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*** Well, Jayne really isn't the [[JustForPun brightest firefly in the jar]]...
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*** Well, Jayne really isn't the [[JustForPun brightest firefly in the jar]]...jar...
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* What kind of a weird name is "Ein" anyway, yet alone for a dog? A ShoutOut to the dog "Einstein" from ''Film/BackToTheFuture''? Or an undefined noun in the German language?
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* What kind of a weird name is "Ein" anyway, yet alone for a dog? A ShoutOut to the dog "Einstein" from ''Film/BackToTheFuture''? ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''? Or an undefined noun in the German language?
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* In Session #18, Spike and Jet encounter numerous obstacles on their way to the abandoned museum's electronics department. The elevator shaft is inoperable, vents and several rooms are flooded with water, a significant portion of a maintenance ladder breaks away on them, and a stairwell is so completely eroded that only its metal safety rail is left standing. With all that in mind, how did Spike and Jet manage to carry both a VCR and a CRT TV from 28th floor basement all the way back up to the surface?
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* In Session #18, Spike and Jet encounter numerous obstacles on their way to the abandoned museum's electronics department. The elevator shaft is inoperable, vents and several rooms are flooded with water, a significant portion of a maintenance ladder breaks away on them, and a stairwell is so completely eroded that only its metal safety rail is left standing. With all that in mind, how did Spike and Jet manage to carry both a VCR and a CRT TV from 28th floor basement all the way back up to the surface?surface?
* Why does Spike hate Vicious? I mean, Spike didn't know Vicious at him up to be killed or that Vicious threaten Julia to kill Spike or she'd be killed. All he knew is that he almost died, met Julia, wanted to run away with her and she didn't show up. He seems to have no reason to hate Vicious.
* Why does Spike hate Vicious? I mean, Spike didn't know Vicious at him up to be killed or that Vicious threaten Julia to kill Spike or she'd be killed. All he knew is that he almost died, met Julia, wanted to run away with her and she didn't show up. He seems to have no reason to hate Vicious.
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* In "Sympathy for the Devil", they explained why Wen's body stop aging. However how does this explain the gunshot between the eyes and being caught in a explosion when his car crashed into a gas station. He can't age but that doesn't not mean that he is invincible.He should of still died when spike shot him.(as we saw when spike first shot him that he can bleed)
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* In "Sympathy for the Devil", they explained why Wen's body stop aging. However how does this explain the gunshot between the eyes and being caught in a explosion when his car crashed into a gas station. He can't age but that doesn't not mean that he is invincible.He still should of still have died when spike shot him.(as him (As we saw when spike first shot him that he can bleed)bleed.).
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** I'm doing some interpretive speculation here, so take this with a grain of salt, but there is a vial of Red-Eye in Julia's home in a few of the flashbacks. Between Julia and Vicious, Vicious was definitely the one using it, I get the sense that she probably wouldn't have dated the guy if he was psychotically violent and unstable at the time. I think Spike and Julia watched him get worse thanks to the Red-Eye (which he would have been taking in order to perform better as an enforcer, likely due to his ambitious nature), and then Julia took comfort in Spike. She couldn't just leave Vicious, he was a ladder-climbing Syndicate enforcer. Some of the soundtrack hints that Spike does feel a bit guilty for betraying Vicious but I don't imagine the situation was as simple as you're thinking.
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*** As others have mentioned, it's an alternate history. More importantly, it's aesthetic. The world reflect the characters and themes; everything is a relic from the past, it's not actually that old (like you pointed out) but it seems to come from an earlier era. Just like Spike, Jet, Vicious and a great many incidental characters like Udai Taxim. Faye is literally from the past, of course. But yeah, this is a HEAVILY theme- and character-driven story more than anything If you want to know why something is how it is in Cowboy Bebop, thinking about it from a thematic and/or character perspective is generally going to give you the answer.
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*** This is one of the strangest questions on here. What's the point of any fight in a narrative that doesn't immediately resolve the conflict once and for all? We learn a whole lot about the characters, we see a tantalizing glimpse of Spike's past, we see a new side of Spike where he's emotionally engaged beyond just detached bemusement or frustration. It helps bond Faye a little more to the crew and Spike in particular. Not to mention it introduces and characterizes Spike's nemesis. Shall I go on?
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*** This is one of the strangest questions on here. What's the point of any fight in a narrative that doesn't immediately resolve the conflict once and for all? We learn a whole lot about the characters, we see a tantalizing glimpse of Spike's past, we see a new side of Spike where he's emotionally engaged beyond just detached bemusement or frustration. It helps bond Faye a little more to the crew and Spike in particular. Not to mention it introduces and characterizes Spike's nemesis. Shall I go on?In terms of making an action scene important to the story, there honestly isn't much more they could have possibly packed into that scene. From a writing perspective, it fulfills many purposes.
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*** This is one of the strangest questions on here. What's the point of any fight in a narrative that doesn't immediately resolve the conflict once and for all? We learn a whole lot about the characters, we see a tantalizing glimpse of Spike's past, we see a new side of Spike where he's emotionally engaged beyond just detached bemusement or frustration. It helps bond Faye a little more to the crew and Spike in particular. Not to mention it introduces and characterizes Spike's nemesis. Shall I go on?
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** One of the major points of the show is that everyone on the Bebop is lonely and unable to emotionally communicate with each other. Spike complains about Ein but he's the one who saved him! They keep him around because they're lonely and they like having a dog. But they would never admit it like that.
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** You're definitely meant to notice that Spike REALLY shouldn't survive several things that happen to him. That's part of the point. In-universe, Spike is just unbelievably lucky and needs to stop being so reckless and self-destructive. Thematically, he cannot die until he resolves his past, because it anchors him to life. Also we are given no timeline for how long he was held up while wounded, so there's every reason to think it look months for him to recover.
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*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint That's. The. Joke.]] It's like all the Futurama gags about presently-endangered owls becoming urban pests.
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*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint That's. The. Joke.]] It's like all the Futurama gags about presently-endangered owls becoming urban pests.
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*** Or, to put it much more succinctly: the Bebop crew smoke for the exact same reasons people smoke today, and health concerns are not enough to persuade them otherwise for the exact same reason there are plenty of people today that are not persuaded. People often do things that they know are bad for them, it's part of human nature.
