Cowboy Bebop is a show about the paradoxical human desire to venerate the past while the world can only move forward. A cycle that traps Bebop's crew in an emotional limbo. The show being mostly pointless episodic diversions is the pretty much the entire goddamn point. To the crew, each new adventure is like a drug; a fleeting high that distracts them from the lives they'd have to rebuild. The future is terrifying, but the future is all that's real. If you live you life with one eye on the past, well, we all know what happens to Spike...