Favorite and Least Favorite Bebop Sessions

[SemperFi]

Ok, here are mine.

Least Favorite: None
Reason: To many to count.

Favorite: Boogie Woogie Feung Shui
Reason: I love the method of story telling in this session, Jet sure can carry an episode, and I adore the less action-packed sessions.

[candy17]

Favorite Bebop Sessions: Sessions 1-24 (from "Asteroid Blues"to "Hard Luck Woman")
Reason: Despite CN's minimal editing, the series is brilliant, sad, action-packed, funny--everything most cartoons aren't these days, although Session 19 ("Wild Horses") and the rest of My Funny Valentine (I forgot the session number, but I know it was before "Black Dog Serenade" and "Mushroom Samba" felt tacked on and weren't really good.

Least Favorite Bebop Sessions: Sessions 25 and 26 (The Real Folk Blues two parter)
Reason: It was just so sad to end the series with Spike dying.

[Maphmaa]

Favorite: Sessions #12-13 Jupiter Jazz pt. 1 & 2

I consider this to be the essence of Bebop, it has everything that made Bebop so great. Action, comedy, a great story with poignant acting and very human characters. The flashbacks to Titan provided insight into both Gren and Vicious: you see Vicious holding the music box his expression is sad and almost vulnerable, it makes you wonder what he really was like. Spike's past and his relationships with Lin and Vicious are also fleshed out. Faye's state of mind and her desire for camraderie as well as her relationship with Jet provide a poignant backdrop for the episodes. And in the end, Gren's dying words had me on the brink of tears. Space Lion was a very fitting ending theme, and the last title card was great--Do you have a comrade?

Least Favorite: Session 15 My Funny Valentine

I really like Faye's flashback, but the rest of the episode just desintegrated from there.

[Shadow Samurai]

hmm,

Favorite Sessions-#1-26, hell I like the whole series

Reasons-Its just too good, also I love the blues in Sympathy for the Devil

[SirLemming]

Favorite: Hard Luck Woman
Just read my review in the review thread -- I could go on and on about it. It's a sheer masterpiece, probably the best thing ever to air on TV.

Least Favorite: Wild Horses
Probably. I'm not 100% sure, but it's definitely one of my least favorites. It just didn't particularly stand out. I guess Watanabe disagrees, since he chose it for the Best Sessions DVDs...

[Galaxia]

Favorite: Wild Horses, Hard Luck Woman, Jupiter Jazz I and II, Ballad of Fallen Angels, Mushroom Samba, Cowboy Funk, Brain Scratch, Black Dog Serenade, Ganymede Elegy, Boogie Woogie Feng Shui, Speak Like A Child, Bohemian Rhapsody, Toys In The Attic

Least favorite - Pierrot le Fou or Heavy Metal Queen.

[Spike&Gene3886]

Favorite Sessions- Mushroom Samba, Cowboy Funk, RFB I & II

Reason: The RFB are sheer brilliance while at the same time emotional, and the former two are some of the funniest eps I've seen in a show, animated or non-animated (even better than a lot of things on ASC).

Least Favorite: Wild Horses

Reason: Seriously, there has to be no action until the last three minutes, and when it takes that long then the plot is way too drawn out. I could frankly care less about the history of the Swordfish, but making a whole episode on it is sheer dribble (but since it's CB, I still like it somewhat, just not as much as other eps.)

[J.C.]

Favorite Sessions- Pierrot le Fou

Reason: Love the animation and action scenes. Also find the numerous flashbacks to be very intriguing and liked the ending. This is also the episode which made me a fan of Cowboy Bebop in the first place.

Least Favorite: Can't really think of one.

Reason: There are a couple which come to mind as being fairly bland, but I can't think of a specific one that I'd put in this spot just yet.

[Ikwig]

Favorite Sessions:

Jupiter Jazz I & II - excellent writing and it never fails to affect me emotionally.

Waltz for Venus - great characters!

Mushroom Hunting (possibly my all-time favorite) - I've now watched it six times and I still laugh out-loud; it's the first thing I've ever come across with that kind of comedic staying power!


Least Favorite Sessions:

Nothing comes to mind! :)

[IWDP Lim]

Favorite - Stray Dog Strut

I don't know why really, maybe because it's just the first one that shows how well rounded the series is with the action and comedy and all that. Yeh, it's the second episode, but, I don't know, I thought Asteriod Blues jsut had too heavy an ending. Or something, it makes sense to me.

Least favorite - Sympathy for the Devil

Two words : Alpha Scanner. Why that so much? Three words, sort of - deus ex machina. I mean, outside the thing, it's a DAMN good episode, but that Alpha Scanner. it's just kinda like

"Geez, now what are we gonna do? We're never gonna catch this guy."
"Oh, wiat, we got that thing that can see the last few momemnts that someone saw, lets use that!"
"When did we get that?"
"You know, I don't remember, but after this, lets never use it again, in fact, forget we even have it."
"Fine by me."

Thats one of the things I like about the show, either the crew "wins" out of team work or just pure dumb luck, and, well, the Alpha Scanner just felt like a cop-out ending. Totally ruined the whole feel the episode. If this was Star Trek, well, then I wouldn't care, but it's not Star Trek, so, um, yeh.

[Masamune2052]

Least Favorite: Boogie Woogie Feung Shui
Reason: Not enough action in my opinion and the ending wasn't as dramatic as I thought it would be.

Most Favorite: Cowboy Funk
Reason: This episode is hilarious with a nice bit of action. Mostly because I like seeing Spike get angry/jealous (what!?!? Spike jealous? yes, it's true). Also, it's got a really good plot and storyline.

[Master Moron]

Favorite episode:
Ballad of Fallen Angels, I love the song Green Bird when Spike was thrown out the window. This episode also starts the whole Spike/Vicious thing.

Least favorite:
Heavy Metal Queen, nothing really happened in this episode.

By the way, which episode was Wild Horses?

[ohmrbill]

Favorite: Can't decide.

Least Favorite: Boogie Woogie Feung Shui

Reason: It was just dull to me, and I though the whole clichéd "follow the clues of the legend to find the mystic item" plot was pretty lame.

[Nik Jam]

Wild Horses was the last episode to air at 11:30

That is probaly my least favirote episode. My favirote is Brain Scratch.

[gtracer72]

So far, I like all of the seesions. I'm sure I'll like the final 2 too.

[G. Wen]

Fav.: Hard Luck Woman. I relate to the feeling of not having a home and not belonging to the world.

least fav.: Wild Horses. It didn't have much of a plot.