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Cowboy Bebop: Episodes
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After a teaser glimpse of the conclusion of the first arc, the first episode of Cowboy Bebop gets down to business and establishes that the show is set in a future where space travel is completely unremarkable. Automated toll receipts from gate jumps of tremendous distances pile up as common litter, like cigarette butts. Nevetheless, although technology is obvious far advanced beyond the present day, humanity's general standard of living seems no better. Graffiti and trash still plague decaying city streets, and seemy bars still attract criminal lowlifes. And vice.
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A Cowboy Bebop movie was made... Spike does not die here. This is because the movie takes place a few episodes before the final episode. If it took place after the final episode, it wouldn't make much sense, because then Spike would already be dead.
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Likewise, Cowboy Bebop is ... one long love letter to John Woo. The harsh lighting, the frantic pace of the martial arts sequences and gun battles, the action scenes that would have been insanely dangerous to do with flesh-and-blood stuntmen, the body count, the pacing, the timing. For example, the gun battle in the cathedral from Episode 5, "Ballad of Fallen Angels," is obviously borrowed respectfully from John Woo's 1989 film "The Killer." And then there's the repeated bird imagery.
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Cowboy Bebop has been strongly influenced by American music, especially the jazz movements of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and the early rock era of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Many of its action sequences, from space battles to hand-to-hand martial arts combat, are set and timed to music. Episodes are called Sessions (perhaps in reference to musicians playing a "jam session"), and titles are often borrowed from album or song names (such as Sympathy for the Devil or My Funny Valentine), or make use of a genre name (Mushroom Samba and Jupiter Jazz), indicating the episode's musical theme.
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