Yah, Welcome weeves to another episode of Jeff jeff bizarre adventure, the Cowboy
Bebop Side Mission. I'm your host, Malsain, joined as always by the
one, the only super ie Patch Wolf More. It's fantastic to be here
to talk about a top five, maybe top three, maybe top two episode
of Cowboy Bebop. Yes, it's my favorite episode of the entire series,
and then one of my least favorite episodes of the insane. I hope we're
talking about the same one. Oh, we gotta be. There's no way
we've got this backwards. Yeah, boogie woogie fing sway baby. We are
also joined by the anime queen Lucy James Games. You've been dubbed the queen
now that's what they call me, just like the British monarchy, a position
I'm unqualified for but was born into. And Jeff Becklasso. Yeah, I'm
most certainly here. I'm rested, I'm relaxed, and I'm ready to talk
about what I do think is one of my favorite Cowboy Bebop episodes. Before
we begin, Lucy has a question for Jeff. Yeah, so just before
we were recording, having a nice little catch up and Jeff just goes,
I'm cooking, but he turns out he was talking about something else. He
went on this big spiel about hey had this amazing like story about this thing
he likes to cook, and that it's really funny but like the inspirational and
like there's some like sade bits in there as well. So I've been be
curious to hear it. Oh that feels bad. That feels That feels bad
when someone just talks up a story that never happened and then you have to
follow it up with nothing really that interesting. You were asking me what I
like to cook. I'm kind of a grill boy. I like barbecuing.
I can do that. Okay, what's the secret this grill? S m
p that's it, s m peper, that's the secret all grilling. Baby.
Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. But I like to just just
salt. That's it. That's fair. Garlic, and maybe maybe maybe if
you want to like marinate chicken for a couple of hours before it gets tken
different, different, doesn't need it, doesn't need it. If you know
what you're doing, I think you need if you need to see. Okay,
I'm gonna say something controversial. Here, Okay, if you need to
season a steak, you bought the wrong steak. I'm not saying. I'm
not saying something dry, rub on it. I'm just saying, like,
you don't cook it butter or something. Oh that if you? I mean,
looks most restaurants cook their steaks and butter is Yeah, if you just
drink steak and garlic butter at a fancy restaurant. But if it's just me
having having some John time, that steak is a little salty and delicious in
its own juices. Can we can we go back to what? What?
What else is happening in John Time? I'm just in, Yeah, maybe
you got some Maybe you got some anime on in the background, perhaps a
professional wrestling pay per view. I get the lights a little low. You've
probably listened to some at least a third of the Silent Hill two soundtrack.
You might have a French fancy off to the side, waiting for you and
my fancy, Jeff, A French fancy, a French butler that stands there
and does everything you never had a French fancy. Can I buy one now
and get it delivered? How does that work? Can you get in America?
French Fancy. It's all I want, Jeff, I will bring you
a box of French Fancies next time we meet. H Okay, so are
they cookies? Are they little cakes? The little icing and cream cream puffs?
No, they're a small delicate sponge cake with a buttered cream topping and
covered in different colored fundent toppings, then finished with the chocolate drizzle to complete.
That's from sugar and crumbs. Dot co dot you completion. Yeah,
I gotta. I got a French Fancy waiting for me after this podcast.
And I'm like when they did the lemon when they did the lemon ones,
Oh my god, oh I see, I see's so good the mister Kipling
Winter ones are where it's at is going definitely not unbelievable, simply not a
thing in the US, Like if it is, it has somehow passed under
my radar for forty years. I don't understand how I've never heard of it.
British, it's very it's British. It's British and Irish. I never
Yeah, they they gave it to us as recompense for everything that's happens.
It's very welcome. We're sorry you are you are from yeah, yeah,
okay, good, good get me. Oh I would never and you would
never. I mean, come on, that's what we all knows think.
Mister Kipling's French Fantasy Cakes are described as golden sponge cakes with a vanilla topping
eleven percent, covered with chocolate flavored fond and icing nineteen percent, pink funded
icing nineteen percy. What does that mean of coverage flavor and lemon flavor funded
icing twelve percent? Three pound Sainsbury's Yeah, fucking fifteen dollars over here.
I just looked. Yeah, that lovely, Mister Kipling is amazing, But
mister Kipling is like eight percent of the products are very harm So grow up.
Why do you need pigs and cake some I'm saying, you know,
I mean, it doesn't make sense to leave it out. Leave it out.
Today we are going to be talking about two episodes, Pierre Lafou and
Boogie Woogie Feng Shui. Unfortunately, I was watching Pierre Lafou this morning and
legit getting like physically excited to talk about like a John. No, there's
excitement, holding in his hand and shaking no, no, no, no,
you guys, crumbling John evenings are very mellow affairs. They're very just.
You might have a little glass of whiskey off to the side, John
John Evening. That's that's That's what I say it throughout the entire thing,
Jeff, it's sitting on my bond. It's me sitting on my couch showing
I'm not going to do the voice you're trying to do, Jeff, I'm
going to do the voice you're doing. And so it's me sitting there going
John John Evening Evening for John mister Kipling Whiskey Silent Till two soundtrack. Wait,
so like my French fancy Yeah, but I imagine you're doing it like
the Girl Dinner, Girl Dinner, John even Jove, that is closer to
the tone. How do we feel about this episode? Let's start with the
one, the only John Evening. I mean, there's an arguments to be
made that this might be the best Cowboy Bebop episode. I wouldn't make it,
but I wouldn't hold it against someone for making it. It's definitely the
coolest, Yeah, like the most unexpected. Yeah, that's that's the thing.
I think. Like the other My other two Faceavorite episodes are both to
do with Vicious and one of which we have seen, one of which we
have now, But this episode just comes out of nowhere and is one of
the most incredibly stylish and like like such a tone switch for the entire this
is a horror episode, just weird. It's just weird. It's all over
the place, but like somehow sticks the landing perfectly. Yep uh in you
know, every episode you're like meant to believe the like Spike is just such
a badass that he's never gonna have a problem facing any potential bounty. He's
always just gonna be one step ahead of them, And like you just are
thrown into the idea that like mister Spiegel has met his match and it's a
fucking bullet proof penguin. Just like you're like, all right, well,
let's see what happens here during this fucking carnival of horrors. It's great.
It sort of reminds me of and maybe it's on my mind because it's the
twentieth anniversary of battlestog Actica, and I'm pretty sure I've made this comparison before.
But then there are these some episodes of Beabup where there's just like so
much more money been spent on animation and shit, every single frame of it
looks cool as shit. And this is definitely one of those episodes in Battlestar
they'll be like these bottle episodes where nothing happens, and then the next episode
you will have Cylon fight the whole thing, all of the effects of everything.
