This episode and its follow-up, XCIV, give me the bad impression that if Samurai Jack is better as an Adult Party Cartoon, then it was always geared towards the wrong audience in the first place. Much like Ren in Ren Seeks Help, Stimpy/Aku only appears in the first 4 minutes and are gone from the rest of it to spare them from seeing how cruel Ren/Jack has become, while the actual disturbing plot is delayed as much as possible so it only takes up the last 2/3 of the episode. That's a good thing because I think even Aku would be afraid of Jack after Jack killed 6 of his 7 daughters...without his sword. They both have a grisly flashback that would never be allowed in the original kid version to show what a cruel killer they are in the new adult version (except in Jack's case, it didn't come until XCIV after he already killed someone in XCIII). At the end the frog/Ashi is 1 victim who lives on in even more pain. If there was anything kids enjoyed about Ren Hoek or Samurai Jack before, then this new Adult Party Cartoon version has stripped them of that. Even adults now who used to watch them as kids in the previous decade wouldn't like to see this. Jack has to either kill Aku's daughters or kill himself because this episode teaches us the awful lesson that murder or suicide is the only honorable thing to do. It's too bad Adult Swim wasn't around when Samurai Jack originally premiered on Cartoon Network in 2001 if this is what they originally wanted the show to be like, but at least the last 3 episodes of this season that conclude the show for good are okay for the original audience to watch. Since I just found out Genndy Tartakovsky originally envisioned Samurai Jack as an adults show from the start, that's very horrifying because it means Adult Swim is only used to shield it from criticism for getting darker and more cruel and ruining Jack's character.
Do you think Adult Swim Samurai Jack is better than Cartoon Network Samurai Jack? If you do feel that way, that would really hurt my feelings because Adult Swim changed the identity of the Samurai Jack series and title character too much and made it a totally different kind of show than it was on Cartoon Network.
Do you think Adult Swim Samurai Jack is better than Cartoon Network Samurai Jack? If you do feel that way, that would really hurt my feelings because Adult Swim changed the identity of the Samurai Jack series and title character too much and made it a totally different kind of show than it was on Cartoon Network.