I think his visual sense would be a good match, but point taken.

I would argue that, against all odds, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles often does very well in live action.

Ugh yeah goddamn fan backlash. There’s a lot of cool stuff I’d have liked to see from a live action adaptation, and it sounds like none of that happened.

Counterpoint: I just watched it for the first time, so I don’t have any nostalgia for it, and MY GOD is there tons of room for improvement.  

I love Trigun, especially when Vash and Wolfwood team up. I think Outlaw Star would be easier to adapt (it has similarities to Firefly).

Holy shit. When your top comment is this — not based on their track record of actual reviews, but just their track record of writing -- it’s time to fucking fire the writer.

Lupin I can actually see working. There’s no real fantastic elements (I mean other than a samurai who can cut through anything running around in the modern day) that would eat up effects aside from a few gadgets that pop up here and there, and the setting frequently changes from episode to episode so you don’t have to…

Speed Racer and Scooby Doo were able to succeed because they are trading in nostalgia.

I mean, I’ve been an anime fan since I was in high school, and of all the anime series I’ve seen Bebop was one I did want to see a live-action version of. It’s not like it’s theoretically a hard one to adapt. It’s not a show like Evangelion with a super convoluted plot and mystical mumbo-jumbo with giant robots, it’s…

kinda defeats the purpose since Cowboy Bebop’s original setting suggests that traditional ethnic groups have been disrupted/scattered/completely annihilated/reinvented by the human diaspora throughout the solar system.

Exactly right. The original is one of the masterpieces of the medium, and it’d be almost impossible to add something vital to it.

Ha! Fair.  I’m only three episodes into the animated series. Full disclosure: I do not think anyone should be cancelled for “ethnic mismatching” when it comes to casting. Except for The Last Airbender. That was egregious.

Yes, everyone:  Please leave only positive, encouraging comments. 

50/50 if I’m being 100% honest. 50% because yes, Barsanti has some very bad takes that he’ll state as gospel fact/truth despite his pieces being solely based on his own opinion (which he’s certainly entitled to have, just as long as it is known its a opinion and not trying to be passed AS fact) which has soured me to…

Fuck the fans. When creators/publishers say something’s “for the fans”, you know it’s gonna be bad.

Fair point, see Star wars. lol

If they had done new stories (maybe set between the original episodes), the “FANS!!!” would have screamed bloody murder and it would have failed. For all of the fans saying they want new stories set in the same universe, when it does happen, the fans are the first ones to turn and scream not like that.

The thing is, I read reviews as time killers then anything else (if anything else for that matter...) rather then as something that actually will influence my decision on whether to partake in a piece of entertainment/media. Since at the end of the day, as I commented earlier, everyone jives and interacts with things…

because its 8am on a monday the morning

Just wanted to take the opportunity to ask why the fuck I have to be interrupted every 30 seconds by a pop up ad that covers half the screen of my PC while trying to read a Sam Barsanti bad review of a show I’ve been crossing my fingers about for months?