KaiserNeko wrote:Also, you couldn't pay me to make the My Way scene shorter. XD
Freaking
great! I know you said years back you wanted Cell to be "unique", and while my first thought was "Well good with
that", but Cell was always caught between the hedonism of his entire existence and having to keep some villainous poise. Damien Clarke has been running up on that lately. So casting off any notion of dignity and going full ham with him built up to how he would rationalize his own death, and he ran the gamut on that! And frankly I agree that bad guys who stay around for
so long get to have a sendoff.
For my part, "Common dominator" is hands down the best Goku verbal flub yet because unlike the Freeza ones it doesn't take you out of the moment for how wrong it is, it flows naturally and
then you catch it. Have to give another shout out to Yamcha and Krillin suddenly talking about dying over Vegeta's breakdown, that was the kind of thing I was
missing earlier in the episode! Having skipped the stream, even with the "We were angels" drop, those credits were so long and elaborate I took the Buu arc confirmation as a fake-out! Was that intentional or just a happy accident?
RandomGuy96 wrote:Not really a fan of this episode, either (except Vegeta's "sorry" and Cell's death, those really worked for me). I feel like there's no reason for DBZA to even exist at this point given the tone of the last few episodes. There are barely even jokes in it anymore, and what few there are, are basically just old running gags among the fandom being repackaged.
I disagree in the severity, but agree with the sentiment.
Compare it to the Freeza finale for a moment; the sudden escalation and "quick thinking" of Namek's final hour were played to their absurdity, barring some fair points like the Kaio-ken kamehameha (which rode its own joke on the way in anyway). It doesn't mean every joke landed or that Season 3 didn't improve anything (Cell was more distinct from Freeza than Freeza was from Vegeta, that's a big one), but here we have the space pirate overlord and the golden warrior dueling on a vanishing planet... and King Kai is questioning his life choices as Goku ponders Freeza's offer of pizza. But now suddenly we have all of these great musical covers going on the in the background like it's the real thing... and "My Way", "EAT THAT HORSE!", and
DRAMATIC FINISH! were the only times I full-out
laughed because they felt like the pie-in-face
levity where I was
allowed to. Half of that is just me tempermentally, though.
. All of the music was really great, and the middle finger salute is now canon by my official decree.
