Returning to the past was the wrong choise

>>92578755
Going back to the past was to save literally every life Aku has destroyed since Jack left including both of his parents

>>92578755
>Letting the world be ravaged for a thousand years cause of your own desire.
Im glad Jack didnt browse 4chan

>>92578755
Up to your own interpretation

>>92578755
and the billions that Aku killed are still dead

>>92578755
The final shot is meant to directly address 'was going back the right thing' in light of the loss of Ashi and, potentially, the people he met from the future.

Jack ultimately seems to conclude it was the right thing to do because, now, the future will now be a scourged, diseased wreck that has suffered under Aku.

I don't think this would be Jack's last brush with melancholy, though.

>>92578797
>Going back to the past was to save literally every life Aku has destroyed since Jack left including both of his parents

Going back to the past saved the people that Aku killed directly at the time Jack was flung into the future, but it erased everyone that was born after that. Jack killed way more people than he saved.

Making s5 and not just quitting while he was ahead was the wrong choice. The memories of SJ will now have to contend with the shit of the last season and its rushed and contrived faggotry.

>>92578755
Going to the past was the right thing to do. Staying in the future post-Aku would have been the selfish thing to do.

Time travel is ALWAYS retarded.

I didn't watch this show though.

>>92578921
Quoting the intro
"Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is Aku"

>>92578861
>the future will now be a scourged, diseased wreck that has suffered under Aku.


>jack's future is our present
>that tree was destroyed by some company to build an apartment complex

>>92578755
Nah he saved billions and if anything the future people will move on into the afterlife because of the Gods.

>>92579036
Okay, kid. Everyone already knows that. You can stop saying it like it's relevant. Just because it was said in the intro doesn't make it the morally correct thing to do.

>>92579174
He saved a few dozen thousand and killed billions, if not trillions. The ONLY people he saved were those that were alive at the time he was sent into the future and were later killed as a result of Aku's meddling. That is a ridiculously small number of people compared to those erased by timeline fuckery.

>>92578861
>Now the future is safe even tho all the people who lived in the future are double dead so he saved it for nobody
We did it jack...

>Ashi brings them back to the past
>Jack kills Aku
>Ashi dies because she wouldn't have existed

If that's the case why didn't Jack immediately go back to the future since Ashi wouldn't have existed to bring him back?

>>92579269
Bullshit

>>92578959
Would it though? Sometimes it's not about recapturing the moments that have passed but instead building a better fututre

>>92579338
"Time has lost effect on me"

>>92579348
Not an argument.

>>92579036
keyword- "fool"

>>92579854
But it's bullshit, there's not real proof that Jack "killed" more people than he saved. Just your own perception

>>92579982
>there's not real proof that Jack "killed" more people than he saved.
Ashi's death proved that the butterfly effect is a thing. The circumstances that caused all the future people to be born just don't exist anymore. There's no proof that they still exist but there are pretty solid arguments for why they shouldn't. You're not making any for why they should.

>>92578861
>I don't think this would be Jack's last brush with melancholy, though.

The countless portals still exist.
Now that the time paradox can of worms has been opened all sorts of crazy shit can go down including going back to the moment before he kills aku and merely imprisoning him and saving ashi

>>92578755
I don't understand why they had Ashi disappear I mean Jack didn't return to the future when Ashi disappeared.

If they wanted an actual ending that made sense would be Jack dies of old Age having returned the sword and Ashi goes insane releasing Aku from with in her. Thus completing the timeline.

but that would be too bitter and make Jacks journey kind of pointless or would it be enough fulfillment for Jack?

>>92580034
So I guess there's also billions, no wait, TRILLIONS of people who born thanks to Jack destroying Aku, lifes that would have never existed in Aku's future. Just admit it was a happy ending

If Aku could hit Jack with a spell that took him to the future how could he not hit him with a spell that killed him seeing time travel seems to be way harder in the series than just killing.

