tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8543116121986858859.post-78878352281761330712008-01-23T12:30:00.001-08:002008-01-23T12:31:13.675-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_tl_5k_GnTX4/R5egSXN1yhI/AAAAAAAAALg/o364yQYIRvE/s1600-h/bebop.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_tl_5k_GnTX4/R5egSXN1yhI/AAAAAAAAALg/o364yQYIRvE/s200/bebop.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158768135506348562" border="0" /></a><br />The friendly robots at amazon.ca have discerned that since I bought the six Cowboy Bebop dvds last year for an altogether cost of $150 I might also be interested in pick up the soon to be released box set for the startling new price of $39. Thanks coded Amazites, but I'm quite happy with my own set. In fact, considering that two or three years ago Cowboy Bebop was selling for $240 dollars, I was very happy to get it for $150. And I still am. It was worth it.<br /><br />Forget that it's anime. Cowboy Bebop is one of the best television series I've ever seen - period. The makers set out to create a new genre building each of it's 26 half hour episodes around a spine of music, combining the private eye and space opera genres, homaging an incredible variety of films and film styles, and most significantly, exploring the comedy and tragedy of the human condition at the end of the last century. And the music is extraordinary. There's other great TV and there's other great anime but Cowboy Bebop stands alone as a piece that reached far beyond artistic convention and somehow managed to pull it off.Andrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16626782654130983699noreply@blogger.com