It used to come on late at night on Cartoon Network. It was about a crew of intergalactic bounty hunters; a bunch of disparate personalities brought together under unlikely (and largely unexplained) circumstances. It was less about plot than it was about mood. Some of the episodes were pretty loony, but most of them were sad and melancholy with slick animation and a jazz-centric soundtrack.
The main character was Spike Spiegel:
He was an easy-going practitioner of Jeet Kune Do, rarely excited and usually bored. And hungry. The crew of the Cowboy Bebop (the name of their spaceship) was usually broke and short on food.
There was also Jet Black:
Jet was an ex-policeman with a mechanical arm and strange facial hair. He owned the Cowboy Bebop. Actually, you know what..? I think the ship was just called "The Bebop". "Cowboy" was just a word people used to describe bounty hunters...
Faye Valentine:
She was the requisite scantily-clad female character. I wish they'd given her a better outfit, because she was actually one of the strongest members of the cast. She saved the men as often as they saved her.
Radical Edward:
...was actually a female. Edward was a brilliant yet idiotic computer hacker and, on any other show, would have been intolerably annoying. The fact that I ended up liking her is a testament to how good the show was.
Ein, the data dog:
The show never explains exactly what a data dog is. You know that Ein is a welsh corgi and that he was somehow genetically engineered, but that's it. He was a pretty great dog, though.
....hmmmm. Thus far, 2015 has been a geeky year for the Creekification Blog. I've talked about 2 anime shows/movies and a couple of weeks ago there was X-Force. I'll try to make things less nerdy next week (but I'm not making any promises).
Cheers.
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