>>92578755
>Returning to the past was the wrong choise
And also not the one made by Jack. It was Ashi who forced the return. Ergo, she is worst piece of shit to ever exist.

>>92578982
>Time travel is ALWAYS retarded.
This, specially to the past.

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The robot samurai guys got destroyed, most of the rave kids and the fish people got killed, most of the archers and the woollies got corrupted, and the remaining parties were left at a severe disadvantage. If he had chosen to stay then all those people he had helped throughout the series would end up getting fucked nevertheless.

It was less about deciding to go to the past and more about playing against the situation.

>>92580135
Except that now we have an army fighting Aku in the future with no samurai or magic sword to defeat it.
>>92580157
Which pretty much undoes every good deed he had ever done in the future were he sacrificed his own goal to protect innocents.

>>92580225
>Except that now we have an army fighting Aku in the future with no samurai or magic sword to defeat it.
Exactly, Jack gets a good end

Aku gets a good end

Everyone is happy

>>92580159
all of aku's offensive spells can be deflected with a sword

but not time-travel magics

I can't believe it. I can't believe Samurai Jack - which has always presented the time traveling concept at is most simplistic, cartoonish, and generic - didn't address my real world scientific concerns.

>>92580225
>Which pretty much undoes every good deed he had ever done in the future were he sacrificed his own goal to protect innocents
So?

Look I'm not saying it was the best ending, I'd rather have him to stay in the future, but it wasn't a bad/sad ending either. He succeded in the end, paying the price of losing a girl he met for the last 8 episodes or something

>>92580295
Thats the actual problem, it DID address real world concerns, for the sake of having a bittersweet ending, and that opens it up for thinking of the implied horror of denying billions of people the victory they earned, and denying Jacks true love an afterlife.

The current Jack that we saw at the end will be erased by time travel shit too. If Ashi never existed, then she never helped Jack go back to the past. There is the past Jack that Aku sent to the future before being killed by future Jack. He was sent to future with no Aku and therefore no Ashi.

A good ending would have been Jack and Ashi going back go the past to kill Aku BEFORE he sends past-Jack to the future. Then future-Jack and Ashi hide so they are not seen, and Ashi uses her Aku powers to cancel out past-Aku's time portals. After past-Jack kills Aku and walks off, future-Jack and Ashi are both aware of the time paradox, and spend their last moments together before vanishing from existence. Then past-Jack goes on to live his life in the past unaffected by future bullshit. It is also somehow implied that the characters in the future somehow live on too.

Both Jacks from the different timelines wanted different things, this way they both get what they want, instead of one Jack choosing the past or the future and being burden by a memory of another world either way.

>>92578828
>cause of your own desire.
It's not about his own desire, it's about all the lives that will be unmade.

>>92580327
>paying the price of losing a girl he met for the last 8 episodes

You really aren't getting it. In the ending, as depicted, EVERYONE in the future is either erased from timeline shenanigans or absolutely fucked because Jack ditched them to have to deal with Aku on their own. It's not just Ashi who was erased or screwed over.

>>92580613
Oh my God, dude, I already know that, but Jack doesn't gives a shit. And by following that erasing logic, lifes also were born from that change in te past

>>92580537
After past-Jack walks off and future-Jack and Ashi vanish, it is shown that an artist conveniently encounter the entire event from a safe-ish distance. The final scene is a statue of Jack defeating Aku being unveiled in the past. The show starts slowly zooming in for a close up of the statue with dramatic music until we are zoomed up so close that we are focused in on a specific area of the statue that is clearly a depiction of future-Jack and Ashi hiding. As the show now slowly zooms out to show a Aku-less future with a few recognizable characters living good peaceful lives. Cut to credits.

>>92578755
>all those people he saved during theese years would be still there,

no they wouldnt. prety much everyone died during the last battle when aku got serious

Wait... how is the future now? There it is another Jack who was sent through the portal, but in that future, Aku is dead.

