The episode with the three blind archers guarding the well that grants wishes is a master class in gesticulates at everything
Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. The episode with the special forces clone troopers that has no dialogue after the first 30-60 seconds or show is just so unbelievably good. So much tension.
> Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network.
the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has. it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users.
> the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has.
As a kid, that was my favorite episode of the series first season. I still remember coming back after school catching the 5 minute micro-episodes on Cartoon Network.
> it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users.
It stops becoming Star Wars as we know it and starts becoming Dragon Ball Z with laser swords. Quite a number of books and video games in the Expanded Universe/Legends veered in that direction, in many cases to the detriment of consistency in lore.
And in turn, Star Wars was inspired by the film-work of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa's film noir period dramas are different in tone and scope from Toriyama's action-comedy flare and they both differ in subject matter and characterization from Star Wars. For Star Wars, going too far in the pursuit of cool overpowered characters creates difficulties for meaningful plot resolution.
Agree completely. The bit where Mace pulls the screws out of the droids with the Force and then uses them against the other droids is probably my favorite Force move in all of Star Wars.
Ok I’m rewatching that one soon, forgot about it. The flashback of like, all heroes including Vishnu and zeus fighting aku was also rad. Maybe even the pilot, or the start of the reboot? Awesome
That was the first episode I ever saw of Samurai Jack. I had never seen anything like it. I had tuned in after the initial exposition so I experienced zero dialogue until the very end.
It was spellbinding. When he dons the blindfold and everything goes black and silent for what feels like eternity...
It's hard to understate what a revelation the relative thematic maturity of Cartoon Network's offerings was. Between shows like SJ and RAoJQ and Toonami-aired anime like SM and GW, you go from a period dominated by toy commercials to one filled with political and philosophical meditations masquerading as toy commercials. It's hard to imagine the popularity of today's prestige TV (which is probably the closest you're going to get to turning most Americans into creatures inclined towards the literary) without the generations that grew up watching (and creating) shows like "giant robot pilots argue the merits of pacificism" and "a samurai walks silently through many a beautiful and alien landscape for half the episode".
In case others might not be aware of what the acronyms used in this post refer to (they weren’t immediately obvious to me, even as someone who watched Cartoon Network/Toonami/Adult Swim):
Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. The episode with the special forces clone troopers that has no dialogue after the first 30-60 seconds or show is just so unbelievably good. So much tension.