You feel like it is very clear they brought someone in specifically to do
the animation on Pierre Lafu, Like the way he moves is insane. He
floats like I don't know why he floats, but he does. He's he's
nearly supernatural. Yeah, definitely is like it's so weird. It reminds me
of a There's mission for E three. I think it is just called Shining
Lights, even in death where for some reason, like randomly, it pivots
into survival horror in this one mission whey, or like in a a wing
of Mother Base where like it's been infected by a virus and all your soldiers
are like dying and screaming and you have to kill them one by that's my
favorite bit of Yeah, yeah, it's one of my favorites. And it's
just like why is this happening? And then you go back to normal and
it's fine. That was weird. Yeah, you're like, okay, I
guess weird. Go on. I feel like the episode has some like interesting
things going on as well, Like I think the little subtle bits between Fay
and Spike are very telling. Yes, this is Yeah, it's laying some
groundwork in a way that is really interesting for la. Yeah. The episode
begins with someone's gonna say something there, Who's gonna say something there? No,
I just sort of realized I was being dropped a hint about something,
and my ears perked up. And sometimes when that happens, I make a
noise like, oh, okay, the episode begins. Uh. This recap
is taken from the Cowboy Bebop fandom wiki. Thank you to everyone who has
contributed and maintains that wiki. It makes my life considerably easier. Episode begins.
We have a mysterious figure on Mars is like lingering in the night sky,
and it descends on a group of very unsuspected men and kills them.
This strange man guns down a bunch of the gods and kills the leading man,
and it's a rather brutal attack and he's very very creepy. Meanwhile,
I love the design of him, he's so unsettling, Like you know that
one bit right here where it just goes does a close up of a smile,
and he just grinds his teeth. If he was such a grinder,
they wouldn't be so perfectly straight, right. No, in fairness to Jeff,
he I think he does do a full on front teeth grind, which
is unhinged. It depends if you have like an over bite, because like
my teeth, when I close them, they don't like naturally come together.
My top ones go over the bottom ones, and I can grind my teeth
while having the teeth properly like interlocked into linked. Yeah, I'm going to
see my agentis later this week to help. For help, we should clarify
that audentist is called Jen. We don't, yeah, we don't, just
refer to dentists as gentists in like a weird way. Yeah. Meanwhile,
Spike is playing pool at cel A V and I even love this little scene
in the pool hall. It's just I really like it. It's it's just
such a nothing even gets said, and Spike beats someone and the guy has
a real li like well that's enough for me, And Spike's like cool,
yeah, and he's like, uh winning uh kind of the poor game looks
like he's almost hustling, right, and then he wins very easily and kind
of like nods and then it says leve and, which translates in French like
that's what it is or that's how life is. So you will you won't.
That's how just a lot of satisfying little pool sounds too bewitched? Is
the song called that's you? Do you know that they went on to do
the soundtrack for deador Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball What, Yeah, that's crazy.
No, I'm thinking of the movie that's the one that Holly Violins was in.
It doesn't matter how I know that. By the way, it's just
yeah, I'm okay, you've never never touched an AVE game in your life,
John, John Evening are coming to light here that are not meant to
Oh boy, watch whole video of John Evening explaining himself. No, no,
I like having a career. So as Spike is leaving this bar where
he's playing pool, the man who's just weirdly killed, everyone sees him and
it just seems to be a chance encounter. But he's I feel like the
weird freak seems to mistake Spike for someone being part of this or at the
very least, he's killing everyone that I've seen him. Yeah. I think
there's a line later on where he said when they say, like he kills
anyone who sees his face. Yeah, So he immediately starts firing shots at
Spike with his gun, which is a cane gun. Badass, Spike,
Like, where are the bullets go at the top? Yeah, but like,
oh, come on, don't love it. I loved it. You
love this episode myself. Let me let me, let me handle him,
let me handle them. Okay, it's not handling me. This is just
who I am. Yes, John, Okay, handle me, mister evening.
Jeff, what's wrong, buddy? Nothing's wrong. Sometimes my brain,
let's see's like a let's see like a candy cane Evening. I think I
do I need a Jeff Saturday? Is what I Those are very different things,
disgusting. I don't need what. You don't know what's involved in a
Jeffrey Saturday. I know you, and I know the kind I get.
Jeff. Look, I am sending you my copy of Debt or Live Extreme
Beach Body. Okay, all right, that'll probably a mistake. Bewitched albums.
Mystiq is coming. I'm okay. Spike rehacts super quickly and dodges the
shots come in his way and hides nearby behind a garbage can and he's firing.
This is where the moment you realize, oh, they spend some money
on this animation because he's like diving and firing at the same time, and
like, oh, there was also like hello frames in there, bro,
And there was also like we didn't even touch on this. There were like
like three D fly throughs at the start of this, right, there was
like some there's some extra juge going on in this budget, right. I
really love how the scenery like just melts around the mad pro like when he
when he shoots something, it gets chewed the fuck up and it makes him
feel so dangerous, satisfying real. Yeah, I love it. All The
bullets have no effect on this mysterious man's They just like stop several feet in
front of him and as if like there's like this weird like wave of energy
effect. Yeah, because it's hitting a force field and then just like negating
the bullets. Then he like floats towards Spike and engages in hand to hand
combat, which is a very very very clever thing to do because by this
point they've properly established through through the kind of like his backstory and also what
we've seen that Spike is an expert in hand to hand combat. So to
see a character directly engage him, you're like, oh, no, this
is this is this is gonna be rough. And like the way this dude
fights is so weird and otherworldly. He throws, he knocks Spike into the
air and starts like guile flush kicking him this over and over. This is
law from Tech and free Law has this exact combo with the flips, Like,
Jeff, what would you do if someone did that to you? How
do you get out of it? Being like juggled in the air the way
this freaking penguin, I don't know why I'm calling him the penguin because it
just reminds me of like the Batman penguin. Little. Yeah, he has
a little DeVito to him, don't we all? Yeah, he's got a
he's got a I don't I don't know. I would just like I would
just to be like, I hope is this over soon? That's all I
can think of, I get thinking like, oh, I hope Spike's okay.
So Spike like throws some kicks and punches at him, and this dude
just like very casually dodges them, then uses a launcher kick and then basically
does laws kicks from teking. The flips over and over while he's mid air
and like juggles him and then lands on. Spike lands on the ground on
his back and looks just cooked so badly. And then this dude he pulls
out is a cane gun and points at a Spike, and there's this like
lingering moment of tension where Spike is looking down the barrel of this very long
gun and you can see they do it in such a right way where he
thinks this is it for a moment he thinks like he doesn't say, well,
it's just it's staged and timed so well that that feeling just hits you
because I felt the exact same tomorrow and it's yeah, it's yeah, it's
so good, And I fucking love this bit. I love this whole episode
though, it's amazing they reinforced this moment and also give you insight into a
Spike as a whole later on when he says like, maybe this is the
one I won't come back for, which kind of hints that, oh,
this guy is trying to die, like yeah, suicidal like edge and I
love a sad well, but yeah, bad boys are the best. I
like a sad boy when it takes a minute to get to it. He
having a sad boy straight away. He has to. He has to have
the appearance of being happy but then deeply be very unhappy. Although after having
dated numerous men who do that not in real life can confirm, oh yeah,
anime fantastic, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, except for sake,
he sucks. So then so he's looking down the barrow of this gun,
and then nearby a cat makes a very cat like noise and it scares the
shit out of this man and he just like panics, He like he's he's
He stumbles back and just like frantically shoots in the direction of the cat noise.