>>92578755
Going back in time saved TRILLIONS of people who Aku killed, enslaved and/or otherwise oppressed over the years.

>>92580519
Slowly fading into nothingness Back to the Future style is not "real world scientific concerns." It's a fantasy plot device. Kind of like the portal Aku opened up to send Jack to the future. And the many dozens of portals to the past around which the series revolved.

>>92579371
But that's literally EXACTLY what Jack did

He will always have his friends and allies in his memories

>>92582359
Wrong, the vast majority of people Aku harmed were born after Jack was flung into the future. Which means that by going back into the past, Jack erased them. Jack saved very few people and erased an unthinkable number of people.

The general writing of the final episode itself isn't the issue, it's the pacing that is obviously rushed.

>>92582604
By arguing on the internet about cartoons instead of having sex with as many people as possible, you are LITERALLY erasing billions of potential lives.

>>92580613
>but Jack doesn't gives a shit

Okay, that makes him a huge asshole. Just so we're on the same page.

> lifes also were born from that change in te past

.... what the actual fuck does that have to do with anything? If you murder someone and then bang a girl so she gets pregnant does that cancel out your murder or something?!

>>92582645
Completely different scenario, retard. Jack was actually in the future and interacted with it. He knows it was real, and he destroyed it. That has nothing to do with theorizing on potential futures in real life. You're a subhuman.

Imagine if Jack returned to the past, but Aku's future ended up happening anyway. That way time is portrayed in a more linear model rather than branching timelines and you won't have bullshit like Ashi disappearing forever at an arbitrary time.

>>92582604
You're still not giving any solid argument, autist.

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What's with all the utilitarian bullshit in these threads?

>>92582471
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVTbLOMVaY

1:25

>>92580613
He gives a shit. He was just naive on the effects it would have.

>>92578755
>All those people don't exist anymore

Time is linear in Samurai Jack. It's a one way street. Its not that those born into Aku's future don't exist anymore, they won't exist anymore. But they did. They got to live full lives in the time before and after Jack, even if it was in a despotic apocalypse, but they still lived.

What is it that makes their existence not "real". If you are not here to experience a moment in time does it also not exist? We view the future through the lens of Jack's experiences in it, but if time is linear then everything has already happened at some farther point in the future before he changed anything.

I dunno why you faggots hate the ending.

Jack literally killed Ashi, you should be happy.

>>92582891
This is far too intelligent anon

>>92580593
>Abortion is murder

I still think a better ending would be if Jack realized his mistake and reminisced about his future friend, then a flashforward to when Jack is an old man in his Old King Jack outfit, venturing the world until he finally approaches the Guardian. Implying he might be going back in time to stop himself from defeating Aku.

Also at some point in the finale someone should have referred to him as "Prince Mako".

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Call it whatever you want, but the ending was fine until the fucking bullshit twist happened. Yes, I mad, couldn't we get a happy ending once in a while amidst the sea of cynical bs we get nowadays.

>>92583026
I'm not gonna argue whether abortion is or is not murder on /co/, but it's a retarded comparison either way.
All these people already developed to be full-fledged self-aware beings. They existed, and now they don't.

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>>92580068
>Implying imprisonment would allow ashi to live
Aku would still be alive, but he'll never be able to squirt is demon splooge into Ash's mother.

There is no possible way for Jack to go back to the past and have Ashi survive

>>92582891 How far in the future you think Aku sent Jack?

>>92583794
And if Ashi never exist then Jack never goes back to the past..

>>92583927
And if Jack never goes back to the past then Jack never kills Aku..

>>92583952
And if Jack never kills Aku then Aku lives on to reproduce and Ashi exists..

>>92578921
The entire world was affected negatively by what Aku did. By reversing that, Jack saved the entire world and countless inhabitants.

Even if you consider the idea that Jack erased everyone born during Aku's reign of centuries, that still amounts to more and more people being saved both in the measure of those Aku killed and those Aku's reign killed indirectly.

A safe world is also inherently more prosperous and livable.

