![]() I disliked them making Julia betray Spike and turn into the villain at the end. Bringing that past into the present gives them agency to change things that they shouldn't have if you want to keep that feeling. ![]() There's a melancholic quality to Bebop that comes from the three leads being unable to move on from their pasts and trapped in limbo. I can see why they did it - to make it drive real-time relevance and jeopardy in the present day and to give Julia and Vicious more active roles - but it works so much better as the almost abstract haunting from the past that it is in most of the original anime. The one BIG thing that didn't work for me was the foregrounding of the Spike/Julia/Vicious stuff. So far so good, and I ceetainly enjoyed it enough to really want a second series. I also thought most of the changes they made to the existing plots, and they way they integrated 'existing' points of reference into the various 'new' plotlines was clever. Mostly, the vibe was perfect too - I loved all the noir references and the jazz aesthetic. The sets designs, ambience and special effects were all top notch. The secondary cast were all great with one glaring exception (see below). And I thought Eden Perkins (even in the tiny glimpse we had of them in the final moments) absolutely ******* nailed Ed! SO good, physically and vocally! Just perfect. ![]() I thought John Cho, Mustafa Shakir and Daniella Pineda were all exceptionally good and captured the key aspects of the anime characters perfectly, within the context of the new show. It's up there as one of my favourite shows of all time. I've been a huge fan of the original anime since it first came out. I posted this earlier on the 'cell phone/communicators' thread in the 'Replica Props' forum. Click to expand.Like you, I'm saddened and dismayed by the cancellation.
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