Alright, just wrapped up watching the series. Here's my thoughts:
-Inconsistent sets. Some look very low budget some look amazing really amazing. Kinda throws you off sometimes.
-Everyone seems about 10 years older than they are in the anime. Jet looks like he's pushing 50, in the anime he's the oldest on the Bebop in his late 30's.
-Vicious scenes are insufferable. Vicious is too one-not. He was a really boring villain.
-I don't care for Fay's live action interpretation, in the anime she struck me as more demure. Here she's just brash and rash, cussing up a storm. Not devious enough.
-Jet is perfectly cast. Even his voice is perfect.
-Ed was way too on-point. That personality only works in animated form, an entire season of that seems like actual torture.
-Feels like an older show the way it is written, like something made in the late 2000s for Showtime or something.
-Some episodes are too dark visually. The one that took place on Mars (I think?) started to throw my rods and cones out of whack with all the blue and purple.
-Too much cussing. Why did they force so much god damn cussing into this? Unneeded.
-Great soundtrack. Most was lifted from the anime, but still a banger.
-The Binary episode felt very out of place and forced. Just didn't need to be in there at all, and imo the weakest episode of the series because of it.
-Use of Dutch angles is insane, some scenes actually made me feel slightly queasy. WAY too much, sometimes it would literally change angles each shot so you felt like you were getting seasick. I have never seen such reckless abuse of Dutch angles.
-I feel like they tried too hard to make this like the anime sometimes, when instead the show should have found it's own voice and interpreted the material instead of copying it.
-Written like a comedy for some reason. Why were some scenes straight up written as if it were a sitcom?