Ashi is also a special case because she was literally conceived using Aku. She was directly tied to Aku so it makes sense that she would disappear. However, there's no indication that the Scotsman would simply cease existing because he wasn't born of Aku. If anything he probably had, like, 50 daughters instead. Maybe even a son.

Going back to the past is bullshit. You'll always erase the timeline where you go back to the past in the first place. It nullifies itself.

That kind of the point of the future though
Its uncertain and could be worse, but Jack made a choice and a great sacrifice to undue the future that was Aku that he already knew choosing an uncertain but seemingly better one

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>>92583305
>wedding start
>"oh its kind cheesy but at least we have a hap-"

>>92584055
Jack wiped out EVERYONE. In one fell swoop he erased more people than Aku ever killed.

It was bullshit, don't kid yourself.

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>>92578755
Man, just looking at the fucking tree you can understand it.

Imagine that the tree is a person, or that it represents a happy life.

In Aku's future there is only one tree because he destroyed the rest.

Thanks to Jack, there are now countless beautiful trees.

>>92578755
Returning to the past was the right choice in universe but in terms of story telling the way it played out in the show makes no sense. For the Scotsman and everyone else that jack befriended over 4 seasons, who came to risk their lives to rescue him, Jack just vanishes without any explanation, leaving them to fight aku alone with no hope to defeat him. And then they get fazed out of existence because he undid the future. All those people people jack helped meant nothing. He's sacrificed opportunities to go to the past to help other people before as well, what was the purpose for those sacrifices jack made now? Why should he care about killing ashi's sisters? Those sheep that he killed when he lost his sword? Thats all undone when aku is killed. It makes the whole show feel pointless

>>92586180
And they WILL BE there on the future, just like the tree that he is under now....that represents HIM.

People might not have been born (which I doubt, because if you know anything about Genndy's style you would know that he is the kind of guy that ignores butterfly effect, see Ego Trip), but the future and all of the years until there were way more peaceful.

>>92578755
Screw Ashi. The real reason he should've killed Aku in the future is because it's not satisfying to have the hero kill a weakened, underleveled big bad.

>>92580157
Yeah but we don't know them.
Scotsman, for example, is a fan favorite. He was the second most wanted, battled Aku, raised his daughters to be warriors to fight Aku, all that stuff.

In a future without Aku he's probably a tax accountant assuming he even exists.

>>92586249
>And they WILL BE there on the future,

We saw what happened to exactly one person from the Aku future. She died. Hell, she ultra-died into having never existed.

Now you can argue that Ashi is a special case since Aku is her daddy, but the fact remains that Genndy didn't show us anything about the new future except one person being really really sad as she vanished into nothingness.

16 years he had to come up with this ending.

Shitsux.

All those people he saved wouldn't need saving.
They wouldn't exist and have to suffer, be maimed, enslaved, etc
it was for the greater good in the end

Is there a 1080p mega yet?

>>92586579
>>92580215
I would agree with these. I don't know why people would want his friend to die or suffer if him going back in time would prevent their misery

>>92586686
meant to quote >>92586557

>>92578755
Jack in the heat of the moment thought he could have both the future and the past at the same time, by returning to his home with Ashi. But he wasn't ready for the sudden realization that he can't have both. If he knew from the start he might have chosen to live with Ashi in the future. But that's the tragedy.

>>92586093
Why wouldn't even exist without Aku? Were they sons of Aku?

>>92587091
If your father fucked your mom 10 seconds later/earlier, a different sperm would win the race and your brother/sister would be born and you'd never exist.
Aku was that times a billion. For every single person that lived after he sent Jack into the future.

>>92587885
No show ever did time travel or causality right, trying to make sense of the end in any way other than Genndy doing what he wanted for sake of the plot is silly.

>>92588118
I'm not applying any other logic than only what was shown on the show directly.

>>92586312
It's funny because The High Priestess of the Daughters of Aku was right.
Jack did want to kill everyone, and he did.