Cat is like get fucked and runs away, And during this distraction,
Spike springs up off screen, and when it cuts back to him, he's
like rolling this explosive barrow towards the guy. That's so clever, Like of
course, that's like something. Well, I wouldn't try it because I'm very
slow. But that's something that someone like Spike would figure out. Yeah,
what that the red barrels explode. Not that he could do it quickly.
You'd have to have like situational awareness to know that was there already. So
no time, don't don't engage him. Okay, cool, No, No,
I was having a conversation John, but were you doing? Okay,
you're about is. I was like, that's so clever. I'd never think
to do that. And then Jeff comes in and he's like, walka walker,
Oh, super red barrelstone explode like in every video game, and like
just very insulting to my intelligence. Honestly, I don't. Well, look,
you interpreted that the way maybe you organically interpreted interpreted that. I think
you can't outrun an explosion in the way that they implied in this, like
they zoom out from like space and you see a city block fucking get obliterated.
And to be fair, the insert shout of Spike running away from the
explosion is pretty awesome too, because it's like just nipping at his butt.
I'm speaking to the audience, do you guys know that John Luke has to
constantly cut out these intersections where Jeff just goes you guys know, we're looking
at drawings right like nothing's actually happening, and it's like every episode and we're
like, yeah, Jeff, yep, we know it's less, it's less.
Uh. The fact that I can't process that this is fiction and I
like is the Neil Degrass Tyson of anime. Everything stufforious, getting them,
getting getting You didn't have to ruin gravity though that movie was already not that
good. But I know I'm okay with suspending my disbelief. In fact,
I love doing nothing else more than suspending my disbelief. It's totally fun this,
I think. I think, Uh, the root of this is that
the way I like to have fun with anime is by speaking like that.
If that makes If that's fair, we can all do that. That's fair.
Conversation at dinner the other night about your you'll go to dinner, what
are you talking about? Shut up? We hung out for a whole week.
We literally had dinner the other night where you were talking where you were
talking about the fact that your son knows Santa doesn't exist anymore. And now
a lot is really coming into place with that je other people. Oh my
god, that's actually no, it's way more the latter than the former.
Yeah, Jeffy, you better be pausing Alan wake to every like twenty minutes
and being like, well, now wait a minute, I cannot do that.
It's funny because I have no problem with the all factual events that transpire
that video game. No, but you just made me have a bit of
an aha moment with this san Oh no, I'm so far from the tree
at all. I'm sorry, like I don't know what. No, God,
oh god, all right, Wednesday, I can talk about this.
Okay, very good, Okay. Cool. So he rolls up this propane
tank right in front of the man, shoots it, and it causes a
massive explosion, which gives Spike enough time to disappear, But it doesn't look
like he's like. They don't show him like being like, ha I got
away. They just show a massive explosion and then you presume that he he
survived, but it's not one hundred percent clear. Spike makes it out,
and so does the weird dude who he gets like smashed up against the walls,
which is pretty funny. The dude is like just seems like he's untouched,
so wait is this no? And then he gets like a knife at
him, like a dagger at he's untouched, and he appears he throws this
dagger at him and then he like does his the merchant resident evil, what
you're buying or got a collection of good things? And say stranger, it's
just like opens his coat and it's just full of crazy weaponry and again,
we could dance all night, baby, let's go. Yeah, so that's
when you learn that, oh, this guy is a super freak. He's
a killing machine. So Spike begins to escape towards the river and and the
mysterious man just starts lobbing grenades at him through using a grenade launch at there's
a huge explosion and then we don't see what happens. The man disappears into
the night, and the next day we cut to Jet and his friend Bob.
Even the way the mad Piro like his shadow doesn't like slip off.
It just fades screen and yeah, I love that. Yeah, that's a
really nice moment. So Jet is talking to Bob and the chatting about the
incident that happened involving Spike, and he's like, your friend got himself.
Your partner got himself into some real bad trouble and you need to get away
from this. Don't get involved because you might end up getting me in trouble.
So if you could just back over one second, this is I I
thought this when I was watching this episode. Spike only comes into contact with
this guy by chance, Like that's it, just because he left the pool
hall just like place, wrong time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
I can see why you were thinking about it that it might be like
something scripted as well. Though. But Bob tells uh Jet that the man
that count was called mad Piero and he's basically hunting down high level ISSP directors.
Obviously is sp is a organization that Jet belonged to law enforcement? That's
the right one, isn't it, ye judge the copy a cop. Yeah,
so, and they don't want the ice. Peed doesn't want to know
that these people are being off. So that's the background on what's going on.
Cut to the Bebop and Spiker is on the couch covered in bandages and
the face like, oh, we've got a mummy on board. She's been
real shitty to him. He's like she's just a knee slapper. She's eating
orange. Yeah, so orange is something. Yeah, oranges are like whenever
you go when you think it happens like an animes, I'm sure it's It's
a kind of like thing in other kind of fiction as well. But like
whenever you see a character going to hospital, they usually bringing him an orange,
So the expectation is like she's taking care of him, but then she
starts peeling the orange and eating him, so it's like she's just being shitty
to him. That would look would okay? John? Wait? I look,
I just forgot. It's not John. Okay, it's a family program.
Maybe you just keep your diamond. I think you mean Johnny Evening.
Thank you to your John. Time is a very specific part of John Evening.
Yeah, yeah, okay, gotcha, I got you, guys,
I get it. It's the main event of John Evening. John's the finale.
Is there is there a like a or a giant bomber? Can I
know? No, I I am HR. We you have a problem that
that explains a few thinks. Okay. Indeed, for the clarification, we
do have an HR department, Yes we do, we do. Okay,
could you send me their contacts after this please absolutely, they don't have jurisdiction
in this international podcast. I'm sorry. So Spike is talking away but you
can't hear him, just kind of like mumbling through it and face. Yeah,
exactly like a grown up in Peanuts. Yeah, and the phase like,
well, you keep getting some trouble, nobody can to help you.
She also calls she also is like taking the piss out of the way.
He looks a little bit as well, which is, yeah, she's she's
you know, she's kind of look, she's a shitty person right now.
Hot, but she's hot. Yeah, that's she's hot. But that doesn't
give you an excuse to be shitty. I mean, look, sometimes it
does. I mean I feel like a lot of how people get away with
being pretty shitty. Jeff, Yeah, they're in the bubble. Yeah.
Bob is explaining again that Mad Pierro was the seventh person to be involved in
experiments in order to create the ultimate killing machine, and yeah, they they
and he. Bob also reveals that Spike is currently the only known person to
survive and encounter with Mad Pierro. Bob Live, Bob Live, No,
I mean we can. When we were owned by CBS. What was his
name. You used to have these like monthly town halls, but instead of
just being like CBS interactive town hall, it was called Bob Live or caps
see him Live, hanging on. I went to one of those, and
it'll say, fucking cluster. I'm never coming to see Bob Live again.
