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

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Jesus Christ that first shot of Ed being introduced looks like something out of MST3K or an old video game magazine ad.

Apparently someone agrees with me on the latter because I just saw this

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Best way to describe why Netflix failed at adapting Cowboy Bebop is in the opening. In short: Less is more, (in Anime) some thing are purposefully left ambiguous, so anyone can interpret it differently. Most of the cast is miscast. Vicious actor looks like he is going full Tim Curry at times, Fay looks like a queer tomboy not femme fatale and Ed, androgen genius girl is played by non binary. Sets look nice, but CGI looks dodgy and every episode is connected, missing the point of the show.

Season 2, no please.
 
R00T dijo:
I mean tbf how else were they gonna do a character like Ed without making it cringe? I don't think there's a way to make the character translate to live action at all.
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I haven't seen the series yet but I actually think they did a great job with the casting. I was surprised when weebs got mad that they casted Jet as black and Spike as Asian, because when I saw the series, I thought Jet was black and Spike was Asian… It was news to me that they weren't. And of course an actual actress isn't going to be able to wear Faye's booty shorts and jacket thing while doing action scenes and such, so I didn't get mad they adapted that either. (Though I saw Faye as Asian too.) And that Ed in that clip doesn't make me mad either; she's lol teh penguin of D00M!! a bit but so was the original character - she annoyed the other crew members with her mannerisms.

That being said…

Rusty Crab dijo:
in case you need a cleanser
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Oof, even if I imagine it without the laugh track… that's not very good.
 
It feels like set designers are the last talent in Hollywood. It must be because it repulses trannied and BPD white women that drive all this forced representation. I first noticed it in the Sequel Trilogy of Star Wars(though severely hampered by talentless direction) and especially the Mandolorian. I'm not watching this crap as I only watched the original for a girlfriend and it's shocking how little of it stuck with me. Not bad, just didn't care for it.

But it looks good, set and prop wise(minus Eingoogles). Maybe I'm just seeing the clips where they are trying, but it's kinda shocking how bad the cinematography is making this stuff look. I think the goggles even might of been passable if not shown so damn close up.
 
Wow, this turned out even worse then expected. I fondly remember the original for many things, not least the surprisingly vivid portrayal of depression.
To this day, I have never heard a song that encapsulates it better than "Gotta Knock a Little Harder". The bit where you feel regret at locking yourself away from others and can't claw your way out is ambrosia for the soul.
 
Kevin Roberts dijo:
Best way to describe why Netflix failed at adapting Cowboy Bebop is in the opening. In short: Less is more, (in Anime) some thing are purposefully left ambiguous, so anyone can interpret it differently. Most of the cast is miscast. Vicious actor looks like he is going full Tim Curry at times, Fay looks like a queer tomboy not femme fatale and Ed, androgen genius girl is played by non binary. Sets look nice, but CGI looks dodgy and every episode is connected, missing the point of the show.

Season 2, no please.
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Having each episode being 50 minutes, adapting stories from the show and padding the episodes up with the Vicious/Julia subplot was a bad decision.
 

Instead, the 10-episode adaptation blends spot-on callbacks of moments from the anime with both subtle and substantial narrative changes — most noticeably around the show’s women, that allow the series to stand on its own.
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This entire "the live action Cowboy Bebop FINALLY treats it's women with RESPECT!" narrative is funny considering how 18 of the original 26 episodes were written by women, and how the Netflix series turns Julia into what is essentially a crybaby trophy wife.
 
mrdk_04 dijo:
Wow, this turned out even worse then expected. I fondly remember the original for many things, not least the surprisingly vivid portrayal of depression.
To this day, I have never heard a song that encapsulates it better than "Gotta Knock a Little Harder". The bit where you feel regret at locking yourself away from others and can't claw your way out is ambrosia for the soul.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0V-WGwJJj58
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I only recently really gave a listen to those lyrics and realized how relatable they are to me.
 
Migurdia dijo:
It's been said before but Cho just doesn't work as spike. You can't have a character who is supposed to be roguish, charismatic and in the prime of his life and have him be played by a 50 year old Korean guy whose face looks deflated and has all the charisma of a piece of wood . I mean this "adaptation" in general is a dumpster fire, but when the main character is so utterly miscast it just brings the show down to a place that it'll never recover from.

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He looks more like a 1600s Korean dropped into Brittany dandy culture. Those wigs they used were bad too. I've seen softer wig lines and more realistic hair on drag race.
 
Least Concern dijo:
I haven't seen the series yet but I actually think they did a great job with the casting. I was surprised when weebs got mad that they casted Jet as black and Spike as Asian, because when I saw the series, I thought Jet was black and Spike was Asian… It was news to me that they weren't. And of course an actual actress isn't going to be able to wear Faye's booty shorts and jacket thing while doing action scenes and such, so I didn't get mad they adapted that either. (Though I saw Faye as Asian too.) And that Ed in that clip doesn't make me mad either; she's lol teh penguin of D00M!! a bit but so was the original character - she annoyed the other crew members with her mannerisms.

That being said…


Oof, even if I imagine it without the laugh track… that's not very good.
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I can maybe see Spike being Asian, but...

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