>>92582604
Aku was already harming people for thousands of years before Jack arrived in the future. Did you think he became the evil overlord of the universe by sitting around NOT oppressing people?

>>92579269
>now all of them doesn't exist anymore, and maybe they will not born either. The tree was the only thing that he know for sure that was still there in the future, so that means he miss the future.
>And what about the aging process? Will he grow up? Or will he become an immortal man who lives for thousands years and Ghost Jack will appear again because all the people he loved died, and will he finally commit sudoku?

you can't count people who don't exist as killed them, they were never alive. If you want to count them you have to count all the people that will be born (Vastly larger number than the people of Aku future) now that Aku is killed in the past as saved people. If we are talking hypothetical lives.

>>92578755
Are you guys forgetting that Aku's earth was largely uninhabitable hellscape or overgrown ruins, with only pockets of civilization here and there?

There's also the fact that Aku attacked other planets, forcing their people to come to Earth and worship him.

Jack's actions ultimately have saved more than what was erased.
Also to the people saying the characters from the future still exist, you're all dumbasses. If your great grandad didn't exist, you wouldn't either. How is that so hard to comprehend?

>>92588945
Did Aku attack other planets?

>>92589204
Yeah. The shit people from this season even talk about it iirc.

>>92578755
Basic time travel fail.

Killing past Aku prevents Jacks method of return (ashi) from existing.

Shit dont add up.

It should work out to Ashi ok + Aku dead or Some sort of blast back resulting in the time magic not working.

>>92581374
Ok, that sounds about right.

what are the chances of there been an epilogue made, where jack in the past grows lonely and then seeks out the guardian to return to aku future where all his friends are,
What the guardian was gaurding was no ordanary time portal but a dimension portal, since the other side was destroyed by aku it would mean he would not be able to have a return journey. this would get rid of all the plot holes and bad implications

>>92589836
Aku started it. Aku ended it with his own cruelty and need to corrupt. He could have killed Jack many times over, even in the last ep, but decided to make it playful, cruel, and agonizing. He was dead no matter what so long as the sword and Jack existed. He bought time and then had it taken from him just as quick. By even using a time warp, he couldn't win.

I think i got it.Ashi represented Aku's future.In this future world Jack had friends that he loved,but they were part of Aku's future.Without Aku they probably wouldn't have existed at all.
Jacks return to the past would mean that they all would disappear from existence,and i think Jack knew that.It's same with Ashi,without Aku's future she cannot exist.And same as Ashi all Jacks friends in future would rather die than live under Aku.Same as Ashi they hated the world they lived in,it was suffering.It was like Ashi's training.Their whole life they were poisoned with Aku's lies,and lived in darkness.They suffered and wanted it to end.

>>92586093
Bro, take a break from the internet and calm down. You don't think all of Jack's friends would've let him die in Aku's lair if they wanted to live? The whole world knew that their reality sucked and that they can end it all and save their future generations from pain and fear by sending Jack to the past. Jack would've suffered worse in Aku's future, everyone would have been dead after the attempted rescue anyways. What did he lose by going back? A one-week old relationship?

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>>92578755
You fools are forgetting that he saw entire villaged getting raped and murdered. Scaramouche literally exterminated entire village to draw attention of Jack in the first episode.

Also he murdered those goats and Ashi's sisters. He felt regrets over ALL of it. By fulfilling his purpose he erased that guilt and that suffering. All those souls will have a new life.

>>92590116
Think you got the wrong dude.

You have to remember, we aren't only talking about the 50 years Jack's been in the future himself- we're also talking about all the time that passed between Jack and Aku's first fight and Jack's appearance in the future. By defeating Aku in the past, he's erasing centuries of brutal oppression and senseless death.

True, the people Jack saved won't exist anymore- but they also no longer need to be saved from Aku in the first place. If they come to exist in this new timeline, it will be as part of a world that hasn't suffered under the cruelty of Aku's rule for hundreds of years. It's a better fate by far.