I preferred our the one, the town hall that we went to where the
guy was drunk. He got fire directly after the thing. Whoa, this
was years ago. This is not a random who was that. He was
the guy from I T who was like setting up in the auditorium. He
tried to do his time and it was catastrophic. It was like Crown.
It was sexist, everything possible, and like we found out about it.
By the time we got like enough information on what had happened, he was
already gone. He was like deactivated slack. He was just gone. He
got back and that man was Matt Rife. Oh nice that, I'm yeah,
yeah, nice job, John, Thank you, Jim, thanks for
congratulating my joke. Mister Evening, well played. Matt Pierrot is shown like
he's like leaving and he's got that smile of that creepy smile that he does
with his teeth bearing, and we also learned that his name is tongue Poo,
which when you say it out like tongue Poo, it doesn't sound very
like threatening Gary, but when they say it, it's really it is kind
of they give it a real like tongue oh ship. Yeah. Edward meanwhile,
receives an email saying that Spike is invited to a party and that's being
held in the theme park Spaceland phase the one that finds it, and she's
like to Edward, don't tell Spike about this, but Spike is behind them,
and he's like, because Spike will just run straight into it, right,
So that's why they were I kind of got the feeling that it seemed
like Fay was trying to go herself. Yeah, but I heard the word
lunkhead used so many times in such a short period of time. Yeah,
everyone calls him the lunkhead. Fay finds out that. Yeah, so they
find he finds out from Fay and he kind of jokes like this is the
one I may not come back from. And then he says, like,
just kidding, and then she's and he's like, if I got into trouble,
would you come rescue me? To Faye, and Faye doesn't really say
anything, just calls him a lunkhead. It's pretty rare. Faye is like
left without an answer. Yeah, yeah, it's true. Also a rare
showing of emotion seems genuine from her as well. Yeah, that's but that's
kind of what I was saying earlier. Like one of the things I like
about this episode is I think like it's the first time you really see Fay
show like genuine concern towards Spike except for the Orange. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
She's like, I'm gonna put garbage on your head, but also I
care if you die or not. That's that's just the perfect partner. Yeah,
it's like they're they're gonna be there for the big ship. Orange is
who cares insane clown men. That's where it matters. After that, jet
Jet pops up and asks Ed to do him a favor. Spike arrives at
Spaceland and tries to you know, get around, and he's clearly still wounded,
but he encounters Tong Pu, who lights up the park and declares that
the party then immediately starts the firefight, and he's like firing at Spike.
Can can we talk about how fucking amaze in spacelanders, Yeah, like,
what is happening like out of where? Out of fictional theme parks? This
place is incredible. Yeah, it looks awesome. Where is it is Mars?
Is it? Well? Is it Mars? Or is it space?
Well it's a space theme? Where is Where is Mars? Jeff? Uh?
Many millions of years? Or where where is? Different? We're in
outer space right now, I'm aware we're I'm playing a little more, a
little more locally. We're on the planet Earth. So you can't say if
you can't say if Spaceland is on Mars, you can't just say it's in
space. My foot down once again about technically. Have you ever been on
the right space mountain? Yes, very recently. I bet you you were
great to be on that with you know, you know you could you imagine
things like clicking up the chains all the way up and I'm just like,
well, this is It's gonna take a lot longer to get space. How
it's still Earth's gravity. That's how this whole right works. In fact,
that's not who I am. Come on, you and your son the same
person. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, you tam Lucy, you're
telling me this whole week we spent together, you have fun, have fun,
have any fun. But I don't pick anything apart and right, John,
a year ago, you and me, we have fun. Right,
we had a lot of fun, had fun. Jeff is asking that with
the tone of I need this please, yeah, maybe not. Look,
I'll say a lot of things with Jeff. I'm not going to pretend isn't
a delight to be around it? Likewise Likewise, So the fight is happening,
and there's like a chase happening between them and the amusement park. Masp
Scots are like just stomping around in the background, which is awesome. Tong
Poo clearly knows how the park is laid out, and he arrives on a
penguin car, which I guess justifies Jeff's comparison to the penguin. Those penguin
carts horrifying. Oh yeah, awful, enjoy they move so fast. He's
firing rockets at Spike. Meanwhile, Jet is telling Ed to hack the mainframe
of the ISSP, specifically section thirteen, which is not in public knowledge,
and Ed gets the work. Spike is continuing to be chased by Tong Pou
and he's shooting at him and he's hoping that basically can draw the power out
of the force field and like where it down. Along the way, Spike
finds another mascot and it's like constantly shoving these weird creatures in the into his
face. It's really funny. He like beats it up for some reason.
I love. I love just how he spends a little too long beating this
thing. Oh yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. Like he fucks it
up. Yeah, And it's just long enough to for like a Peter to
be to catch up and it falls into a roller coaster I think. Tong
pu then intercepts him via another roller coaster, grabs him by the neck with
a like a whip thing, and then tosses him back onto the track,
which it's like, yo, he does that too. He's a master whipsman.
He's a killing machine. He's trained to it. He then throws a
bomb at him in the cart and and then Spike falls into the river below.
Ed then accesses the information and they learn about an assassination skills enhancement experiment
in which an individual named Tong Poo, which is his code name, was
experimented on both genetically and physically. This is a really unsettling moment. It
kind of reminds me of like the testing sections from Akira. It's really cool,
though. I think this moment, like to me, kind of just
ties the whole episode together. Sure, Like I like, I love the
weird shift in tone and like the kind of context that gives tongue pou this
is. I think this was like my first time ever hearing like weird ambient
techno when I was a kid, and that would go on to become my
favorite kind of music. The music in this flashback is fucking awesome. It's
like since, like Jeff, since I was a kid, I have,
like, I would have always looked for music like this because it's so good.
There's something about it. Did I ever tell you guys? I'm filled
with regret now I having seen this five years ago that it's true it's like
this. I know it's never mentioned it I will hear for the first time
no, oh my god. Like and I also think, like, man,
you could have a real tough time inserting that very specific exposition in most
other sort of shows where you like can't always get away with like doing something
like that, but it is like the surgically perfect moment and started in and
it is like, oh the way it all ties together, and especially at
the end of this oh a bit, where like the music is like building,
building, building, building, building, building, building, and then
they're leading him down the hallway and he's completely brain dead and next thing he
just stops and that's where the just little the little music drops an It's so
it's perfect. I don't know how I'll describe it. It's it's fucking incredible.
I also really really appreciate the framing of it at that point and the
perspective, especially because they have Tong Pu or his whatever you want to call
him, Pierre. He's always like on his knees or sitting down and there
the perspective when they show him is always from above looking down, so he
looks like he's subservient. And then when when they cut behind him, these
scientists are always like leering over him, so it creates this sense of sympathy
for him. He looks kind of like he's like being You can tell he's
there against his will. We don't know what he did to get to that
point. Is he just a random that they grabbed or is he someone like
they got out of like a prison colony or something like that. But I
remember the first time, and it happened when I rewatched it. When I
saw him, I was like there was like a pang of like sympathy for
him in that moment. Yeah, it's And it's the same when they're leading
him by the handcuffs and you're like, oh man, they're just going to
lock him away forever. So when that and then it completely shifts when the
smile slowly appears on his face and you realize, oh, this is they're
about to, you know, reap what they saw because this is what they
created now they have to suffer for it. Such a good moment. Perfect
And it's so short as well. Yeah yeah, I mean I feel that
way about this whole episode. I felt like this this episode is like five
minutes long. Yeah. Yeah, I've probably seen it at this point,
I'd say, like a dozen times, because this is this is the one
I rewatched the most. Yeah. Same, I think it's a perfect episode.
