There was hardly anything to emotionally attach to with this show, which is surprising because Watanabe is usually good with characters so I'm actually starting to wonder if Keiko Nobumoto cancelled out a lot of his worse impulses.

I read an interview recently with Watanabe where he said that Nobumoto insisted on having Punch from Big Shot show up at the airport to pick his mother up after his show got cancelled. She's worried about him and he reassures her he'll be fine and that he can take care of her because he'll get another job soon. That's honestly one of my favorite small scenes in Bebop and it's funny that Watanabe didn't even want it to be there and only relented when she wrote the scene after pitching it. Makes me wonder what things she could have saved if she had been around for Lazarus.