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>>92578755
He made the right choice thing is it just feels like an empty ending. Ashi was a pointless character - they barely spent time together and didn't have any offspring. GEndy could've used ashis screen time to develop jack and have him overcome his demons (ghost Jack's) in a much more epic way and then have him fight the Guardian and have the absolute same ending. I mean even ashi could've survived but instead of wasting screen time she could've just went directly to Aku and unlocked her full potential in order to have a more epic Aku and ashi vs jack battle. Still Jack's empty existence at the end made me fucking relate and shed a tear, the ending was well made

>>92578921
Are you moronic? Hope this is bait. Killing Aku only directly kills his offspring which is mostly robots (rip scaramouch) and ashi and her sisters. The other people would be born and even more people would be born because Aku wouldn't exterminate a shitton of people . Sure they maybe some distortions in the timeline because the survivors could've met and had children with some of the people who were killed by Aku but it shouldn't be that extreme because after all Gendy demonstrated that the power of love is present in the jack universe which means most people would meet the lovers they had anyway.

>>92590594
>All those souls will have a new life.
No. They won't exist at all.

>>92578921
>Jack killed way more people than he saved.
Rewriting a timeline doesn't "kill" people, it rewrites events. Even if Jack erased the lives of millions of people, he enabled the lives of millions of others whose existence Aku would have prevented, and all things considered, it's probably more lives, if you think about how destructive and horrible Aku was to everything he encountered.

>>92591137
Reincarnation exists in SJ, meaning rarher being born into the shithole world made by Aku, they get to be born into whatever world SJ saved.

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That's up for you to decide.

At the end of the day, Ashi was a part of the magical world that he should never have been in, it makes sense to take away his souvenir.

Sometimes you have to let go, when you make a big change in your life, it might be for the better overall but he was so consumed by his quest that he didn't stop and see what he was going to lose.

The future could end in endless ways. It may be a new but parallel timeline where all future characters manage to be born again in the prosperous Aku free world due to the gods realigning fate to ajust for Aku's abcense. It could be a future where they never exist, in any form. Jack could die an old man. Or he could live as an eternal gaurdian, watching over a now prosperous world.

You make the ending what you want it to be. This cartoon is filled to the brim with fiction from every corner. Science fiction, fantasy, ghosts, aliens, time portals, Celtic magic. The way the future unfolds doesn't have to be 100% set in science alone and with how time has behaved in the cartoon, the butterfly effect could be completely held in check by the gods and not render all of the shows characters non-existent in this possible future. If you look at this finale in a positive light, you'll think of an ending like the first example. If you're a pessimist, you'll imagine the future as the second option.

The point is, the ending could be good, it could be bad. But it's up to you. I'd like to imagine the future will be a good one.

And inb4 Ashi disappearing. She was directly made by Aku and his blood is in her. He dies, she doesn't get born. She was the one definite sacrifice made for the sake of a brighter future but the rest is up to you.

Ashi and Jack should've time jumped 1 day into the past and told everyone to stand down and live in eternal stalemate with Aku. Jack could've led a lifetime of happiness with Ashi and gone back at any point in the future.

i think we should at least be grateful this series even had an end instead of staying canceled.

i liked the ending, it wasnt the endgame i would have liked, but it was enough to make me appreciate that we even saw the ending.

i still feel cockblocked by teen titans not having a true ending.

>>92591726
>i still feel cockblocked by teen titans not having a true ending.
You mean every single Titan coming together in the penultimate episode wasn't enough for you?

>>92591809
Considering the actual final episode was the one where Tara is revived and breaks Beastboy's heart a second time I'd imagine he wasn't satisfied with that ending.

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>He actually annihilated an entirely timeline just so he could have his "Happy ending"
Was he the bad guy all along?

Aku announcing to the world the original opening as part of his attempting execution of Jack meant all of the people who came to Jack's aid knew if Jack succeeded, they would cease to exist. Even without that, all of them came willing to die to help Jack end Aku once and for all.

