XIV: Jack Learns to Jump Good
- Jack teaches a wild man and a tribe of white monkeys to defend themselves against a tribe of pink apes that have been bullying them and stealing their food; in exchange for his help they teach him to jump good
- additionally there are a pair of scenes which bookend Jack's forest adventure; in both of them he battles Aku; in the first one Jack loses to Aku who swoops in and steals a magic mirror/doorway to the past; in the second one Jack demonstrates his ability to jump good but the episode ends before the battle does
- there are a few wordless sequences all of which are very nicely animated: Jack fighting back against the apes; Jack training the monkeys and helping them prepare for their next battle with the apes; the monkeys training Jack to jump good; the monkeys using their training to repel the apes
- when the wild man is tells the story of how he came to live with the monkeys a more muted color palette is used quite effectively to visually inform and reinforce the fact that this is a flashback
- one interpretation of the bulk of this episode or at least the final scene is that it is a dream; why? because this is the only episode where Jack demonstrates this ability to jump good, so good that it looks like he is flying; also the fact that the second encounter with Aku looks just like the first one with the exception that Jack knows how to jump good in the second one leads me to wonder how to explain the similarity between the opening and closing and arrive at this possible conclusion; of course I might just be overthinking this episode
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