Let’s consult Aristotle — no, wait, don’t go. This isn’t complicated enough to be boring. It’s just that, in Aristotle’s estimation, spectacle was one of the six essential components of drama.
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(Utena I) Spectacle
Posted by Pontifus on 26 March 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/03/26/utena-i-spectacle/
(Cowboy Bebop 20-26) A portrait of the Spiegel as a young Spiegel
Arguably Cowboy Bebop is about whichever of the characters you choose to focus on. Or maybe it’s about all of them. The whole crew gets a fair bit of screen time, enough that all the central characters feel…central. In terms of story mechanics, they’re all integral to one another. They’re excellent foils, and you learn [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 9 March 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/03/09/cowboy-bebop-20-26-a-portrait-of-the-spiegel-as-a-young-spiegel/
(Cowboy Bebop 12-19) I wish that I could turn back time
This shit is pretty unambiguously pretentious and I don’t like it. But I don’t really hold it against the show. It isn’t just the creators jerking off. Opinionated metafiction is one convention in a set of conventions that Bebop calls upon, then shows us through the eyes of a cast that doesn’t hail from the [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 22 February 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/02/22/cowboy-bebop-12-19-i-wish-that-i-could-turn-back-time/
(Cowboy Bebop 1-11) The big Bebop family
I wanted to get around to writing about the characters before I knew too much about them, hence my stopping myself before that big two-part thing in the middle and forcing myself to do this post (“forcing” because, goddammit, Bebop is a hard show not to watch). Is that strange? Maybe. I think it might [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 14 February 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/02/14/cowboy-bebop-1-11-the-big-bebop-family/
(Cowboy Bebop 1-7) Insert title of catechism song
I offer you a quote from Ghostlightning, whose ongoing effort to engage with Cowboy Bebop’s love-remembering elements is one of the most meticulous and goddamn heroic blog activities I’ve ever seen: We won’t find anything in Cowboy Bebop that has a reference that figures so significantly in the narrative so as to be the primary [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 6 February 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/02/06/cowboy-bebop-1-7-insert-title-of-catechism-song/
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