holy shit is ww84 is giant pile of gleaming trash.  It’s fucking awful.

Did someone say Doom Patrol?

For a movie this big and weird, it is oddly forgettable. Ask me to describe the plot and I literally couldn’t do it. 

The best thing about both cuts of Justice League, and perhaps the only thing I truly enjoyed about either of them, was laughing like a little kid anytime someone said, “scent of the Motherbox.”

Also ffs Ed at the end literally is wearing a 1:1 anime costume and acting/sounding exactly like Ed in the anime, and somehow that was unforgivable cringe. Wtf? Ed in the anime is also cringe!

Watchmen very wisely built itself as a miniseries, so even if it failed, it was a complete story. Then of course watchmen was freaking incredible, which still made the miniseries approach wise. Doing something inspired but unique from the source material would have been maybe better for cowboy bebop.

Watchmen was great and now I’m wishing the live-action Cowboy Bebop had the same kind of relationship to the anime as the HBO Watchmen had to the graphic novel.

The show looked like cosplay in the marketing materials. It did not make me want to watch the whole thing. The Cowboy Bebop/Seinfeld mashup was the nail in the coffin.

It lacked authenticity.

I don’t know what it was about the cinematography, but the whole thing felt like a fan-film. Something just seemed off with most shots, and they often used low shot, tilted angles.

Fucking AGREE. Vicious is a dumb stupid villain in the og, too! This take of how the original is so “threatening and amazing” is wild. And I saw that shit when it was brand new.

The people who Netflix needed to watch it, but didn’t watch it (typical viewers) have mostly not encountered these ‘toxic nerds’ and definitely don’t care about their opinions. They don’t live in that particular internet bubble.

So after watching it, I can’t hate the show, but I didn’t like it much either. The most positive thing I could describe it was that it was wildly mediocre. One reviewer was right; there were times where the show production and costumes looked more like it was presented in a cosplay convention room.

Hey, I hate entitled toxic nerds as much as anyone, but do you really think they’re the reason Netflix cancelled this? Honestly, aren’t they just a vocal minority? I’d think it was just a simple supply-and-demand reason for cancelling. Not enough demand and too high a cost to supply.

By...not watching it?

“Y’know how Cowboy Bebop is episodic and people love it? And y’know how Mandalorian is a modern version of a space western featuring a bounty hunter and it’s also episodic and people love it? Anyway, let’s lean into serializing the hell out of this adaptation and see how that goes!”

yeah but hes not in it a whole bunch. im pretty sure Vicious has more screen time in the third episode than he did in the entire anime.

This is historic - Netflix cancelled a show nobody likes for a change.

Vicious and his manscaping habits were a problem, but I’d say one of the biggest issues was that the writers thought that we needed an extensive backstory for Spike, Vicious and Julia in the first season.

Hey, I liked it a whole lot! :(