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Yeah, I understand that that's a theory. It's a good one, I have to say - I wasn't trying to bash it. I just feel like it shouldn't be words (of Scotsman or anyone else) that bring Jack out of his slump - it absolutely must be something practical, something that has happened in the world around him. Just a pep-talk from a friend feels like old series of SJ, and this is not what the new season is doing at all.

"There is no hope", says hope-instilling samurai.
Srsly Jack, think about it. Everywhere you go, people know your name and look up to you. That's a purpose in life, right there. Just be it.

And then the ending. I wonder where is he going. Must be some place significant - maybe his home he once found in the old series.

Japan's sex problem could cause the population to fall by 40 million by 2065

Japan's fertility problem hit a new low last year: 2016 was the first year since 1899 that fewer than one million babies were born in the country.

New data suggests the trend isn't poised to let up anytime soon.

Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research predicts that the country's current population of 127 million will decline by nearly 40 million by 2065.

Demographic experts point to younger generations' waning interest (and ability) to start families, along with low immigration rates, as the primary causes of the decline.

Mary Brinton, a Harvard sociologist who studies Japan, says Japan's work culture often prizes long hours at the expense of an active social life. For several decades following World War II, men worked while women raised children. Now, as more women enter the labor force, both sexes are finding it difficult to start a family of their own.

Show host:

Ok, let's get this straight, everything was honest and to the point: [La-La-Land] is not worthy of Best Picture title. It was /this/ close, and that thing was this: the film opens with an upbeat musical number, where people are enjoying a new sunny day in an LA traffic jam, despite trump-, er, transportation problems. It's LA, y'know. It's like, this scene, it's built upon the dissociation of content and form, and that's why it doesn't work - 'cause it's easy to dance in a traffic jam when you're in LA, it's 30 degrees [Celsius, ~86 F], you're in a convertible, going from Malibu to Santa-Monica for a cocktail; ocean is nearby, the sea salt is in the air, all that; everyone gets this, the Academy does, we do -- this should've been filmed in Moscow, the queen of traffic jams. We did what these Hollywood hacks didn't - we now present a true opening for motion picture La-La-Land, go...

Female on radio:

Good morning, everyone! The day is just getting started, and Moscow is already ridden with heavy traffic

[que the music]

[cars honking]

Show host:

Why are you honking at me?
It's like if I will roll centimeter further
Everyone will become closer to their destination
Cease this ringing noise
You nervous transvestite!

Some guy:

My sweet winter sleep
Oh, so nice it was; it has been shot down
By the beam of morning light
Then a light breakfast:
A litre of coffee and a roll
Now nature whispers in my ear:
"There is no bathroom here"

Guys in suits:

It's pleasant to breathe in the exhaust gasses
We're not afraid of running late
Our boss isn't going to be mad -
He's also here

[guy in a cap opens door, spits on road]

Guys in suits:
 - Why do you smear the asphalt?

Guy in cap:
 - Well I'm not spitting in my car

Guys in suits:
 - We will despise you - you immigrated here

Show host & others:

On the radio are Gazmanov and Maxsim,
Monatik, Krid and Piekha Stas -- [Russian mainstream artists - transcriptor's note]
Cheerful DJ
The terror on the news
Confusion in our heads
It's a new day in Moscow!

Guy in a red hoodie:

Oh, if only I could,
Like Moses split the sea,
Split this stream of cars...

[red sticker is placed on his windshield; sticker reads: "I don't give a shit about anyone, I park where I want" -- a social movement in Russia places these on cars of people who repeatedly violate parking regulations - transcriptors note]

Hey, who told you you can touch
my property?!

Bearded guy:
 - Your boorish parking is awaited on YouTube!
Guy in a red hoodie:
 - I'm standing in a jam here!

[camera jumps]

Lady in furs:
Here the doctor, the witch, the [WWII] veteran
And prosecutor's sister
On evenings and mornings
Spend their lives

Couple:
We become a family here
There is no need to hurry
From ambulance the patient will sing:
"Inject the morphium!"

People:
Slag-concrete and branches of heating pipelines
Accompany us on our way
The faces of the lamps
The arteries of cables
In noise and shuffle
This is a new day in Moscow

[a wedding procession has stopped in the middle of traffic; young people are dancing an ethnic dance]

Show host, on some car's hood:

Again, the light of a smile
Will bring us all...

People:
That's a new day in Moscow (repeated)
That's a wonderful day in Moscow
That's a bright day in Moscow
It's a clean day in Moscow
It's a new day in Moscow!

[everyone dances]

I was kinda thinking that since we were given a little more exposition on one of the Daughters of Aku she won't wind up dead just yet. And she was not, indeed, dead. What I wonder now is how will they proceed about their business with Jack. 'Cause it is not entirely unfeasible for them to just part ways and never see each other again.

Also, I think Samurai spoke a lot more than usual - he had, like, about a dozen of lines.

EDIT: Girl's got a name - it's Ashi. I keep forgetting that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all down for the reskin of the franchise - but it does seem like they just don't know where to take the plot from the end of the last season. But who cares, go Retro Archer!