Talk:Episode CI/@comment-25322628-20201004072639/@comment-24053170-20201004195610

Sometimes tragedy is a necessary factor for someone to grow as a person.

I think he believed that having Ashi survive at the end would ruin the overall context of Jack's quest.

Yes he fell in love with Ashi, but you need to remember that falling in love wasn't the purpose of the series, the purpose was for Jack to defeat Aku and return to the past.

Jacks quest is over, so changing the ending wouldn't do any good at this point. Its better to let things rest as they are and accept that Jack achieved the goal he originally set out to accomplish.

In fact I prefer the original ending of the story over the alternative one presented in BTT, as it actually fit with the storyline better than the one were Ashi lives. Since the story was never about Ashi in the first place....it was about Jack. Ashi was only a side note in the grand scheme of things.

What is better, an ending were everyone is happy and smiliing and everyone makes it back alive....or one where the character fondly remembers all the friends and companions he made and can record their stories to pass on through the generations.

Jack was really the only one who was meant to be alive at the end of the story, having someone else remember the future (other than the gods who exist outside of time and the viking champion was was sent to Valhalla) would have ruined the plot that Genndy originally set out to make when he first created the series.

Believe me, its better this way then it was for the altenative scenario's ending. As it lines up properly with how the story was meant to be told, rather than how you think it should have been.