They did the stupid thing that so much media written by hacks do which is create drama from characters intentionally not saying something important that could resolve the drama immediately. Like I said, to some extent this is the writings fault. He's supposed to be aloof but there is a difference between aloof and uncaring. Spike is playful and Cho's portrayal seems to me to be humorless and unfun. Part of it is the writing which he presumably doesn't control but he failed to properly portray Spike. I think John Cho did a bad job personally. Bad lines, wrong actor, looooots of overacting/hamming it up. Vicious is a whole different disaster and killing off the character all together is in the best interests of the show going forward. Because we still have that unanswered question "What's so special about Julia?" and it seems like the answer is "Nothing much." Without posting spoilers, they need to extrapolate more on what's next for her and why. We needed more scenes of her with her own friends, Gren for instance to flesh her out. The live action has not changed her purpose in the show but have massively extended her screen time and we're left with a character with very little substance or likability. In the anime she was mysterious, undefined and this allowed the viewer to use their imagination to answer the question "What's so special about Julia?" My issue with Julia is they've given her too big a part for what was essentially just a motivation for Spike's choices. So, I appreciate it, because she's much more realistic. Anime Faye has to feminine-wile her way across the the screen in every episode and in the LA, she actually has to like, do things other than be hot and shoot guns. So if you weren't into that kind of vibe then, you're not gonna be into it now lol. Unfortunately for millennials, we are cringe as fuck, so she gives very Scott Pilgrim-era manic pixie dream girl vibes, because that's the time period she existed in. Now we are in 2020's and millennials are adults now, so the people writing this version of the story do know what millennials are like, so they made Faye a more believable version of that. Back in the 90s, we didn't know how the 2000s we're gonna play out, so Watanabe had to kind of assume what someone growing up in that time and then getting cryo'd into the future would be like. I don't think people realize Faye is supposed to essentially be a millennial? She was born in 1994 in the anime. This show means a lot to me personally and my expectations were met and exceeded. If you read this John, you did a really damn good job. I never felt I was watching an actor play Spike Spiegel, I felt like I was watching the actual character. These are key aspects of Spikes character, and he makes them appear EFFORTLESS. The chemistry with Mustafa Shakir (and other characters, but that specific chemistry deserves special note). and Cho did an damn good job with an almost impossible task. We knew who the main actors were gonna be for the show, and while there were opinions had on all of them, Cho without a doubt got the most Flak. an incredibly complex character that is really impossible to compare to any other fictional character. Spike is charismatic, stoic, mysterious, aloof. Regardless of the divide on the community on whether we liked it or not, I think an appreciation post for John Cho is in order now that filming is over and the release is a few days out.Īs a community, this sub had a lot of doubt for Cho being able to play (what im sure many of us agree) one of the most beloved and unique main character of any TV show. 'Cowboy Bebop' Netflix Live Action Soundtrack To use the spoiler tag type the following (/spoiler) Welcome to reddit's foremost hub for all things Cowboy Bebop, the 1998 series created by Shin'ichirō Watanabe.
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