The experiment is so while this is happening and he's like being experimented on,
there's this cat nearby that has got like two different color eyes. One
of them is like blackish and like looks almost infected. But like this cat
is just staring at Tong Poo the entire time. It's happening like in a
weird way, and it almost looks like the cat's been experimented on it as
well. The experiment is then canceled because Tong Poo is like his mind is
regressing constantly, and they decided to put him in isolation and quarantine him forever.
They call him insane, and as they're leading him towards like the cell,
the smile appears and he just goes on a rampage where he kills everyone
for revenge. But it doesn't stop there, and they point out that once
he had had revenge, he had regressed to the point where he was just
enjoying killing, so he carried on he had the hunger. Yeah, so
Jack reads Jet says that the experiment caused him to regress into the personality of
a child, and he's a child with essentially superpowers, and then he says
like this, there's nothing as cruel and purely cruel as a child that that
that line has been in my brain for years. Yeah, yeah, and
it's so true. Like if you're imagine, well, imagine like there's a
kid out there and you they don't get told this is bad the first time
they do something bad like it. It's that crazy. It's the paradoxical argument.
Yes, in our people inherently evil. I think children have it in
them to be very very cruel a dickheads, man, they can, but
it's they're not dickheads I think until like a little later, unless unless you
get like one who thinks Christmas is not real. No, no, like
genuinely, if you you think about, like in history, there have been
children who have been legitimately evil. Of course they're not just because they're too
young. Of course, for a period of time, I was a teacher's
assistant, and like there were some kids in the class that I had charge
of that I saw them. There was one in particular that I remember,
and I was like, this kid is going to be a maniac when he
grows up. I know it. And he had like a a spiteful edge
to him, like and he would like literally like that everyone's sitting down and
he's like just tipping tables over and like screaming. And I was like,
this, this kid is doomed. There were kids in my school that would
like stab you with compasses and whatever and like do that whole ship. So
I think that happens later. I think I think every one and a half
year old on the planet is organically uh no good. I think they just
they just don't have the physical capability to commit evil. Yeah, Jeff,
they're thinking about it. Yeah. No. Look, look, I will
be the first to admit that we should, you know, just put all
all babies in jail. Yeah, I mean a crib essentially is a jail.
Jail already did jail? Let them let him out when they're thirty,
and then we can start educating them, and then finally, aside a decent
society we will have. I don't give them a Twitter account, you know,
No, don't even tell them about Twitter. Don't show them the Internet.
There was something like, in all seriousness, like much as I am
the pessimist, there was something like wildly dark about that phrase too, where
it was like said so definitively, like you know, because all children are
the worst. Like I thought, that was just very interesting. I'm not
mad at it when I heard I feel what it's saying, man, Jeff,
No, no, I think that's such. I think it's a genuinely
like powerful But I also think it's not about shallow. It's not about the
evil of children. I think it's about the innocence of children, and that
innocence lets them be cruel because they don't know what they're doing. Yeah,
maybe we're just like we're at an imbalance when we're just like me, I'm
like thinking, like, Okay, what age are we talking? Because I
agree that you as a person, I think all humans from the age of
like, I'm gonna go ahead and say ten to twenty three are the worst
people on earth. Like, empirically, I've never met a good seventeen year
old because they're all evil and selfish and shitty. H So that's that's where
I'm coming from. I think a child I was, I was just like
the quiet seventeen year old said, Okay, oh I sucked. I sucked.
If John knows it, I was abhorrent. I just think, like,
you know, that's where I'm coming from. I don't disagree with the
spirit of the statement. I laughed because I think it is just like a
funny sentence on its face of like, because as you know, all toddlers
are serial killers that can't lift a gun because it's too heavy. That is
what he said. All right, then we have it. Jack back laws
suck the fun out of another anime moment. No come, you know,
at the end of it, it really is more like a six out of
ten, isn't it. No, it's a it's a fucking banger. It's
five out of five, a plus plus. And I love the fact that
they just fucking kill this guy with a big old like parade, like what
get ahead of the gun here the cane gun. Spike swims the shore where
he's a great whare. He's greeted by Tongpoo is like his showtime, and
shoots him with rockets. Spike escapes when a couple of rockets strike near Tompoo,
and that is kind of the sign that phase arrived in the Redtail,
and Spike's like, oh god, damn it. Now I've got a fade
randomly shooting in my direction as well. Tong Poo is dodging and like he
shoots the ship down. The explosion sends a Spike crashing into like a gift
shop, but Fey lands pretty safely, but it's knocked out Tong Pu.
Tong Poo approaches Spike and tells him to prepare to die, and then a
toy cat falls from a shelf and starts meowing, and once again a cat
freaks out Tong Poo. He shoots it to pieces, but a Spike again
escapes and fires at Tong Poo, but Tong Poo is like a sharp shooter
and just shoots the gun out of his hand, and at moment we have
that same moment again where their Spike is staring at Tong Poo. Tong Poo's
his gone prime to kill Spike, Spike is reaching behind his belt to grab
a knife, and in between them, the parade is slowly approaching. As
the parade is approaching, a light from the kind of like fair ground area
or even the parade itself flashes and it hits Spike's eye in a way that
it like lights one up so the other one is dark, and it causes
Tong Poo to remember the eyes of the cat in the lab that was watching
him being experimented on. Oh I never picked that up. Yes, that's
why it seems to happen. Oh yeah, that's really interesting. It's crazy.
It's just yeah, I'm sorry. I just really love that. I
thought, like they just they they did everything so quickly too, like do
you know what I mean? And I think that is very impressive. Yeah,
it's a really cool moment, and it causes him to like freak out
just long enough for Spike to quickly grab the knife, throw it and dive.
Tong Poo is shooting at the same time, and it hits Spike,
so he gets a bullet in the leg. I think, oh no,
he gets hit in the chest, whereas the knife hits Tong Pou in the
leg. It's not a serious injury at all. But that's the moment where
you realize, oh, he really is just a child. He like takes
a small hit, falls over and just starts crying and calling for his mum.
It's really pathetic in a way that makes me feel for the character a
little bit. I think at that moment it kind of pays off the flashback
where you're you know, constantly looking down on him and he's sympathetic, and
you realize, oh shit, this is this is evoking that again to be
like this sucks, man, I don't this is something that happened against his
will and now he's gonna pay the price for it and traumatized by cats.
Who can't relate with that. Shut up, Well all of us can't relate
with that. What are you talking about here? I'm saying, if you
were as allergic as I am, you'd sympathetze. Now you're allergic to cats,
Jeff? Oh fuck? Hang on? Do you mean like emotionally allergic?
