Current Events > Netflix has canceled Cowboy Bebop.

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dotsdfe
12/09/21 6:16:09 PM
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https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1469082839882862599

RIP.

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Juhanor
12/09/21 6:17:12 PM
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Gee I wonder why
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MC_BatCommander
12/09/21 6:17:39 PM
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Not surprised

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Heartomaton
12/09/21 6:18:02 PM
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My, what an expensive failure this was.

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AngelicRadiance
12/09/21 6:18:04 PM
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Cornmuffins
12/09/21 6:18:22 PM
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lol
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smoke_break
12/09/21 6:18:31 PM
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Meh, far worse Netflix shows have gotten more than one season. They pulled the plug too early.

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Slayerblade11
12/09/21 6:18:41 PM
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Hopefully they learned something from this
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AlCalavicci
12/09/21 6:19:10 PM
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Wasn't the original only one season?

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Veggeta_MAX
12/09/21 6:19:15 PM
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Slayerblade11 posted...
Hopefully they learned something from this
Sometimes things are just hit or missed

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Strider102
12/09/21 6:19:25 PM
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I, for one, am absolutely shocked. No one could have seen this coming.

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/21 6:19:47 PM
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Slayerblade11 posted...
Hopefully they learned something from this
...go fuck up Trigun next?
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Srk700
12/09/21 6:20:45 PM
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Don't they have a One Piece show lined up next? Might as well cancel that one now since I see it being worse.
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dotsdfe
12/09/21 6:21:37 PM
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AlCalavicci posted...
Wasn't the original only one season?

Yes, but the Netflix adaptation didn't get to the full story.

It just kind of ends on a cliffhanger when Ed shows up. And now that's officially where the series ends, I guess.

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smoke_break
12/09/21 6:22:11 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
...go fuck up Trigun next?
Outlaw Star please.

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Heartomaton
12/09/21 6:22:30 PM
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Srk700 posted...
Don't they have a One Piece show lined up next? Might as well cancel that one now since I see it being worse.

It began filming in South Africa a little while ago, I think.

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AngelicRadiance
12/09/21 6:22:40 PM
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Aren't they already fucking up One Piece?

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Tappor
12/09/21 6:22:55 PM
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live action nge when?

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Axiom
12/09/21 6:23:09 PM
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Slayerblade11 posted...
Hopefully they learned something from this
Death Note exists and they still did this
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Rida_Go_To_Bed
12/09/21 6:23:34 PM
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Netflix should do a live action remake of the best anime of all time, King of the Hill

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spanky1
12/09/21 6:25:04 PM
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I enjoyed the show because I'm a fanatic for all things Bebop, but I mean, what did they expect? The show is completely and totally the opposite of what the cartoon was, and the cartoon was beloved for a reason. They turned it into a Jim Carey movie or something.

Also, hot tip, when anything has THAT many baffling dutch angles in it for no reason, it's going to be terrible as a rule of thumb. See: Battlefield Earth.

In the words of the Angry Video Game Nerd: "What were they thinking?"
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Arcanine2009
12/09/21 6:25:39 PM
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Nooo wtf you gotta be kidding me?! I really enjoyed it!

But why though? The ratings were mixed but that doesn't mean they should cancel it.

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RedLuigi
12/09/21 6:26:53 PM
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It deserved it, anything anime that is live action looks terrible honestly

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segasaturn
12/09/21 6:27:54 PM
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As someone who doesn't know Cowboy Bebop, why were people upset about the adaptation?

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Dakimakura
12/09/21 6:28:19 PM
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Juhanor posted...
Gee I wonder why

y

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/21 6:28:35 PM
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spanky1 posted...
Also, hot tip, when anything has THAT many baffling dutch angles in it for no reason, it's going to be terrible as a rule of thumb. See: Battlefield Earth.
not a 60s Batman fan, huh?
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Jagr_68
12/09/21 6:29:03 PM
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Shame they didn't make this decision after announcing they were making a live action Cowboy Bebop show.

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BeantownHero
12/09/21 6:29:05 PM
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Grand opening
Grand closing

live action remakes of anime doesnt work. Would have been better off reassembling as many of the original VAs and done an animated prequel of the series


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ssjevot
12/09/21 6:31:28 PM
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RedLuigi posted...
It deserved it, anything anime that is live action looks terrible honestly

I thought the Gunmu/Battle Angel Alita movie was pretty good. Not better than the manga, but that was good enough that I think it deserved a sequel.

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Garth_Marenghi
12/09/21 6:31:39 PM
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wow. on one hand im not surprised since netflix is known for cancelling shows after one season. on the other it just looks dumb for them to take these beloved franchises and round up an entire staff to produce a show only to have it cancelled. and of course it ends on a cliffhanger like all netflix stuff which is even dumber since they cant act like they didnt plan for it to continue.

the show itself was hit or miss for me, but the main thing i kept thinking while watching was "if i wasnt already a fan of this series i would have no interest whatsoever in this"

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spanky1
12/09/21 6:32:25 PM
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segasaturn posted...
As someone who doesn't know Cowboy Bebop, why were people upset about the adaptation?

