Cowboy Bebop finale review
May. 14th, 2003 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI like my keyboard well enough, but I'm used to hitting the 'B' key with my right hand, not my left. Also, the arrow buttons are too small. And I keep hitting 'Insert' or 'Delete' when I mean to hit 'End'. Oh well, I'll get used to it.
So, after much MUCH waiting, thanks to Netflix.com I've finally watched the last episodes of Cowboy Bebop.
episode 23
Apparently what I thought ws episode 23 is actually 24, and I'd missed 23 entirely. I actually liked it though, a lot.
I was pleased to see Ein being the one to use the computer to solve the mystery-- I've always thought that the idea of a "super-genius experimental dog" storyline was never used to its full potential, and the characters seemed to have forgotten about it entirely. It was nice to see one final reminder of that.
My favorite part is Faye waking up from unconsciousness to see Spike, sitting next to her smoking casually in the darkened room of computers and bodies.
Faye: (softly) Oh, it's you. Long time no see.
Spike: *smiles, smokes*
And just like that, I became a Faye/Spike shipper.
episode 24
Ah, the Fellowship is breaking! The course of the future hangs upon the edge of knife!
Well, I'd seen this one before, and I liked it better the second time. One of the better-written of the character episodes.
Ein, Ein! no, don't leave them, Ein! Though really, you'd be happier with Ed. She'll take care of you and not let you be killed by random sword-bearing mobsters with grudges.
episode 25+26, conclusion
Hey, it's the TV cowboy guy! Fuck, that's cool. In fact, that little 30-second scene might just be the coolest thing in the entire series, just for it's attention to detail and continuity and downright coolness that they thought to include it.
ooh... Shin. Were you in past episodes, Shin? I like you. You're cool. They should make you a regular.
You know, Vicious is an underdeveloped character. He's kind of stale, as villains go, and pretty one-dimensional. Luckily, since he's only mirroring Spike, and Spike is a lot more developed, that doesn't matter. Because this show is now All!About!Spike.
The whole thing with a villain like Vicious whose story/motivations is told mostly in flashback and has deep history with the protagonist-- he's not explained very well. His motivvations are murky and not developed. A far better example of this "type" of Mystery!Flashback!Villain is Knives from Trigun. Knives has less actual appearances in 26 episodes than Viscious does, and yet his is a more complex, more developed, and more logical villainy. Vicious is cool and creepy, but not much else.
I love Faye and Julia bonding. That's some nice irony.
::is tempted to sleep through the Julia/Spike parts::
Oh, Julia's dead, boo-whoo. Watch these tears not fall from my eyes. Very pretty and artsy death though. Love the birds and the grey sky morning. I do feel really bad for Spike, because he obiously still loves her (or the dream of her, more likely), but Julia's not a very deep or interesting character outside of the fact that she's the one Spike loves. That's all she is, really. Heck, I was more emotionally touched by the scene with the ex-TV host and his mother, a scene that had nothing to do with storyline and everything to do with mood and overall theme, than I was for any of the scenes Julia was in.
Jet and Spike, laughing the absurd laughter of impending disaster! I want to cry!
Oh, poor, poor Faye. Who is far, far more in love with Spike than she realizes. And if only there were more time, he could have fallen in love with her. She's certainly his type of woman, and different enough from Julia that there would have been something of their own to build on. Alas, they don't have time. So to Spike, Faye will forever be just a potential- a potential lover, a potential romance, a potential best friend; a "maybe, someday, what-if" possibility of love. And that makes me sad. Sad for Spike, that he's caught in this circle of misery and obsession with his past that he can't walk away from, and sad for Faye for falling in love with someone who obviously can't love anyone right now.
Ah. So Spike's "not going there to die." Weirdly, I actually believe that. Julia's been dead to him for years, and now she's dead for real, and his reason for living his life half-way is over now, and he's almost free to live and love like a real person now.
Which makes it sad, because of course he's going to die. It's been foreshadowed-- nay, it's been forepummeled, into our head wth a giant dialogue sledgehammer, that he's going to kick it.
Shin says "We were waiting for you to come back and take over." Hah. RIGHT. Shin, you've only been on screen for like 3 scenes and I love you already (snappy dresser), but if you think Spike has any interest in taking over your mob family you're more dillusioned than that poor pet bird that Viscious has brainwashed.
AHH! Shin's dead. Damn, I really liked him. They shouldn't just off minor-minor-minor supporting characters that I like.
Ah, big finale. Good music/sound, good battle. Heh. For an underdeveloped overly-mysterious villian, Vicious does manage to come off creepy and, well-- vicious, at the right moments.
And Spike walks down and looks at the mob minions gathered below. He makes a gunshot gesture, whispers "Bang!", and falls down dead on the steps.
Pretty music kicks in.
Rashaka bounces on her couch, waits a beat, then jumps up and shouts "Oh, oh oh! I get it!: CRIME DOESN'T PAY!"
