miguelnuva1 wrote:
LUKE, Han and Leia are in episode 7. Dragon Ball might work with a new cast of characters but only if we get Goku vs the new guy to send the series off.
Uub could have been that new guy, but GT kind of dropped the ball and didn't know what it wanted to be.
Toriyama was certainly hinting at Uub being the "next Goku", or Goku-type character, and even moreso with the redone art of Kinto'un.
I think it's always VERY tricky though. As any series continues, at first new doors open, but eventually doors close as what can happen in the future is constrained by what happened before. An example would be that at the beginning of Dragonball, potentially anything could have happened and it wasn't set in stone, and we got more and more developments about Goku's place in that universe. Goku's power also could have been kept from being too ridiculously greater than his allies.
However, eventually a point is reached where everything reaches a sort of stasis. Goku's overwhelming advantage over the non-Saiyan cast is an oft-complained about example of this; it gets harder and harder to have any stories where anybody but the two top two, Goku and Vegeta do anything, because the wider the gap between them and the rest of the cast gets the more asspulls have to be made to shuffle up weaker fighters to a stronger level so they can actually do something. The Buu Saga managed it because Gohan's potential had always been a factor, and the idea of Fusion allowed for Gotenks, but once they again fall from relevance, you can't repeat the same trick twice. It's not like we can now say that Gohan had even more potential or that some sort of Fusion Fusion could be performed. Well, we could, but then the series is basically a lackluster parody of itself.
There's basically a catch 22: Goku's role is too well defined now for it be as exciting as it was before, yet we are also attached to the character because of his history. In some ways it's for the best that character arcs eventually end and new ones start, but doing that without alienating fans can be very difficult, and you might not capture the same magic and essential feel as before, which is the thing you do want to maintain. It's tricky, and it's why almost all long-running series eventually fall into a rut.
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Just wanted to address that a little. Certainly things will be more on the topic of this movie when we have more designs and stuff. Can't wait to see Krillin's design. I think Toriyama tries his hardest to make the characters who have fallen behind still fun by giving them little new twists, and I appreciate that. Even though Krillin is locked into a certain role as far as drama of the story goes, it's still possible to do amusing things with Krillin that don't have a lot to do with the main story. Anything that says that other characters exist and have certain peculiarities helps a lot, and makes it feel more like a family or cast.
Out of nowhere, I also want to say that Krillin's grey haired brush mustache look he gets later totally suits the stereotypical police commissioner you see in movies, so GT did one thing appropriate.
