i just read a comment that said “everybody was wildly miscast” and i’m like... if there is only thing the show did well, it KILLED it in the casting. But... i dunno anymore

Agreed. I don’t know what else to say. It’s an unhealthy way to live.

Hm. This is thoughtful! I appreciate you sharing it, and it makes some very good points that —- like the first tweet says —- have nothing to do with the surface details of Vicious or Ed or whatever. And I would love if the discourse surrounding it was far more like this. It just... isn’t.

Jesus. Case in point.

I think that’s a great call. The LA leaned more into a 70s exploitation flick, tarantino/jackie chan/etc than the anime did. The anime, which I love, is itself a pastiche/homage to spaghetti westerns and other genres.

thank you

This is it, really. That’s the toxic part; and the negative feedback was overwhelming before the show even aired. The anime community is, while not wholly, quite stuck with an unfortunate number of people who have some awful takes on these things. It wasn’t about whether or not Bebop was good/bad/ok; it was about that…

Outside of you, you should see some of my greys.

kiss my ass. 

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. 

Fuck off. 

We can disagree about the quality of the show but the set and prop design was objectively OUTSTANDING wtf

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.

It was really fucking good!

Fucking cosign. The elitism and shitty “reasons why it sucks” were absurd. Fee reviewers took the show at face value, and like you said, it was apparently both “too much like the anime” and made “too many changes.” It was different. It was well performed, outstanding costumes and set design. Some pacing issues. I…

Now WHERE is that dowel!

It does kind of feel that for whatever reason, Clarke’s horrific and numerous offenses seem to be getting less attention than Barrowman’s shit. 

No new allegations have come out regarding Barrowman.