📺 Over the weekend I watched a few episodes of the live-action Cowboy Bebop released the other year.
It was unpopular when it came out, but taken on its own terms I’m enjoying it quite a lot. The stylish production with slightly ropy CGI works for me. And the cast is great, especially John Cho.
@marramgrass I hadn't seen the original, so we watched it back-to-back with the live action version, and really all the moaning just seemed like people with rose-tinted memories to me. In a couple of years time people are going to look back at live action Cowboy Bebop the way we do at Firefly, IMO.
@semanticist That's ever the problem with adaptations. Seems like folks tend to want the new thing to be exactly the same as the old thing. In which case maybe just enjoy the old thing?
@semanticist I've finished it, now, and I think your Firefly comparison is a good one, in more than just ending too soon. It tickled a lot of the same spots for me as that show.
@marramgrass Yeah, it felt like it filled the same niche of sort of 'lo-fi sci-fi', loveable rogues, smart dialogue, etc. If only it'd got a fair shot. Ah well!
@marramgrass I really liked how they extended the plots from the anime, and spread them thru multiple eps. Anime's very episodic. Pity the oldest fans went aggro about this.
@mdhughes I'm very much looking forward to sitting down to watch the rest of it.
@marramgrass I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the anime too, but thought the live-action series did a good job at capture the feel of the story.
@shezza_t @marramgrass I enjoyed the live action one, but what made the anime one extra special to me was the music. The feel of the music in the anime version was so distinctive - more than would usually be in a TV show - and (for me) it really fitted. There was nothing wrong with the music on the live action series, but the music in the anime series really set it apart.
@OpinionatedGeek @shezza_t Having finished the live action one now, I really enjoyed the music there, too.
@marramgrass @shezza_t Yeah, it was! But for me the eclectic mix in the anime was so much weirder and better. (I realise I may be odd.) And the way the theme of the music was different each episode (an episode with a country music twang!) pleased me greatly.
@marramgrass @shezza_t I may have to re-watch the live action one in case I'm doing it an injustice.
@OpinionatedGeek @shezza_t I'd never seen the anime, but have now started into it. Will be listening out.
@marramgrass Same. Never seen the anime one.
@marramgrass ooh ok. on it.
Finished it. Loved it. Sad there's no more to come.