Not too long ago, Jeff Bezos said that if their new Lord of the Rings show Amazon is producing ends up a failure, they are getting out of the business of producing their own original shows permanently. Well, since he's too dumb to see that it's guaranteed to be a failure already, let's move on to talk about Netflix.
Now there's a company that seems to put out original crap a lot more often than hits. They have had a slew of garbage shows produced, and even the good ones they put out tend to have some serious flaws *cough* Bird Box *cough*. Although, I will admit Squid Game was actually very enjoyable, but we'll see if that trend continues. Anyways, there's still an unending amount of reviews and articles about how disappointing most Netflix originals end up being.
Now they are moving on to adapting my favorite show of all time, Cowboy Bebop. This upsets me for a few reasons other than the one mentioned above. When adapting something that already exists, they tend to love to deviate from the source materiel as well as not use anywhere near the appropriate budget to not appear as a half assed production. The openly admitted to completely disregarding the input of the original director and writer, Shinichirō Watanabe, who has already disowned any association with the production.
Then add to the fact that the chick who plays Faye Valentine in the new production has already jumped on the high horse of calling the fans sexist for thinking her costume sucked. Add to that, the fact that she never bothered to learn anything about the original character before complaining about her, since one of her arguments was that she wasn't properly tall enough and bimbo looking enough to look like her (nevermind they are they are nearly same height, and the actress has performed in far skimpier outfits).
The only thing that is remotely good I've heard so far about the production is that John Cho insisted that he's too old to play the main character, but is still going ahead with it. however, he did manage to convince Netflix to hire the original composer and he actually watched the whole show to get the character right. Good on ya, Cho, but it's just not enough to give me any hope about it.
I'll still give it a try, but it seems they are hell bent on making it a complete remake of the original series, and have completely changed the nature of multiple characters. I think remaking it is a massive waste of time, as the original show is animated and holds up far better than live action with CG these days. Just on a technical perspective alone, the new show will be outdated far faster. Once again, this is a situation where I think they would have been better served by making a companion piece to the original series instead. That's all fans have been clamoring for since day one was more of the same, not make it different. Heck, as I've said before, any show that is a success (and isn't forgotten), doesn't need to be remade, because by changing it you've already likely lost some or most of what made it good to begin with.
Come to hear now that reviewers are not impressed with what they have seen so far either. I generally go by audience reviews rather than pro reviewers, but the audience also gives most of the marvel movies high scores, and most of them are garbage, too. Well, there's still the original if you want to watch a show that's sure to be good that doesn't call you sexist.
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