::cries:::::::

[timepiececlock]

Just caught the final episode of Cowboy Bebop on Cartoon Network...

WaaaahhhH!!!! Poor Julia!

::whimpers::

Poor Spike!!!!

::sniffles::

Poor Jet!

Poor Faye!

::cries::

::sniffle:: My darling Spike is so badass....

--- NOOOO!!!

Poor Spike!!!

:: cries some more::

I love this song... ::cries for ending song too::

::starts to put tape in VCR to record InuYasha and the repeat of CB's Real Folk Blues 2::


::starts to cry for real when realizes that Angel didn't record last night::

Comments

re: Cowboy Bebop

[permetaform]

I know ::weeps:: and you can't figure out any other way and it ended so perfectly but you *never* want it to end! ;_;

Re: re: Cowboy Bebop

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I fell in love with this show when I saw the finale for the first time. It was so perfect... one of the best endings for an anime I've seen (really, second only to Escaflowne, which also broke my heart, and just ahead of Trigun, which also broke my heart.) But I jsut want to rewind and make it all better.

[irfikos.livejournal.com]

wow. so that's how it ends?

i thought i preferred unhappy endings. but... like you said. poor spike, etc.

very cool and all. i guess i just want more.

so... that's it for cowboy bebop?

how does that movie fit in then. i haven't seen the movie yet. does it take place somewhere before all this stuff happened, or is it set sometime after the series somehow? like... it turned out nobody died after all and they all lived happily ever after to have further adventures and...

darn me and my tendency to get interested in stuff that ends unhappily.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

what do you mean, that's how it ends? I didn't tell you anything except that it was sad. It is sad. Don't jump to conclusions. And don't read any other comments.

The movie is set right around episode 22-23. The climactic end for the show sort of happens between episode 24-26. The movie is so good in that it actually captures where the characters are at that point in time, instead of making it just fit in anywhere in the sequence.

You should so watch the end, though. I didn't fall truly in love with this show until I saw the last two episodes. I liked it before, but wasn't crazy about it. Then I'm like "I get it! I get it! OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW! I SO KNEW THIS WAS COMING!"

The restraint that the writers show at the end is amazing, making it far more cinematic or novel-like than anime-like.

[irfikos.livejournal.com]

no... i'm not basing it on your comments. i saw it last night. i didn't realize it was the finale until... y'know... dead spike.

that's what i'm bummed about. but really, not bummed. cuz it was very, very cool. and even if i get bummed, i do really love unhappy endings. (duh, i watch jossverse shows!)

so... that really is the finale, huh? no more bebop after that? no miraculous return of spike? maybe... some kind of magical amulet? no?

::is secretly thankful. but still bummed::

::sighs::

ok. but i haven't seen the movie yet. so i can have that to look forward to.

::sighs again. mopes::

follow the links below... trust me...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

i saw it last night.

Oh, well, that's a relief.

that's what i'm bummed about. but really, not bummed. cuz it was very, very cool. and even if i get bummed, i do really love unhappy endings. (duh, i watch jossverse shows!)

I understand perfectly. It's fantastic because it all makes sense (when I first saw it I was not suprised, really that he died, because his character was tragic and he did have a deathwish and you could wade in the foreshadowing even before what happened in this episode), and the cahracters are wonderful, but it's terrible because now he's gone! Spike is dead!

Except of course for his "miraculous return and subsequent even more downward spiral."

but i haven't seen the movie yet. so i can have that to look forward to. The movie is a bit too long in parts, and some of the philosophical talk bored me, but the fights are fantastic and the characterizations are amazing. Also there's two movie-centric characters that I loved... the villain who is supposed to parallel Spike, and a cop lady whose just fabulously cool. Like what would happen if you took Spike and Jet's personalities and combined them, and then made that person into a gorgeous kick-ass woman. She and Spike have this great hand-to-hand fight with fabulous snarky dialogue.

Would you like a copy of the CB soundtrack I'm making? It's going to have the a song for each character and location. I've already made the song list.

Welcome to my denial

[girlwithjournal.livejournal.com]

I still maintain that Spike gets better and goes back to Jet and Faye. ::nods::

Re: Welcome to my denial

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Oh course he does. I was just thinking we should be like those LOTR fans in the 60s, who run around painting the subway walls with "Frodo Lives" ... Only it would be "Spike Spiegel lives!"

I watched carefully, too. It was only a shallow stomach wound. You can survive like half an hour wiht a stomach wound.

Re: Welcome to my denial

[irfikos.livejournal.com]

wait... frodo dies?

huh. i did not know that. see, that's what i get for taking so long to get into fantasy/sci-fi/anime.

and that's what i get for not seeing rotk yet (still waiting for it to get to the cheap theatres).

i can't believe i didn't know that until now.

good thing being spoiled has no effect on me. whew.

:-)

Re: Welcome to my denial

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

there's something I want to tell you so bad right now, but I'm having a moral dillemma.

Re: Welcome to my denial

[irfikos.livejournal.com]

funny. i tend to cause those in people.

um... is it lotr-related or cowboy bebop-related?

Re: Welcome to my denial

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I can't tell you that either, or you might infer. I'm still pondering.

Re: Welcome to my denial

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

ok. I've decided now.

It's about LOTR.

All I want to say is that you cannot talk about the ending of RotK to anyone until you see it just because you think you understand a spoiler now. You don't understand. But I don't want to explain it to you, because I want you to experience it on the big screen. But I don't want you to talk to others about it, because they will inform you and alter your assumptions, and I don't believe in spoilers even if you say you're immune.

Would you promise me that you won't try to spoil yourself anymore about ROTK and that you won't mention what you think you know to anyone else? Pretty please???