One episode ago, Jet had a friendly chat with the cop who sent him to prison and married his ex-wife. They’ve now spent years living and working together. But these two also met when Spike saved Jet’s life. There’s obviously an inherent tension between an ex-cop and an ex-gangster, and it’s certainly been implied that Spike did some unusually heinous things while working for the Syndicate. If I have any bone to pick with Cowboy Bebop here, it’s that I still don’t really buy that Spike’s secret past is so terrible that telling the truth would ruin his relationship with Jet. Spike knows exactly why, but he still refuses to tell his crewmates about his past as a Syndicate killer, leaving them in the dark about the inevitable violence looming on the horizon. Their pasts may be somewhat checkered, but Jet and Faye are understandably baffled that someone is trying so hard to kill them. He only gets away when Ein starts barking, setting off a mental trigger that makes Mad Pierrot freeze and gives Jet and Faye enough time to get Spike out of there. The cackling Pierrot uses guns, grenades, and rocket boots in his all-out assault and eventually manages to set Spike on fire. Mad Pierrot has the element of surprise, but even accounting for that, the fight doesn’t go very well for Spike. (Frankly, I’m a little surprised that Vicious isn’t doing his own dirty work here, but I guess he has a lot on his plate right now.) The cackling killer has been exposed to so much Red-Eye that he’s both incredibly deadly and incredibly insane, and Vicious has busted him loose on the condition that he hunt down and kill Spike. But their night off is ruined by the sudden emergence of Mad Pierrot. Mad Pierrot, a killer klown from outer space, was one of the more memorable villains in the original Cowboy Bebop anime, and he’s no less unnerving in live-action.Īs “Sad Clown a-Go-Go” begins, the Bebop crew takes a field trip to a bowling alley to celebrate Faye’s “birthday,” which they’ve arbitrarily decided is that same day. (And fine, it’s not great if he’s got clown makeup on too.)Īs you probably guessed, this discussion of clowns is not hypothetical. What’s scary is a guy who has guns and grenades and rocket boots and will stop at nothing to kill you. Remember a few years ago when everybody was suddenly really scared of clowns? I said then, and I’ll repeat now, that clowns aren’t actually scary.
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