Jeff? Both everything? Uh, it just makes they make Yeah,
I sneeze a lot around them and therefore hate them. I thought this was
like an intellectual thing. No, it's that too. It's it's everything.
The allergies are just the icing on the cake. Does not add up to
me. I feel like I feel like I feel like cats make you sneeze,
so you can't get close to them, and so you see their rad
you see how cool they are, and now you're just like, Okay,
I'm gonna pretend not to like them. Yeah, I'm just saying. A
Giant Bomb's Game of the Year, someone brought their pet dog who was friendly,
loving and just an all around team member. Not sure you could bring
a cat. Cat would stay in a corner and fall asleep immediately and would
just chill. But you know the dog was helping, Like the dog made
the show better. Okay, okay, okay, all right, No,
look you're your silence proves my point. Now we're just letting you talk yourself
into you just never forget. You just make tired Jeff. As always,
that was the worst thing anyone's ever said to me. Wait what did you
say? John? That was the worst? You just make me tired,
Jeff? Like I could not especially coming from you. It's just like John,
he likes you the most. Okay, so you say that to him?
Is that one's stung? How am I going to earn back his respect?
All right? Sorry? Next episode will try. As tong Poo is
lying on the ground calling for his mom, the parade approaches and one of
the bigger animals in the parade steps on tongue Pou, killing him. Jet
calls Spike at that moment. He's like, Jet, we figured out what
this guy is. And Spike's like, I don't need to know. I
don't need the information anymore, and then he's like, I hate I don't
need to know. A big old boos like a dog stepped on story tall
dog stepped on him. Yeah, he's which is? Which is? Crazy
that, like, that's the kind of parade at Spaceland, right, Like
it's possible you just get in the way of that parade and get flatted to
death. Don't don't get in the way. I guess. So. I
feel like if you got in the way of any parade at Disneyland, you'll
probably get hurt pretty bad. Yeah, I guess you're right. You don't
think they would stop. You don't think they would be like, oh,
there's there's like a penguin on the ground that. I don't think they cook
around and Disney. I think they're like, you knew what you were getting
into. Motherfucker, you crossed the barrier. Next thing, Pluto's fucking boot
is going up your ass. Wow, Okay, and then you die.
Yeah, I'm sorry, Goofy's boot. Pluto doesn't wear boots. No,
Yeah, come on, let's let's get it right here. I suspended my
disbelief for that. Don't worry about The next episode is Bogi feng Shui,
which I didn't hate. This didn't like we have spent an hour talking about
what episodes, so we should you know, Look, I think this episode
is like most I don't know. I thought that like Sun Dial thing was
kind of cool. But yeah, okay, blas, Okay, I have
one thing to say. It's this episode. I feel like this episode is
probably my least favorite episode in the entire show yep, and I think that
it would be more. I don't think it's bad, Like there's not there
are no bad episodes of Caboy beab Up. I think this is just this
is the bottom of the weeks, and to me, a part of it
is it's because it comes way too late in the series. I feel like
for Jet. Yeah, because because it's like, if you think of Jets
two other episodes, the one with with his ex and then the one with
his ex partner, and on both those we learned things about Jet, like
on a really like deep emotional level, about who the guy is and how
he ticks. And this is just him kind of pissing around with a teenage
girl or something. Yeah, yeah, that's the part of it. I
also don't I didn't like, I didn't like any of that, Like,
no, really, we're not digging into the age and love thing like so
much, where I was just like, all right, maybe once I could
like look the other way at your twenty five year old joke, but then
I don't know. I'm with you. That part was strange. They didn't
need to make a meal out of that, and they did up Agains on
Mars, where Jet is trying to track down an old acquaintance called Poo poos
poosy Poose. I can't remember how who had sent him a message that said
seek the Holy Beast of anzan i Am where the four gods meet. Power
has this reputation for being one of the greatest feng shuai masters on Mars,
so he was like, oh, go check all this shit out. Jet
search, however, reveals that Power is dead. He finds his tombstone instead
and Israel and he had died that year. As Jet is pondering who could
have sent that message of Poo's dead, he suddenly appears. Suddenly a woman
appears, and her name is Pau Mefa, who is the daughter of Poo,
except he doesn't really know that right now. She kind of dives saves
him and uh, and these two assassins are trying to kill them both.
He gets his gun ready, but she looks down at this device she's got
in her hand, and then she's like, I figured out an escape route
and they get to go and they jump on like a nearby bus and then
into the canal and then they're off. Jet takes me for a boar or
the cowboy bebup the bebup, Sorry, not the cowboy people. Well,
he explains that Meifa to Mayfa that like he hadn't heard from Power in ten
years, and that Power had uh. Mayfa says that he died in a
transport accident on the way to Jupiter because of a hyperspace fluctuation, and then
she's asking like, how do you know uh uh pow, and he's like,
oh, you know, he sent me this message and also reveals like,
you know, I was I came and met you one time when you
were a little girl. And so she's like, can you help me find
my dad? I think he might still be alive, And she says that
jets Arrival is kind of perfect Feng Shwei so and and that the disappearance of
her dad has something to do with the Sunstone. By the time this is
all laid out, even the first time I watched it, I was like,
I don't care about any of this. This is going to be a
yeah, and you know, whenever I'm doing a rewatched Bebop. I get
to this episode and I'm like, let's give it. Oh really, it's
like that. It's not that I hate it or anything. I just I
just don't think there's a lot of meat on these bones, you know.
You know, I feel like I noticed something new about that episode every time
I watch it. With this episode, I'm like, did you say he
kills a man to more? No, actually, that kills the momentum.
Yeah, they killed the man, and he killed a man's momentum. Jet
kills a dude in this episode, like yeah, yeah, really, and
then leaves his dead body in the street and they both just walk away.
