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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Savage Wombat" data-source="post: 871947" data-attributes="member: 1932">You ever watch Samurai Jack?There was an episode where the evil shapeshifting sorcerer Aku tried to win the hearts and minds of the children with fairy tales about himself, with Jack as the villain.  (It got kind of silly, as Aku is a bad storyteller.)The kids wouldn't buy the attempt to describe Jack as a villain, and Aku got angry.  After watching the episode, I had wanted him to say something like this to them:"Once upon a time there was an all-powerful wizard named Aku, who ruled the people of the little village.  But the people of the village feared the wizard, and resented his rule.""One day a foolish samurai warrior came to the village, and did battle with Aku.  His magic sword forced Aku to depart, and the village celebrated the samurai's might.""But then, the samurai traveled on, as heroes always do.  And one day the wizard Aku returned to the village, and great was his anger.  And with the hero gone, no one could protect the village from his wroth.  And the elders of the village said, 'Lo, we are once again ruled by Aku, but now his taxes are twice as high, his punishments twice as harsh, and his anger governs our lives.  Truly would we be better off had we not resisted the all-powerful one."The moral of the story - freedom is fleeting, and hope can be crushed.</blockquote>