Cool review. I'm inclined to agree with you as far as CTN is concerned; although they do their best most of the time to limit editing of anime, it happens that most of the shows they choose are intended to draw in an audience used to non-sequential cartoons and endless 20 episode fight scenes.

I'm a little sad that you don't like Bebop...maybe watching it with subs would change your mind? But hey, if we all hated vanilla, chocolate would taste like crap. You get me? :P