Doesn't she take like something off of him? No, that was like a
kid comes up and does it. Oh okay, yeah, just kids,
Like I'll take these. See all kids are evil, my bad? See
its true? I stand corrected. Uh yeah, so that happens, and
then Jets like, meanwhile, the others are like trying to They seem to
insinuate that they might be like a couple or something like that, and Jess
interested her, which is not great. She's clear. He says something like
I'm old enough to be your dad. Gorge. He does he does kind
of a bit of that coming again. Look, sometimes my impressions are a
bit of a caricature, right the impression last week, by god, what
impression did they not play because of that? Who is he doing an impression
of Was it me? Again? No? Yours? Is? He didn't
do an impression of you? And people told me it's good. People like
it, just saying to you that maybe I made it up. So people
people are telling me that my impression. Everybody is saying, you can't even
pretend to be mad, that I'm mad. I'm not mad, I'm never
mad, I'm never met Uh yeah, Jet was He was like, Ohm,
you're how old? Again? Well shit, I could be your boyfriend,
I mean older brother. That's later on and it's like enough enough,
Jet enough. Like in this moment, Ed comes out and is like are
you his girlfriend? And Jet is embarrassed, and it's like fucking hem so
uh. I think they're trying to do like an age thing, but it
comes off really poorly where they're trying to be like, oh, he's off
that being told that he's trying to act like he's young and you know,
still with it, but it's just fucking like Adam is always a bit weird
with this stuff, but I think there was This was definitely from an era
where that kind of thing was seen as more cutesy than it is now,
and I think that's what they were going for. I don't know, doesn't
doesn't do a whole up now, it just doesn't work. Top the bottom,
Ja agrees to help Meifa search the city for clues for power to find
power, and then Mayfha's teaching him feng Shui and the Three Cheese, the
chi of Heaven which comes from the sun, chi of Earth, which comes
from the planet and the people that live on it, and the magnetic chi
that comes from living organisms. I think, and then part of my dislike
of this episode is I also hate this ship. Yeah, I just look,
I think it's cool when people believe what they want to believe, for
at some point when we start talking about magnetic fields and how you can improve
your life, but just like I just can't. Yeah. Also like it
feels very like unexplored in this episode, like, oh, is there anything
more than it feels like they came up with a conceit to help them run
in different directions, and I don't really like it. Well, I was
just curious. I like didn't know where everyone stood on you know, funk
shue and stuff like that, like like who tells you where to put your
beds and stuff? Dude? I was That was the one. I was
just about to say. There's a guy on TikTok where people post videos of
their room layouts and then he draws a little picture and he three D prints
or furniture and he made he does the room set up for you and it's
kind of it's fun sh as opposed to interior design. Yes, yes,
because like you can't have you know, he always talks about the energy and
the flow of stuff in the room. He goes from funk shway Yeah.
Yeah, So it's it's a sttle bit. It's ikea astrology is what it
is. It's but also is like it is kind of you could strip out
the func shuey part of it and be like that makes sense from an interior
design perspective, like don't put this hair because your back's against you know,
the wall, and that's weird and don't you know, alignment of this TV
could be fucking up everything? Okay, cool. My favorite is when people
ask for his advice and then he makes the video and then people actually do
it and you just see how much better it is. Yeah, so good.
That's good for him. So functuey is the science of studying these cheese
and how they interact with one another. And Mayfa says that a functuary master
like her dad can use this understanding of the chi to change their destiny,
which is the way well. After searching the city, Mefa leads them to
this building, the Mountain Hotel, which she believes is the Anson from her
father's note. At the top of the hotel, she points out like a
bunch of different buildings that are representatives representations of the Blue Dragon, the White
Tiger, and the snake and the tortoise, as well as the Red Phoenix,
which are the four gods from her father's note. She uses this device
which she calls a loopan It's kind of like a feng shuway detector or a
compass, and she uses that to confirm that the representative the four gods are
in alignment with where they are on top of the Anzan Jet. Then she
didn't tells Jet that her father's note is pointing them in a direction of the
Sunstone. They leave the hotel and use the loop and to locate the Sunstone,
which is hidden in the mouth of a statue at the base of the
hotel. Again, this is just like all just make it up as you
go along shit, and just don't do anything that breaks that can continuity,
which is like it's a boring process to watch. Yeah, you know,
I was going into this episode hope and like, maybe it'll win me over
this time because it's been a couple of years since I watched it. Maybe
I'll see a shot yeah, and it's just like chain, yeah, yeah,
Jet is jet is, Like what's going on? What's happening? What
are we doing? You know, I'll be honestn't think you all would have
this kind of reaction to this episode. I will admit, like I thought
it was fine, Like I don't hate Yeah, it's I'm only saying this
in comparison episodes. Yeah, it was such. It was such a distinct,
polarizing tandem, right, I get it, even like the other Bottle
episodes as Lucy called them earlier, that you know, in comparison to like
the Bottle Star stuff, Like even the others are interesting in some way.
I just find this one completely uninteresting other than to be like Jet had a
friend once and yeah, no, I thought I think the sun dial thing
was kind of cool. I thought that was fine. When like the moon
rock they yeah, I was like, okay, that's all right, And
then like the temporary portal thing I thought was interesting. Yeah, I'm cool.
That's the one moment where yeah. So then what happens is Jet is
like, all right, whatever this is makes sense, I'll just run with
it. And then the two assassins he notices them, uh, and then
goes into a bar, and this is the one cool bit for for Jet.
He orders a bottle a drink and says he wants the bottle but no
glass. This pictures so fucking cool, and it's a callback to the last
time he's shown in a bar where he beats a bunch of people over the
head with a bottle. So this is his weapon of choice in a bar.
When he gets he has done this enough that he has established the bottle
with the perfect amount of density. Yeah, people to knock people out,
not kill them, which is a nice moment. It's the most meaningful Jet
like character progression in the entire episode. So Jet ambushes them and knocks them
out, and then they confirmed that their agents of the Blue Snake crime Syndicate,
who were just following Powell before he disappeared, and they're following MafA instead
now and they're hoping that she would lead them to her dad, but they
have no information on what the Blue Snake wants with Powell. The jet and
Mayfa returned to the Bebop to look at the stone and it reveals us a
piece of the Moon which was destroyed in the ass Through Gate accident years before.
Mayfa says that the accident caused space time fluctuations to be absorbed into the
debris from the accident, and these stones have like a crazy amount of power
inside of them which can be amplified by the sun, which is why they're
called sunstones. Name, yeah, that's cool. J asks Mayfa what the
purpose of the sunstones is and she's like, I don't know. I don't
know what my dad was going to do with it. Then Iron grabs the
Sunstone and brings it over to the loopan, which then begins to spin even
though the magnet has been removed. Mayfa realizes that the sunstone has a twin,
which is with her dad, So her dad has the other part of
this stone, and she realizes that if Je replaces it, how did they
realize that? I forget? She just kind of says that she's like,
my gut tells me my dad's got the other part of this. Yeah,
that's another point in this episode where I was like, we're just We're just
kind of like, there's another moment that I'm very confused about. But yeah,
this is what it's like, wishy washy bullshit. She tells Jet that
if he she replaces the Lupin's magnet with the sunstone, it should lead them
to the to her dad. But they do that. They follow the coordinates
leave Mars, and during the journey, may For reveals to Jet that she
wasn't really close to her dad and she's a bit upset that. Oh,
she's sad that Powell contacted Jet instead of her, And then she reveals that
Powell believed in pretty much in function only and that was to the neglect of
his wife and his kid, and she was like, she and her mom
left and she's not seen him in years since. She also like she's asking
out loud why Powell never tried to track her down and because they weren't really
trying to hide from him, and then Jet does the nice guy thing where
it's like Powell probably had a good reason, but she's not having it,
and she's like, I know you know something about my dad that you're not
telling me Jet, and then he reveals that Powell was a consultant for the
Blue Snake Syndicate and leads some information to Jet when he was a detective with
the ISSP and Powell helped Jet in the hopes that he would return the favor
and help him escape from the syndicate's control, and Jet tried, but Power
knew so much about the syndicates inner workings that escape was pretty much impossible,
and so he kind of theorizes that Powell was worried that Mayfair might be hurt
by the Syndicate if you resume contact with her. So he just goes on
the run. This is the point in the episode where I zoned out by
the way, Yeah, yeah, it's not great. After entering the astral
gate near Mars into hyperspace, the Loupan kind of centers itself and then it
appears that Powell is somewhere in the hyper space stream with them, but the
radar doesn't show anyone there, so they carry on searching. But a ship
shows up and it's an attack ship sent by the Blue Snake, spikes in
the Swordfish too and phasing the Red Tail, and they engage the Sindericut craft,
which is just like robot ships sent to shoot down the Bebop. This
is another thing where I was like, this is a very coincidental thing to
suddenly have ships of robots instead of like, all of a sudden, I'm
the skeptic. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I know. This is
a weird continuity thing. You're like, they're in space, what's going on?
