Finale Thoughts on Samurai Jack Season 5

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After over a decade, the hit-series "Samurai Jack" has finally ended.

  And like most of the majority, while it was good (at least it didn't got the same treatment as Powerpuff Girls) but I wish that Adult Swim would've given Genndy more episodes than just 10 because there were so much to see than just nostalgia candy.

Especially the final episode being too rushed & a let down. Pulling off the same ended as a certain anime with a WTF ending.

The finale episode could've been better if it were longer like an hour long special or a TV movie (like how Dexter's Laboratory originally ended with "Ego Trip" and Powerpuff Girls with their own theatrical movie).

Like what if Jack killed Aku in the future/current time, instead of the past causing plot-holes in the time line.
I have two possible endings for that answer:

1.) Genndy could've pulled a reverse "Heavy Metal" ending by having Future/current Aku being killed off by Jack while the past Aku begins to be obliterated (because both versions of Aku are connected).
Instead of Ashi fading away in Jack's past, it's Jack who fades away in the future time where he says his final good-byes to all of his allies; and everything ends in a flash.

After that, Jack is finally back in his own time with his parents & people gathering around to welcome him back home & for saving them; and in the crowd Jack spots a past-life version of Ashi (maybe in the form of the now adult cricket girl).
Meanwhile, in a better Aku-free version of the future, everyone's lives are now better. Including Ashi, who is reformed as a normal woman with a loving family (as in her sisters are live, her mother is a caring person instead of a tyrant, and her father is a human being instead of a demon); and later comes across a possible Jack look-like.

So even though Jack & Ashi can't be together at the same time, they can still be with each other through different lives.

Or

2.) After Aku is finally destroyed, Jack takes a brief moment to realize that he could never go back to the past, but he can still change the future for everyone he's met; thanks to getting closure from the spirits of his parents who came after the battle.
And the whole series ends with everyone patching the damage Aku did, and Jack & Ashi being happily together. 


How do you think should've ended?
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bananamarioslamma234's avatar
I love the finale of Samurai Jack 2017.
Also, I love both 2 versions of your endings.