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[Netflix Cowboy Bebop] End of season spoilers
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I'm of two minds about this
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because on the one hand, this feels like the right way to do this, as close to the original Ed as possible character-wise, down to the outfit . I like that much.
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On the other hand... my lizard brain is screaming at me over the low-budget "cosplay" effect of it all
trek
i don't respect sequel bait
trek
like you don't even know if you're good enough for that yet slow down space cowboy
Beans
also that
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This is so cringe
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Reminds me of a late 90s cereal commercial
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Ed just... does not translate to live action well
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I'm almost in tears by sheer what the fuckery Eds actress is trying to attempt. I'm feeling this
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https://images.plurk.com/5SHCfdV61gHAsERLJiXO1q.jpg https://images.plurk.com/7JRcU1TPdIOTmZz2fzrF3n.jpg not alone in my take
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that kid is doing their absolute best
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GOD
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YEAH
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I feel for them
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oh nooo
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there are things that just
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it's the fisheye and the looking directly into the camera that really just destroys it down to 90s toy commercial
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do not translate from Animation to Live Action
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who signed off on that filming decision
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like. man i thought we left the super zoomy fisheye shit behind two decades ago why is it back
Beans
Like, Cowboy bebop was known for shots like that sometimes!!! And plenty of other weird shots and angles
trek
the 90s were. bad.
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and they worked!!! because it was a cartoon!!
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yeah in animation that doesn't give it a Cheap vibe
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whereas in live action it super does
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unfortunately
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you can say "let's recreate something from an animation perfectly in live action" and try, but
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you can't
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you can never
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I Fear for live action One Piece
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that kid is acting their heart out though
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it's INCREDIBLY cringey and uncomfortable to watch but i respect the unhinged enthusiasm
trek
like you can't deny that that's ed
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Netflix Geeked on Twitter
on the third mutant hand, Ed is played by a nonbinary actor
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as someone with zero familiarity with cowboy beboy
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i cannot judge whether or not it is ed
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i can just judge that they are trying so hard
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and honestly it is VERY close to the original
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ohhhhh yeah
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yeah i see
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Ed is very Like That and in general like
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the most cartoony of the cast
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very uh
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waffles culture
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yeah....
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>dub first aired 2001 yeah
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it all makes sense
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not that i don't think this wasn't also present in the original language it's just. you know. early 2000s
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cowboy bebop was in many ways a trend setter
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anyway the tumblr tag is firmly split between "well this is alright I guess"
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and https://64.media.tumblr.com/91ee5de322acff58a0d272a0107d0921/07eade1a825ec321-97/s1280x1920/f9aba95792770d14388d6250b1563d016edb0717.jpg
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i imagine they figured it was literally impossible to please everybody so they might ass well just try and be as 1 to 1 accurate as possible and then at least nobody could say they didn't make an effort
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I read the initial concept and provided my opinions, but I'm not sure if they will be reflected in the final product. I have no choice but to pray and hope that it will turn out good. Also, for Cowboy Bebop, I don't have any right to stop it. Those rights are in the hands of Sunrise, so if you have a complaint, please send it to them.
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- Shinichirō Watanabe, director of cowboy bebop
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who was apparently hired as a "Creative Consultant" and.... that's it
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and despite it all.... I'll probably give it a watch, just to see.
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This feels.... added in just to appease people who bitched about Ed not... being in the show originally
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Like just super tacked on like “see guys, we did it after all!”
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While also basically illustrating exactly why the character wasn’t originally going to be included in the first place
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see, I think it might be worse than that
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they were always going to have Ed be in the show, but decided to put them in only at the end
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to get people to clamor for a season 2
trek
honestly the dude playing spike is so hot how could you notice anything else
trek
it's like move to the side ed you are blocking the view
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Idek honestly at this point
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but yeah idek either like
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Like what keeps getting me is like. They managed to make the main three look pretty good while maintaining a lot of the original look (save Faye who got an update bc Faye’s original outfit isn’t really practical and kind of silly). There was effort put in there and for all the faults of this whole thing I felt at least they nailed that
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But everything about Ed looks cheap and half assed and rushed
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It’s “faithful” but it also has zero effort
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yyyyyeah tho like Ed's outfit in the original is both the simplest and also the easiest to pull off
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That hair especially is a goddamn disaster like good lord there was just no attempt to try and translate it better
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a pair of black shorts and a white tank top are especially cheap - YEAH it's just
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it's the wig for me
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YEAH the outfit is simple it’s just. That wig. Holy shit.
