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

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We all know they're going to make Ed and Gren some non-binary transxeno bullshit or something, but I'm more concerned about Faye.

Faye is probably my favorite character of the crew, and from what I can tell they're turning her from a deconstruction of the sexy fem fatal into some punk basic bitch with memory issues. Her whole character is based off of putting up a personality to make up for the lack of one she has innately, that's why she acts like such a stuck up self reliant bitch when half the time it gets her in trouble. Her whole overall arc in the show is learning she doesn't need to rely on a past she may as well forget about, everyone who knew her is dead or dying, she has no home other than the Bebop, and the people she fights with are her friends now. It takes her finding the ruins of her home for her to finally realize this.


This is probably my favorite Faye scene, especially when she bumps into Spike after recovering her memory. Spike expects some smug comeback from her back is perplexed when she just stares and apologizes. It isn't the Faye he knew, just listen to his shock when she apologizes. Post Session 24 Faye is something of a synthesis between the self reliant façade she puts up maybe as a coping mechanism and the Faye that was underneath. She is hot as hell and tough, but she is also way out of her element and has been ever since she woke up with a debt she can never pay off.

The pay off for this is in Spike's arc, in their final meeting.


Spike tells Faye how he can't run away from his past, while she tries to rebuke him explaining how there wasn't anything left for her, and there wouldn't be anything left for him either. There is some genuine tension here as though they acted antagonistically to each other over the show they have come to respect each other, maybe even have some romantic interests if you want to believe it. For Spike the past and present are inseparable due to his injury, for Faye the past and present are distinguished by a lifetime where her only childhood friend briefly calls her a ghost before remembering she was put in stasis. Faye embraces this ghost ultimately and severs a past she won't ever recover from the present.

TLDR I don't want them fucking up the hottest anime chick who smells of booze and smokes.
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Oh sorry, the original anime.

I thought this thread was encompassing that too
You were giving me a heart attack there, but also I had no idea what 4OD even was and thought it was hilarious the live-action series would be unceremoniously released on some channel most people don't even have.
 
At this point, it appears as far as live action adaptions in general go, it will be far inferior to media like the 1995 live action Fist of the North Star movie starring British martial artist Gary Daniels as Kenshiro (and Chris Penn(!) as Jagi).

 
You were giving me a heart attack there, but also I had no idea what 4OD even was and thought it was hilarious the live-action series would be unceremoniously released on some channel most people don't even have.

Lol sorry friend!

4OD is a catch up service for one of our terrestrial channels anyway, but they do have a good selection of boxsets for various shows, like they have Seinfeld and a few other animes that I may or may not check out.
 
Oh sorry, the original anime.

I thought this thread was encompassing that too
It's certainly named as such. And good, increased exposure to Cowboy Bebop is good for the world. Hopefully more people will see the good version before the live actions one drops like a wet fart.
 
As much as Cowboy Bebop is the most overrated anime outside of Studio Ghibli's bibliography; it still need to be shown to normies before this Netflix abomination airs and normies bond to it instead.
 
At this point, it appears as far as live action adaptions in general go, it will be far inferior to media like the 1995 live action Fist of the North Star movie starring British martial artist Gary Daniels as Kenshiro (and Chris Penn(!) as Jagi).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MUVukUuF9tw
It's always cracked me up for some reason to think of Chris Penn being in a live action anime movie, Chris Penn was kawaii!
 
The fact that they're hiding or not showing Ed is interesting. I'm sure lots of youtubers are going to have a field day with this show and shit out mutliple videos that will either defend or demonize the changes from 2D to 3D.
 
You can barely even call that Cowboy Bebop, the costumes barely work, Daniella Pineda looks nothing like how Faye should look, and nothing about the scenery screams "Cowboy Bebop aesthetic". Only thing that makes you go "Oh yeah, that's Cowboy Bebop" is Ein, but Ein really isn't the face of the series just because people remember there's a Corgi in it.

It's just so ugly-looking.
 
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