![]() DOLLS FOREVER! Syl Sylvain, this is for you: (.) (.) I follow the Dolls on Facebook and when they posted their play list for their recent tour of Japan I commented that they should do “Call Me Call Me,” but, alas, it’s not a Dolls song.)Įin leaves with Ed. (By the way, that’s Steve Conte from the New York Dolls singing “Call Me Call Me” in that episode. That’s loose end number one for me: to say her story ends because she decided to run off begs the question “WHY?” Ed wanted to be on the Bebop…her departure as constructed seems unmotivated. Why she’s decided her place is someplace besides the Bebop all of a sudden isn’t really clear to me she’s too old for the orphanage and her dad doesn’t have time for her. In episode 24 we see Ed’s backstory and meet her (neglectful) father at the end she runs off, essentially to find her place in the world. But let’s say the confrontation resolves Spike’s story very nicely. I’m not going to tell you how it turns out I don’t want to spoil it for you. So the end comes and there’s a final showdown between Vicious and Spike. But the story of Spike’s history is woven in throughout the series, and we meet old friends of his every couple hours, particularly the enigmatic Julia and the well-named Vicious, Spike’s rival in the underworld. We hear about Faye’s past, how Jet lost his arm, meet Ed’s father and the nuns who fed her, but these are one or two episode arcs. In principle this is an ensemble cast: they are all featured in the show’s open, and all of them are listed in the opening credits.īut, structurally, the show is about Spike in that his story is integrated into the meta-plot. They accumulate the rest of the Bebop crew: Ein, the data dog Faye Valentine, a woman who likes her money and Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, a computer hacking child prodigy. The end’s primary job is to resolve the conflict, but its secondary job is to tie up the loose ends.Ĭowboy Bebop fans: What happens to Jet and Faye?įor people unfamiliar with the series, Spike Spiegel and Jet Black are a pair of bounty hunters. For instance, a beginning is also supposed to “hook” the reader in the middle we expect certain arcs, not just conflict but the conflict playing out as the overcoming of obstacles, each surpassed in different ways that cause the protagonist to grow. Each of those parts has other work to do in making a well-constructed story. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that. Middle: Conflict arising from character and/or setting plays out When I’m not yakking about character combinations, one of the things I yak about is the basic narrative structure:īeginning: Introduces characters and setting The Overage Otaku on Medium Matters: Princess … The Overage Otaku on Medium Matters: Cowboy Bebop… Terranceacrow on Medium Matters: Cowboy Bebop… The Power of Three: Amagi Brilliant Park.
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