Ok. So I watched the first four episodes of this last night. I... think I hate this? Immensely??? I could write a master's thesis on everything I didn't like so far. And may still do so, but for expediency's sake I'll stick to one anecdote:
The first episode opens up with a remix of the convenience market opening scene from The Movie. A good choice, honestly. It's a good scene and serves as an excellent introduction to the main characters, the setting, the mood/vibe, the scenario, etc. Spike and Jet both 'accidentally' murder a bunch of dudes. Which is fine. Neither man is shy about killing in the cartoon. They do what has to be done. But later on, when reflecting on the botched job, both settle their differences by... laughing about the people they murdered? Like, actually reveling in the look of horror on their victim's faces as they realized they were dying. It's played for laughs.
Absolutely and utterly appalling. I'm actually fine with a lot of the changes in the show to characters and events, even if most of the changes end up being actively worse than the original. At least it's trying to be its own thing and do a remix of sorts. But this revelry in violence just completely misses the point. It tells me the people making this have no idea what Cowboy Bebop is even about. If that was a one-off event, I think I could look past it. But these kinds of spirit-violating changes are all over the show and demonstrate pretty thoroughly the writers just don't really get what made the original show special or even tick.
