Side note: Amazon, in their infinite wisdom, decided to hide a bunch of additional world-building information in their X-ray feature, which is only accessible if you pause the playback of the show on certain devices.

ETA: Each episode has an associated animated short as well as a trivia section that relates to timestamps in the episodes.

I've seen the cast/character info before with Amazon Prime X-ray, but hadn't noticed the world-building information.

If anyone wants to figure out how to access it, there is a write-up, here: [link]

The article includes instructions for access it on a web browser, mobile device, smart TV, and streaming device.

Thanks for the link, Cindy. I saw a lot of people online complaining that they couldn't access X-ray on their respective devices and took the replies that "Yeah, that's the way it is" at face value.

I didn't even know it had the name "X-ray" until your post, Kalshane. I just appreciated the feature of seeing the actor & character names when I paused while watching.

So.... Cowboy Bebop.

I agree Spike was too broody, less cocky than the original. the only character I really had trouble with was Julia. I wish they had fleshed her out in a different way,

I watched the new version and old in between episodes. Spike in the anime is more of a dick than Cho plays him.

I'm just happy they got most of the music right.

I'm just happy they got most of the music right.

Thanks for mentioning that. It may just be the final straw that gets me to sign up for Netflix in January.

I'm just happy they got most of the music right.

They brought Yoko Kanno back to write the score for the Netflix series.

I still need to take the time to sit down and watch it. The reviews haven't made me excited to, though.

I'm enjoying it. I'm only letting myself watch an episode a night, so I haven't finished it yet. But I like many of the acting and design decisions they've made. Although internal combustion cars seem a bit odd in context.

I've watched some of it and the the anime version (first time). I like what they've done overall, but I feel like the live-action show wants me to be a lot more interested in everyone's backstory than I am.

WoT: Nowhere near as exciting as last week, but we probably needed a breather anyway. Like the more in-depth look at Warder culture (pretty much any Warder that wasn't Lan was more or less faceless in the books).

Playing Where's Waldo with Padan Fain is turning into an interesting game. I'm sure I've missed some appearances.

Great to finally see Loial even if he looks very different the personality is spot-on.