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I'm on episode 3 of Live action Cowboy Bebop and uhhhh... it's not good thus far.
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It's uhh very cartoony. Like more than the anime was by a pretty big factor. Also they can't shoot action. Every scene is a mess. Also they keep over explaining every little thing in laborious overdone sequences. Also... I'm sorry I can't take Vicious's ridiculous face seriously.
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I don't understand how but his face destroys my suspension of disbelief every time. I can't explain it.
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Watched some more while baking and jeez every scene with Vicious and Julia is a tremendous drag. And it just gets worse. Shooting, direction, script, pacing, all a mess. I used the 1.5 speed setting on a few. Not bad 'in comparison', just bad.
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You know what's a creative space western in live action that has style and quality execution and is fun to watch? The Korean film Space Sweepers. You should watch that movie. All the time I'm watching this show, I keep thinking I should re-watch that show. It was great.
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This show is like a textbook example of why the fan creator obsession with filling every possible blank in to a story only makes the story weaker.
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Lol the last episode was very very very very dumb. What exactly is the internal motivation of any character that isn't Spike or Jet?
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Looks like someone 'Can't Write Women'™ I'm thinking?
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Ironically, I wanted to check some of the anime episode choices to see how they matched up and ended up rewatching the whole anime and it went by so much faster, but felt bigger, than the live action, really put into focus what a slog the live action show is.
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Putting the show into a one hour format did it no favors. The anime did so more in some of its <30m episodes than the entire live action series accomplished.
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I'm not even like a huge die-hard fan of the anime, I watched it for the first time last year during lockdown. Putting the two side by side is useful because it shows where the remake decided to make its big adaptive choices and they are all, even without comparison, baffling.
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If I was going to write a Cowboy Bebop adaptation and had that much freedom to change things, I'd write a whole series between the beginning and the end of the Bohemian Rhapsody episode. The gate system just screams out to be explored more.
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