Not that he escapes with much: He ends season 1 as Julia’s captive, kept alive at her discretion while she “speaks on behalf” publicly for Syndicate business. Julia shoots Spike, but she doesn’t kill him - nor does she kill her husband, Vicious. “She has earned her ability to cock the hammer on that gun and believe that she will pull the trigger.” “ has to own his own dilemma of having made a poor choice, that will now cost him dearly,” Nemec said of the brutal final confrontation between Spike and Elena. And it’s a change Cowboy Bebop showrunner André Nemec knew the season would lead up to from early on. It’s a twist the series cleverly sets up in its penultimate episode, providing flashbacks to Spike’s “Fearless” days that the anime never did.Įlena Satine tells Polygon she was “really happy” to see her character Julia step up into the position of power. While Vicious has long been seen by Bebop fans as Spike’s true nemesis, the Netflix adaptation ends its first season with both of them effectively neutered by Julia, who has angled herself to take over the Syndicate and wounding both men in the process. Cowboy Bebop’s big twist ending Photo: Geoffrey Short/Netflix So let’s dive into where season 1 leaves everyone, what that means for a potential second season, and what the cast has to say about it all. But with the Bebop crew left in a fascinating place, and a few teasers for what could come next, the show is poised to blast forward into unknown space. Technically, Netflix has yet to greenlight a Cowboy Bebop season 2. While the original anime eschewed any chance of continuing the story, the end of the live-action series’ first season takes a different approach. For anyone who complains that the melodrama takes away from his anime counterpart, then honestly, you're probably among those who never had any intention of giving the new series a shot.Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop is primed to take the anime to a place it’s never been: season 2. Obviously, as the son of the head, he gets extra pressure to succeed and resentment from his peers of presumed favoritism. The live-action series introduced Caliban, played by John Noble, as Vicious' father, who stoked the abusive cycle trying to toughen his boy. Netflix's take on Vicious makes a genuine attempt to explain the character's motivations outside of his hatred of Fearless/Spike. Both do interact with each other in the present day and we saw his rise and takeover on both shows. We never really got much on the jobs they pulled together. It's merely a few frames of them not trying to kill each other. We never really got a sense of their bond as brothers in the Syndicate within their flashbacks. Vicious was a brooding vengeful rival of Spike in the anime. Yost and Nemec managed to make Julia a better character by allowing her to shed her battered housewife mold into something far layered. The singer not only turned Spike away by shooting him out a church window (instead of Vicious in the anime episode "Ballad of Fallen Angels"), but also managed to turn the tables on her abuser husband locking him up following his coup of the Syndicate and taking over herself as a proxy. The live-action series provided a twist at the end of Episode 10 "Supernova Symphony" where Julia was put in a rare position of power aside from her rise as headlining act for Ana ( Tamara Tunie). Unfortunately, she never really escaped it by the end of the anime as viewers witnessed in the finale "The Real Folk Blues" Cr. Julia has feelings for both men and she was certainly trapped in fear within Vicious' grasp. One thing the live-action series was able to accomplish within its hour-long format per episode is expand each dynamic the way the anime never addressed. Both series have Spike and Julia trying to escape the reach of the Syndicate, but understand Vicious is the dangerous X factor of the imploding love triangle. They do share some brief interactions in the few serialized episodes, which the live-action series faithfully recreated for the most part within its initial release, particularly the anime's "Ballad of Fallen Angels". In the anime, much of Julia's story is seen through flashbacks as Spike reminisces shades of his former life as a member of the Syndicate. Elena Satine plays the focal point of the love triangle between Spike and Vicious ( Alex Hassell).
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