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News Live-Action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ tv series in the works

Christmas Stockings said:
Hey it was not bad and the atmosphere made me pick up Killjoys again because I tuned out at the end of season 3 so now watching the rest of that as well.
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I didn't like seasons 4-5 of Killjoys as much as the first 3, but they're still worthwhile. If nothing else, it's nice that the show actually got to complete its full intended run.


Ryan Thomas Riddle said:
Agree. Gren's story in the anime was great. But in the live-action, they're relegated to a background character. Just window dressing.
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Maybe, as with Ein and Ed, they had more plans for Gren in season 2.


Mr. Adventure said:
I was curious to see how Ed was going to hold up in longer sittings but that's a moot point now.
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I think that Ed, if done right, would've brought some welcome lightness and zaniness to the show. But Perkins played Ed as very loud and shouting all the time, and that's not right. Ed didn't yell, she just spoke with the exuberance of a 3-year-old on the playground. So we may have dodged a bullet there.
 
I found the show okay...I still haven't finished the first season. I am at episode 6. I stopped watching when Lost in Space dropped and was able to breeze through that show. Cowboy Bebop I am lucky if I can make it through half an episode at a time so it is taking me much longer to get through it. Now that it is cancelled I may not finish it.
 
Starscream2112 said:
Now that it is cancelled I may not finish it.
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You might as well, since the season's main arcs do resolve in the finale, so you get a pretty complete story, aside from a couple of dangling threads pertaining to Ein and Edward. And it's only four more episodes.

That's what I like about the modern season-arc structure. It has its drawbacks, but the advantage of making each season a distinct story arc with a beginning and end is that you get decent closure even if the show doesn't get renewed. I think it was Joss Whedon who pioneered that approach in Buffy -- I remember him saying he designed every season finale to work as a series finale if it had to (aside from the season 4 finale, the dream episode that was more of an epilogue and a teaser for season 5), and it was Buffy that introduced the term "Big Bad" for a season's main villain to the vernacular.
 
Well, I liked it, possibly more than the anime tbh. It was a different thing, riffing on the original, as well as the things it itself riffed on. It and the Expanse have been the only series I got interested in in recent times.
 
Christopher said:
I think that Ed, if done right, would've brought some welcome lightness and zaniness to the show. But Perkins played Ed as very loud and shouting all the time, and that's not right. Ed didn't yell, she just spoke with the exuberance of a 3-year-old on the playground. So we may have dodged a bullet there.
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I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt as they were probably dropped in out of nowhere for a day to do sixty seconds at the end of the season for a shock cameo. I was the first to balk at their appearance but then I thought about the situation and how they probably didn't have a chance to get comfortable with the cast and crew and readthroughs and everything else.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt as they were probably dropped in out of nowhere for a day to do sixty seconds at the end of the season for a shock cameo. I was the first to balk at their appearance but then I thought about the situation and how they probably didn't have a chance to get comfortable with the cast and crew and readthroughs and everything else.
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Well, I'm not blaming the performer, since it's the director and showrunners who decide what kind of performances they want from the actors. If the director (Michael Katleman in that case) had felt the delivery was too loud/shouty, he would've asked for a more subdued performance on the next take. But this is what the director and producers decided to go with.
 
Ryan Thomas Riddle said:
Agree. Gren's story in the anime was great. But in the live-action, they're relegated to a background character. Just window dressing. Although, in fantastic outfits. I also like the nonbinary actor who played them.
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Supposedly Gren was supposed to be introduced in the second season but the producers decided to bring them forward to the first (can't remember if that's in the wiki entry or the IMDB trivia for the show) which could explain the character's limited involvement in the story but maybe leaving it to the second and giving it proper treatment would have been best.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
You can take your time now. :D
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Honestly, I might just not watch it now and cancel Netflix. I'll probably cancel it after Cobra Kai 4. First Trek is leaving it (in the UK), this was the only thing I was looking forward to. I'm a little worried about how we seem to moving into a period where everything seems to be Marvel/Star Wars.
 
I think the live action had exactly the same sort of subtext as the original, but the world has changed, and so they had to do it differently (case in point, eco-terrorists are *still* a group that got taken over by extremists, but in a world with extinction rebellion, and given they hadn’t finished that plot line, it lands differently… almost all the other points raised in that tweet are still in the show, just maybe not in the places they are looking for them) and were doing a different thing. Julia is a very different character, because her archetype and story would be pilloried in a modern western production. So they used changing that, to tell a different story.

Basically, it’s a shame. Because the show was clever in different ways to it’s source, but people couldn’t see that.
 
Outside of animation, Netflix doesn't seem to know how to actually operate as a functioning production studio. Cancelling stuff left, right, and center isn't a good business model, and puts people off from checking out your content.

Case in point: I never bothered finishing GLOW because Netflix reneged on its commitment to a fourth season, and now I'll never even start the live-action Bebop because Netflix didn't give the show a chance to get to the stuff that would've drawn me in.
 
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