>>92591900
It would have been pretty much the epitome of terrible writing to have anything else happen if they were bringing Terra back into the story in the very last episode. And it's an excellent episode.

>>92592263
Jack saved one world and destroyed another. Aku should have revealed this to Jack before he killed him and forced Jack to go through a serious moral dilemma.

>>92590873
This shit gets me everytime, fuck.

>dude if you change the past, you kill everyone that in the future that was a result of your decision
are people this retarded? if you move to canada and marry a canadian lady instead of moving to france and marrying a french lady, you didn't kill a whole bloodline of french people

>>92592679
People are trying way too hard to hate the ending. It's literally whatever future you want. If you want to have a shitty future that adheres to butterfly effect bullshit in a magical cartoon with all the paradoxs and destiny shit that is in it, that's your choice. If you want a parallel but different future with alternate Scotsman and non Aku Ashi and sisters living happily in a blooming Earth, that's your choice.

I find time travel anything that doesn't perform an endless loop like Terminator always gets too autistically combed over and people assume the worst whenever it's used.

Jack was suspended from his original timeline. He fit into the old one and reasserted as a part of it while everything that didn't got wiped away. Ashi was a hanger-on from the negated future timeline, so away she went, while Jack remained in his proper place.

>>92592914
>People are trying way too hard to hate the ending.
Pretty much. It was a near perfect ending. He did what he set out to do and now the earth wont be fucked.

>>92591942
He created a timeline with much more happy lives in its place.

Does Jack remember Ashi/bad future forever? It's really making me think.

>>92596706
Yes, you're just having your own headcanon about what time travel is and overthinking it. Time travel is fake, when you have a show, you can write about what the effects are. Jack went to the future that is Aku, went back and killed Aku thus changing the timeline which is confirmed linear.

>the gods chime in to give you a sword
>the gods don't chime in to let your wife live

>>92578755
You people need to see this from an adult perspective.

The attachment you have to the cast of the original run is evidence that this show is impactful you because you grew up with it and/or its generally a work of art and a great show as well. Either way, you care more about their lives, some small yet significant amount of people with newfound hope rather than anyone else who suffered from Akus wrath.

Millions of lives were destroyed. Cultures and peoples decimated. Suffering of unprecedented proportions for eons.

This was one of the worst possible outcomes for humanity and life in general but you're too sentimental towards the only lives you saw presented to you because the show is a master of storytelling, and ill give you that, but stop and think of it from an outside perspective. A simple matter of numbers if you need to

To undo the future that is Aku is to restore balance to the world and save humanity. Thats what Jack knew from the very start. Its what he said all the time and was mentioned in the opening intro and the god damn song as well. This is from the responsible and noble viewpoint.

This is not even mentioning Jacks own family, people, and culture as well.

1/2

>>92578755
>>92597174
2/2

What makes the last scene pretty fucking sad but very touching and heartwarming is that Jack touching the ladybug again makes him realize a small truth. Not something that can make the pain go away but something that helps him heal.. Is that he remembered Ashi valued life and life's beauty in nature. And as he waves off the ladybug he sees the sun melt the fog and illuminate the valley of trees. Beautiful, and as real as he described them to Ashi, who imagined a reality so pure and bliss when she envisioned it in ep.5. And its the very same valley he took her too to see the one tree Aku left as a sign of his destruction.

He stands underneath it and realizes this is truly a world Ashi would have wanted to live in. Something she never had growing up in a life of pain and abuse and misery. A life dedicated to killing him. And sure enough, she ended up saving him instead. Because he saved hers. She was doomed from birth and yet he broke through to her and showed her a whole new reality. One of love and freedom. See it as living on borrowed time if you will. But she would have given her life for his because of this. For this reality Jack sought all those years.

And that gives him peace

hopefully ladybug means something

>>92597207

This, thankyou.

>>92588118
Primer