Cowboy Bebop | Episode 18
Added 2020-12-30 07:56:26 +0000 UTCHey guys!!
So I really really liked this Faye episode and I was surprised that it hit so hard in the last 2 minutes.. It definitely hit a soft spot in my heart and was super sad to watch. After looking the episode up, I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. I hope you guys enjoy the reaction!!
Blade Runner 2049 next :)
P.S.: Sorry for slow content... currently in the moving process and I'm working on a Q&A video :)
Comments
Spike and Jet also see her as a mischievous, swindling woman always running away from her debtors, and them. She stole the money from their vault and ran. She robbed Jet of his clothes gambling. So when this sweet young girl who is Faye is on video is appealing to Jet, Spike, and us the viewers, it just hits hard. She probably would have been a totally different person if she hadn't waken up into an alien world with a boat load of debt on her. She doesn't even remember her past, any of her actions, or her parents (whoever took care of her. The episode says the tape originates from a convent, so maybe that's where she was taken care of when she was young.)
Agent 9
2021-03-27 19:43:21 +0000 UTCBig part of this is she is a stranger to herself. -_-'
Unreal Gaz
2021-01-27 00:38:54 +0000 UTCCan't wait for the rest of the (s)episodes! And yup, this anime is extremely emotional at times... One of my favs for sure.
joshua_j
2021-01-10 22:15:58 +0000 UTCI loved this and I love watching it with you so that I can see someone else go through the same emotions and feelings. With Faye's tape there at the end, listening to the speech, I also started crying and somehow had to remind myself that I was watching your reaction rather than be absorbed into what was going on. In an odd way, watching this on New Year is even more meaningful as we always start the year being hopeful for something new and something better, full of dreams and hope for the year to come. Like you said, there's something about us not knowing what's ahead of us but also being so positive at things to come, not knowing or caring in that instant about how hard reaching those goals could ever be. That was indeed a lot and I was not ready for it to end on that note but it also didn't need anything else to be what it is.
David C
2021-01-01 19:14:25 +0000 UTCDarn, for some reason I thought last episode you reacted to was 19. Oh well, we're almost at the 20s!
MrAlexSan
2020-12-31 02:09:35 +0000 UTCYayyyy someone gets this episode and its impact. Some other reactors didn't lol.
MarkyO
2020-12-30 22:00:24 +0000 UTCSo many levels at once too. Faye talking to her older self but then also all the others seeing how she used to be. Awesome sepisode
Lee Salvemini
2020-12-30 12:34:10 +0000 UTCThis episode is so masterfully crafted in that it makes you comfortable, it seems light hearted and fun, helps you relax and open yourself and then just drops a tonne of emotional baggage on you in the last minute and a half, completely obliterating you from an emotional standpoint. And you can't even understand why you get so emotional about it, but your heart does. Deep inside, you start mourning your lost childhood and that sense of childish innocence and you instantly bond with Faye, who is just redescovering her own. Christ, even as I type this I have tears in my eyes. You know what gets you even worse? The stark contrast between Faye as she was and Faye as she is, and the thought of what that Faye, the innocent and starry-eyed child, would say and think about her future self. It makes you think, what would a younger you say about the current you? Don't feel silly for crying, we all cried, and, matter of fact, it never gets any easier even after rewatching the episode so many times as I did. It just triggers a heavy emotional response, which is once again proof of the mastery that contributed to the creation of this series as a whole. Bebop is in a league of its own and absolutely no show, anime or otherwise, will ever be able to compare.
Alex
2020-12-30 10:08:54 +0000 UTCGreat reaction as always. I'm gonna quote a reddit user named "contraptionfour" but he said it really well about the episode: "There's the lost innocence, simplicity and infinite potential of youth. (I just watched Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche New York last night and there's a scene where a woman says "I was a baby once" during her mother's funeral). Memories fade over time and we change so gradually that it can be imperceptible; it saddens me that I've forgotten so much of my childhood and teenage years and became a very different person throughout my 20s. Even on a physical level, I have no cells in common with myself just 10 years ago. I suppose sometimes nostalgia can be fun, and sometimes it's subtly mortifying."
Axis35
2020-12-30 08:52:08 +0000 UTC
