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They thought they could just buy the rights to clone characters and we'll swallow the media like animals who neither care nor know what they are eating. Anyone who watched the series for its storytelling could tell this is the extracted commercial version of the series sold out to Mr.risk-free-corporate so a marketing team armed with all the audience reports money can buy could pimp it out to a mass of horny "fans" who couldn't give a buck what sucked them off behind the dumpster as long as it ended in "bebop".

[Quotes from the meetings with producers & teams]

"...you think? in case you don't know ... the kind of money they put into this thing, they want real music, the good stuff; none of that confusing jazz shit... oh, about that; Yoko Kanno's just a credit, we had her supervise and let our own guys put something together, crowd's gonna love it"

"...I think I can speak for everyone when I say I was lost from the start, how's the audience supposed to follow any of this if we can't?!... no I don't need to be a writer to know wh... look, people think like kids, It's the same in sales, if you don't tell them what to look for, they don't know what they're looking at, follow?"

"...that weird boy who sounds like a girl, yeah, make him say even more weird stuff!... Hey, HEY! No he's not gonna become a main character...I don't care if it's a ladyboy or whatever, the kids like him, put it in!... no I hear you; and I'm saying only kids watch cartoons"

"...of course I watched the show, even I liked the parts where bebop flew his plane super fast and dodged the shots from the bounty hunters, put one of those in, make a long one... I don't understand?...not really what I wanted to hear, you're the director; just make it fit"

"...this isn't a show you know, where making; a movie "based" on the show...no you're not seeing it, it's "Cowboy-Bebop-the-movie"... I keep repeating myself because you keep complaining...the show had a completely different episode every time, this is just another completely different episode...it doesn't have to match or anything, everyone will like it, we promise"

"...loved the butterflies I think that'll sit well with our female audience...now where should we put the boob for our male audience... of course it needs a boob...yeah yeah go back to your den, you know what sells more than anything else? the movie's getting a boob no matter what, you know the rules"

An awful storyboard and even worse dialogue make for an amazingly predictable and godawful 2hrs. Boy, I sure hope they never think to do anything like this again in 2021.

The techno fantasy potential is completely tapped and suits the darker theme, it's an absolutely beautiful improvement from the series that deserved a 16:9 movie.

The title should be reinterpreted as:
The Vision of Escaflowne: Alternate Fate (Valiant Wing Goddess).

It is not a reboot, a retelling or a rewriting of the previous story. Many alternate fates are possible due to how the storyline was designed from the start, it's nice to had seen this one without the PG cushion the Escaflowne series was bound to.

The movie would make little sense to anyone uninvested in the series since a great deal of background on these characters ... is sourced from the viewer's prior knowledge of the series, this grants it a pass to be an abridged story, as it no longer needs to tell the whole story. So much of the true message of Escaflowne was lost, this movie puts it all back.

PS. Watch the Funimation version for a good time.

"In the darkness; the dragon wakes, till the heart numbs cold, the dragon roars, with you by my side; the dragon sleeps, when the dragon gains wings, our hopes will leap into the sky."