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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by Soppa Saia People » Sat Dec 23, 2017 3:13 am

Freeza saga is the weakest in the whole series next to Cell. It just becomes so fucking boring after the Ginyu come to Namek. Awful pacing, a stupid parody, a boring battle, and like 10 chapters of charging up. It's bad, not Cell levels, but it's close.
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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by dbs fanboy » Sun Dec 24, 2017 3:29 pm

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The Patrolman wrote:Haven't been on this for a while. Is saying Jiren is an awful character an unpopular opinion? Because he is.
At this point, he is barely a character, he is just an obstacle. That could change eventually but, yeah, right now that isn't an unpopular opinion at all.
He's a literal wall, hell he even has a big unbreakable barrier. I would be surprised if he's somehow relevant in the future.
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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by Weejus » Sun Dec 24, 2017 3:51 pm

Hold my beer.

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I love Goku's 'Big Green' dub voice. It does not fit his character at all, but gosh darn it, I love listening to the sound of it. Heck, I enjoy the sound of it more than Schemmel's.

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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by Kanassa » Sun Dec 24, 2017 4:23 pm

The Patrolman wrote:Ultimate Gohan at the beginning never worked for me. The theme of Dragon Ball is training and Gohan just sitting there and Old Kai just dances around him really undermines it
Gohan big moments in Z never worked for me. SS2 transformation and fight? Ultimate Fight? Some of the worst moments in Z where Gohan loses all his good aspects for the sake of being 'cool' and 'badass'
When Super apparently shoves Goku down our throats:

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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by Noah » Sun Dec 24, 2017 5:14 pm

Kanassa wrote:Gohan big moments in Z never worked for me. SS2 transformation and fight? Ultimate Fight? Some of the worst moments in Z where Gohan loses all his good aspects for the sake of being 'cool' and 'badass'
And how would you improve that?
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Post by Hyena_Yamcha » Sun Dec 24, 2017 5:33 pm

Soppa Saia People wrote:Freeza saga is the weakest in the whole series next to Cell. It just becomes so fucking boring after the Ginyu come to Namek. Awful pacing, a stupid parody, a boring battle, and like 10 chapters of charging up. It's bad, not Cell levels, but it's close.
i enjoyed the frieza saga a lot more in dragon ball kai
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Post by Danfun64 » Sun Dec 24, 2017 11:35 pm

Weejus wrote:I love Goku's 'Big Green' dub voice. It does not fit his character at all, but gosh darn it, I love listening to the sound of it. Heck, I enjoy the sound of it more than Schemmel's.
Big Green Goku's voice was one of the better Big Green voices. I think one of Gasman Goku's best moments was in DBZ Movie 8 involving the "get Gohan to prestigious school" subplot. He actually kind of covered his childish side nicely there.
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Post by nickzambuto » Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:59 am

Weejus wrote:Hold my beer.

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Ok.

I love Goku's 'Big Green' dub voice. It does not fit his character at all, but gosh darn it, I love listening to the sound of it. Heck, I enjoy the sound of it more than Schemmel's.

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I don't think this is unpopular. I think the whole reason Big Green is as well known as it is, is because a lot of the performances were genuinely very charming.

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Post by AloversGaming » Mon Dec 25, 2017 2:36 pm

Noah wrote:
Kanassa wrote:Gohan big moments in Z never worked for me. SS2 transformation and fight? Ultimate Fight? Some of the worst moments in Z where Gohan loses all his good aspects for the sake of being 'cool' and 'badass'
And how would you improve that?
Gohan not developing an ego against Cell and Buu would be a great start. People spent a long time talking about how Super ruined Gohan, but the ToP has made Gohan likeable again.

Before Super; Gohan was remembered for was being the dude that got tricked twice for the same reason - his ego. Now Gohan is winning fights and staying humble. Massive improvement.

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Post by ABED » Mon Dec 25, 2017 3:21 pm

That would be okay if it were an intentional arc.
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Post by Nightmare Wheel » Mon Dec 25, 2017 3:55 pm

Danfun64 wrote:
Weejus wrote:I love Goku's 'Big Green' dub voice. It does not fit his character at all, but gosh darn it, I love listening to the sound of it. Heck, I enjoy the sound of it more than Schemmel's.
Big Green Goku's voice was one of the better Big Green voices. I think one of Gasman Goku's best moments was in DBZ Movie 8 involving the "get Gohan to prestigious school" subplot. He actually kind of covered his childish side nicely there.
David Gasman's performance in movie 8 is actually pretty solid. He is somewhat hamstrung by the deep voice and bad script, but he manages to pull off the childish aspects of Goku very well in that film.

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Post by TheDipDap1234 » Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:30 pm

I actually didn't have a problem with Gohan's green tracksuit. I thought it looked good on him, especially when he went Super Saiyan, and it made him stand out from the others.
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Post by DragonBallKing » Mon Dec 25, 2017 9:00 pm

TheDipDap1234 wrote:I actually didn't have a problem with Gohan's green tracksuit. I thought it looked good on him, especially when he went Super Saiyan, and it made him stand out from the others.
I actually wish Gohan got to wear something different like the track suit for the TOP rather than wearing the kame gi trying to look like a Goku clone. I always liked his blue red belted gi he wore while training Goten and Videl.
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Post by nickzambuto » Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:28 am

I think the most well developed character in the series is Goku.

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Post by Jackalope89 » Tue Dec 26, 2017 7:40 pm

nickzambuto wrote:I think the most well developed character in the series is Goku.
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Post by Doctor. » Tue Dec 26, 2017 8:12 pm

AloversGaming wrote:
Noah wrote:
Kanassa wrote:Gohan big moments in Z never worked for me. SS2 transformation and fight? Ultimate Fight? Some of the worst moments in Z where Gohan loses all his good aspects for the sake of being 'cool' and 'badass'
And how would you improve that?
Gohan not developing an ego against Cell and Buu would be a great start. People spent a long time talking about how Super ruined Gohan, but the ToP has made Gohan likeable again.

Before Super; Gohan was remembered for was being the dude that got tricked twice for the same reason - his ego. Now Gohan is winning fights and staying humble. Massive improvement.
Gohan never had an ego issue against Super Boo in the manga.
nickzambuto wrote:I think the most well developed character in the series is Goku.
He's very inconsistently written. I'd say the character with the best developed arc in the series is actually Mr. Satan.

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Post by ABED » Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:02 am

He's very inconsistently written. I'd say the character with the best developed arc in the series is actually Mr. Satan.
How is he inconsistently written?
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Post by Noah » Wed Dec 27, 2017 12:52 pm

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Doctor. wrote:He's very inconsistently written. I'd say the character with the best developed arc in the series is actually Mr. Satan.
How is he inconsistently written?
Also real people are not always consistent with their actions so sometimes I don't see the logic in stating that 'x' was OOC because he acted a bit differently than he usually was.
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Post by nickzambuto » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:02 pm

ABED wrote:
He's very inconsistently written. I'd say the character with the best developed arc in the series is actually Mr. Satan.
How is he inconsistently written?
I want to hear as well. Most of the commonly proposed inconsistencies, like his floating moral scale between prioritizing fights and prioritizing protection, I would call complexities.

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Post by Noah » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:07 pm

I think he might be reffering to Goku showing to care about Vegeta when they fought in the Boo arc instead of finishing the whole thing as a SSJ3, which I disagree.
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