So... what exactly was her relationship with Spike? Did she want to save him? Fuck him? I haven't watched bebop in almost 15 years and still have absolutely no idea.
So... what exactly was her relationship with Spike? Did she want to save him? Fuck him...
She thought becoming his lover would save both of them from their crippling ennui, since they could then live for each other since they struggled to live for themselves.
this, the fact that it was so completely subtextual and implied was part of bebop's genius characterization.
>So... what exactly was her relationship with Spike?
Friend, nothing more.
She was side fucking the old dude
If you watched the Netflix adaptation you would know
What stopped the Bebop crew from leaving Ed literally anywhere when she was asleep or not controlling the ship?
Faye.
She had no family and no friends, and the only people who pretended to care about her were conmen. The crew was the closest thing she had to somewhere she belonged.
Who, the chess guy? That's kinda gross.
the entire crew were hostages to Edward
she could crash that ship at any time
Oh, right. She could just hack them from literally anywhere if I'm not mistaken?
This is probably the best described thing ive read about spike and faye
the fact that both of these are true is why Bebop is so kino imo.
haven recently watched this for the first time. I think Feye once she found out there was no place to run back to for her, her realized the beebop really was her only home now, and the crew her only family. And Spike had a life and motive beyond her, and the bounty hunting business was drying up. I think she was broken up about having more to loose including Spike, maybe other thoughts and feelings started to surface at that moment, maybe what could have been if Spike hadn't made up his mind?
she had a universal remote
Yeah, the bounty show getting shut down was a sign that the money had left the market. So many people desperate to escape poverty and their past flooded the industry, ensuring both that there wasn't enough bounty money going around for anyone to do much more than barely break even, the number of bounty hunters ended up dwarfing the number of crooks worth putting bounties on, especially since the criminals themselves could use people with bounties as bartering chips
The ending of this show is incredibly bleak really. Ed being Ed will be happy probably and so will a goofball like Andy, but everyone else is stuck in misery and Spike is just dead (no, I don't care about weird headcanon that says otherwise).
In fact, everyone the crew runs into throughout the show ends up kind of fucked too. There are no real happy endings to be found beyond Ed finding her father.
with no survivors?
It is kind of depressing without being edgy like other contemporary anime at the time. That is why you don't hear complaints about it being misery porn.
Only Ed and Ein got the good ending.