You have *got* to catch the one where he fights the Viking king...the ep where he's trapped amidst a book of the dead reanimated by Aku and has to fight and fight and fight to survive...the moving take on "300" that's an exciting battle..and eerie show that's mostly in black and white about a spirit infesting a home where horrors took place years before. And funny shows too, like both dealing with the Scotsman, whose sword and skills rival Jack's, but whose greatest weapon may be his rotund wife...the one where Jack loses his sandals and spends the show trying on all types of modern shoes, but keeps stumbling and falling and failing, much to the amusement of the gang he's trying to subdue--great stuff!
----- Original Message ----- From: "daikaiju66" <daikaij...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:23:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "Samurai Jack" Reruns on Boomerang Cool. There were quite a few episodes I never got to watch so now I can play catch up. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@...> wrote: > > > Can't agree more, Keith. I still can't quite get Boomerang on my set yet. The > digital signal keeps popping in and out constantly. Comcrap says that they > may have given us bad set-top boxes. *Four* of them... > > (spit!) > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: keithbjohn...@... > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:25:44 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] "Samurai Jack" Reruns on Boomerang > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For the past couple of weeks I've been enjoying reruns of this, one of the > greatest animated series I've ever seen. If you've never seen "Samurai Jack", > then do yourself a favor and check it out. Don't let the oddly flat looking > animation throw you. Don't be turned off by the idea of a Samurai nicknamed > "Jack" in a strange future. If you see a couple of eps that seem kinda silly > or light, don't give up. Tartokovsky crafted an incredibly good show here, > full of action, adventure, and some surprisingly effective drama. I can think > of a couple of shows that literally had my mouth hanging open, and a couple > that had me near misty eyed (see Jack battle the cursed Viking warrior for > example). It's fun when they riff on that anime standard of characters > freezing in moments of high action: you know, when a character delivers a > fatal sword stroke, then freezes in that move, while the enemy dies, or > explodes, as the case is here. There's good music, good writing, and > memorable characters. > > If Boomerang had to replace Justice League, this is one of the better choices > to take its place. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see what you're up to on > Facebook. > http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_facebook:082009 > >
