You've GOT to be kidding!

Postby **blacktea** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:40 am

Just finished watching Cowboy Beebop............

I'm so sick of whoever comes up with gay endings!!! Bitter sweet i can handle - THAT...that's just wrong.

<< goes off to hit something

Postby **termyt** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:50 am

*lol*

Come on, they can't all be happily ever after, now, can they?

Postby **Mangafanatic** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:20 am

*Wants to watch Bebob, but wants to put Faye in real clothes even more!!*

Yeah, Termyt's right. As much as "not so happily ever after endings" bug me, it would be boring to watch anime if I knew in the end that every problem would be resolved and that everthing would end on a high note.

Postby **Debitt** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:20 am

gay - but it wasn't even happy or homosexual! =O

>_>; sorry....bad joke coming from am English nerd. But I didn't think Cowboy Bebop's ending was THAT bad. Definitely not what I wanted to see, but I give them props for not going for the stereotypical happily ever after.

Postby **Kenshin17** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:24 am

Yes. It was wrong. Very wrong. I am reminded of two othere endings involving a samurai...

But anyway they could have done so much better. And what about the others!!!

Postby **Yojimbo** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:24 am

I thought it was the perfect ending for the series. I've explained on this before but I'll do it again when I have some time.

Postby **Mave** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:37 pm

I thought it was a great ending even if it wasn't a typically happy, heroes-win-it-all type. Sorry, didn't really add anything substantial (such as why I think it was great) but I'm not really in the mood to do it now :sweat:

EDIT: Ahh Shao, you only watched the LAST episode?? awww man.....

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:39 pm

That was the coolest ending ever! Of coures it had to be the only episode I've ever seen...

A bit about me. · Postby **Kokhiri Sojourn** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:19 pm

Yojimbo wrote:I thought it was the perfect ending for the series. I've explained on this before but I'll do it again when I have some time.

I totally agree.

How, if I may ask, did you guys want the series to end? I really couldn't have even considered a different ending being legit for the way the series was going.

Postby **Hitokiri** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:11 pm

I agree with everyone who said something good about the ending... that this ending was only the suitable ending for Cowboy Bebop. Spike finally get's his answer he's been searching for...but it was bittersweet but I love the series for that ending. Sad endings are some of the best endings.

The Cowboy Bebop series wasn't meant to go past that and I'm glad it didn't or it would of been like DBZ or Ruouni Kenshin...would keep on going and going and going and by each episode it would get worse and worse.

MAL · Postby **Kaori** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:46 pm

I enjoy tragedy when it is well-written, so I liked the ending of Cowboy Bebop as well. There was a wonderful sense of inevitability to it; it was a very fitting end.

Postby **Yeshua-Knight** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:01 pm

i can appreciate how they ended it as far as spike and vicious, they had been fore-shadowing that since episode one, but what i didn't like was how they left it so open ended for jet, faye, and ed, there's no movie or anything else to conclude on their parts in the series, aw well, no use fussin' about it now anyways,

'nuff said

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:22 am

I tend to dislike the endings to anime, though I do like that they end... Cowboy Bebop was the one exception... Really. That was the single best ending I've seen to any show, except for maybe Wonder Years... (ok, so "Newhart" was fun, but Wonder Years was thoughtfull)

Actually, a movie I really hated had a genius ending that is talked about and quoted to this day... Just these words, and many will know what I mean "Kimochi Warui" ("I feel sick, though the dub wasn't quite so polite)

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:14 am

HEY HEY! I LIKE happy endings here!

Postby **K. Ayato** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:31 am

About Faye, my sister told me there's a Cowboy Bebop fanfic out there where Spike is wondering why in the world she has that kind of outfit. I never got to read it, but that thought is interesting.

Postby **Nate** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:59 am

I personally like endings like these, it's not clichÃ©. It's not "everything is happy and everyone is wonderful." Life very rarely ends on happy notes for most, and while I realize that television and movies are meant to be sort of an escape from reality, I much prefer a well-thought out ending such as this to the thing Osaka mentioned. For example, I think Magic Knight Rayearth had a spectacular ending too.

Making a happy ending where everything is resolved is easy. Making an ending like this takes TALENT.

