Discussion specifically regarding the "refreshed" TV version of DBZ created in Japan for its 20th anniversary, including individual threads for each episode.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Would be happy with that!
But let's not forget that if they like what he does, the new composer for Battle of Gods could be hired for Kai as well.
Anything but the old Kikuchi score will do, to bring some more freshness and not have the feeling that you're watching "HD Dragon Ball Z minus the fillers"! Kai is about shedding a new, modern light on the show, and music is part of the light, it has to be new!
Cold Skin wrote:"HD Dragon Ball Z minus the fillers"!
What's wrong with that? That's what I want it to be. Kikuchi's music is Dragon Ball's music.
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Cold Skin wrote:"HD Dragon Ball Z minus the fillers"!
What's wrong with that? That's what I want it to be. Kikuchi's music is Dragon Ball's music.
Dragon Ball Kai for Androids-Cell was hardly in HD on Blu-ray even, maybe because Toei Animation is either too lazy or doesn't give 2 flying kites 'cos they know the fans will watch it regardless of its quality.
In terms of PQ, it's a little better than the Dragon Boxes Z (that picture dirt didn't help Kai's case). FUNimation's DBZ Level episodes truly were remastered in high def, gorgeous quality.
FUNimation 2015 Releases I want:
- Kai 2.0 on Blu-ray
