8 mins too late. What Insanecyclone said, with the nouveau resilience/mindfulness therapy sessions sprinkled along the show.
8 mins too late. What Insanecyclone said, with the nouveau resilience/mindfulness therapy sessions sprinkled along the show.
That ending was extra hot ass tbh
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No Creamsoda, there was a choice there. And it's up the viewer to side with or oppose the decision that was presented to us.
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If only...
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That was bittersweet and I'm gonna need some recovery time.
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Definitely deserved an hour or more to finish.
Was what I was thinking most of the season when Ashi was introduced but I am surprised they actually did it. Ending was a bit all over the place but holy shit at how close it actually gets to TTGL lol
I thought it was backwards, though I'd have to rewatch the first two episodes again.
It's like all those groups in the future were remnants of what the past already had (minus the things that came to the planet because of Aku). At first I thought most of those people showing up were past versions of the future people but it could work either way.
I thought it was a good ending, Aku's entire purpose was evil (and comically at that) so killing him isn't really something you need to think about when essentially a future without him would be better for everyone there. It sucks for Jack and I guess the viewer because you've grown to like the people there but I can't think of the ending as anything but positive. My only issue is that it needed an hour and more time to resolve (because yeah the things on this list would have been nice) but I completely enjoyed the season even if the ending was a little bit of a let down. The original opening was great and Aku didn't disappoint.
Didn't have a problem with the ending really. I mean Jack going back and killing Aku was the only way it was ever going to end; it was literally the intro for the entire show.
One think that was kind of nagging me looking back is that the series was presented as a darker story only to snap back to the original tone basically the second Aku showed up.
Still nice to finally have a conclusion, only wish it could have been a decade ago, or an hour long.
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An hour? No. The length was fine considering the amount of filler thrown into it. Great ending to the series. IMHO, bad ending to an arc that we were lead to believe was darker (and started off as such) to the series. It felt like we got roped in then brought back to the first four seasons. Small complaint of mine. Now that I know it's over, I can definitely show to my younger daughter without issue.
I always felt the same, until the episode that Jack faces the Guardian:
https://youtu.be/ppMe1I0xVo8?t=7m3s
I mean, the series could have ended right here with about the same impact, but it hinted at something much bigger for Jack, beyond simply going back in time.
Either Tartakovsky forgot about that or abandoned it. Either way, it's still a tiny bit disappointing.
Ugh, my gut! I keep my feels there!
Kinda wish Ashi and Jack had a kid(that wouldn't have disappeared). Or that he had stayed in the future and let the past go. I dunno. I didn't like this ending so much the more I Think about it.
There was never any chance of Jack staying in the future. Anyone thinking there was doesn't get the character.
As he was, correct. It makes room for deepening the character and character development.
He's been in this world 50+ years now. Does he sacrifice it and them to bring the dead back and return to the past? or does he realize these people he's living with now aren't worth giving up, that they do deserve to live (because honestly most of them are never going to be born; unlikely to have the exact same pairings of people across multiple generations living under an extremely different world) and dedicate his life to rebuilding the world along w/ the people he's spent the majority of his life with?
Would have made for some interesting development. and even then it could also have nothing to do w/ the "character" to begin with. If all the portals were destroyed, he may have had no choice, defeated Aku in the future, felt sad he couldnt' go back but then vow to rebuild the world and make sure no such evil ever comes back.
Or coulda just did like a dbz time travel w/ creating alternate timelines, having defeated Aku in the future, then going back and defeating him in the past. Making the timeline where Aku was never born and the one where he was defeated and the people there can still move on (rather than just outright being erased from existence)
Instead we get a ladybug and nobody happy.
Wat? He continually passed up the chance to go back in time, to save people in aku-future. By changing the past, he erased all of those people, negating pretty much everything he did across the entire show.
Might as well have gone back and killed aku in the beginning of season 1.
The character was developed enough to the point that going full circle was entirely welcomed. It was never about Jack embracing a darker future/life but correcting history and himself. You talk like Jack had all these deep connections but he really didn't. The Scotsman was probably the closest he got to a friend before Ashi and even that's pushing it. Jack's connection has always been to the past.
If he didn't have a choice then sure, but given that you could go to the past and fix years of corruption, death and evil (at the cost of a few good people who wouldn't even know or care that they don't exist) that was his entire goal then why not do that?
In the end we get someone that has chosen a path and is willing to live with it despite the obvious consequence that Aku's future and all that came because of it (good and bad) doesn't exist, because the final scene shows that there was a lot worth saving.
Not like that wasn't the entire point of the show...???
This. Jack would never choose the certainty of the entire world suffering for centuries under Aku (not to mention his own family and village being murdered) for an uncertain fate for some people that, despite all, he barely knew and most of whom died in the finale already.
So... Gurren Lagann?
I found a better ending: