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Winter was another great at-bat for the show, with shades of the Bounty Hunter episode. The way the scientist turns into a pile of leaves and blows away is legitimately haunting. But I love the payoff to it, where Samurai Jack pulls a feint with the poisoned well, only to turn the scientist’s creation back on him. The joy he takes in this process is both creepy and infectious, and the gradual development of the poison makes you anticipate what exactly he’s working on. I love the tactile strangeness of the little evil scientist eggman starts synthesizing his poison from leaves, running to and from his little windmill factory, and using all of his fancy equipment to gleefully put it together.
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There’s real catharsis when he wonders when these visions will end, only to end up in a very real oasis.įall was probably my favorite of the four segments. The imagery of the swirling demonic clouds is very cool, and the notion of temperature as a sort of mind over matter thing is a cool one. Summer feels like pretty standard Samurai Jack stuff, which means it’s still very damn good! I like the concept that Jack tries his hardest to fight these smoke or heat demons with his sword, but that as with Mad Jack, it takes peace of mind more than strength of blows to win the day. Doing a different segment for each season, and making them more tone pieces or vignettes than extended stories is a deft choice that pays dividends in each one.