The Dragon Ball Thread
Was excited for Dragon Ball Super but after watching the current 5 episodes, it's getting harder for me to enjoy it. The episode with Pilaf and his gang had the worst animation I have ever seen in a long time. Will still continue to watch it but I don't think it's going to get any better.
http://nerdist.com/dragon-ball-z-resurrection-f-cast-dubs-over-famous-movie-scenes-in-character/
King Kai doing the Independence Day speech had me crying.
got DBZ season 1 and 2 on blu ray from the GF for valentines day.
And I really agree with you on the frieza arc. I also loved how many characters (especially villains) there were. Which made me constantly wonder how a clash between two certain characters would turn out.
Power was such a mystery factor. And it was interesting how certain battles turned out against your expectations. Especially Vegeta's involvement in the whole ordeal (from winning from Dodoria to losing from Zarbon, to winning from Zarbon, to getting wrecked by recoome, to pretty much killing the entire ginyu force by himself) 'Power' in general in DBZ became kinda meaningless over time, and tends to follow the same clichematic formula for pretty much every fight or new villain that's introduced, imo.
I remember when Battle of the Gods was out. I wanted to watch it while my gf was at work because I didn't expect anything but for her to dislike it. We ended up watching it together instead and she loved it. Pretty sure she watched almost all of DB and DBZ since then. Cool stuff.got DBZ season 1 and 2 on blu ray from the GF for valentines day.And I really agree with you on the frieza arc. I also loved how many characters (especially villains) there were. Which made me constantly wonder how a clash between two certain characters would turn out.
Power was such a mystery factor. And it was interesting how certain battles turned out against your expectations. Especially Vegeta's involvement in the whole ordeal (from winning from Dodoria to losing from Zarbon, to winning from Zarbon, to getting wrecked by recoome, to pretty much killing the entire ginyu force by himself) 'Power' in general in DBZ became kinda meaningless over time, and tends to follow the same clichematic formula for pretty much every fight or new villain that's introduced, imo.
totally agree with the bold. It was always a cat and mouse game of who could hide their power level and who really had the strongest, especially early on when krillin/gohan knew vegeta was there and had to hide from him. then when they were fighting frieza's goons before the ginyu force (cui and zarbon i think?) really interesting stuff. then it sort of turned into "oh my gosh this new enemy has the strongest power ive ever felt I need to get stronger *gets stronger, beats opponent* *new opponent shows up* *repeat formula*". Now that's not a bad thing per say, and it definitely led to some pretty spectacular fights (cell vs ssj2 gohan is still like the greatest moment of my childhood) but the show never really had that power hiding dynamic or really even sub plot dynamic that the frieza arc has. IMO of course.