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Post by ockerjj on Jun 26, 2021 7:31:01 GMT -5
Worst: Your Name and Samurai Jack season 5. I don't think there can be any argument about that, just got so many things wrong in those. Interesting. Would you mind elaborating?
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Post by emilyj15 on Jun 26, 2021 13:16:37 GMT -5
Best: Screams of Silence, Seahorse Seashell Party, Painbow, Love Loaf, Worst Cartoons of the 2010s Worst: Your Name and Samurai Jack season 5. I don't think there can be any argument about that, just got so many things wrong in those. The one downside of the Samurai Jack season 5 review is that I wish John could have mentioned Primal. It’s also created by Genndy Tartakovsky and it’s fairly recent, so... 🤔
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Post by makotoshinkaifan on Jul 27, 2021 15:02:49 GMT -5
Worst: Your Name and Samurai Jack season 5. I don't think there can be any argument about that, just got so many things wrong in those. Interesting. Would you mind elaborating? Sorry I haven't been around for so long! I really didn't mean to leave you hanging like that, I just haven't been back to this forum since I made that comment! I will rewatch his videos when I get back from work tonight to give more detailed answers, but off the top of my head, here are some of the things he gets wrong. Your Name: He claims that the time travel is never explained, but there is an explanation, in the scene where Mitsuha is making her braid with her little sister and grandmother, their grandmother gives them a lesson on how time, relationships, people and the shinto gods are all interconnected in different forms of unions, and the unions that are formed between people can have far reaching effects. This is especially important because Mitsuha is making her braid in a shinto ceremonial fashion meant to express those unions, and she took part in the ritual where she makes an offering of sake that contains a portion of her soul to the guardian of the town. In addition, comets are often referred to as dragon spirits in Shinto mythology, and add onto that the fact that the body-swapping is something that runs in the family of the Miyamizu shrine maidens, t's pretty clearly indicated that the body swapping and time travel is the work of divine intervention of the guardian spirit of the Miyamizu shrine. You can also tell that's the case because the time traveling is directly effected by the ritual braid and the ritual sake. Taki only starts experiencing his own body-swap experiences after he gets the braid from Mitsuha, and the final swap comes when he drinks the ritual sake, and because he took the sake away from the guardian deity, that's also what causes them to start losing their memories because something that contains a portion of their souls needs to be given in exchange for the sake and that final chance. He is also being pretty ignorant on his point where he tries to say you have to pick between a time travel movie and a body swap movie, as if they are completely different concepts, but the body-swapping is happening BECAUSE of the time travel. It's a science fiction concept known as "mental time travel", the idea is that to travel through time you can't transport your actual body, but you transfer your consciousness so you can see and effect things in the different time period in a body other than the one you left in. He's also just kind of mixing up movies and television shows with that point too, like he thinks the movie is the same as that body swap episode of Gravity Falls where you take two characters and have hijinks with them walking in each other's shoes. Your Name was very clearly not just a body swap story, it was a story about two people meeting each other and learning about each other as they form a relationship, we were meeting each character as they met each other, and finding out what is happening to them and what lengths they go to to see each other. It's completely different from a body-swap episode of a tv show. Samurai Jack: His insistence on Ashi and her sisters being the greatest threat that Jack ever faced is an extreme misread of what the show was presenting. Enter keeps on forcing the idea over and over that the daughters of Aku were supposed to be Jack's biggest challenge, but that's far from the case. They are so far from being Jack's greatest challenge that Jack gets distracted during his confrontation with them and looks toward the horizon to see the Ghost Samurai, who is Jack's actual greatest challenge. I really just can't believe how hung up he is on insisting that they're the biggest threat when the bigger looming threat has a scene dedicated to it where Jack looks on toward him, clearly indicating that Jack knows he has more he'll have to take on after he gets through the girls. Enter then goes on to insist that killing the daughters other than Ashi wasted their potential as characters, when there really wasn't that much potential to be had, they were raised to be nothing but single-mindedly violent and tasked with killing Jack. The only real potential was that all seven of them would go through the same character arc as Ashi, or just take longer to reach the point where Jack beats them. His thoughts on episode 6 are just ridiculously missing the point of the episode. He claims that the scenes with Ashi meeting the people who Jack helped was "supposed to remind the audience of how great Jack is", and when he talks about how he thinks that should be accomplished by just showing how great Jack is, he shows a clip of the episode Jack vs Aku where Jack is tricking Aku; and that completely misses the point that Ashi is finding out about the lasting impacts that Jacks heroism has had, that he's done so much good for so many people and that his struggles had meaning, bur Mr Enter is talking the idea was just supposed to be showing that Jack is cool. And it's really, really absurd to me how mr enter says that he thinks Season 5 was spelling everything out to the audience, just because in the one scene there's a joke where Scaramouche says a guy looks like a penis, but then he missed those important plot points that aren't explained through dialogue but should be blatantly obvious just by looking at what's being shown on screen.
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Post by emilyj15 on Jul 27, 2021 17:52:44 GMT -5
At least I knew that the mind swapping ran in the family in Your Name. In regards to Samurai Jack season 5 however, I think he was referring to said challenge as merely fighting the Daughters Of Aku.
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Post by board3659 on Jul 28, 2021 9:13:25 GMT -5
IMO, my least favorite video is the 1st rocket monkey video for he complains why he can't review everything he is suggested to review instead of reviewing the episode but still reviews the episode he doesn't want to review. My favorite videos are the 2019 Lion King review, it is just a great review I love going back to and I like the younger Mr.enters, and the modern world of PSA's because I do agree with mostly everything tbh in that video and I think he does well criticizing them.
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Post by emilyj15 on Jul 28, 2021 11:30:41 GMT -5
IMO, my least favorite video is the 1st rocket monkey video for he complains why he can't review everything he is suggested to review instead of reviewing the episode but still reviews the episode he doesn't want to review. My favorite videos are the 2019 Lion King review, it is just a great review I love going back to and I like the younger Mr.enters, and the modern world of PSA's because I do agree with mostly everything tbh in that video and I think he does well criticizing them. I’m not a big fan of the Rocket Monkeys videos. The first one had no reason to exist and the second one was too long, which is a shame because I liked that evil banana quote. The Lion King remake is obviously the opposite. 😄
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Post by makotoshinkaifan on Aug 7, 2021 1:29:05 GMT -5
At least I knew that the mind swapping ran in the family in Your Name. In regards to Samurai Jack season 5 however, I think he was referring to said challenge as merely fighting the Daughters Of Aku. If that's the case then that's basically him getting caught up on power levels. If he really thinks Ashi and her sisters were supposed to be the strongest enemies Jack fought, he needs to rewatch the episodes with The Guardian and the Ultra Robots, and several others where Jack goes through as much of a beating as what they gave him. Jack's own inner monologue basically reminds you even if you don't remember yourself. In episode 2 when he's talking to himself he says he always finds a way to get through, and then in episode 3 he recognizes that he's been hurt worse before. Even ignoring all of that, it should be easy to see why he won just by looking at what happened. In episode 2 it was 7 on 1 with Jack being caught by surprise and not knowing what he's up against, it ended very close with Jack getting hurt but eventually taking one of them down and getting away. Then in episode 3 it's 6 on 1, with Jack being the one making the surprise attack, and he fully understands what he's up against now. You have to completely ignore everything you know about Jack to think he would have continued to have as hard of a fight each time.
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