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Siskoid
Season 3: Attempts to take our favorite temporally-displaced samurai into different types of stories. I can't very well say the silly comedies are among the best, but I did like the western and the ghost story very much. And this is the season with the two-part Aku origin story, "The Birth of Evil", which certainly deserves its Emmy win. It is wonderful and poetic, despite being essentially Jack-less. Fittingly, that story gets the feature commentary by the makers.
Season 4: Samurai Jack's fourth season was it last before a long break, with the hopes of finishing the story some day. As such, it's not all that different from its third, which isn't a bad thing at all. This is a show that has no shame at all about most of its episodes being long fight sequences with a minimum of plot, but always with interesting opponents and environments to get new gags out of it. The season attempts giant robot, film noir and space opera genres, has a great big duel between Jack and Aku, tells stories in unusual structures, and even offers a tale of Li'l Jack on his training quest. Everything you want from this show. 6 years 8 months ago