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| Cowboy BeBop At some unknown time in the past I saw something about Cowboy Bebop that told me I wouldn't like it. It was early in my anime experiences and I think it was Spike's boots... too amateurish in their depiction. But I recently gave the late 90s scifi series a chance and I am now addicted. I still want Spike to change his boots. What is weird is that I cannot but feel that Joss Whedon saw this series and was inspired to take a try at genre hacking and make Firefly. CB combines (despite the title) a sort of lowtech noir feel of setting and style and combines it with a not-too-distant scifi setting completely within the boundaries of our solar system. Cowboys are just bounty hunters -- our main characters' profession. Hyerpspace is there but only for planet to planet. Venus, Mars, Uranus, etc are all being teraformed and all have a sort of rundown look of frontier towns. Earth is a ruin as pieces of a cracked moon fall down onto it. The characters are rough and tumble and their are many depths to crime and business. I like it. July 31 05 |
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hey you're back! : )
yeh it's funny about bebop, i think most people find it off-putting if they just kind of see it out of context, but once you watch it in some semblence of order, it becomes a really excellent series with great character development. plus the cutest corgi ever ^_^
i wish they had a cute critter in firefly. it would have made my day!
Posted by: vicki at August 6, 2005 07:05 PM
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