Yeah, I can sometimes understand the idea of a faithful live action remake of a 90-min to 2-hour animation movie. For a 7+ hour season of television, it strikes me as kind of crazy and pointless.

I think it was wonky tone-wise but I liked where it wound up. Given how much hype they put into this, I’m genuinely surprised they didn’t give it a second season to hit their stride. Hell, Iron Fist got a second season that was a huge improvement over the first. 

I liked it. I thought the casting was great. It was fun and did a good job capturing the the feel of the anime. I am disappointed by the cancellation. The Vicious/Julia-centric stuff was by far the worst part. I know some of it was necessary to move the story forward, but I though it was too much.

Seriously! I was amazed at how much detail they put into the grunginess of the world.

I really enjoyed it. It’s a shame that it’s not coming back, because I thought it only got better as it went on. Oh well. 

Well that’s dumb as hell. I was skeptical about the live action when it was announced but hot damn was it a good show! Friends who watched it that had never seen the original loved it! Julia had goddamn agency and rightly shot Spike! Ed was Ed and I have no clue what people were complaining about there.

This is one of those things where I liked it fine, and I don't see how it's existence ruins the experience of people who only liked the anime. 

I really liked it, and thought it was a fun show with good characters. I think they rushed into the Vicious and Julia stuff a bit fast, but it did have a good pay-off at the end.

Bummer. It was pretty good. A solid B type of show. Nothing mind blowing, but certainly entertaining. I thought they did well enough translating anime to live action, which is a damn near impossible task. It was well acted for the most part, Vicious was a little over the top (but he is in the anime as well) and Jet…

Fuck off gatekeeper

Yah, sorry, I guess my enjoyment was wrong. Sorry. I'll go fix myself. 

They just HAD to get you know who to review it. 

It was great on its own merits. A live scifi comedy series telling the story and characters from Cowboy Bebop. It wasn’t a “live anime” because that would be pointless. As pointless as the complaints that it didn’t simply use its actors as meat puppets to recreate the anime. The original Cowboy Bebop was stellar but…

*sigh* Goddammit. It wasn’t a perfect adaptation, but it had some really fun moments. I really liked the main cast, particularly John Cho as Spike. Now I guess it’s the so far disappointing 15th season of IASIP (though hopefully it’ll get better) or trying to stay awake through Wheel Of Time (my husband loves the…

“Everyone hated it,” yeah except me and everyone I know. I loved every bit of it and would resubscribe to Netflix to see more.

Insider info from a friend that works at Netflix: they actually had renewed it for a second season, then had a change of heart and had to have what must’ve been an awkward conversation.

As a huge fan of the original, I really wanted to like it, but nah.

Speaking as a Jewish person myself, I like John Cho in the role, and I’m not sad about a non-Jewish actor getting the part.

It was really fucking good!

Fun fact: Spike Jonze’s real name is Adam Spiegel, so odds are our space cowboy knows his way around directing a music video.