Where did you hear it's ending? As hard as it is to imagine a S3 watching S2's finale, it's not officially cancelled (but nor renewed).

Even if so, I'm not sad. I don't mind any good series ending of its own terms, when it reached a story arc's natural conclusion. And S2's finale certainly felt like a Tartakovsky story's endpoint.

An incredible series, even better than Samurai Jack. Looking forward to new (ad)ventures from Taratkovsky, his storytelling chops is insane.

I enjoyed this movie so don't let this article I'm about to post deter you from watching -- but it's something that has to be mentioned:

http://shashalaperf.blogspot.com/2011/04/voice-tricky-topic-of-race-and-voice.html

I'm not passing a judgement on this flick because especially in voice acting, people don't need to match the race they're voicing. Case in point, Phil LaMarr is one of my favourite contemporary voice actors and he has voiced a range of different races, including the Japanese hero in Samurai Jack.

Food for thought.

Wait wait. I was with you up until you implied that Avatar: The Last Airbender was crap. It wasn't! Someone from the sift even worked on it, I forget who. Shamalama may have totally FUCKED the movie, but the cartoon was great fun, and actually quite poignant in parts. Not to mention, the artwork is gorgeous (see the fight between azula and zuko that I sifted, for example).

Of course maybe I read too much into your comment and you weren't implying that at all. In which case please ignore this comment entirely.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

Cartoons are the thing most likely to bring out the grumpy old man in me.
Transformers (the original, not the rubbish bayhem or the anime crap), Thundercats, Ulysses 31 were all awesome. Hell, even later stuff like Animaniacs, Samurai Jack and Dexters Lab were excellent.
Kids these days with their yu-gi-mon the last air whatever! It's crap.
now get off my lawn!

Cartoons are the thing most likely to bring out the grumpy old man in me.

Transformers (the original, not the rubbish bayhem or the anime crap), Thundercats, Ulysses 31 were all awesome. Hell, even later stuff like Animaniacs, Samurai Jack and Dexters Lab were excellent.

Kids these days with their yu-gi-mon the last air whatever! It's crap.

now get off my lawn!

@ant: I think that's how one of the seasons of Clone Wars (The Samurai Jack-esque ones) was done. The CGI Clone Wars series is the normal 20+ minute show, though, I think. Is there another series being made?

Grievous in the movies was a huge disappointment after seeing him take on around six Jedi and a squad of clone troopers in the animated Clone Wars series, by artist of Samurai Jack fame, Genndy Tartakovsky. Supposedly he was greatly weakened by a Force Crush from Mace Windu before appearing in Revenge of the Sith, hence the constant coughing and wheezing, his hunched over sickly look and toned-down fighting style and the apparent ease with which Obi-wan Kenobi took him out (with a fucking blaster of all things! UGGH). He really deserved better. But that movie was a crapfest in general so I don't know how much having an at full-strength Grievous would improve that whole situation. Dirge would've been nice to see too but Kenobi had already had his way with him by then.

Actually, now that I think about it, the Clone Wars was the best thing to happen to Star Wars since the original trilogy by far.

If you like Samurai Jack, you should probably read the source material, from where they practically stole the concept, the comic book "Ronin" from Frank Miller.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_(DC_Comics)

I'm not saying Samurai Jack isn't good (it is), just that it's a pretty blatant ripoff.

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AKU!!! fuck yeah! ♥ samurai jack.

Samurai Jack gots a UFO.

Samurai Jack has got to be the best kid's show as far as adult watchability circa year 2000.

I suggest we present BERTICUS with an award...

... for his quality video contributions.

e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, etc...



I'm just asking for it now, aren't I?

Yes, it is a great show. My son originally told me about this show when it first started (and Samurai Jack too). But he lost interest, I haven't.



In reply to this comment by gourmetemu:
As the other Avatar submitter I thought you might like: http://www.videosift.com/video/Avatar-The-Last-Airbender-Azulas-Final-Battle.

Always glad to know other people enjoy the show as well.

Reminds me of Samurai Jack.

The art style is based on Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars cartoon series from 2003. He had headed series like Samurai Jack and Powerpuff Girls, which also used this style of drawing.

If you can get a chance to go back and watch the episodes, do so. They were short, but really entertaining - using lots of big force powers, which made Windu look much more powerful than he did in the movies. I would imagine we will see the same here.