Everything about what Tartavosky is doing is amazing.

This is litterally. Of all the things I've seen in animation so far, the best thing that happened in a revival. I mean hell I could go on about how the wolf and the alien tiger things are somewhat of an allegory to what Jack is dealing with against the Daughters of Aku but I think what struck me more in this episode, probably more so than Jack slitting a throat is that you get a sense of fear and depression from Jack who's been dealing with this shit for seventy years. and 50 of them are spent in eternity.
 
That last scene before Jack kills one of the daughters where they're all in that crypt and Jack's eyes are bulging while he's hiding in a coffin. Or before that when he becomes introspective and tells himself maybe it's time to commit suicide which actually gives meaning to the samurai figure we've all been seeing in the first episode of the revival.

Just everything about this mini-series is wonderful. From Scaramouche and this episode I really am enjoying this. It's not just a call back to nostalgia, this is literally a new chapter with new things that are being tried and the show is pulling it very successfully I might add. And Genndy has managed to find the balance between everything in this show from comedy to drama, and when and where there should be blood or not.

Also, Greg Baldwin is a decent Aku. He's no Mako but hell for what it is I can't complain too much. I just wish that he'd make a better effort not to have Aku sound that deep in pitch. But everything else about Aku just from the first few seconds of the episode? priceless.