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it needs to be floofier
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it's so......... Flat.......
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Honestly if they’d just gone and like. Gave them a messy short cut that would immediately be an improvement. Just like. Literally anything
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It doesn’t need to be one to one it just needs to look like natural hair a person would actually have while maintaining some spirit of the character
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Which is what they managed for everyone else (in the main cast at least) so... lol
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and that brings me back to like. You Can't go one to one with a cartoon
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it's actually impossible
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Yeaaah
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every second fills me with a greater dread at the fact that we'll be getting Live Action One Piece from Netflix in the future
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stop
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no
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Can’t wait for those bad cgi arms
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I don't CARE if Oda personally chose the actors himself
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the moment Luffy goes a Gum Gum Balloon and swells up like the blueberry girl in Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory I'll actually die
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I’m just. I’m so tired. Bc I’m honestly not one of those people who thinks live action adaptations can never work and I don’t want to always be endlessly negative about them... but god they just keep making it harder to ever be optimistic about them
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This one showed some promise but then I guess turned out to shit the bed anyway and I’m just sitting here with my head in my hands like “well at least there’s still pgsm I guess”
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netflix buy my petshop of horrors treatment
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I'm so sorry
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I just wish live action adaptations weren't seen as the endpoint all things should strive to become
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and I'm so tired of being negative
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like just make it cartoons but different
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Yeah... it’s all just tiring all around
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how does animation feel like it has less lazy cinematography than a live action show is my big question
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Lord Nick
I'm going to take up the slightly controversial side here and say.. what did people expect?
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I haven't watched the show so I can't speak for the rest of it but as far as Ed goes I mean yeah that's pretty much how I drew it up in my mind. What did people expect a live action Ed to be like?
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another point in animation's favor is that you don't have to have what is clearly a grown adult trying to be a 13 year old
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like i'm sorry but this person does not make a convincing child
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and if the live action has aged-up Ed but Ed still acts like a 13 year old then that's. weird and offputting
Lord Nick
I'm actually trying to find out how old the actor is. But aside from them being nonbinary nothing about their age is coming up.
Ken
I actually think it’s a bit worse in a vacuum, having watched a bit of it, there’s a very. Surrealist vibe to the entire show that does feel intentional? But could easily put off some folks. But it’s enough that I then look at Ed and go, “oh I. Guess that works.”

YMMV of course on being thematically consistent is a good or bad thing.
Ken
I honestly hate how the show handles Vicious and Julia a LOT more, but I don’t think the entire show’s worthless. Just odd in places, and sometimes that feels more consistent within the show’s actual context. If that makes sense?
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oh no. i didn't watch the show
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but this puts me off even more
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i have heard very bad things about vicious and julia
Ash!!1
yeah i'm on the side of 'what the fuck did people expect' lolo. if ed WASN'T cringe people would just be yelling about how unfaithful it is
Ash!!1
they literally cannot win and honestly all the negging is so. tiring (not anyone here just in general)
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personally i'm like. yes, more campy live action, fuck yes
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rather than grimdark adaptions. at least the actors seem to be like, having fun.
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(obv the answer is STOP ADAPTING CARTOONS but. capitalism )
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but i'm also in the camp of where i fucking loved cowboy bebop growing up but even with nostalgia glasses i can tell it was more Style than Substance
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i give two shits about spike's backstory that was the most boring part of the show to me lolo
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give me space bounty hunters vs cowboys and space clowns and mutated lobsters in their fridge, thats what i watched the anime for.
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Ken : YEAH the context part is why I want to at least.... see the show itself I guess?
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Ed was definitely wacky, I remember that much.
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