#honestly I think that if they hadn't made it have the standard netflix hour per episode they could've kept it tight

[kineticpenguin]

you know what’s funny in about five to ten years we’ll get think pieces about how Netflix Bebop was a misunderstood classic ended before it’s time and how it was groundbreaking yadda yadda you just know this shit is coming from people who never watched the original

Maybe so. But I honestly think Netflix Bebop will be forgotten under the deluge of similar IP cash grabs and MCU nonsense we can expect for the foreseeable future. Netflix gave up on it in record time, after all.

I doubt people will be asking for more of it for very long, let alone write pieces years from now about what we could've had from it, simply because it dropped the ball so much when it came to trying to do its own thing. It kept doing things backwards. Faye hooks up with a chick and afterward has a scene where she's trying to figure out who or what she's attracted to, for example. You can't have a scene where someone has good sex and then is like "I'm amnesiac and I just found out what sex is lol what kind of parts do I like?" Similarly, you can't have Spike haunted by his violent criminal past with tragic flashbacks long after you've repeatedly established that the dude just likes to kill people.

The things that make Netflix Bebop memorable are its failures. Everything it does right, or honestly attempts, has already been done better in a dozen different shows. I'm actually morbidly curious to find out what someone who hasn't seen the original but loves this show would have to say about it, because... well, I found it to be an entertaining trainwreck. I'm actually at a loss trying to imagine what this show does on its own that would have someone say "yeah, gimme more of that."