Glendemonium
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What GT did well was that the writing seemed pretty advanced for Dragonball. Usually, it's bad guy is evil for the sake of it but with no rhyme or reason. Freiza gets a pass because he's just a tyrant. Vegeta because he was raised to be ruthless thanks to Frieza. Cell and Buu just want to blow things up because their creators were both grudge holding psychopaths?
The first half ot the series was old school Dragonball (sorely overlooked IMO), with a side of help-a-specific-planet-with-it's-issues-while-we're-here kind of thing. Baby, while being recycled plotline from the Playdia OVAs it showed a villain with a grudge, but it was justified... maybe a bit too extreme because Baby could of saw what Saiyans could be with Goku and Gohan but at least there was a reason. Plus parasites? So they borrowed the Garlic Jr Saga bit but it gave us some short sweet fights like Vegeta vs Gohan. My big gripe is how utterly useless Piccolo was. He gets one good moment in and that's it, almost like they wanted to kill him off.
Super 17 while interesting concept, bringing back 17 and making him a bad guy most of it didn't make sense. How does two dead scientists create an android... perhaps I'm overthinking that. Everyone gets jobbed, hard. Even Uub, someone who should put up a better fight than Vegeta. There was some character development, but it's hardly noticable. This was more fanservice bringing back villains who more or less were there to keep Goku and co occupied. Goku was fighting very dumb in this.
Now the evil dragon saga made sense, consequences with overusing dragonballs. Balance of power. Each dragon had it's unique personality, I liked the four star guy the best. Then Syn, (or Ili or whatever I don't care) shows up an literally fuses with all the dragons (balls, lol) and just wrecks even Goku. Vegeta's SS4 was pretty short lived and I cringed at Gogeta since he acted more like Gotenks... and I honestly can't stand Gotenks.
Ending... sucked. Goku ethereal now or what? Either way, GT to me was hit or miss but it isn't as bad as most people say. Super could at least TRY to make things interesting. At least we're getting an "evil Kai" story but it feels like mashups of everything Toriyama has done before. I sort of want Goku and whomever to travel to other universes and fight villains there. They had the right idea with the purple copy guys but instead we just get a clone of Vegeta.
The first half ot the series was old school Dragonball (sorely overlooked IMO), with a side of help-a-specific-planet-with-it's-issues-while-we're-here kind of thing. Baby, while being recycled plotline from the Playdia OVAs it showed a villain with a grudge, but it was justified... maybe a bit too extreme because Baby could of saw what Saiyans could be with Goku and Gohan but at least there was a reason. Plus parasites? So they borrowed the Garlic Jr Saga bit but it gave us some short sweet fights like Vegeta vs Gohan. My big gripe is how utterly useless Piccolo was. He gets one good moment in and that's it, almost like they wanted to kill him off.
Super 17 while interesting concept, bringing back 17 and making him a bad guy most of it didn't make sense. How does two dead scientists create an android... perhaps I'm overthinking that. Everyone gets jobbed, hard. Even Uub, someone who should put up a better fight than Vegeta. There was some character development, but it's hardly noticable. This was more fanservice bringing back villains who more or less were there to keep Goku and co occupied. Goku was fighting very dumb in this.
Now the evil dragon saga made sense, consequences with overusing dragonballs. Balance of power. Each dragon had it's unique personality, I liked the four star guy the best. Then Syn, (or Ili or whatever I don't care) shows up an literally fuses with all the dragons (balls, lol) and just wrecks even Goku. Vegeta's SS4 was pretty short lived and I cringed at Gogeta since he acted more like Gotenks... and I honestly can't stand Gotenks.
Ending... sucked. Goku ethereal now or what? Either way, GT to me was hit or miss but it isn't as bad as most people say. Super could at least TRY to make things interesting. At least we're getting an "evil Kai" story but it feels like mashups of everything Toriyama has done before. I sort of want Goku and whomever to travel to other universes and fight villains there. They had the right idea with the purple copy guys but instead we just get a clone of Vegeta.
