![]() ![]() Better like this than have it earmarked for a Season 2 that turned out to never have been. Overall I am at least glad that we got to see Le Fou brought to life. One rare example where tying that in actually worked. E1N) has MORE of a backstory here than on the anime. I had hoped that with a legendary actor like John Noble, more could have been done with his lines. I had hoped something could have been done more with the character. Though that really is true to the source material. Vicious was unexpectedly evil, although a bit cartoon evil. Something not from the anime but another example that the writers understood the feel of the characters and successfully brought this to screen. I really love the "rehearsal" of the final scene on the Bebop and Jet's insistence on how it was rehearsed. Originally a normal human, he was driven insane by an mysterious experiment, which turned him. He is a psychotic and murderous assassin who seeks to kill anyone who is in his way. The bowling scene was fantastic and definitely gave the same buddy buddy feel from the anime. Tongpu (also known as the Mad Pierrot) is a minor antagonist in in the anime series Cowboy Bebop, serving as the main antagonist of the episode Pierrot Le Fou. I'm really loving the interchanges between the 3 leads. ![]() That being said, I wasn't butthurt as the other Bebop purists. Even the scientist killed at the beginning was done by Viscous and not Le Fou. His unstoppableness would have benefited more scenes, against other people who did not have plot armour. Secondly, because there was already so much going on in this episode, there was no time for more Le Fou scenes. The reason Anton Chigurh gives us the shivers, is because you see him doing his thing, not screw up the first time. I get the writers were killing 2 birds with one stone here, but it just ended up taking away from one of the most iconic villains from the source material. So for the live-action Le Fou, his first job ends up a failure. Tying him as an assassin for hire from Vicious and then tying that to the first time he's out in the open (yes, I get it so that the A and B plots can run in tandem) really blunted his credibility. When you see him, he's already an established killer. Firstly, the anime Le Fou worked because he didn't have an origin story that was part of the plot. I think Le Fou would have been better off included in another episode. I get that in a 10 season arc, you have to stuff as much as you can and every episode has to advance the overall arc (i.e. This episode suffered by stuffing Le Fou amongst too many other plot points which didn't give him chance to breathe. Spike was only targeted by happenstance, because he saw his face. If he put his target on you, you were gone. He was the Anton Chigurh of the Bebop universe. The fearsome aura of the anime Le Fou was that he was unstoppable. The only nitpicks about this episode is the whole justification for Le Fou and how he was stuffed into the plot. The transformation from that to this was incredible and looked like it'd be so fun to play. I can't believe this is the same guy that played Marty's business partner in the pilot of Ozark. Flying evil clown!), but it really worked. I was wondering how they'd pull of the very cartoon villain of Le Fou (i.e. This was another villain lifted straight from the original with Le Fou. I was dying to see this when I first saw the hint of Le Fou in the opening theme.
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