Cowboy Bebop and Donnie Darko alike?... think about it. WARNING: VAGUE BUT EVIL SPOILERS!!!

[timepiececlock]

So I was All.About.Bebop. this morning. And I was listening to "Blue" off my homemade soundtrack of all the CB music, and I immediately started coming up with ideas to cross it with BTVS and that Spike. I have icons and vids parading through my head. Again. They never quite go away. But I think I can take care of the icon part at least. Soon. Imagine Spike/Spuffy icons to the lyrics to "Blue." Doesn't it make you squeal?!

I also had some heavy CB fandom thoughts along with all these music thoughts, while driving to school. Mostly, I finally realized why I wasn't sad at the end of Cowboy Bebop. I mean, I _was_ sad, but I wasn't, you know? I was hearbroken for Faye and hurting for Jet and pouting for Julia and Annie and everyone... but my reactions for Spike at the end of The Real Folk Blues have always been confused and conflicted. Sad, but not sad. Happy, but hearbroken.

It's been many many months since I saw the end of Cowboy Bebop, but I finally realized what my overall reaction was:

The film Donnie Darko.

I felt about Spike Spiegel at the end of the show exactly the way that I felt about Donnie at the end of that film.

In fact, now that it's stuck in my brain, the comparison seems so obvious that I wonder why I've never thought of it before.

Excuse me, I have to go cry happy tears now.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/automatedalice_/]

i started to make an icon set. then i gave it up because i think my icons are crap. i put "blue" on the stereo as we passed a bottle of jack around after the end of chosen. there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

::listening to blue now::

So my main icon idea was this:

Frame 1 & 2 - Spike's face in the end of Chosen, kinda-smiling. the words "Everything is clearer now" fade to "Life is just a dream you know."

Frame 3 - fade to HANDS. You know, the pretty hands flamey. words, "It's never-ending."

Frame 4 - fade to shining glowing Spike. words, "I'm ascending."

Every Spike fangirl will cry like the dickens.

[http://users.livejournal.com/automatedalice_/]

i was seeing...

frame 1: one of those S7 thoughtful!spike(TM) caps with "i wanna be free."

frame 2, 3, 4: hands, hands, hands. "free"..."to move among the stars"..."you know they really aren't so far."

frame 5: effulgent!spike(TM). "i'm ascending."

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

or both! I love that line too....

[saava.livejournal.com]

A loooong time ago I made a Buffy icon set to Blue. This was in (I think) April 2002. So really, the icons were crap.

I especially love the line about no black and white. Because yes. Shades of gray.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

that is a good line.