Eventually, her dream is shattered, but as sad as that is, her life is, from that point onwards, all about moving forwards and facing reality.įreed from the same invisible threads that so bind Spike, her realisation comes too late in the day to save him from his inevitable fate, but thinking about her life from that point onwards, one can at least rest assured that her eyes are finally open. She’s able to ignore reality right up until the Cowboy Bebop ending because she’s clinging to the dream that someone, somewhere, is waiting for her, with a warm home and arms wide open. Having lost much of her memory to amnesia, she spends basically the whole series piecing together elements of her childhood, her old friends, her family her old life, basically. No matter how many times it’s replayed, there will always be that choice hanging over Spike in the end, but then, isn’t that why Cowboy Bebop‘s still so fascinating? Consider Faye Valentine. What is the Cowboy Bebop ending trying to say? It feels like such a waste! Spike doesn’t have to face Vicious, he could just stay with Faye and Jet, leave Mars and fly away, but he doesn’t.
