I shouldn't have enjoyed it...

So the live-action Cowboy Bebop has followed Firefly into one-and-done sci-fi television oblivion. At least they showed Cowboy Bebop in order, which was a good thing because the show kept a season-long story arc moving in the background through a string of "monster-of-the-week" midseason episodes. That's a neat trick that's not often done.

Apparently fans of the original anime were all up in arms about it, but that's anime fans for you, amirite? We're about a dozen episodes into the original and I think the live action series captured its flavor pretty well, while obviously being a different-but-similar story told via a different medium.

Probably the thing that bums me the most is that the end of the first season was obviously a setup for the start of season two and left the thoroughly likable Spike, played by John Cho, as down-and-out as it was possible to be without actually having a midget in a clown suit run out and kick him in the junk right as the credits rolled.

Anyway, I blame anime fans.