Postby **mitsuki lover** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:56 pm

I'm a bit of an optimist and still feel that some how [spoiler]Spike might have survived the final confrontation with Vicious.[/spoiler] The truelly sad part though was that [spoiler]they also had to kill off Julia. :waah!:

[/spoiler]

Postby **shooraijin** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:00 pm

mitsuki, please use spoiler tags for large plot revelations like that -- some people might prefer not to have the surprise ruined.

Postby **Spazztik** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:38 pm

I hated the ending to Cowboy Bebop so much, but it was a very well written ending.
I bawled like a baby. . .and man let me tell you I got the weirdest look from my sister afterwards. . .

Postby **Heart of Sword** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:30 am

Yes. It was wrong. Very wrong. I am reminded of two othere endings involving a samurai...

I know what you're talking about. But *ahem* wasn't really a samurai, was he?

Oh, and...yes...that...was...SO SAD! :waah!:

*unhappy wolf whimper*

Ruouni Kenshin...would keep on going and going and going and by each episode it would get worse and worse.

Rurouni Kenshin's fine because it's a comedy...so it can have a ton of episodes...and anyway, it's necessary to have a lot because of the storyline.

One thing that does go on and on is Inuyasha, though. I want it to hurry up and end, my poor TiVo doesn't have much space left... :lol:

Wolf's Rain was good, it was fast-paced and ended just in time. ^_^ *loves the wolves*

Postby **glitch1501** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:43 am

i didnt like it at the time, but now i like it, i think it was the only way to end it

Postby **The Doctor** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:29 pm

Ok....FIRST OFF, you do know that right now, just released in Japan (according to a source I talked to) there is the new movie COWBOY BEBOP: HEAVEN'S DOOR, or something like that.

Plot? Spike returns.

As for the Bebop ending, I loved it. Spike, the tortured soul, finds peace after such a long journey.

Postby **Debitt** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:31 pm

[quote="The Doctor"]Ok....FIRST OFF, you do know that right now, just released in Japan (according to a source I talked to) there is the new movie COWBOY BEBOP: HEAVEN'S DOOR, or something like that.

Plot? Spike returns. ]
=O; That kinda ruins the entire ending of the series. Are you sure this source isn't citing you the movie, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, that takes place in between two episodes in the series? (I believe it's Toys in the Attic and Jupiter Jazz, but don't quote me on that one)

Postby **Arnobius** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:37 pm

[quote="The Doctor"]Ok....FIRST OFF, you do know that right now, just released in Japan (according to a source I talked to) there is the new movie COWBOY BEBOP: HEAVEN'S DOOR, or something like that.

Plot? Spike returns. ]
That was the real title for "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" Title had to be changed for copyright reasons for the US. Chronologically, it was supposed to be between eps 22 and 23 (before the final stories).

Personally, I thought the ending was the only one possible that would have worked
[spoiler]Spike had nothing to live for with Julia killed, except to take revenge on Vicious. Once he did that he was ready to die.[/spoiler]
There's talk of making a sequel series, but I think anything that tries to change the ending of episode 26 would be to ruin what was a powerfully moving ending.

Personally I wish I hadn't seen the movie since the creative team had lost their touch and made it without the soul the series had.

Postby **Yojimbo** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:38 pm

Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heaven's Door is the Japanese name for Cowboy Bebop: The Movie released here in the U.S. It takes place in between episodes 22 and 23 I believe, right before finale of the series starts in number 24. Watanabe has said that he has no plans on continuing the CB series any further.

Postby **AngelSakura** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:13 pm

I think Studio BONES has some weird endings, but this wasn't too bad. If I was a crying kind of person, I would have cried, but I don't cry, really. I mean, I watched the infamous episode 23 of Trigun without one tear, although I did get a horrible stomach ache.
I think that it was better for them to [spoiler]kill Julia, because you just know she would have been devestated if Spike left her behind.[/spoiler]
Also, has anyone noticed that Studio BONES always puts flocks of white birds in their endings?

Postby **plutogrl03** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:45 pm

I felt sad at the end of the series but I was satisfied with it since it was soooo foreshadowed. At least I wasn't like my brother. He kept watching the last episode because though he thought it was well done, he couldn't believe what happened.

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You've GOT to be kidding!

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