![]() So whenever she had money, she spent it or gambled it away as quickly as possible. She believed her situation was hopeless, that there was no way she’d ever be able to pay that money back. In a similar fashion, I started to wonder if Faye’s reckless gambling was her way of coping with the debts she’d been so unfairly saddled with. The only time he feared dying was when he’d developed emotional attachments to people, which forced him to acknowledge what he had to lose. Pushing himself to the limit, right to the edge of nearly getting himself killed, was his way of feeling truly alive. I never felt he had a death wish, but for the most part he wasn’t afraid of dying. One of Spike’s coping techniques is to challenge himself by getting into dangerous situations. And I don’t think anybody would argue that she’s pretty reckless most of the time. She shoots the daylights out of the abandoned cathedral in Waltz for Venus, to the point where both Spike and Jet get a little nervous. So, re-watching Cowboy Funk and listening to Faye rag on Spike about destroying property and making huge messes had me thinking, “gee, there’s the pot calling the kettle black.” The first time Faye shows up in the show, what does she do? She embroils herself in a shoot out with a bunch of goons and gets some guy’s shop all shot up (kind of similar to what happens to poor Annie’s shop toward the end, when Spike gets into a shoot out with Vicious’s thugs.) Then later in the same episode she summons the Red Tail and makes a big mess of the casino, blowing things up without much consideration for bystanders. It’s amazing he had any hair left by the end of the series another, less patient man probably would’ve pulled all his hair out in frustration over the antics of his so-called “partners.” ![]() Sometimes, Spike and Faye were so alike it was scary…having one Spike running amok on the Bebop was nerve-wracking enough, and adding Faye to the mix? Poor Jet. Yeah, it does seem like I’m waffling, but the thing is, I’m not saying Faye is exactly like Spike or Julia, only that events and situations in the series invite comparisons between Faye and Julia, as well as Faye and Spike (and even between Faye and Jet’s old girlfriend, the short-haired brunette in debt.) Now, I suppose somebody’s reading this and thinking, “Holy crap, make up your mind! You just wrote a War and Peace length bit on how Faye and Julia are alike. In other words, Spike and Faye are as alike as the proverbial two peas in a pod. On my second viewing of Cowboy Funk, grinning as I watched Faye giving Spike a hard time about being just like Andy, it occurred to me that Faye knew what she was talking about because she had an eerily innate understanding of Spike.
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