![]() ![]() This leather-clad (presumed) killer appears again via flashback, but this time, she’s dressed like the really nice mom of your next-door neighbor or grade-school classmate. That’s all I can tell you.” Faye & Jet, Jupiter Jazz, Pt. 2 It’s the same for the show’s invisible character, Julia. At the very least, this crew comprised of broken people should be able to settle in to the weird little family life they’ve created, but of course none of those things happen. Spike should be finding ways to live his life and move on from his past with Julia, Vicious, and the Red Dragons. Ed should reunite with her family (and ultimately starts on that path before the end). Jet should just get a new arm through reconstructive surgery and get past his many hangups. Faye should be searching for her family, but her process toward that goal is circuitous and ultimately complicated, its end result not what she expected. First and foremost, the bounty hunting crew should be catching bounties, but we rarely, if ever, see the Bebop crew successfully capture, turn over, and get money for, any of the numerous marked men and women they pursue. When you watch Cowboy Bebop, there’s a lot of things a viewer might feel like the show should have done. She haunts Spike’s storyline in unexpected and elusive ways, mirroring that same omnipresent, unexpected feeling that pops up throughout the show. She’s just more like an invisible character. “Be careful when you’re with that woman.” –Vicious, “Jupiter Jazz, Pt. 2”Įven though we don’t even physically see her until an episode before her tragic end, after a recent binge rewatch of the entire series, I began to notice that Julia is not, in fact, absent from the show at all. Throughout “Ballad,” the “Jupiter Jazz” two-parter, and “The Real Folk Blues” two-part finale, Julia’s behind the wheel the entire time, always in the back of Spike’s mind but never quite close enough until it’s all too late. The show’s fifth session dives into Spike’s intimate history, and this history drives his character arc in key episodes throughout the rest of the series. And judging by her demeanor and the badass belt around her anime-perfect hips, I’m going to go ahead and say that she is pretty clearly involved with the Red Dragon syndicate, in a very deadly way. Here’s this bright, blonde femme fatale in a black leather jumpsuit, smoking a cigarette, watching Vicious-a man we know to be extremely dangerous-play pool as if she doesn’t look like she could beat him at the game in under 7 minutes. I have hit pause on the Cowboy Bebop episode “ Ballad of the Fallen Angels” numerous times, particularly throughout the montage that kicks in as soon as Spike’s limp body flies through the opulent stained glass window of a cathedral, gracefully careening through the air as the piano notes of the song“Green Bird” play. You can learn a lot from scrupulously examining an image. For one month, The Dot and Line is publishing essays, interviews, and discussions about each episode of Cowboy Bebop, which turns 20 this April. ![]()
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