’s a balance there. Jack hasn’t gotten rid of the kind young man underneath the warrior he fights USING that #//meanwhile in season 5 he thinks that’s lost forever and loses himself in being a weapon and brutal survival #//there’s something that significantly lessens the impact of s5 when all people focus on is Jack at his worst #//ignoring how he started #//bc the thing that’s significant to me about samurai jack ISNT the incredible fight scenes and badass moments #//it’s the quiet. it’s the gentleness. it’s the tenacity to do good no matter how much BAD is done to you. #//no matter how much you have to sacrifice. refusing to leave anyone behind #//there was truly nothing like the original samurai Jack series and there never will be again. #//a main character in an action series who is quiet gentle honorable respectful and kind and stubbornly hopeful no matter what #//the fact that Jack isn’t what you’d expect from someone in his position. that even when he stumbles even when he’s angry #//he refuses to let others get hurt. he can be grouchy and prickly and stoic but he’s still showing he cares through his actions. #//the thing that is most important in Jack’s story is always that he doesn’t stay broken. that every sacrifice he made #//every loss he felt and everytime he helped others at his own expense wasn’t for nothing #//that every single action he took sowed the seeds of hope that meant he would be lifted up in return #//as Jack’s father said ‘your castle is strong.’