![]() ![]() Who was that kid at the end of Cowboy Bebop Season 1? So, that being said, there's still plenty to talk about. But for the purposes of this story and this breakdown, I'm going only on what I've seen in the show and a rudimentary understanding of the anime. Surely there's more context available elsewhere with regard to the already-established anime story, and it's certainly possible that eventually I take the plunge and watch the whole thing (I've only ever seen the first episode). This is probably a good time for me to admit that I'm a new fan to the Cowboy Bebop world. When Spike survived the attempt on his life, he decided to begin a new life under a new name. Vicious told Spike that Julia chose to be with Vicious, despite their spark. Fearless/Spike, you see, had a love connection with Julia, and this made Vicious very, very jealous. We also learn after not much time that Spike's old name is Fearless, and he's believed dead by the Syndicate after Vicious tried to kill him (also in this flashback episode: an extremely badass sequence that basically finds John Cho going full John Wick). Vicious is power-hungry, but often put into place by the Syndicate's elders, one of whom is revealed to be his father. The most notable figures here are an unhinged, violent man with long white hair named Vicious (Alex Hassell) and his wife, Julia (Elena Satine). This past? Spike used to be a hitman for the mysterious Syndicate, a crime organization run by a board of three elders.Īll the meanwhile, we check in throughout the season with a simultaneous storyline focused on the aforementioned syndicate. Spike has a mysterious past that Jet doesn't know about (the two linked up and started working together after Spike saved Jet's life). In a nutshell: Spike and Jet are partners, and Faye later catches on with them after a few coincidental run-ins. So, therefore, it's not super hard to recap where the whole story stands before the very end of the season. While there's an overarching thread that links everything together-and makes for tension that pays off in the finale-much of the show's substance comes in character moments, where Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) grow together while managing to make a plan for whatever bounty is in their sights at that given moment. Like the old westerns both shows seem to be modeled on, Cowboy Bebop mostly takes on an episodic, story-of-the-week structure. The show does a wonderful job of bringing all of its loose threads together for a big finale that pays those threads off-not long before throwing those threads out the window, shuffling its deck and preparing for what could end up being an even more exciting season 2.Ĭowboy Bebop feels, in a lot of ways, like the first post- Mandalorian show. The hope, we presume, is that a new version of that same story of space bounty hunters and a mysterious past will capture the same magic the original Bebop was released more than 20 years ago, and the fandom remains as committed as ever.Īnd while the reaction to the series thus far has been polarizing, there's little question that the live-action Cowboy Bebop ends in a place where viewers who find themself into it will be very eager for Season 1. The following story contains spoilers for the ending of Cowboy Bebop Season 1.įor it's next trick, Netflix is bringing a few old genre favorites-sci-fi and western-together, adapting the beloved anime Cowboy Bebop to live-action. ![]()
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