SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Especially a series like Dragonball, which was a long running, beloved, and iconic series that was (for the most part) enjoyable from beginning to end. Say what you will about DB or DBZ being better, subs or dubs being better, Faulconer's music being the shit or just shit, the truth is most people loved Dragonball. Continuing the anime past the manga is not an inherently bad idea, especially not from a business perspective, but also not from a DB-loving consumer's perspective, and GT actually had a lot of really interesting concepts. Originally it seemed to be going for a more lighthearted theme more akin to DB than DBZ, and then it went back to the extremely brokenly powerful characters fighting each other that made Z so popular. The outline for each arc looks great, and the black star dragonballs and the people the Saiyans/Saiya-jins wiped out having new significance are unique and creative plot ideas. The way that Toei broadened the scope of the series into full blown planet hopping at the start seems like the next logical step after introducing the other planets/universes/multiverses in Z's story arcs. It all seems like a recipe for perfect success. But GT is universally considered to be a pile of crap.
None of the concepts that are introduced are ever realized in a way that is interesting from a plot or battle perspective. Goku is the only one worth anything, and even Uub (who is the human version of Majin Buu, destroyer of worlds) is made into useless fodder at his expense. Fan favorites like Gohan and Vegeta get shafted even more heavily, and the potential of Goten and Trunks as teens is never even brought to the table. They even offer to fuse into an adult version of Gotenks at one point, but the idea is shot down as useless because they would be too weak to do anything. Super 17 is an interesting concept, but the way he's brought about just screams poor writing, even by anime standards and even by Dragonball standards. Dr. Gero meets some random other guy in Hell, creates another 17, they fuse and are suddenly more powerful than Buu? I don't buy it, and I don't think anyone else bought it, either.
Everything just reeks of direct to VHS/DVD syndrome. It's all executed so lazily, like the writers took a look back at DBZ and what made it popular and decided to make a checklist, meet that checklist and call it a day. Goku? Check. Fusions? Check. Increasingly powerful villains? Check. Transformations? Check. All of the soul behind it is gone and none of the dots connect in any way that seems meaningful.
The concepts and character designs are good, but I still can't believe how bad GT is overall. Nobody expected an anime-only series to meet the quality of Toriyama's DB, but I don't think anybody expected a gigantic steaming pile of shit, either. This might all seem like rambling, but GT had some serious potential and it wasted it all. I kind of hope Toei tries again one day with a series that overwrites GT and follows the ending of Battle of the Gods.
None of the concepts that are introduced are ever realized in a way that is interesting from a plot or battle perspective. Goku is the only one worth anything, and even Uub (who is the human version of Majin Buu, destroyer of worlds) is made into useless fodder at his expense. Fan favorites like Gohan and Vegeta get shafted even more heavily, and the potential of Goten and Trunks as teens is never even brought to the table. They even offer to fuse into an adult version of Gotenks at one point, but the idea is shot down as useless because they would be too weak to do anything. Super 17 is an interesting concept, but the way he's brought about just screams poor writing, even by anime standards and even by Dragonball standards. Dr. Gero meets some random other guy in Hell, creates another 17, they fuse and are suddenly more powerful than Buu? I don't buy it, and I don't think anyone else bought it, either.
Everything just reeks of direct to VHS/DVD syndrome. It's all executed so lazily, like the writers took a look back at DBZ and what made it popular and decided to make a checklist, meet that checklist and call it a day. Goku? Check. Fusions? Check. Increasingly powerful villains? Check. Transformations? Check. All of the soul behind it is gone and none of the dots connect in any way that seems meaningful.
The concepts and character designs are good, but I still can't believe how bad GT is overall. Nobody expected an anime-only series to meet the quality of Toriyama's DB, but I don't think anybody expected a gigantic steaming pile of shit, either. This might all seem like rambling, but GT had some serious potential and it wasted it all. I kind of hope Toei tries again one day with a series that overwrites GT and follows the ending of Battle of the Gods.
