cameragod

One of the things about the original was it reliance on the characters doing something because that's what their character trope would do and not because of something the story had set up as their motivation. In the anime characters took actions, shared moments and emotional payoffs they hadn't earned through anything they had done or said. The show relied heavily on the viewer providing their own context to the trope filled shorthand to link the sometimes random character actions.

The NETFLIX show attempts to "fix" this. It tweeks the characters to give them reasons to behave as they do other than that's just what that type of character would do. Spike and Fay's "shower/bath/shower" dialog does more to bond them and explain their relationship to each other than anything that happened in the anime show.

I liked it but obviously some don't like script driven characters and were not bothered by all the "wtf" plot shifts in the anime show... after-all it was just cartoons :)

The only thing that dragged a bit for me was every scene with Vicious and Julia... although I feel that ep. 9 and 10 made that worthwhile.

I've worked in the news media for over 30 years. So had some hopes when I started watching BBC mini series "Press" (cool name) but kind of lost interest in the second ep in when the multi millionaire who owned one of the papers claimed he didn't care if the paper made money only that it did quality journalism... I mean I can suspend belief to dragons and elves but that is pushing fantasy a bit too far. Its well made but badly let down by the writing.