Cowboy Bebop Thread - Live-Action Adaptation cancelled after one season (it was shit)

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Cope, seethe and dilate faggots. They shilled so fucking hard for this, paid so much money to reviewers and influencers and it still fucking faceplanted and was such dogshit it became an instant laughing stock.

You have absolutely no taste in anything if this was your favorite show. You are certifiably retarded if you think this was the best thing in 2021.
 
I know this kind of question has been asked before for other material, but how the hek are you supposed to "broaden" this show? I mean, it's bad enough that these people think they can catch lightning in a bottle twice, it's simply mind-blowing to believe they think they can financially do better considering that there have been very few examples of a remake, reboot, re-imagining, or whatever doing better than its predecessor especially if there predecessor was already considered a hit. It just goes to show how pathetic this generation of writers and producers are.
I guess they think that normies don't watch animation cause either "cartoons are for kids" or "anime is for weebs/perverts", and they wouldn't be wrong, since that's the attitude of normies in the western world. There's a reason why Toy Story, Shrek, Tangled and so on got so popular with all age groups. They avoid the stigma of (cell) animation while offering light hearted, cartoony content (with a few innuendos here and there).

Making a real-life remake of anime to open it up for a western normie market does make sense... the problem starts when they deviate from the original though. Deviating wouldn't even be that much of an issue, they could do that if they do it smartly, but they aren't smart. They usually deviate, cause they think they need to "fix" it, so Jet is black, Spike is an old tired asian dude, Julia is a wet blanket until she isn't anymore and the dialogue is quippy whedonistic bullshit WELCUM TO DA OUCH M FUCKAS YO Fremdscham.

A straight 1:1 remake might work out, maybe make it a bit flashier and taking advantage of the medium (can't really do dolly shots in anime to the same extent as in real life)... But that does raise the question: Why bother when your remake offers nothing new? It's a catch 22 situation, deviate and make the show suck or don't deviate and make a redundant retelling that has no reason to exist.

We've got an adage in Germany for this kind of comment:

"Your tears are my lube."
 
The staff member having a meltdown is the cherry on top of this news.
I can have a measure of sympathy for some of those involved. Her posts though make it comforting to know there's one person at least that had this coming.
 
The staff member having a meltdown is the cherry on top of this news.
I can have a measure of sympathy for some of those involved. Her posts though make it comforting to know there's one person at least that had this coming.
The writers in general really deserve to be fucked over. I know some are just being lowkey though only because people act like Netflix is some production studio and blame them rather than the people who actually run the show for fucking up.
 
In these dire times of turmoil and distress, let me tell you how glad I am that Dennou Coil is nowhere near popular enough that anyone will ever ruin it with a shitty Netflix remake.
 
Its truly a shame we'll never see them turn VT into a lesbian, Eds father into an abusive alcoholic and Wen into a MAPs supporter. How can I live my life not knowing how some Hollywood liberal hack would butcher the rest of the shows ideas and characters? :(
We'll never see Spike kneel to Julia, apologize, and be followed by some weak-ass "bang" in the climax.
A crime I tells ya.
 
John Cho's reaction to the show's cancellation on Twitter made me laugh out loud.

He never gave a shit about this project. He has always given "I'm just here for the paycheck" vibes, and boy does it ever come across that way in his recent Tweet.

While so many others who worked on the show are throwing a tantrum, John Cho is like "Whatever man. I'm good." This is ironically the most he has ever resembled Spike Spiegel. LOL.
 

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Among the post-mortem takes on Netflix Bebop's cancellation comes this horrible thread which is a good illustration of how post-2010's American culture had degraded to where for anything to have any depth it has to be an allegory for why you should join the Democratic Socialists of America.


The original made it a point to focus on the struggles of poor and working class people within this dystopian future, often spending entire episodes to show how established systems and power structures have harmed not only the main cast, but every single side character as well.

“Faye has to deal with massive MEDICAL BILLS…Are you paying attention yet, comrade?” The whole thread isn't a case of missing the forest for the trees, the author is missing the entire forest for a single tree.
 
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