Actually there was a lot more to Bebop then you're giving it credit for.
There's a lot more happening than I think you saw.
While Cowboy Bebop is episodic, you HAVE to see the episodes in order... because there is a subtle change going on...
Also... how much do we change? We as people often get stuck in ruts... and the whole point of the show is these guys are where they are because of all the changes in their lives...
Spike is the tragic hero - he may be an expert marksman and a top rate pilot and a serious martial artist... but his tragic flaw is that he is caught in the past... he is incapable of moving forward and therefore he is doomed.
Jet refuses to live in the past - he knows that living in the past is doom and he never helps Spike when it comes to anything dealing with Spike's past. Furthermore... we see a lot of growth in Jet, but it's all in his past... we see how he went from where he was to where he is now... we see certain things he refuses to admit to himself... like the fact that he's lonely.
Faye certainly goes through a number of changes. Most importantly, she almost falls into the same trap that Spike is in... she's hooked on the past... but she finds that her past is nothing... it's a ruined building and lost lives... none that can ever be recovered... she knows to go forward and she is frustrated that she can't pass this lesson on to Spike...
Ed had a goal. People who simply pass off Ed as comic relief are missing a lot. Ed has a reason for hunting out the Bebop over all other ships. Ed was spying on them long before they found her. We see by the end of the show that Ed had a clear objective even if she didn't take a linear course to achieve it. Once Ed knew it was time to move on, she did. She knew that there just is a time when you have to move on... keep moving forward, never into the past
See a theme here??
Cowboy Bebop is great because the changes in the characters are not these broad, obvious changes... but small, subtle ones. It is a much higher calibur of writing.
I think you're just missing a lot of the subtle qualities of the show, just using a passive surface observation only. Since you also made that comment about Evangelion, I can tell you probably like series where things are spelled out for you... not ones where you have to think a little beyond the obvious.
and I consider Cowboy Bebop to be a Dramatic series. Just because there's a lot of action, doesn't mean it's just an action series. I know plenty of anime titles with action that are more about the drama than the action... I think even Escaflowne falls into that description.
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I accidently made that happen, 2 replies popped up instead of just 1...UncleMilo wrote:
I have no idea why my answer popped up 3 times like that.
Sorry...
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... Did you enter then stop to edit then press enter again, if so that's how it could happen
...even though the next screen doesn't appear on your computer, doesn't mean the post doesn't go up...Oh well doesn't matter that much
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