| Cowboy Bebop – Blue Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[hfii32:47610] "Please, Don't wake me from the dream. It's really everything it seemed." The line suggests that Spike wants to die and stay dead. Death is a chance to dream eternally. The line suggests that he doesn't want to be woken up. His dream has been achieved and it is everything he thought it would be. He is with Julia now. | |
| Cowboy Bebop – Blue Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[bubblygirl:47609] Spike faces his past. He accepts his eternal love for Julia and dies happy after seeing her as his present. | |
| Cowboy Bebop – Blue Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Julia's death is referred to as the death of Spike's future in the official guidebook. After he leaves the Bebop, he does not look back. Instead, he thinks of being joined as one with Julia and the song that plays is about how he will still love her even after he is dead. Watanabe and Nobumoto would refer to Julia as Spike's woman even after the series was over. He loved her eternally. He dies loving her. | |
| Cowboy Bebop – Blue Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[Kamiku:47608] This official statement was released when the Bebop movie came out: Slumber is the sister of death, just like dreams are a foretaste of Heaven. In the beginning of the movie, we hear Spike mutter in his sleep. He talks about his arch-rival Vicious, but it could also describe Spike himself. Spike sleeps a lot in this movie, and to borrow the words of the 19th century poet Lord Byron. "Slumber is the sister of death." Perhaps Spike's tendency to risk his life without thinking, as well as his fixation on sleep and dreams, are linked together as metaphors for death. In the same vein, Vincent says, "I am not afraid of death. I'm just dreaming a dream that will go on forever." He was talking about himself, but it fits Spike so well that the line could've been written for him instead. Spike seems to peek into the abyss of death during every action sequence. He puts himself in so much physical danger and is so unafraid of death; it’s like he’s already dead and is trying to feel something again. He doubts reality, and this is brought to the forefront in the movie more than it was in the TV series. "Do you know what purgatory is? It's a place somewhere between Heaven and Hell where those who cannot enter Heaven do penance -in other words, Earth." This is how Vincent explains the motivations for his crimes. This theme appears in Bebop repeatedly in various forms. The movie, however, brings it clearly into focus, and in that sense, the movie represents the defining essence of Bebop. At the end of the series, we hear this lyrics, "Please, Don't wake me from the dream. It's really everything it seemed." Spike's dream was to be with Julia. That dream comes true at the end of the series. That's why he goes from seeing her with his eye that sees his past to seeing her with his eye that sees his present. |
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| Cowboy Bebop – Blue Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[hfii32:47607] The official guide book and the head writer disagree with you. “Vicious finally begins his coup, positioning himself to assume leadership of the Red Dragon Syndicate. Gunshots ring like the sound of a choir of angels, a premonition of damnation. Knowing that the red dragon civil war has begun, Julia breaks her long silence and tries to contact Spike, who drops everything to find her, the only woman who can complete this hollow man. At the fulcrum of a fragile balance spike is possessed by the spirits of his past. jet and fake can do nothing but watch over him. Jerked awake from his nightmare, Spike needs to once again confront Vicious, and Julia, for no other reason than to convince himself that they are not merely just remnants of a bad dream.” -Cowboy Bebop Anime Guide, Book 6, Page 28 “After a long time apart, Spike and Julia reunite. But their happiness is short lived at best. That which Spike has longed for slips through his fingers as easily as it came into his embrace. This is one man’s fate, converging unto death as if it were a predestined circumstance of his young life. Having lost his future, Spike is left only with his past. He confronts Vicious in a battle that should have taken place long ago. What does the right eye, left in the wounded body, see at the very end?” -Cowboy Bebop Anime Guide, Book 6, Page 44 PS. Spike sees Julia with his eye that sees his present at the end. |
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