::roll final credits::
EDIT: Ok, credits are sad. Way sad. Music gonna make me cry now. **leaves to cry**
So, after much MUCH waiting, thanks to Netflix.com I've finally watched the last episodes of Cowboy Bebop.
episode 23
Apparently what I thought ws episode 23 is actually 24, and I'd missed 23 entirely. I actually liked it though, a lot.
I was pleased to see Ein being the one to use the computer to solve the mystery-- I've always thought that the idea of a "super-genius experimental dog" storyline was never used to its full potential, and the characters seemed to have forgotten about it entirely. It was nice to see one final reminder of that.
My favorite part is Faye waking up from unconsciousness to see Spike, sitting next to her smoking casually in the darkened room of computers and bodies.
Faye: (softly) Oh, it's you. Long time no see.
Spike: *smiles, smokes*
And just like that, I became a Faye/Spike shipper.
episode 24
Ah, the Fellowship is breaking! The course of the future hangs upon the edge of knife!
Well, I'd seen this one before, and I liked it better the second time. One of the better-written of the character episodes.
Ein, Ein! no, don't leave them, Ein! Though really, you'd be happier with Ed. She'll take care of you and not let you be killed by random sword-bearing mobsters with grudges.
episode 25+26, conclusion
Hey, it's the TV cowboy guy! Fuck, that's cool. In fact, that little 30-second scene might just be the coolest thing in the entire series, just for it's attention to detail and continuity and downright coolness that they thought to include it.
ooh... Shin. Were you in past episodes, Shin? I like you. You're cool. They should make you a regular.
You know, Vicious is an underdeveloped character. He's kind of stale, as villains go, and pretty one-dimensional. Luckily, since he's only mirroring Spike, and Spike is a lot more developed, that doesn't matter. Because this show is now All!About!Spike.
The whole thing with a villain like Vicious whose story/motivations is told mostly in flashback and has deep history with the protagonist-- he's not explained very well. His motivvations are murky and not developed. A far better example of this "type" of Mystery!Flashback!Villain is Knives from Trigun. Knives has less actual appearances in 26 episodes than Viscious does, and yet his is a more complex, more developed, and more logical villainy. Vicious is cool and creepy, but not much else.
I love Faye and Julia bonding. That's some nice irony.
::is tempted to sleep through the Julia/Spike parts::
Oh, Julia's dead, boo-whoo. Watch these tears not fall from my eyes. Very pretty and artsy death though. Love the birds and the grey sky morning. I do feel really bad for Spike, because he obiously still loves her (or the dream of her, more likely), but Julia's not a very deep or interesting character outside of the fact that she's the one Spike loves. That's all she is, really. Heck, I was more emotionally touched by the scene with the ex-TV host and his mother, a scene that had nothing to do with storyline and everything to do with mood and overall theme, than I was for any of the scenes Julia was in.
Jet and Spike, laughing the absurd laughter of impending disaster! I want to cry!
Oh, poor, poor Faye. Who is far, far more in love with Spike than she realizes. And if only there were more time, he could have fallen in love with her. She's certainly his type of woman, and different enough from Julia that there would have been something of their own to build on. Alas, they don't have time. So to Spike, Faye will forever be just a potential- a potential lover, a potential romance, a potential best friend; a "maybe, someday, what-if" possibility of love. And that makes me sad. Sad for Spike, that he's caught in this circle of misery and obsession with his past that he can't walk away from, and sad for Faye for falling in love with someone who obviously can't love anyone right now.
Ah. So Spike's "not going there to die." Weirdly, I actually believe that. Julia's been dead to him for years, and now she's dead for real, and his reason for living his life half-way is over now, and he's almost free to live and love like a real person now.
Which makes it sad, because of course he's going to die. It's been foreshadowed-- nay, it's been forepummeled, into our head wth a giant dialogue sledgehammer, that he's going to kick it.
Shin says "We were waiting for you to come back and take over." Hah. RIGHT. Shin, you've only been on screen for like 3 scenes and I love you already (snappy dresser), but if you think Spike has any interest in taking over your mob family you're more dillusioned than that poor pet bird that Viscious has brainwashed.
AHH! Shin's dead. Damn, I really liked him. They shouldn't just off minor-minor-minor supporting characters that I like.
Ah, big finale. Good music/sound, good battle. Heh. For an underdeveloped overly-mysterious villian, Vicious does manage to come off creepy and, well-- vicious, at the right moments.
And Spike walks down and looks at the mob minions gathered below. He makes a gunshot gesture, whispers "Bang!", and falls down dead on the steps.
Pretty music kicks in.
Rashaka bounces on her couch, waits a beat, then jumps up and shouts "Oh, oh oh! I get it!: CRIME DOESN'T PAY!"
::roll final credits::
EDIT: Ok, credits are sad. Way sad. Music gonna make me cry now. **leaves to cry**
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Re: EWWW
Date: 2003-05-14 07:30 pm (UTC)Re: EWWW
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Date: 2003-05-14 08:08 pm (UTC)But hey, I also owed you a wolfwood essay a long time ago that I never delivered...