The gag of Poovey repeatedly shooting Lana cracked me up.

This…was not what I expected. The season or the episode (raise your hand if you were expecting him to wake up in some sort of retro future world by the end of the season). But I really enjoyed it!

I actually thought Lana's death worked really well, but for exactly the reason you didn't like it: This is Dreamland, it's not real, so why try to make it real at all? Thus, it was absurd. And hilarious!

Dude, the best gateway film isn't "Cagliostro", it's "Castle in the Sky". It's Miyazaki's take on Indiana Jones, and very accessible for westerners.

So are we all agreed that Chuck's house will be burnt to the ground at the end of this season?

My jaw dropped at the end of this episode. Jimmy's such an asshole.

"…This was a bad idea. RETREAT!!! I'll hold him off!"

It's beyond absurd.

1) Authors aren't magic. They can make poor decisions about their stories.

"Samurai Jack" needs to be understood in the context of Genndy Tartakovsky wanting to use the Way Cool premise of a Samurai in a futuristic world fighting monsters to tell minimalistic action-driven vignettes. How the plot worked was completely besides the point, as long as we got to see those stories.

Technically, fiancee. I'm sure that thought makes Jack feel better!

In summary: Three amazing episodes that built on and improved the show from its original run while nevertheless respecting its origins and history, followed by 7 really good episodes interspersed with several amazing stretches, but not quite extended over the length of a full episode like those first three.

The Mike stuff remains dull, but "Chicanery" is quite possibly the show's best episode. Overall, I mean.

Hey, if any of you guys don't like it, just think of this as an alternate ending to the series, with the Guardians ending of the original series as the other option. There. Now we get this delightful "What could have been" season of episodes to be enjoyed on its own merits. Ta da.

If we're going to start picking through plot holes now (and really, "Samurai Jack" is NOT designed for this particular type of scrutiny), if Aku can rip open time portals and whatever why didn't he just do it every time he saw Jack and send him a few thousand years further into the future? Or so far in the future that…

…That said, as far as I'm concerned episode 2 of this season is without question the show's very best episode, period. So freaking well done.

"Better Call Saul's" "Chicanery" would like to challenge the second episode of "Samurai Jack" to fisticuffs, Sir.

That said, okay, yeah, while I did thoroughly enjoy it, this totally was begging to be a really awesome movie.

I thought it ambiguous whether or not NONE of them existed, or just Ashi and her family, who were literally Aku's spawn. And I got a different read of the ending. Jack sees the ladybug, which reminds him of Ashi, yes - and also the thing that caused Ashi to seek the truth, to first leave the influence of Aku.

What are next week's lottery numbers.