The original Cowboy Bebop was a mostly serious work with lots of room to breathe, and had a very unique and cool atmosphere, many quiet moments, with some elements of zany comedy here and there when things got wild, with some good action.

The Netflix show is a pure comedy that makes fun of the characters. It's loud and garish and cheap and hyperactive with no subtlety.
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Freddie_Mercury
12/09/21 6:32:28 PM
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Son Of Spam
12/09/21 6:32:31 PM
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Rida_Go_To_Bed posted...
Netflix should do a live action remake of the best anime of all time, King of the Hill
That's a weird way to spell Cory in the House.

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FortuneCookie
12/09/21 6:33:05 PM
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This seems like an appropriate spot for the "Oh no, anyway..." meme.
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Garth_Marenghi
12/09/21 6:35:17 PM
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they really got yoko kanno to compose new music for this only to throw it away.

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12/09/21 6:37:04 PM
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Prestoff
12/09/21 6:37:09 PM
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I thought it got good numbers that it got on the top 10 watched Netflix shows, but I guess it was too expensive that the numbers weren't good enough.

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segasaturn
12/09/21 6:37:54 PM
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spanky1 posted...
The original Cowboy Bebop was a mostly serious work with lots of room to breathe, and had a very unique and cool atmosphere, many quiet moments, with some elements of zany comedy here and there when things got wild, with some good action.

The Netflix show is a pure comedy that makes fun of the characters. It's loud and garish and cheap and hyperactive with no subtlety.
Thank you for the info!

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HylianFox
12/09/21 6:37:56 PM
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and nothing of value was lost

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Garth_Marenghi
12/09/21 6:38:48 PM
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segasaturn posted...
Thank you for the info!
hes laying it on thick there. it was just corny, not a horrioble show.

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Unsugarized_Foo
12/09/21 6:39:01 PM
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Prestoff posted...
I thought it got good numbers that it got on the top 10 watched Netflix shows, but I guess it was too expensive that the numbers weren't good enough.

I did too. I actually rather enjoyed it. I wonder how much it cost

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UndefeatedGOAT
12/09/21 6:39:17 PM
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i bet no one even clicked on it

the could have shown any crazy thing for the trailer but it was the dude sitting in a cockpit for 3 minutes
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briguy
12/09/21 6:40:42 PM
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I blame the girl who tried (and failed) to be Faye Valentine.

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ultimate reaver
12/09/21 6:42:58 PM
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segasaturn posted...
As someone who doesn't know Cowboy Bebop, why were people upset about the adaptation?

They took a beloved show, stripped memorable episodes for parts, and used it to make a limp and boring show that almost felt embarrassed to be associated with the original. The characters all acted sort-of-kind-of like their anime counterparts but not quite, and the way in which they were changed was invariably pointless and for the worst.

Really boring fight scenes that failed to capture the frenetic style of the source material, costumes that looked more or less like cosplay

Really bad Whedon-esque dialogue, particularly from Faye who they clearly thought was not going to mesh with modern audiences so their approach to her was to turn her into a bizarre "empowerment" character that communicates almost entirely in 2015 twitter posts

Maybe worst of all they took what was a loose throughpoint of the series, two characters from Spike's past, who show up in something like 5 episodes out of the entire original anime spread out through its entireity, and managed to work them as a b-plot into every single episode. Said b-plot is very boring, both of them are horrendously out of character, and the culimnation of their plot is a sort of final fantasy 7 remake-esque THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING scene that completely breaks spike's character motivation in half and basically ensured if this shit continued it was going to take an infamously memorable ending and try to "reimagine it" in a vastly worse way

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/21 6:44:39 PM
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There's a lot of overlap with the IT Crowd thread here.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/79802793

It just keeps happening, because it was successful once or twice in the past, and mostly because everyone is out of ideas.
Still, the only "successful" anime adaptation I can think of is Detective Pikachu.
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Jagr_68
12/09/21 6:49:24 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
There's a lot of overlap with the IT Crowd thread here.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/79802793

It just keeps happening, because it was successful once or twice in the past, and mostly because everyone is out of ideas.
Still, the only "successful" anime adaptation I can think of is Detective Pikachu.

The "Have you tried forcing an unnecessary reboot?" line hasn't aged a single second.

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spanky1
12/09/21 6:54:16 PM
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Prestoff posted...
I thought it got good numbers that it got on the top 10 watched Netflix shows, but I guess it was too expensive that the numbers weren't good enough.

They probably were banking on it being a runaway hit like squid games or something. Like they wanted the good kind of meme to come from the show. Instead it only got bad memes.
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