And when when you say all of a sudden, I'm the skeptic,
I think what you mean is after nearly two years of recording podcasts and you
being the skeptic, you were the skeptic exactly. Okay. Jack comes up
with a plan and he's like, if we apply enough energy to the sandstone,
that should be able to draw the forces out trapped inside the edward just
like choves this stone down the toilet. Look that bit's great, that's so
great, funny. Yeah, And then it comes out the other end and
it's like floating in space and and Jet tells a spike to shoot it with
a plasma cannon. It hits the stone and it sends us like electric waves
out out into the space and it kills the robot ships perfectly, and it
also opens a vortex within the hyperspace stream. And as their Mayfa and Jet
look into the vortex, they see a ship on the other side, and
the ship hails the beab up and the pilot is Power. Jet tells Power
that he's in an unstable force field and they need to get him out.
But Pal's like, I'm not leaving this place. It's impossible, and I'm
running out of oxygen. It's almost gone. So he says that he sent
the message to Jet so he could reunite with his daughter. Actually he could
be renated with his daughter. And his implication is like I knew that you
would find her and then bring her hair. He tries to talk with Mayfa,
but she's like, I hated you and you manipulate us into coming.
Jet tells Power that Mafo didn't come on account of feng shui. She can't
be because of her own free will, and then Powe was like, all
right, man, I'm sorry, and Mayfa was like, I hate you
for a really long time, but I can't really hate you now, and
he's like, thank you, and then he just dies and then just go
bye into static yet a little bit. And then Jack concludes the episode by
telling everyone that Mayfa returns to Mars and that everything turned to normal and he
has no interest in horoscopes anymore. He's like, and that's the end of
the story. Like all good stories, someone has to tell you it's over.
Yeah, it's jo. Yeah. It was really weird that they showed
the girl and the girl's just like, yeah, life's great. Now.
I got weird, horrific closure with my father and I just you know,
visit his bullet rooting tombstone. Now, closure is closure, all right?
Jeff, you seem like I guess more high on this episode than the rest
of us. I'm not high on it by any stretch. I'm just I'm
maybe more forgiving as all. I like, this is not when I think
of Cowboy Bebop. From here on out, I will not be thinking of
this episode. I agree, it is the weakest amongst the ones we have
screened so far, and I would not be surprised to say the same thing
once we're done with the entire series. I think some cool things happened in
it, and I still think we should shout out cool things. But Functu
is a decidedly not cool thing, and having that be the cornerstone plot device
of your episode, I cannot give it a ringing endorsement. Yeah, I
would stress Again, I don't think it's like like I wasn't bored watching it.
It's just I think, if you're coming to Kewboy Bebop, it has
so many better hits than this episode. Sure, sure. Yeah. I
also feel like conceptually it's more interesting than the execution. I like the idea
of taking something like, you know, an energy based kind of system like
func Shue and Try which just sit into a lot of like kwboy stuff,
Yeah yeah, and trying to use that as a way to tell the story
about destiny and how you can take control of it yourself. And there was
also like, you know, that kind of functuy style thing where Spike seems
like the character who would be better attached to it than Jet if you know
what I mean. We should we see him like trying to find internal peace
a bunch of times onlike the the deck of the Bebop where he's like just
you know, practicing his cut or whatever it may be. But like Jet
feels like the wrong character for this to be done with, even though it
is like based on his backstory. If you know what, the fung shui
stuff is kind of interesting because have any have you seen Outlaws Star? No?
No, no, So outlasst Star is like a hornier Cowboy Bebop for
Team Hornier. Yes, okay, Jeff got activated. Yeah, but it
can't be as cool, right, It's not as cool. It's not as
cool, it's not as cool, it's not as good, but it's still
great. I love it. It's it's cool. But the entire like magic
system in Outlast Star is like based on kind of sort of Chinese ancient magic
and like a lot of fung Shui stuff, and it's really like some of
the designs in it are so fucking cool and it's they pushed that idea a
lot further and it's not a lot of ways I'd say out Lost Star is
better than Cowboy Bebop, but I think in how it kind of treats this
stuff as one of them. Also, just say, I am definitely no
expert on any of this stuff and there was a chance that I just completely
mistook it for something else. Well, I guess I think it's we're only
talking about it as a narrative device. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
guess The Outlaws star of draws a lot on like Taoism and stuff like that
as well, so none of which I am very knowledgeable of it. Yeah,
So I think we had an interesting dichotomy of like the strongest episode,
one of the strongest episodes of of Cowboy Bebop, and also one of the
weakest, which is unfortunate. But overall, I'm glad that we got to
I think we were super positive on the first one, so like, on
balance, we're fine. I mean, I am infinitely more positive on mad
Puro than I am negative about But you will go yes, like oh yeah,
oh yeah, yeah for sure. That brings to close another episode of
Jeff jeff Bizarre Adventure. We are rapidly approaching the end of Cowboy Bebop,
which means we are rapidly start of worry. I'm sure it all ends well
yeah, yeah, fine, I'm getting that vibe. Yeah, John,
were up? People find you what you're up to, you know what.
Keep an eye on the old eyepatches dot com. Over the next couple of
days, we might have might have a little some stuff going up. And
also I'm going to be hosting my Game of the Years stream this Friday.
Hell hell yeah, I'll do it with you. So I'm by myself,
but you'll do with you persevere. No, that's okay. Some more you
don't you don't want none of this? Wow, weird, weird Steam games
constantly. Let's see where you are? What are you up to? We
can go find you, uh lost James games everywhere. I'm doing a bunch
of any of the year stuff for games. But we did our Giant bomb
stuff live. Look out for the VOD for that. Yeah, it's exciting.
Any of the crawling over that finish line. Ye Jeff Beckla, yep,
that's my name. You could you could go search it and get in
touch with me on Twitter. And I'm going to be turning the computer off
and not coming back for at least twenty one days. Twenty one. Does
that mean we don't have another episode this year? Well, I'm the first
week of January, so we might want to record one next week. Yeah,
yeah, I think we'll have a lot more this year. I'm an
right next week. Yeah, I lied about the computer thing. Okay,
Yeah, look at that. Yeah, we have one. We have one.
We'll figure that out. Yeah. Thank you everyone, We'll see you
in the next one. Jeff Jeff's Bizarre Adventure is hosted by timor Hussein,
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