The Real Folk Reviews: A Cowboy Bebop Podcast

Off with the flu this week.

No planet. No bounty. No new characters. Very little music. Adrift in space. Can an episode this stripped down still be great?

We discuss what happens when Jet Black brings his Space Dad energy to a romantic relationship.

Georgie gives her first impressions of our newest main character, Ed, and we discuss character design across Cowboy Bebop.

Waltz for Venus goes straight for the heartstrings. We discuss what makes an episode affecting, and which matters more - emotional impact or technical perfection?

A charismatic guest character, a rocking main track and a parade of colorful space trucks - but is this episode more than the sum of its parts?

Sympathy for the Devil raises lots of intriguing questions. Can Georgie and Samuel answer them? Do we understand? Do we?

As if.

For many, this is the episode that made them fall in love with Cowboy Bebop. Will Georgie feel the same way? Plus we discuss Yoko Kanno, The Seatbelts and how the music was made.

We discuss whose life matters more: Ein's, or the entire population of Ganymede!

We discuss space casinos, incompetent villainy and fate, then wade into the eternal sub v dub question!