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05/13/10(Thu)17:52 No.34771722
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 You know how cramming incoherent
metaphors into everyday conversation makes you sound intellectual? Then
you must love Cowboy Bebop. Half of the dialogue is legitimately
intellectual; the rest is pseudo-intellectual crap.
Stuck-up
otakus carry this illusion of intellectualism into their lavish praise
of the soundtrack. They watch the show, buy the soundtrack, and all of a
sudden, they start bragging about their newfound eclectic taste in
music. No, you don't know shit about blues, bebop, or honkey tonk just
because you watched an anime series.
As far as the plot is
concerned, half of it consists of lame filler about robots with feelings
or shit that's left in the fridge. For now, let's just consider the
half of the series that's somewhat relevant to the overall plot. Get rid
of all the character introduction and character development episodes,
and you might be left with only 6 episodes of plot progression.
Of
course, I've always said that episodic plots and filler can be
acceptable if the characters don't suck, which brings to my next point:
Cowboy Bebop has cool individual characters but unimpressive group
interaction. Don't agree with me? Then please tell me, what's the most
dynamic pair on the show? Jet and Spike? Spike and Faye? Faye and Ed?
Face it, they're no Sanzo party. Throwing any two characters together
has little more value than having them run off on their own. I know that
the characters were designed to act individualistically, but that
doesn't mean that they can't have group chemistry. By the way, Ed sucks. |
